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

 

Creative Writing:

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

 

 

 

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