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High School English

Summer Homework

To successfully start high school, please complete the activities listed below. 

Grade 9

Pre-AP Eng 1

Students will read one work of fiction and selected parts of one non-fiction text. Classes will begin using these texts in class on Monday, August 18, 2025. 

 

Fiction:  Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

ISBN: 9781594746031

Read entire novel and annotate for plot development

 

Non-fiction: How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster, 

ISBN: 9780062301673 

This text will be utilized further this year and is helpful in future English classes.

Read the introduction and chapters 1 and 21. These chapters will be used in class.

Grade 10 

Eng Hon 2

Students will read and annotate a common book at each grade level. Students will have an assessment within the first week of school. Click on the title to purchase your book. 

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Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

ISBN 9780385486804

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Annotation Guidelines

Grade 11 

Eng Hon 3

Students will read and annotate a common book at each grade level. Students will have an assessment within the first week of school. Click on the title to purchase your book. 

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

ISBN 9780679745587

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Annotation Guidelines

Grade 11

AP Lang

Students will read and annotate a common book at each grade level. Students will have an assessment within the first week of school. Click on the title to purchase your book. 

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 9789355279606

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Annotation Guidelines

Grade 12

AP Lit

Students will read and annotate a common book at each grade level. Students will have an assessment within the first week of school. Click on the title to purchase your book. 

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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

ISBN 9781501173219

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Summer Reading Instructions

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Annotation Guidelines

AP Seminar

AP Research

AP Seminar and AP Research students will read and annotate a book. (Seminar students can choose from a list; research students have a single assigned text.) Click on the link below to access the assignment. On the first day of school, they will be expected to answer questions on their reading.

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AP Seminar

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AP Research

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