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 the 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 also read one school-selected community book. Community Book (Required Text for Grades 9-12): Denise Parker Pope, Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, 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 allow 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.

2 : 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. ENGLISH 9 Regular First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper Yes The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Little Brown & Company No The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage Yes Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Folger Yes Lord of the Flies William Golding Penguin Yes Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A No

3 HONORS ENGLISH 9 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper Yes Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press Yes Non-fiction Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No Odyssey Romeo and Juliet Homer, Trans. Lombardo Hackett Yes William Shakespeare Folger Yes Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Anchor Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage Yes

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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster Yes Frederick Douglass Modern Library Classics Yes

5 HONORS ENGLISH 10 Hunger Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Company Yes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Modern Library Classics Yes Short Prose Selections Various Provided by teacher N/A No 1984 George Orwell Signet Classics Yes Four Major Plays, Vol. I Henrik Ibsen Signet Classics Yes Macbeth William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster Yes 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 Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir The Underground Railroad Deborah A. Miranda Heyday Yes Colson Whitehead Anchor Yes The Great Gatsby Between the World and Me F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner Yes Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing Yes In Cold Blood Truman Capote Vintage Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor Yes The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books; 1st edition Yes

8 HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner Yes Stealing Buddha's Dinner Bich Minh Nguyen Penguin 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 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 God Help the Child Toni Morrison Vintage Yes

9 SCIENCE FICTION The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov Spectra Reprint Edition Yes Invincible Stanislaw Lem Pro Auctore Wojciech Zeme Yes Dawn Octavia Butler Aspect; Reprint edition Yes Solaris Stanislaw Lem Mariner Books Yes Ubik Philip K. Dick Mariner Books; Reprint edition Yes Frankenstein Mary Shelley Norton Critical Editions No Short stories Various Provided by teacher N/A No

10 WORLD LITERATURE Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology Brian Swann Dover Yes Silas Marner George Eliot Dover Yes Monkey Wu Ch engen/a. Waley Penguin Classics Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics No The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics Yes The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Maple Press Yes Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics Yes

11 HONORS CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Think Like A Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow Yes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Vintage Contemporaries Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Anchor Books Yes A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Bantam Yes Guns, Germs, and Steel Seven Years in Tibet Happiness Jared Diamond Heinrich Harrer Matthieu Ricard W. W. Norton & Company Yes Cornerstone Editions Yes Little, Brown and Company Yes

12 HONORS WORLD LITERATURE Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie Penguin Yes The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins Yes Monkey Wu Ch eng-en / Arthur Waley Penguin Classics Yes One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics No The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage Yes Black Elk Speaks John G. Neihardt Bison Books Yes Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Bantam Yes Selected Mythology Various Provided by Teacher N/A No

13 IBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 1 / LITERATURE AND MEDIA STUDIES All I Asking For Is My Body Milton Murayama Kolowalu Book No Migritude Shailja Patel Kaya Press No The Thing Around Your Neck We Should All Be Feminists IB English A: Language and Literature Course Companion Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books Yes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books Yes Rob Allison, Brian Chanen Oxford University Press Yes Poetry TBA Provided by teacher N/A No Selected media texts Various Provided by teacher N/A No Selected readings on culture Various Provided by teacher N/A No

14 IBSL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics Yes Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing Yes Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Vintage No Fences August Wilson Plume No Sonnets (Selection to be Compiled by Instructor) William Shakespeare N/A N/A No Selection to be Compiled by Instructor Wallace Stevens N/A N/A No Selection to be Compiled by Instructor Gwendolyn Brooks N/A N/A No

15 IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 1 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau Yes Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press Yes Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay Harper Perennial Yes The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Yes Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K. Smith Graywolf Press Yes The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books Yes The Lover Marguerite Duras Pantheon Yes Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez Vintage Yes

16 IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau Yes The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Yes Shakespeare s Sonnets (Selection to be announced by instructor) William Shakespeare N/A N/A No Contemporary African Plays Various Methuen Drama No The Great Gatsby A Streetcar Named Desire F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner Yes Tennessee Williams New Directions Paperbook No Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin Books Yes Fences August Wilson Plume No Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International No

17 AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION Midnight s Children Jane Eyre Salman Rushdie Vintage 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 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin Yes Obasan Joy Kogawa Anchor No The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press Yes Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A No

18 ALL JOURNALISM COURSES (REGULAR & HONORS) Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer s Guide Kramer, Call Plume Yes Required The Elements of Journalism Kovach, Rosenstiel Three Rivers Yes Associated Press Stylebook 2017 Associated Press 48th edition; Basic Books 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

20 EXPOSITORY WRITING - No texts need to be purchased in advance