SALEM ACADEMY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH OUTSIDE READING REQUIREMENTS 1. During the summer holiday, all students except for Advanced Placement English Literature students must read two (2) books from the outside reading list for their particular grade level. Students in Advanced Placement English Literature must read one (1) book from their list. 2. During the winter break and January Term, all students in all grade levels will read one (1) additional book. 3. Only one (1) of the three books chosen may be a play. 4. All texts must be read in the English language. 5. Students should be prepared to bring their summer reading work(s) to class at the start of fall semester, and they should be prepared to bring their winter reading work to class at the start of the spring semester. 6. Students may read only the books listed for their particular grade level. They may not substitute other books, nor may they report on books from the list for another grade level. 7. No credit will be given for a book that has been read or studied in another class. For example, if a student reads The Good Earth for her history class, she may not use it for outside reading in English. 8. Students must have read completely each book on which they report. Failing to read and report honestly on a book constitutes a violation of Salem s Honor Code. 9. All students will be evaluated on their book choices during the first two weeks of fall and spring semesters. 10. The English department at Salem Academy does not allow the use of any such superficial and often faulty literary supplements such as Cliff s Notes, Pink Monkey, Spark Notes, and so forth. These supplements are not permitted for any outside reading texts or for classroom texts read throughout the year in any English class. A teacher will confiscate any such materials, the incident will be reported to the Honor Cabinet for cheating and plagiarism, and a student will receive a zero for that outside reading assignment. 11. No outside sources of any type are permitted for the outside reading evaluation. Be aware that online book reviews, notes on the back cover and book jacket, critical essays, or any other type of material written by someone else about your book choice gives you an unfair advantage over others. Any deliberate, careless, or negligent use of outside sources will be reported as cheating and plagiarism to the Honor Cabinet, and the student will receive a zero for that outside reading assignment.
English I and English I Honors Austen Christie Dickens Doyle Du Marier Shakespeare Shelley Swift Tolkein Wilde Pride and Prejudice Murder on the Orient Express Great Expectations The Hound of Baskervilles Rebecca As You Like It Frankenstein Gulliver s Travels The Hobbit The Importance of Being Earnest **During Jan-Term, ALL students will read Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
ENGLISH II AND ENGLISH II HONORS All students must read Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie for one of their summer reading books. Additionally, students must select one more novel from the list below to read for the summer. Alberto Urrea Garcia Marquez Galloway Hua Japrisot Kawabata Koestler Lahiri Paton Rhys Into the Beautiful North Chronicle of a Death Foretold The Cellist of Sarajevo Chronicle of a Blood Merchant A Very Long Engagement Snow Country Darkness at Noon The Namesake Cry the Beloved Country Wide Sargasso Sea The assigned outside reading book for winter break and Jan Term will be included in the textbooks received by students at the start of the academic year.
ENGLISH III All students must read Daisy Miller by Henry James for one of their summer reading books. In addition, students must select one novel from the list below to read for the summer. Alexie Flight Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 Erdrich Love Medicine Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Wharton The Age of Innocence Over winter break and Jan. Term, all students will read Nella Larsen s Passing.
English IV Conroy Delany Gaines Hosseini Kingsolver Lee Lethem McCarthy McLain Mitchell Obreht Sebold Stockett See Tan The Water Is Wide Having Our Say A Lesson Before Dying A Thousand Splendid Suns The Bean Trees To Kill a Mockingbird Motherless Brooklyn The Road The Paris Wife Black Swan Green The Tiger s Wife The Lovely Bones The Help Shanghai Girls The Kitchen God s Wife
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Students must select one fiction book and one nonfiction book to read during the summer. Choose one book from this section: Angelou Douglass Ehrenreich Kotlowitz I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America There Are No Children Here Choose one book from this section: Hemingway Kingsolver McCullers Morrison Plath The Sun Also Rises The Poisonwood Bible The Heart is a Lonely Hunter The Bluest Eye The Bell Jar Over winter break and Jan. Term, all students will read Timothy Tyson s Blood Done Sign My Name.
ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE: OUTSIDE READING LIST Choose one of the following classic novels to read for summer outside reading: Bronte Eliot Ellison Forster Garcia Marquez Heller Hurston Joyce Melville Tolstoy Waugh Wuthering Heights Middlemarch Invisible Man A Passage to India One Hundred Years of Solitude Catch-22 Their Eyes Were Watching God A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Moby-Dick Anna Karenina Brideshead Revisited Choose one of the following contemporary novels to read for winter outside reading: Catton Diaz Erdrich Hosseini Johnson Lee McBride Mitchell Murakami Tartt The Luminaries The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Plague of Doves And the Mountains Echoed The Orphan Master s Son A Gesture Life The Good Lord Bird Cloud Atlas Kafka on the Shore The Goldfinch