Thomaston High School - Summer Reading List: 2006-2007
Grade 7 (all sections)
The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton
Juster
Grade 8 (all sections)
Messenger, Lois Lowry
Grade 9(2) and 9(3)
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Grade 9(4)
That Was Then, This Is Now, S.E. Hinton
Grade 10(2), 10(3) and 10(4)
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles (available online)
Grades 11-12
Science Fiction (one of the
following):
Shade’s Children, Garth Nix
The
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Sabriel, Garth Nix
Dune, Frank Herbert
Feed, M.T. Anderson
The Individual and Society:
1984, George Orwell
The
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Sacred Writings and the
Philosophy of Myth:
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Journey of the Self:
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman
British Literature (two of
three of the following):
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Howard’s End, E.M. Forster
On
Writing,
Stephen King
Women’s Studies (read all of
the following):
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
AP Language and Composition
(read all of the following):
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
AP Literature and
Composition (read all of the following):
Mythology, Edith Hamilton
Oedipus Rex (and Antigone), Sophocles (available
online)
Agamemnon, Aeschylus (available online)
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf