Summer Reading

10th grade C1

CHOOSE TWO :
Paper Towns, John Green
Looking for Alaska, John Green
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler
Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson

Focus Questions: What techniques does an author use to develop character and reveal traits? How do people develop individually within a conformist society?

10th grade Honors

REQUIRED :
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin

AND CHOOSE ONE OF THESE:
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

Focus Questions: How do these books demonstrate the influence of the environment on the development of character? Each of these books uses a metaphor in the title. Explain each metaphor and how it contributes to your understanding of the text.

A few of my recommendations:

FICTION
White Noise, Don DeLillo
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino
If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer

POETRY
Odes to Common Things, Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda
Wild Iris, Louise Gluck

NON-FICTION
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner
The Survival of the Bark Canoe, John McPhee
Collected Essays, James Baldwin