Taipei American School Upper School English Department Summer Reading Texts & Semester Texts 2018-2019 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: 978-0300098334. 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.
: 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 978-0060856267 Yes The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Little Brown & Company 978-0316769488 No 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 978-0399501487 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 Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press 978-1566894951 Yes Non-fiction Essays Various Provided by teacher N/A No Odyssey Romeo and Juliet Homer, Trans. Lombardo Hackett 978-0872204843 Yes William Shakespeare Folger 978-1451621709 Yes Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Anchor 978-0307390806 Yes Poetry Various Provided by teacher N/A No The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Vintage 978-0679734772 Yes
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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477109 Yes Frederick Douglass Modern Library Classics 978-0345478238 Yes
HONORS ENGLISH 10 Hunger Lan Samantha Chang W.W. Norton & Company 978-0393337952 Yes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 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 Yes Four Major Plays, Vol. I Henrik Ibsen Signet Classics 978-0451530226 Yes Macbeth William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster 978-0743477109 Yes 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 Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir The Underground Railroad Deborah A. Miranda Heyday 978-159714201 Yes 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 In Cold Blood Truman Capote Vintage 978-0679745587 Yes When the Emperor Was Divine Julie Otsuka Anchor 978-0385721813 Yes The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Mariner Books; 1st edition 978-0618706419 Yes
HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Scribner 978-1501173219 Yes Stealing Buddha's Dinner Bich Minh Nguyen Penguin 978-0143113034 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 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 God Help the Child Toni Morrison Vintage 978-0307740922 Yes
SCIENCE FICTION The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov Spectra Reprint Edition 978-0553293401 Yes Invincible Stanislaw Lem Pro Auctore Wojciech Zeme 978-8363471545 Yes Dawn Octavia Butler Aspect; Reprint edition 978-0446603775 Yes Solaris Stanislaw Lem Mariner Books 978-0156027601 Yes Ubik Philip K. Dick Mariner Books; Reprint edition 978-0547572291 Yes Frankenstein Mary Shelley Norton Critical Editions 978-0393927931 No Short stories Various Provided by teacher N/A No
WORLD LITERATURE Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology Brian Swann Dover 978-0486294506 Yes Silas Marner George Eliot Dover 978-0486292465 Yes Monkey Wu Ch engen/a. Waley Penguin Classics 978-0140441116 Yes Ramayana RK Narayan Penguin Classics 978-0143039679 No The Summer Book Tove Jansson NYRB Classics 978-1590172681 Yes The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Maple Press 978-8190739146 Yes Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah Jean Racine Penguin Classics 978-0140441222 Yes
HONORS CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Think Like A Freak Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow 978-0062218346 Yes The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Vintage Contemporaries 978-1400032716 Yes Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Anchor Books 978-0385486804 Yes A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking Bantam 978-0553380163 Yes Guns, Germs, and Steel Seven Years in Tibet Happiness Jared Diamond Heinrich Harrer Matthieu Ricard W. W. Norton & Company 978-0393317558 Yes Cornerstone Editions 978-1585427437 Yes Little, Brown and Company 978-0316167253 Yes
HONORS WORLD LITERATURE Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie Penguin 978-0140157376 Yes The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins 978-0061122415 Yes Monkey Wu Ch eng-en / Arthur Waley Penguin Classics 978-0140441116 Yes One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics 978-0060883287 No The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage 978-0679760801 Yes Black Elk Speaks John G. Neihardt Bison Books 978-0803283916 Yes Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Bantam 978-0553208849 Yes Selected Mythology Various Provided by Teacher N/A No
IBSL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE YEAR 1 / LITERATURE AND MEDIA STUDIES All I Asking For Is My Body Milton Murayama Kolowalu Book 978-0824811723 No Migritude Shailja Patel Kaya Press 978-1885030054 No The Thing Around Your Neck We Should All Be Feminists IB English A: Language and Literature Course Companion Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-0307455918 Yes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor Books 978-1101911761 Yes Rob Allison, Brian Chanen Oxford University Press 978-0198389972 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
IBSL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Penguin Classics 978-0141192321 Yes Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates The Text Publishing 978-0812993547 Yes Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Vintage 978-1400078776 No Fences August Wilson Plume 978-0452264014 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
IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 1 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 Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay Harper Perennial 978-0062282712 Yes The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor 978-0307455918 Yes Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K. Smith Graywolf Press 978-1555978136 Yes The Reader Bernhard Schlink Vintage Books 978-0375707971 Yes The Lover Marguerite Duras Pantheon 978-0375700521 Yes Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez Vintage 978-1400034710 Yes
IBHL ENGLISH LITERATURE YEAR 2 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah Spiegel & Grau 978-0399588174 Yes The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor 978-0307455918 Yes Shakespeare s Sonnets (Selection to be announced by instructor) William Shakespeare N/A N/A No Contemporary African Plays Various Methuen Drama 978-0413723307 No The Great Gatsby A Streetcar Named Desire F. Scott Fitzgerald Scribner 978-0743273565 Yes Tennessee Williams New Directions Paperbook 978-0811216029 No Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin Books 978-0140481341 Yes Fences August Wilson Plume 978-0452264014 No Master Harold and the Boys Athol Fugard Vintage International 978-0307475206 No
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION Midnight s Children Jane Eyre Salman Rushdie Vintage 978-0099578512 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 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Penguin 978-0140481341 Yes Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Penguin 978-0385474542 Yes Obasan Joy Kogawa Anchor 978-0385468862 No The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press 978-0802142818 Yes Poetry Course Reader Various Provided by teacher N/A No
ALL JOURNALISM COURSES (REGULAR & HONORS) Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer s Guide Kramer, Call Plume 978-0452287556 Yes Required The Elements of Journalism Kovach, Rosenstiel Three Rivers 978-0804136785 Yes Associated Press Stylebook 2017 Associated Press 48th edition; Basic Books 978-0465093045 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