Taipei American School Upper School English Department Summer Reading Texts & Semester Texts 2019-2020 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: 978-1250107817. 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.
ENGLISH 9 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper 978-0060856267 Yes The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Harper 978-0062315007 Yes The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage 978-0679734772 Yes Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Folger 978-1451621709 Yes Lord of the Flies William Golding Penguin (2003) 978-0399501487 Yes Ender s Game Orson Scott Card Tor 978-0812550702 Yes Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A No
HONORS ENGLISH 9 First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Harper 978-0060856267 Yes Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family Yoshiko Uchida University of Washington Press 978-0295994758 Yes Non-fiction Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No Odyssey Romeo and Juliet Homer, Trans. Lombardo Hackett 978-0872204843 No William Shakespeare Folger 978-1451621709 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 978-0679734772 No
ENGLISH 10 We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-1101911761 Yes Kindred Octavia Butler Beacon Press 978-0807083697 Yes Animal Farm George Orwell NAL; Reprint edition 978-0452284241 Yes Gothic Short Stories Various Provided by teacher N/A No The Oedipus Cycle Sophocles Mariner Books; 1 edition 978-0156027649 Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No Macbeth William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477109 Yes Non fiction Various Provided by instructor
HONORS ENGLISH 10 Hunger Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Company 978-0393337952 Yes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (no need to read Frederick Douglass) Harriet Jacobs Modern Library Classics 978-0345478238 Yes Short Prose Selections Various Provided by teacher N/A No 1984 George Orwell Signet Classics 978-0451524935 No Othello William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477550 No The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid Harvest Books 978-0156034029 Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson Spiegel & Grau 978-0812984965 Yes Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press 978-1566894951 Yes The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander The New Press 978-1595586438 Yes Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No
AMERICAN LITERATURE The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Harper Collins 9780062079978 Yes The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead Anchor 978-0345804327 Yes The Great Gatsby Between the World and Me F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann Vintage Books 978-0307742483 Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 Yes Moby Dick Herman Melville Bookcaps 978-1475052176 No
HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Penguin Books 978-0735224315 Yes The Other Americans Laila Lalami Pantheon 978-1524747145 Yes Between the World and Me The Great Gatsby Their Eyes Were Watching God Ceremony Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial 978-0061120060 Yes Leslie Marmon Silko Penguin Books 978-0143104919 Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 Yes The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books 978-0618706419 Yes
LITERATURE, JUSTICE, & LAW The Stranger Albert Camus Vintage 978-0679720201 YES A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Vintage 978-0375702709 YES The Trial Franz Kafka Schocken 978-0805209990 YES Antigone Sophocles Methuen Drama (Student Editions) 978-0413776044 NO Devil in the White City Erik Larson Random House 978-0375725609 YES Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare Folger 978-0671722920 YES Course Reader Various Provided by the teacher N/A N/A
WORLD LITERATURE The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Dover 9780486290300 no The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics 978-1590172681 Yes Thérèse Raquin Emile Zola Oxford 978-0199536856 No Frankenstein Mary Shelley Penguin Classics 978-0141439471 Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics 978-0143039679 No Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics 978-0140441222 Yes The Epic of Gilgamesh N.K. Sandars Penguin Classics 978-0140441000 Yes
HONORS CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Think Like A Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow 978-0062218346 Yes How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Mohsin Hamid Riverhead Books 978-1594632334 Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Anchor Books 978-0385486804 Yes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Vintage Contemporaries 978-1400032716 Yes Atonement Ian McEwan Anchor Books 978-0385721790 Yes The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood Vintage Canada 978-1786892485 Yes Happiness Matthieu Ricard Little, Brown and Company 978-0316167253 Yes
HONORS WORLD LITERATURE The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Dover 9780486290300 no The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics 978-1590172681 Yes Thérèse Raquin Emile Zola Oxford 978-0199536856 No Frankenstein Mary Shelley Penguin Classics 978-0141439471 Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics 978-0143039679 No Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics 978-0140441222 Yes The Epic of Gilgamesh N.K. Sandars Penguin Classics 978-0140441000 Yes
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 978-1475029178 Yes Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition 978-0374527075 Yes Brave New World Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial; Reprint edition 978-0099518471 Yes Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World Eduardo Galeano (translated by Mark Fried) Picador; 1st edition 978-0312420314 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 978-0156028356 Yes University of Chicago Press; Bilingual edition 978-0226531915 Yes Vintage; 1st Vintage contemporaries ed edition 978-0679738565 Yes
IBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 2 The Word for World is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin Tor Books 978-0765324641 Yes Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Harper Perennial 978-0061120060 Yes Four Major Plays, Vol. I Henrik Ibsen (trans. Rolf Fjelde) Signet Classics 978-0451530226 No When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 No Selected media texts Various Provided by teacher N/A No Selected readings on culture Various Provided by teacher N/A No
IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 1 The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books 978-0375707971 Yes Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau 978-0399588174 Yes Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay Harper Perennial 978-0062282712 Yes Poetry Various Provided by instructor The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe Vintage 978-0679733782 Yes Fences August Wilson Plume 978-0452264014 Yes Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas Short Stories Su Tong Various William Morrow Paperbacks 978-0060596330 No Provided by instructor
IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau 978-0399588174 Yes The Other Americans: A Novel Laila Lalami Pantheon 978-1524747145 Yes Emily Dickinson: Selected Poetry Emily Dickinson Provided by teacher N/A No Sula Toni Morrison Vintage 978-1400033430 No The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Folger 978-1439191163 No The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Signet: Mass Market 9780451531896 No Long Day's Journey into Night Eugene O'Neill Yale 978-0300093056 No The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams New Directions 978-0811214049 No Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International 978-0307475206 No
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 978-0307455925 Yes Charlotte Bronte Penguin 978-0141441146 No Hamlet William Shakespeare Oxford University 978-0198328704 No Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Penguin 978-0141439556 No Heart of Darkness & Selections From The Congo Diary Joseph Conrad Modern Library 978-0375753770 Yes Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) Virginia Woolf Mariner Books 978-0156030359 No The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Penguin 978-0141439570 No The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Oscar Wilde Penguin 978-0140436068 No The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press 978-082142818 Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin 978-0385474542 Yes Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin 978-0140481341 Yes Wit: A Play Margaret Edson Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 978-0571198771 Yes
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 978-0804136785 Yes Associated Press Stylebook 2017 or 2018 (or 2019 if available) Associated Press Associated Press 978-15416722383 No
WRITING WORKSHOP & SEMINAR 1 (REGULAR & HONORS) Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics 978-0141192321 No Required Exercises in Style Raymond Queneau New Directions Books 978-0811220354 No EXPOSITORY WRITING - No texts need to be purchased in advance ART & LITERATURE / HONORS ART & LITERATURE: No texts need to be purchased in advance