Upper Honors English Summer Reading 2021 You must read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Copies are available from me, or you may purchase your own. Then, after you finish the novel, I want you to express your opinion of Twain’s message (no contractions; try to avoid 1 st and eschew 2 nd person pronouns) that argues your perspective based on the author’s intent and the methodology he employs in his novel as a whole; briefly put, I want you to write an analysis. Do not merely summarize the content; instead, analyze author’s intent. Papers should be typed Calibri 11pt., single-spaced. I’ll collect the hardcopy essays in the first class. You will be reading the following titles through the course of the school year. Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne Maggie, Girl of the Street—Stephen Crane The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut For this summer’s reading, you are required to read a selection of titles of American authors from the College Board’s Recommended Reading List 2018 that I have placed below. You may pick any titles from the list below that total at least 500 pages (of complete books). Do not read any of the titles listed above because we will read them during the year. For each title you fully complete, you must take an objective Reading Counts at SMHS Library (Tuesdays and Thursdays—9:00 to noon). Your continued enrollment in the class is contingent upon the Reading Counts tests taken at our library, and the Huckleberry Finn essay that are to be turned in on the first class in August. Email questions: [email protected] Please be honest: Read titles you have not read before Wright, Richard Native Son Walker, Alice The Color Purple Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Morrison, Toni Beloved O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night Melville, Herman Moby Dick Melville, Herman Billy Budd* Miller, Arthur The Crucible Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt London, Jack The Call of the Wild Keysey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior James, Henry The Turn of the Screw Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Heller, Joseph Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain *used most often by my students on SAT prompt responses and AP Literature Exam.

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Upper Honors English Summer Reading 2021 You must read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Copies are available

from me, or you may purchase your own. Then, after you finish the novel, I want you to express your opinion of Twain’s message (no contractions; try to avoid 1st and eschew 2nd person pronouns) that argues your perspective based on the author’s intent and the methodology he employs in his novel as a whole; briefly put, I want you to write an analysis. Do not merely summarize the content; instead, analyze author’s intent. Papers should be typed Calibri 11pt., single-spaced. I’ll collect the hardcopy essays in the first class.

You will be reading the following titles through the course of the school year. Scarlet Letter—Nathaniel Hawthorne Maggie, Girl of the Street—Stephen Crane

The Great Gatsby—F. Scott Fitzgerald Cat’s Cradle—Kurt Vonnegut

For this summer’s reading, you are required to read a selection of titles of American authors from the College Board’s Recommended Reading List 2018 that I have placed below. You may pick any titles from the list below that total at least 500 pages (of complete books). Do not read any of the titles listed above because we will read them during the year.

For each title you fully complete, you must take an objective Reading Counts at SMHS Library (Tuesdays and Thursdays—9:00 to noon). Your continued enrollment in the class is contingent upon the Reading Counts tests taken at our library, and the Huckleberry Finn essay that are to be turned in on the first class in August.

Email questions: [email protected] Please be honest: Read titles you have not read beforeWright, Richard Native Son Walker, Alice The Color Purple Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom's Cabin Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar Morrison, Toni Beloved O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night Melville, Herman Moby Dick Melville, Herman Billy Budd* Miller, Arthur The Crucible Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird Sinclair, Upton The Jungle Lewis, Sinclair Babbitt London, Jack The Call of the Wild Keysey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior James, Henry The Turn of the Screw

Joyce, James A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Heller, Joseph Catch-22 Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop Bellow, Saul The Adventures of Augie March Baldwin, James Go Tell It on the Mountain *used most often by my students on SAT prompt responses and AP Literature Exam.