SHS Summer Reading Program 2008 

Open Your Eyes to Something New!

 
The books listed below are required summer reading. 

These books have been chosen specifically for the connection they have to the classes.  The novels will be a part of the curriculum during the first weeks of the semester.

If you are going to be a:

Junior in 301/302/331/336
please choose one:

 

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

or

Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom

 

 

E319 students read
The Scarlet Letter  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Required Summer Reading Project

If you are going to be a: 

Freshman in E101 or E102
please choose one:

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
or
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

E108 Students read
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

 

 Senior-All Levels (except 419)
please choose one:
 

First They Killed My Father:  A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

or

The Glass Castle:  A Memoir by Jeanette Walls

 

E419 students read
Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 Sophomores in E201 or E202
please choose one:

Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
or
Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

E208 students read
1984 by George Orwel
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Books will be available through your English teacher in May 2008. 

These titles are also available at local bookstores, or at your local public library.