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CUMBERLAND HIGH SCHOOL'S
SUMMER READING LIST 2008
Here are the lists for the following classes.
| English |
From the letter sent to parents and students:
"To fulfill the CHS English Department's summer reading requirements, students, must select a book of their choice to read over the summer. They will be required to write a book review of their selection and to turn the review in during the first week of school.
In making a selection. students must adhere to the following guidelines:
---The book must be age and subject appropriate.
---It should not be a book that they have previously read for pleasure or for a course.
---Students may read fiction, nonfiction, a complete poetry collection, a complete short story collection, a play, or a graphic novel."
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| English III AP |
| Required texts |
| Select and read 15 stories from: |
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (2002)---Be prepared to write and essay on mone or more of the sotries when you return to school.
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| Hardy, Thomas |
Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Wilde, Oscar |
Five plays by Oscar Wilde with an introduction by Hesketh Pearson (1961) |
| Read the following poems from: |
| Stanley Appelbaum, ed. |
English Romantic Poetry An Anthology (1996) |
William Blake
The Lamb, The Tyger, The Garden of Love, The Sick Rose, and A Poison Tree |
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey, London, 1802, The Solitary Reaper, Scorn not the Sonnet, and Characters of the Happy Warrior |
Samual Taylor Colerridge
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, On a Ruined House in a Romantice Country, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, France; An Olde, the Dugeon, and Kubla Khan |
George Gordon, Lord Bryon
She Walks in Beauty, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Darkness, The Prisoner of Chillon, and On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias, Son to the Men of England, Sonnet: England in 1819, Ode to the West Wind, To Night, and Adonais; Elegy on the Death of john Keats |
John Keats
Sonnet: Happy England!, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Psyche, Lines on the Mermaid Tavern, Sonnet: To Homer |
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| English IV AP |
| Read the following works |
| Doctorow, E.L. |
Ragtime |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Hossini, Khaled |
The Kiterunner |
| Strunk, William |
The Elements of Style |
| Read 15 poems by one of the following: |
Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, John Donne, E.E. Cummings.
Construct an annotated list of titles, content, poetic devices, and themes. This will be submitted on the 1st day of school and will serve as the basis of your first research paper. |
| U.S. History I |
| Recommended for honors and enriched levels |
| Brands, H.W. |
Andrew Jackson: His life and Times |
| Oshinsky, David |
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crowe Justice |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Larson, Erik |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America |
| Traxel, David |
1898: The Birth of the American Century |
| Shaara, Jeff |
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War |
| Recommended for fundamental level |
| Miller, Nathan |
Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents |
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| U.S. History II |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Sides, Hampton |
Ghost Soldiers |
| Brokaw, Tom |
The Greatest Generation |
| Kurson, Robert |
Shadow Divers |
| O'Donnell, Kenneth P. |
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye |
| Schweizer, Peter |
Reagan's War |
| Not Acceptable for honors and enriched levels |
| Crowe, Chris |
Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case |
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| U.S. History (AP) |
| AP students are required to read the first three chapters of the following text. |
| Appleby, McPherson, et al. |
American Vision (Glencoe/McGraw/Hill) |
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| Western Civilization |
| Recommended for EEP |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
| Recommended for honors and A2 and A1 levels |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
| The Bible |
Exodus or Matthew |
| Bagdasarian, Adam |
Forgotten Fire |
| Filipovic, Zlata |
Zlata's Diary |
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| European History (AP) |
| AP students are required to read all three books in the order as they are listed below. |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
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| Economics |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Johnson, Spencer |
Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens |
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| Psychology |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Rapoport, Judith L. |
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
(Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) |
| Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers For Algernon |
| Greenberg, Joanne |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
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| Introduction to Criminal Justice |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Grisham, John |
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town |
| Cornwell, Patricia |
A Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper--Case Closed |
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| Law and Society |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Leone, Richard |
The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism |
| Nuwer, Hank |
High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wrongs |
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| Sociology |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Gladwell, Malcolm |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister's Keeper: a novel |
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| Ancient History |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Macaulay, David |
Pyramid |
| Macaulay, David |
City: A Sotry of Roman Planning and Construction |
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| Military History |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Tzu, Sun |
The Art of War |
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| War on Terror |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Barber, Benjamin |
Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy |
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| Social Studies for the 21st Century |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Tashjian, Janet |
Vote for Larry |
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