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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. 

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

ISBN 9780385486804

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. 

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

ISBN 9780679745587

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. 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

ISBN 9789355279606

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. 

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

ISBN 9781501173219

Summer Reading Instructions

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.

AP Seminar

AP Research

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