Taipei American School Upper School English Department Summer Reading Texts & Semester Texts

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1 Taipei American School Upper School English Department Summer Reading Texts & Semester Texts Writers of classical antiquity understood the unique quality of art, its capacity to delight and instruct. The hearers of tales, the audiences in the theaters, and, centuries later, the readers of books all immersed in story emerged transformed from their experience with literature. The Taipei American School English Department follows this venerable tradition and hopes our students, too, will be enriched by and find pleasure and knowledge in the books they read. The titles listed for each grade (see below) have been selected for that purpose. All students will read also one school-selected community book. Community Book (Required Text for Grades 9-12): Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, et al. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Amazon ISBN-13: A edition is available for this book. Teachers, students, and administrators alike will be reading this book, and discussion of this work will extend beyond the English classroom. Students should anticipate that in August, at the beginning of school, teachers will give an evaluated in-class essay test about this book as well as all the books required for summer reading. ALL STUDENTS: Students must purchase their books, including the book selected for community reading. Please make sure to purchase the specific edition listed of each text. All books should be obtained as soon as possible, ideally by the beginning of the school year. Students should allot the appropriate amount of time for a book shipment to arrive and should not rely on last minute purchases at local bookstores, which may or may not have enough copies of a particular book. Where indicated on this list, copies of the selected texts may be purchased in place of paperback copies; however, students are not permitted to use e-texts on their laptops or phones in the classroom. NEW STUDENTS: Please select two texts from your grade level and from what you anticipate your course will be. For instance, if in grade 11 you expect to enroll in the IB program but you are not sure if you will take IBSL or IBHL, choose the one that is most likely. Teachers will be flexible when they give their in-class assessments. It is possible that some students will not know their final placement in English classes until school begins in August. When classes begin, your teachers will, if necessary, make arrangements for both in-class preparation and assessment of the texts you read. Students new to Taipei American School may not have the opportunity to obtain books that are provided by the school. We encourage parents of these students to buy any available edition so students can read and be prepared. STUDENTS with TWO ENGLISH COURSES: Students who have two English classes must read both texts for one course of their choice, with the exception of students taking AP Literature and Composition, who must read the summer texts for this course. They may, of course, read four books--the two works for both classes. : An assigned book may be purchased and read via if so indicated; students are not permitted to use e-texts on their laptops or phones in the classroom.

2 ENGLISH 9 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper Yes The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Harper Yes The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage Yes Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Folger Yes Lord of the Flies William Golding Penguin (2003) Yes Ender s Game Orson Scott Card Tor Yes Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A No

3 HONORS ENGLISH 9 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper Yes Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family Yoshiko Uchida University of Washington Press Yes Non-fiction Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No Odyssey Romeo and Juliet Homer, Trans. Lombardo Hackett No William Shakespeare Folger No Folktales: Retellings Various Provided by teacher N/A No Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage No

4 ENGLISH 10 We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books Yes Kindred Octavia Butler Beacon Press Yes Animal Farm George Orwell NAL; Reprint edition Yes Gothic Short Stories Various Provided by teacher N/A No The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles Mariner Books; 1 edition Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No Macbeth William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster Yes Non fiction Various Provided by instructor

5 HONORS ENGLISH 10 Hunger Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Company Yes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (no need to read Frederick Douglass) Harriet Jacobs Modern Library Classics Yes Short Prose Selections Various Provided by teacher N/A No 1984 George Orwell Signet Classics No Othello William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster No The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Harvest Books Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No

6 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau Yes Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press Yes The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander The New Press Yes Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No

7 AMERICAN LITERATURE The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Harper Collins Yes The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Anchor Yes The Great Gatsby Between the World and Me F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner Yes Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing Yes Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann Vintage Books Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor Yes Moby Dick Herman Melville Bookcaps No

8 HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Penguin Books Yes The Other Americans Laila Lalami Pantheon Yes Between the World and Me The Great Gatsby Their Eyes Were Watching God Ceremony Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing Yes F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner Yes Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial Yes Leslie Marmon Silko Penguin Books Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor Yes The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books Yes

9 LITERATURE, JUSTICE, & LAW The Stranger Albert Camus Vintage YES A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Vintage YES The Trial Franz Kafka Schocken YES Antigone Sophocles Methuen Drama (Student Editions) NO Devil in the White City Erik Larson Random House YES Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Folger YES Course Reader Various Provided by the teacher N/A N/A

10 WORLD LITERATURE The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Dover no The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics Yes Thérèse Raquin Emile Zola Oxford No Frankenstein Mary Shelley Penguin Classics Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics No Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics Yes The Epic of Gilgamesh N.K. Sandars Penguin Classics Yes

11 HONORS CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Think Like A Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow Yes How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mohsin Hamid Riverhead Books Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Anchor Books Yes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Vintage Contemporaries Yes Atonement Ian McEwan Anchor Books Yes The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood Vintage Canada Yes Happiness Matthieu Ricard Little, Brown and Company Yes

12 HONORS WORLD LITERATURE The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Dover no The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics Yes Thérèse Raquin Emile Zola Oxford No Frankenstein Mary Shelley Penguin Classics Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics No Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics Yes The Epic of Gilgamesh N.K. Sandars Penguin Classics Yes

13 IBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 1 The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version) A Small Place Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (translated by BookCaps) Jamaica Kincaid CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Yes Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition Yes Brave New World Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial; Reprint edition Yes Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World Eduardo Galeano (translated by Mark Fried) Picador; 1st edition No Satire Reader (hyperdoc) Various Provided by Teacher N/A No The Color Purple Madwomen: The "Locas Mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories Alice Walker Gabriela Mistral (translated by Randall Couch) Sandra Cisneros Mariner Books; First edition Yes University of Chicago Press; Bilingual edition Yes Vintage; 1st Vintage contemporaries ed edition Yes

14 IBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 2 The Word for World is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin Tor Books Yes Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial Yes Four Major Plays, Vol. I Henrik Ibsen (trans. Rolf Fjelde) Signet Classics No When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor No Selected media texts Various Provided by teacher N/A No Selected readings on culture Various Provided by teacher N/A No

15 IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 1 The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books Yes Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau Yes Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay Harper Perennial Yes Poetry Various Provided by instructor The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe Vintage Yes Fences August Wilson Plume Yes Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas Short Stories Su Tong Various William Morrow Paperbacks No Provided by instructor

16 IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau Yes The Other Americans: A Novel Laila Lalami Pantheon Yes Emily Dickinson: Selected Poetry Emily Dickinson Provided by teacher N/A No Sula Toni Morrison Vintage No The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Folger No The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Signet: Mass Market No Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill Yale No The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams New Directions No Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International No

17 AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION explanatory notes they contain which will be part of the assigned reading and thus both assessments and the daily reading quizzes in this course. Please do not purchase other paper or electronic editions. Americanah Jane Eyre Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Yes Charlotte Bronte Penguin No Hamlet William Shakespeare Oxford University No Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Penguin No Heart of Darkness & Selections From The Congo Diary Joseph Conrad Modern Library Yes Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) Virginia Woolf Mariner Books No The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Penguin No The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Oscar Wilde Penguin No The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin Yes Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin Yes Wit: A Play Margaret Edson Farrar, Straus, & Giroux Yes

18 ALL JOURNALISM COURSES (REGULAR & HONORS) Find and watch at least one movie/tv show about journalism: Some notable examples include: "All the President's Men," "Shattered Glass," "Page One," "Capote," "Good Night and Good Luck," "Kill the Messenger," "True Story," or "Spotlight." Alternatively, you can watch episodes from the TV show "The Newsroom" if you prefer. Please choose one that you have not seen before. You can find these titles available on Amazon, Google Play, Apple itunes, or wherever you prefer to rent movies. Read the teacher made digital "staff handbook and summer reading booklet" with excerpts from awardwinning student newspapers and designs. (Less than 50 pages) Required The Elements of Journalism Kovach, Rosenstiel Three Rivers Yes Associated Press Stylebook 2017 or 2018 (or 2019 if available) Associated Press Associated Press No

19 WRITING WORKSHOP & SEMINAR 1 (REGULAR & HONORS) Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics No Required Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau New Directions Books No EXPOSITORY WRITING - No texts need to be purchased in advance ART & LITERATURE / HONORS ART & LITERATURE: No texts need to be purchased in advance