SUMMER READING 2012

Students entering Grade 10 (AP Literature): Required for ALL in-coming sophomores:

O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried

In addition to the required reading, you must choose TWO of the following:

Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights Chevalier, Tracy The Girl with the Pearl Earring * Gaines, Ernest A Lesson Before Dying Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Huxley, Aldous Brave New World Potok, Chaim The Chosen Wolff, Tobias This Boy’s Life * Required reading for students taking Studio in Art and may count as one of your student choice selections. Reminder: Annotate as you read! You will need these books for our comparative study of the works during the school year. Assessment: Guiding Questions for The Things They Carried –Responses to the guiding questions will be submitted on the first day of school. The depth and insight into each answer will validate the mark. Neatness and presentation counts! (See attached.)

Parents and students should be cautioned that some of the titles deal with mature themes and are reminded that the AP Curriculum is meant to be college level work.

Note: Lists are available during the summer in the CHS main office, CHS Website, Talking Leaves Bookstore, Barnes and Noble, and the Buffalo and Erie County Library.

SUMMER READING for students entering grade 11: Required reading for Part 4 of the IB Literature curriculum: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier Ishmael Beah In addition to the required reading, you must choose two of the following selections: All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Great Expectations Charles Dickens Rhinoceros Eugene Ionesco Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut The Color Purple Alice Walker Wide Sargasso Sea + Jean Rhys Jane Eyre + Charlotte Bronte Richard III* William Shakespeare House of the Spirits Isabel Allende On the Road Jack Keruac The Sweet Hereafter** Russell Banks + Consider pairing Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea; they have a linked storyline. * Shakespeare in the Park performance, 2012 Season ** Just Buffalo’s BABEL Series speaker, 2012-2013 Season Reminder: Annotate as you read! Assessment: Dialectical journal (see attached) Parents and students should be cautioned that some of the titles deal with mature themes and are reminded that the IB Curriculum is meant to be college level work. Note: Lists are available during the summer in the CHS main office, CHS Website, Talking Leaves Bookstore, Barnes and Noble, and the Buffalo and Erie County Library.

SUMMER READING for students entering grade 12: Required reading for IB Literature, Part II (Detailed Study): Native Son – Richard Wright All students must choose two from the following list: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Woman at Point Zero Nawal El Saadawi No Exit Jean Paul Sartre One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Richard III* William Shakespeare The Sweet Hereafter** Russell Banks Beloved Toni Morrison * Shakespeare in the Park performance, 2012 Season ** Just Buffalo’s BABEL Series speaker, 2012-2013 Season Reminder: Annotate as you read! Assessment: Dialectical journal (see attached) Parents and students should be cautioned that some of the titles deal with mature themes and are reminded that the IB Curriculum is meant to be college level work.

Note: Lists are available during the summer in the CHS main office, CHS Website, Talking Leaves Bookstore, Barnes and Noble, and the Buffalo and Erie County Library.