To: English III Honors Students Re: Summer Reading Date: April 22 nd, 2011 I hope you are looking forward to your English III Honors class beginning in the fall. One purpose of this course is to increase the amount of personal reading that you do. 1. Everyone is required to read The Awakening by Kate Chopin and one other novel of your choosing from the attached list. This book and the others on the reading list will be available at Bourbon County Public Library throughout the summer. 2. The books below are not provided by the school. You are responsible for getting a copy of the book on your own. You have the option of buying the book or checking it out at the public library. Please note that the libraries do have each book, but NOT 30 copies! So do not wait until the last minute to read your book if you don t want to buy a copy. Check frequently if you wish to check it out. 3. You must be finished with all books by the time school starts. Most of the books on the list are also available at the Bourbon County Public Library or can be purchased at new and used at bookstores or online. Good sites for used books are barnesandnoble.com or Amazon.com. Also, Half Price Books and Joseph Beth Booksellers in Lexington are excellent sources as well 4. All materials will be due the first day of school. No Mommy/Daddy/Guardian/Significant other: story, reason or alibi will supersede this due date. You will have fun and anticipate that you have almost two and a half months to read the books. Allot your time accordingly!!!!!!! Throughout the summer books can be checked out through the Bourbon County Public Library. They are open Monday through Saturday. NO Excuses. Most of these titles are also readily available at any public library and possibly on-line as well. You may also get a book that the local library does not have through ILL(Inter Library Loan) it s free, just ask. Assignment Complete for both books the major works data sheet attached to this assignment sheet. Honors level work should be thorough and exact meaning most responses should be at least six lines in length.
101 Great Books Recommended for College-Bound Readers from The College Board Author Title Achebe, Chinua Agee, James Austen, Jane Baldwin, James Beckett, Samuel Bellow, Saul Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Camus, Albert Cather, Willa Chaucer, Geoffrey Chekhov, Anton Conrad, Joseph Cooper, James Fenimore Crane, Stephen Dante de Cervantes, Miguel Defoe, Daniel Dickens, Charles Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Douglass, Frederick Dreiser, Theodore Dumas, Alexandre Eliot, George Ellison, Ralph Emerson, Ralph Waldo Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Fielding, Henry Fitzgerald, F. Scott Flaubert, Gustave Ford, Ford Madox Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Hardy, Thomas Things Fall Apart A Death in the Family Pride and Prejudice Go Tell It on the Mountain Waiting for Godot The Adventures of Augie March Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights The Stranger Death Comes for the Archbishop The Canterbury Tales The Cherry Orchard Heart of Darkness The Last of the Mohicans The Red Badge of Courage Inferno Don Quixote Robinson Crusoe A Tale of Two Cities Crime and Punishment Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Tragedy The Three Musketeers The Mill on the Floss Invisible Man Selected Essays As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury Tom Jones The Great Gatsby Madame Bovary The Good Soldier Faust Tess of the d'urbervilles
Heller, Joseph Hemingway, Ernest Homer Homer Hugo, Victor Hurston, Zora Neale Huxley, Aldous Ibsen, Henrik James, Henry James, Henry Joyce, James Kingston, Maxine Hong Lewis, Sinclair London, Jack Mann, Thomas Marquez, Gabriel García Melville, Herman Melville, Herman Morrison, Toni O'Connor, Flannery O'Neill, Eugene Pasternak, Boris Plath, Sylvia Proust, Marcel Catch-22 A Farewell to Arms The Iliad The Odyssey The Hunchback of Notre Dame Their Eyes Were Watching God Brave New World A Doll's House The Portrait of a Lady The Turn of the Screw A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Woman Warrior Babbitt The Call of the Wild The Magic Mountain One Hundred Years of Solitude Bartleby the Scrivener Moby Dick Beloved A Good Man Is Hard to Find Long Day's Journey into Night Doctor Zhivago The Bell Jar Swann's Way Pynchon, Thomas The Crying of Lot 49 Remarque, Erich Maria Rostand, Edmond Roth, Henry Salinger, J.D. Shelley, Mary Silko, Leslie Marmon Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Sophocles Sophocles Steinbeck, John Stevenson, Robert Louis Stowe, Harriet Beecher Swift, Jonathan All Quiet on the Western Front Cyrano de Bergerac Call It Sleep The Catcher in the Rye Frankenstein Ceremony One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Antigone Oedipus Rex The Grapes of Wrath Treasure Island Uncle Tom's Cabin Gulliver's Travels
Thackeray, William Thoreau, Henry David Tolstoy, Leo Turgenev, Ivan Twain, Mark Voltaire Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. Walker, Alice Wharton, Edith Welty, Eudora Whitman, Walt Wilde, Oscar Williams, Tennessee Woolf, Virginia Wright, Richard Vanity Fair Walden War and Peace Fathers and Sons The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Candide Slaughterhouse-Five The Color Purple The House of Mirth Collected Stories Leaves of Grass The Picture of Dorian Gray The Glass Menagerie To the Lighthouse Native Son
Title: Author: Date of Publication: Genre: Major Works Data Sheet Biographical Information about the Author: Historical Information: Characteristics of the Genre: Plot Summary:
Describe the Author s Style: Provide an example that demonstrates the style: Quotes Memorable Quotes Significance of each Quote:
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