English
DIRECTIONS
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Choose ONE book from the following list.
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What is the message, main idea, or author’s purpose of your chosen work? What did you learn as a result of reading your book?
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Bookmark or use Post- it notes to note at least THREE impactful or important sections and make annotations in the text so you can easily refer to these passages while working on your project when you return to school in August.
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Note the book’s setting, theme, or any symbols that you found.
*Works denoted as a challenge read have been an option for writing on the English Advanced Placement exams.
Freshman
Fiction
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Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/272752.Seedfolks?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=li1o9gfCGs&rank=1
● The Giver by Lois Lowery https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=eSvRRbfVhG&rank=1
● My Antonia by Willa Cather (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17150.My_ntonia?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=xSIFe2H4ZP&rank=
● The Book Thief by Markus Zusak https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=the+book+thief+&qid=WXeBl9lBY0
● Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38169.Alas_Babylon?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=UUFTNVMgXa&rank=1
Non-Fiction
- Brian’s Song by Willliam Blinn ( A Place in STA history ) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/846533.Brian_s_Song?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=svuJVFSe7j&rank=1
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=5kkcpy9asE&rank=1
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/783127.The_7_Habits_Of_Highly_Effective_Teens?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=5HgYissCOe&rank=1
- Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses and a Life in Perspective by Pat Summit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15841863-sum-it-up?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=6MbrMIKSYi&rank=1
Sophomore
Fiction
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/20170404-station- eleven -
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/18143977-all-the- light-we-cannot-see?ac=1&from_ search=true -
Our Town by Thornton Wilder https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/205476.Our_Town -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_ the_Caged_Bird_Sings?ac=1& from_search=true
Non-Fiction
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Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conklin https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/33590224-votes-for- women?ac=1&from_search=true -
Under the Lights and In the Dark by Gwendolyn Oxenham https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/33114524-under-the- lights-and-in-the-dark?ac=1& from_search=true -
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul Jabar https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/32197594-coach- wooden-and-me?ac=1&from_ search=true *Works denoted as a challenge read have been an option for writing on the English Advanced Placement Exams.
Junior
Fiction
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/4588.Extremely_Loud_ and_Incredibly_Close?ac=1& from_search=true -
What the Night Sings by Vesper Samper https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/35550152-what-the- night-sings?ac=1&from_search= true -
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_ the_Rye?ac=1&from_search=true -
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_ Owen_Meany?ac=1&from_search= true -
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
Non-Fiction
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Wood https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/20821284-brown-girl- dreaming?ac=1&from_search=true -
Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners by Naomi Shihab Nye https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/35068790-voices-in- the-air?ac=1&from_search=true -
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secrets of the VietNam War by Steve Sheinkin https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/23310694-most- dangerous?ac=1&from_search= true -
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/17851885-i-am- malala?ac=1&from_search=true -
Educated by Tara Westover
*Works denoted as a challenge read have been an option for writing on the English Advanced Placement exams.
Senior
Fiction
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/17333223-the- goldfinch?ac=1&from_search= true -
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/16299.And_Then_ There_Were_None?ac=1&from_ search=true -
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/1885.Pride_and_ Prejudice?ac=1&from_search= true -
Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/32797614-twelve- steps-to-normal?ac=1&from_ search=true -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Challenge Read)* https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/6185.Wuthering_ Heights?ac=1&from_search=true
Non-Fiction
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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/1845.Into_the_Wild? ac=1&from_search=true -
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/25899336-when- breath-becomes-air?ac=1&from_ search=truelta -
Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam by Elizabeth Partridge https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/35576416-boots-on- the-ground?ac=1&from_search= true -
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/39933.How_to_Read_ Literature_Like_a_Professor? ac=1&from_search=true -
Where You Go Is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni https://www.goodreads.com/
book/show/22675976-where-you- go-is-not-who-you-ll-be?ac=1& from_search=true *Works denoted as a challenge read have been an option for writing on the English Advanced Placement exams.
Science
Social Studies
World History AP
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (View Assignment Details Here) by Jared Diamond
United States History AP
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Comparative Government Advanced Placement
- The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, and America by Timothy Snyder