Honors English I

Required Books:
 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens – Sean Covey (for Leadership class) 
 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Choose 1 of the Following:     
We Were Liars – E. Lockhart
Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore – Robin Sloan     

Accelerated College Prep English I

Required Books:    
7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens – Sean Covey (for Leadership class)
The Gospel According to Larry – Janet Tashjian              

Choose 1 of the Following: 
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
Believe: The Victorious Story of Eric LeGrand – Eric LeGrand, Mike Yorkey        

College Prep English I

Required Books:  
7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens – Sean Covey (for Leadership class)
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys

 

 

Honors English II

Required Books:                                           

Kindred – Octavia Butler

The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams

Choose 1 of the Following:                           
The Stranger in the Woods – Michael Finkel

The Secret History –  Donna Tartt

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane – Katherine Howe

All We Have Left - Wendy Mills

An Invisible Thread – Laura Schroff

Before We Were Yours – Lisa Wingate  

ACP English II

Required Books:                                           
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford
The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown

Choose any ONE of the Following:                           
Bad – Jean Ferris
Gym Candy – Carl Deuker

CP American Literature

All CP American Literature students must read 2 books. One of those books must be one of the non-fiction choices listed under the REQUIRED section. The other selection must come from the second list, which has been arranged according to genre. All of the books listed are considered “Young Adult” and are written by American authors.

Required Book: Choose ONE                                            
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer  OR  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Choose 1 of the following books listed:                           

Adventure/Dystopian:    

And the Ocean was Our Sky               Patrick Ness

Dry                                                                     Neal & Jarrod Shusterman

Dread Nation                                               Justina Ireland

 

Mystery:                                 

Monday’s Not Coming                           Tiffany Jackson

Two Can Keep a Secret                         Karen McManus

                       

Fantasy:                                  

Children of Blood and Bone               Tomi Adeyemi

Scythe                                                             Neal Shusterman

 

Realistic Fiction:                    

How She Died, How I Lived                   Mary Crockett

I Have Lost My Way                                  Gayle Forman

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes       Atia Abawi

 

Non-Fiction:   

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for MLK Jr’s Assassin                   James Swanson

 Americanized: A Rebel without a Green Card                                    Sarah Saedi

Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice                               Bryan Stevenson

Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918      Albert Marrin

 

All juniors are required to read the following book for their Religion class:
Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust – Immaculee Ilibagiza

Honors English III

Required Books:                                                       
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

ACP English III

Required Books:                                                       
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
1984 – George Orwell

CP English III

Required Book:                                                         
Crooked House  - Agatha Christie

Choose 1 of the Following:                                       
The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis                
Storm Breaker - Anthony Horowitz

Honors Theater Arts

Required Book:
Drama High - Michael Sokolove

AP English                                        

Required Books:                              
A Passage to India – E. M. Forster                                        
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift  
The Tempest – William Shakespeare                  

Honors World Literature                

Required Books:                              

The Woman Warrior – Maxine Hong Kingston

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Choose 1 of the Following:
Behold the Dreamers – Imbolo Mbue

The Librarian of Auschwitz – Antonio Iturbe

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

The Astonishing Color of After – Emily X.R. Pan

English IV                 

Required Books:                              
Educated – Tara Westover

Choose 1 of the Following:

In an Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing – Lee Woodruff

Three Weeks with My Brother – Nicholas Sparks                  

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

Echo Park – Michael Connelly

Friday Night Lights – H.G. Bissinger

Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

Drama High - Michael Sokolove

 

Dual Enrollment Course:  The Short Story

Required Book with assignment:

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 5^th Edition, Edited by Beverly Lawn

(This is the same book we will be using all semester)

Dual Enrollment Course:  Writing Process

Required Book with assignment:

Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott

Dual Enrollment Course Assignments