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CUMBERLAND HIGH SCHOOL'S
SUMMER READING LIST 2008

Here are the lists for the following classes.

English Psychology
English III AP Introduction to Criminal Justice
English IV AP Law and Society
U.S. History I Sociology
U.S. History II Ancient History
U.S. History (AP) Military History
Western Civilization War on Terror
European History (AP) Social Studies for the 21st Century
Economics

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."

 
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.

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
 
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
 
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
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)
   
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
   
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
 
Economics
Acceptable for all levels
Johnson, Spencer  Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens
 
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
   
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
 
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
 
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
   
Ancient History
Acceptable for all levels
Macaulay, David Pyramid
Macaulay, David City: A Sotry of Roman Planning and Construction
   
Military History
Acceptable for all levels
Tzu, Sun The Art of War
   
War on Terror
Acceptable for all levels
Barber, Benjamin Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
 
Social Studies for the 21st Century
Acceptable for all levels
Tashjian, Janet  Vote for Larry

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