Upper School English Department 2020 Summer Reading:
Summer Work Instructions:
1) Students should have the entire work read by the first day of school and should bring their copy with them on that day.
2) Students are not required to annotate the texts.
3) They may choose to annotate, however, with an eye towards their summer-reading assessment. Every student will complete an assessment within the first two weeks of school, and students may use their annotated copies to assist them on those assessments.
4) Please purchase the edition you find linked in the book title:
9th Grade
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
10th Grade (***both Honors and English II; ALL sophomores will read this novel***)
George Orwell, 1984
11th Grade (English III)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
11th Grade (AP Language)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
12th Grade (English IV)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
12th Grade (AP Literature)
Fyodor Dostoevksy, Crime & Punishment (Ready translation)