Summer Reading List

2008 McAuley Summer Reading Requirements

Catherine McAuley High School recognizes that one of the most important things you can do for yourself in your years of high school and beyond is to read. It has been proven over and over that the best way to prepare oneself for tests such as the PSAT and SAT is to read widely. It has also been found that students who read become better writers.

   

English I College Prep:

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson

English I Honors:

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson
   

English II College Prep:

  • Montana, 1948 by Larry (Lawrence) Watson

English II Honors:

  • Montana, 1948 by Larry (Lawrence) Watson
  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
   

AP English III

  • A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
  • A World of Hurt by Mary Reynolds Powell
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  • Chapters 1&2 in The Bedford Reader

English III Honors

  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • A Free Choice from the following list:
  • The Accidental by Ali Smith
  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  • The Riders by Tim Winton
  • Paddy Clark Ha, Ha, Ha by Roddy Doyle
  • The Gathering by Anne Enright
  • The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
   

English III College Prep

A Free Choice from the Following List:

  • The Accidental by Ali Smith
  • Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
  • The Riders by Tim Winton
  • Paddy Clark Ha, Ha, Ha by Roddy Doyle
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
  • What was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn

AP English IV Literature and Composition

  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • Anna Karenina Leo by Tolstoy
  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

 
   

English IV Honors

  • The Red Tent, Diamant
  • Attonement by Ian McEwan

English IV Colleg Prep

  • The Red Tent, Diamant
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
   

AP American Government

  • Words We Live By by Linda Monk
  • Chpts 1-3 of  American Government: Continuity & Change   by Karen O’Connor & Larry J. Sabato
  • Skim units 1 & 2  of We The People

 AP United States History

  • Chpts 28-31 in The American Promise 3rd ed.
  • You will read five (5) books from a list included in the course packet during the school year.  It would be wise to read at least one over the summer.

**In addition, ALL STUDENTS are required to read the non-fiction Community Read: Packaging Girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' scheme by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown.

A one-page written paper for the Community Read is required. Please see the prompt for upperclassmen and freshmen. Papers are due to your homeroom teacher on September 3, 2008. LATE PAPERS will NOT be accepted. Papers are read and recorded as part of a student’s permanent record.

Freshmen:

Write a personal reflection (two pages) responding to the prompt below for the non-fiction book, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, to be read over the summer.  Be sure to include a title page, your name, class/year.  Your papers should be typed, double-spaced, grammatically edited and a final, polished essay; it is due Wednesday, September 3, 2008 to your homeroom teacher. 

Prompt: 

After reading Packaging Girlhood, think about your image of girlhood. According to the authors Lamb and Brown, the images created on the big screen, on TV programs, in magazines and newspapers and everywhere one looks in a shopping mall affect the girl you are and the girl you feel you have to be Do you agree? What does it mean to be a girl today?

Upperclassmen:

Write a personal reflection (two pages) responding to the prompt below for the non-fiction book, Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, to be read over the summer.  Be sure to include a title page, your name, class/year.  Your papers should be typed, double-spaced, grammatically edited and a final, polished essay; it is due Wednesday, September 3, 2008 to your homeroom teacher. 

Prompt: 

After reading Packaging Girlhood, think about your image of girlhood. According to the authors Lamb and Brown, the images created on the big screen, on TV programs, in magazines and newspapers and everywhere one looks in a shopping mall affect the girl you are and the girl you feel you have to be? Do you agree?  What does it mean to be a girl today?

Using the text for support (internal citation/MLA correctness), what observation(s) can you make that validate your experiences or made an impact on you while reading?