Dear Parents and Students:

All students in grades 9-12, for the 2018-2019 school year at PBS, have a reading assignment for the

summer. You must complete the book(s) for the first day of school. Your teacher may or may not

actually test you on the first day, but you must be prepared. For that reason, you might consider reading

the book(s), if possible, during the last two or three weeks of the summer vacation. Underlining,

highlighting, or making notes as you read will also help you when you get ready to review for any class

assignments.

One of the purposes of this assignment is to build students’ literary background and reading skills for the

PBS college-preparatory curriculum. This assignment will be beneficial only if the entire book is

carefully read. Watching movies and reading Cliff’s Notes are not adequate substitutes. Such short cuts

might allow you to slip by an immediate obstacle of a class assignment or quiz, but personal preparation

for long-range goals (ACT and SAT scores, National Merit standings, Advanced Placement tests, etc.)

will not be accomplished.

Parkview Baptist High School English Department

• English I College Preparatory:

o Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

• English I Honors:

o Cheaper by the Dozen by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

o And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

• English II College Preparatory:

o The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

• English II Honors:

o The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

o A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• English III College Preparatory:

o Life of Pi by Yann Martel

• English III Honors:

o The Help by Kathryn Stockett

o The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Skip the section entitled “The Custom

House.”)

• English III AP:

o The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Skip the section entitled “The Custom

House.”)

o Student choice – autobiography/biography (150+ pages)

• English IV College Preparatory:

o Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

• English IV Dual:

o Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

o The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

• English IV AP:

o The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

o How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

***Students are responsible for purchasing their own copies of the novels.