Summer Reading Requirements for Masconomet Regional Schools for Fall 2006

 

Grade 7

Required:  Edgar Allan by John Neufeld

 

 

Grade 8

Two novels are required of students enrolled in the honors section.

All honors students must read:

  • The Examination by Malcolm Bosse

 

 Honors students can choose one other title from the college preparatory list.

 

Students enrolled in college preparatory classes should choose one of the following:

 

  • Jackaroo by Cynthia Voigt
  • I Am Mordred or I Am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer
  • The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

 

 

 

 

Grade 9

Required:  One of the following:

            Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

 

 

 

Grade 10

Required:  One of the following:

            Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

            It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong

            Having Our Say:  The Delany Sister’s first 100 Years by Sarah L. Delaney

 

 

 

 

 

Grade 11

Required:  Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

                 Another book chosen by the student.

                

 

Grade 12

AP:  Read two books from the list below and one book from the bolded list of suggested titles.

 

  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
  • Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

 

 

12th Grade Summer Reading

 

AP:  Read two books from the list below and one book from the Book Club list.

1.      A Prayer for Owen Meany –John Irving

2.      Emma- Jane Austen

3.      All the King’s Men –Robert Penn Warren

4.      Corelli’s Mandolin –Louis DeBernieres

5.      The Bell Jar –Sylvia Plath

6.      Mama Day –Gloria Naylor

7.      Sister Carrie –Theodore Dreiser

8.      Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe

9.      One Hundred Years of Solitude –Gabriel Garcia Marquez

10.  Jude the Obscure –Thomas Hardy

 

CP:  Read two books from the bolded list of suggested titles.

CP2:  Read one book from the bolded list of suggested titles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you liked the following novels, then read the bolded suggested titles on the right.

 

 

Survey results/popular novels:                      Summer Reading

 

The Perfect Storm                                           The Hungry Ocean – Linda Greenlaw

 

Into the Wild                                                   Into Thin Air – John Krakauer

 

The Things They Carried                                First They Killed My Father –Loung Ung

                                                          In The Lake of the Woods – Tim O’Brien

 

Life of Pi                                                         Big Fish – Daniel Wallace

 

Angels and Demons                                        Prey – Michael Crichton

 

The Other Boleyn Girl                         The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory

 

Curious Incident of the Dog in                   The Speed of Dark – Elizabeth Moon

The Nighttime                                                 The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint-BradyUdall

 

Memoirs of A Geisha                                      Women of the Silk – Gail Tsukiyama                                   One Thousand White Women-Jim Fergus

                                                                        Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat

 

Speak                                                              Prep – Curtis Sittenfeld

 

Kite Runner                                                     King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild