QCHS 10th-12th Grade English Required Summer Reading Dear Parents and Students: Quakertown Community High School continues to believe that summer reading is a valuable activity. While we expect all students to read over the course of the summer, each student must read the text(s) appropriate to his/her chosen English course for the 2015-2016 school year. Though this may be course specific required reading, students may choose to read other titles from grade level lists. Certainly, the more books each student reads, the better prepared he or she will be for the complex literacy skills required for high school classes, college, and career! Please be aware some of the books on the list may contain mature content, so we encourage students and parents to review the requirements carefully. Why do we promote summer reading? • Summer reading will connect thematically with corresponding units within each grade level course. • Students improve their literacy skills and enhance their vocabulary when they continue to read and interact with complex texts. • We strongly desire to create a culture of readers at QCHS. As students read, they should use reading strategies and      mark the text make notes in the margins or use Post-It notes, and raise questions note vocabulary consider themes We appreciate your help as we all encourage our students to read. An assignment on the reading(s) will be provided by the teacher in the first few weeks of school. Now simply find your selected English course below and enjoy! Sincerely, QCHS 10-12 English Department G R A D E Course 10 World Literature Honors 10 World Literature Requirement Titles**  Both required (Check English Dept. website for supplemental assignment)  AP Language and Composition  All three required  11 11 American Literature Honors American Literature 12 AP Literature and Composition A Long Way Gone (Beah)  Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X) “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau)  Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)  Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)  Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) Required All four required One required  Frankenstein (Shelley)  Pride and Prejudice (Austen) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)  “How to Mark a Book” (Adler) REQUIRED: Animal Farm (Orwell) and choose one 12 English Literature and Composition  Both required  12 British Literature Honors Night (Wiesel) Required (Check English Dept. website for supplemental assignment) 11 A Long Way Gone (Beah)  The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde) or  Pride & Prejudice (Austen)  Choose one from list  The Mist (King) or  The Alchemist (Coehlo) or A Lesson before Dying (Gaines) **Books may be purchased, new or used, online or retail, at places such as www.Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com ).