English Department
Summer Reading
2008
11th
Grade
Select
at
least one of the following texts (two if you are entering 11H
or 11AP), read it/them, and be prepared for a discussion in English class
on the first day of school in September.A
subsequent assignment will follow teacher guided discussion.
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee
Native Son by Richard Wright
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Shining by Stephen King
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston