SUMMER READING 2016
Assignments associated with each book have previously been distributed to students in an earlier mailing or in class. Assignments are posted on the Xavier Website.
GRADE 9
ENGLISH:
Honors: The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht
Accelerated: A Separate Peace by John Knowles
College Preparatory: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
RELIGION:
All Students: The Fifth Mountain by Paolo Coelho
GRADE 10
ENGLISH:
Honors: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Accelerated: The Stranger by Albert Camus
College Preparatory: Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
WORLD HISTORY
Advanced Placement: The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day- The Complete Papyrus of Ani
—Eva Van Dassow
Honors The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day- The Complete Papyrus of Ani—Eva
Van Dassow, Raymond Faulkner, Carol Andrews and Ogden Geolet
Accelerated: Lucy’s Legacy: Quest for Human Origins by Donald Johanson
College Preparatory: Lucy’s Legacy: Quest for Human Origins by Donald Johanson
GRADE 11
ENGLISH:
Advanced Placement: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Honors: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Accelerated: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
College Preparatory: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
UNITED STATES HISTORY:
Advanced Placement: 1776 by David McCullough
Honors: 1776 by David McCullough
Accelerated: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
College Preparatory: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
GRADE 12
ENGLISH:
Advanced Placement: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge [available on-line]
[Background information from Mr. Flowers on the Belgium Congo]
Honors: Beowulf translation Seamus Heavey [978-0-393-32097-8]
Accelerated: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
College Preparatory: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
RELIGION:
All Students: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
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