Our July 30, the Somers Spectator posted the summer reading lists for ninth and tenth graders at Somers and Kennedy Catholic High Schools. Part II lists summer reading required for 11th and 12th grades. Some great book ideas to add to your “To Be Read” lists. Juniors and seniors better get reading. School starts soon.
Depending on their class assignments, 11th graders at Somers High have the following assignments:
11R –Students must read any two of the following books:
Black Like Me (Griffin)
The Water is Wide (Conroy)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
Monster (Myers)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon)
11H –Students must read Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
and also read one of the following:
A Lesson Before Dying (Gaines)
The Edible Woman (Atwood)
If I Die in a Combat Zone (O’Brien)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
11AP-Students must read Pudd’nhead Wilson (Twain) and Freakonomics (Levitt and Dubner)
and also read one of the following:
The Education of Henry Adams (Adams)
A Rumor of War (Caputo)
Out of Africa (Dineson)
Out of Africa (Acquah)
All the Strange Hours (Eisely)
Goodbye to All That (Graves)
When Heaven and Earth Change Places (Hayslip)
Dust Tracks on a Road (Hurston)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs)
Autobiography (Jefferson)
The Woman Warrior (Kingston)
If I Die in a Combat Zone (O’Brien)
An Only Child (O’Connor)
Down and Out in Paris and London (Orwell)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Persig)
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (Rodriguez)
Up from Slavery (Washington)
The Double Helix (Watson)
One Writer’s Beginnings (Weltly)
In Pharaoh’s Army (Wolff)
This Boy’s Life (Wolff)
At Kennedy Catholic, for 11th graders:
Read each of the following works:
1. Of Mice and Men (a novella by John Steinbeck)
2. A Raisin in the Sun (a play by Lorraine Hansberry)
3. Our Town (a drama by Thornton Wilder)
Students are required to read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
In addition to the novel, read at least five essays from any of the following essayists:
Joseph Addison, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, W.E.B.Dubois, Ellen Goodman,
William Hazlitt, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, George Orwell, Richard
Steele, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber
12R- Students must read two of the following:
What is the What (Eggers)
I am the Messenger (Zusak)
19 Minutes (Picoult)
The Things They Carried (O’Brien)
12H- Students must read The Life of Pi (Martel) and Demian (Hesse)
12AP -The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving) and Their
Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
At Kennedy Catholic, 12th graders read
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Tragedy and the Common Man by Arthur Miller
King Lear – A Tragedy by William Shakespeare
Antigone -- A classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles
