SUMMER READING

ALL GRADES HAVE REQUIRED SUMMER READING.

ALL GRADES HAVE ASSIGNMENT PACKETS.

PLEASE FOLLOW LINKS TO ASSIGNMENTS:

Middle School Assignments

High School Assignments

REQUIRED READING

7th Grade

Suggested Reading List

 8th Grade

 Suggested Reading List

Honors and Academic English I (9^th grade)

Option 1: Matched by Ally Condie

Option 2: The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

Option 3: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Academic English II (10^th grade)

Option 1: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Option 2: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom | Fiction

Honors English II (10^th grade)

Option 1: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Option 2: The Color of Water by James McBride | Memoir

Academic English III (11th grade) choose only one (1)

 NonFiction

• Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
• The Glass Castle by Jennette Walls 
• Into Thin Ar by Jon Krakauer 
• Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
• The Last Lecture by Jeffery Zaslow and Randy Pausch

Modern Fiction

• Bleacher by John Grisham
• Ender's Game by Scott Orsen Card
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Foer
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
• The Hose on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Classic Fiction

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Honors English III (11^th grade)

Option 1:The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls

Option 2: The Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

AP Language and Composition (11^th grade)

 Options:

•  American Sniper, Chris Kyle
•  Behind the Beautiful Forever’s, Katherine Boo
•  Columbine, Dave Cullen
•  Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden State of Everything, Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
•  The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
•  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
•  Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
•  Quiet, Susan Cain
•  Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder

AND Required Chapters from:

• The Language of Composition Directions

Academic and Honors English IV (12^th grade)

Students will choose ONE grade-appropriate text (of at least 50 pages in length) that clearly relates to either the career they plan to pursue after high school, the major they are considering for college, or a hobby/extracurricular that connects to their postsecondary goals. The text can be fiction, non-fiction (biography), OR informational. The text must also be original, meaning not previously read at Kingsway or listed in a school’s curriculum. Please see assignment for examples.

AP English Literature and Composition (12^th grade)

4 Reading Requirements

1. Read assigned chapters from How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

2. Read assigned chapters from How to Read Poetry Like a Professor by Thomas Foster

3. Read one (1) option from list :

• Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

4. Read Lord of the Flies by William Golding

AP Psychology

Option 1: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Option 2: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Option 3: 1984 by George Orwell

AP Statistics

Chapter 1 from textbook The Practice of Statistics, 5th edition for advanced Placement Statistics.

Text located at https://tinyurl.com/y9h2wuub under AP Statistics

AP Chemistry

Read through the first three chapters of the required text for the course, Brown et al., Chemistry: The Central Science 12e 

Text located at https://sites.google.com/a/krsd.us/chemed-inc/ap-chem/summer_assignment_2018