Here are the Summer Reading Lists for 2011. Novels with a particular translation or ISBN specified must be purchased. Any edition of the other novels is acceptable as long as it is not an abridged version. In addition to reading the books on your grade level list, please CLICK HERE to find your assignment on the Bishop Dunne Summer Reading page.
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ENGLISH/LITERATURE:
Apart from timeless classics, students are also assigned a variety of contemporary novels. The novels on this list have been selected for their literary merit and the appropriate alignment with course objectives and thematic strands. Because of their postmodern nature, some of the books may include—within their historical and/or cultural context—language, events or descriptions that contain profanity, violence, sexual content or material that is intended for the mature reader.
6th Grade
Students are to read the following book. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the assignment with specific instructions.
- Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
7th Grade Pre-AP
Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options (see below). Please click on the link near the top of the page for the assignment with specific instructions.
Required book:
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
7th Grade Regular
Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options (see below). Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
Required book:
- The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
All 7th grade students are to choose one more from this list of options:
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
8th Grade Regular
Students are to read the required book, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
8th Grade Pre-AP
Students are to read two books: the required book and one from the list of options. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
Required book:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Choose one more from this list:
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Matched by Ally Condie
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
English I Regular
Students must read Things We Couldn’t Say by Diet Eman. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the assignment with specific instructions.
English I Pre-AP
Students are to read two books. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the assignment with specific instructions.
Required books:
- Things We Couldn’t Say by Diet Eman
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
English II Pre-AP
Students are to read the books listed below and to view the film listed below. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Hotel Rwanda (2004), dir. by Terry George
English II Regular
Students are to read the following book and to view the film below. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
Required book:
English III AP
Students are to read both the following books. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck
English III Regular
Students are to read the following book. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
English IV AP
Students are to read both books. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth’s Castle by Liza Campbell
English IV Regular
Students are to read one book and view one of the films listed below. Please click on the link near the top of the page for the handout with specific instructions.
Films:
OTHER PreAP and AP CLASSES:
Please click on the link near the top of the page to go to the Bishop Dunne Summer Reading page for specific instructions.
AP Calculus
AP Statistics
PreAP Pre-Algebra
PreAP Geometry
AP Algebra II
PreAP Physical Science
PreAP Chemistry
AP Chemistry
PreAP Texas History
PreAP Geography
AP Government
AP Human Geography
AP World History
AP US History
AP Microeconomics
AP Physics
AP Spanish Language
AP Spanish Literature
PreAP Spanish I
PreAP Spanish II
PreAP Spanish III
AP Statistics
AP Studio Art
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