Summer Reading and AP Summer Work (2022-2023)

Rockvale High School Summer work 22-23

 

**Scroll to the bottom for AP Summer Work**

 

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9^th Grade English

 

All levels – Choose 1 of the following books to read:

            The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

            Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

            The Call of the Wild by Jack London

            Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

 

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10^th Grade English

 

Standard – Must read Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

 

Honors – Choose 1 of the following books to read:

            And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

            We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

 

Advanced Honors – Must read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

            AND Choose 1 of the following books to read:

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

            We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

 

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11^th Grade English

 

Standard – Must read Night by Elie Wiesel

 

Honors – Must read Night by Elie Wiesel

            AND Choose 1 of the following books to read:

            The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

            Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

 

 

 

AP Language – Must read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 

 

Assignment as you read: write a short (4-5 sentence) objective summary on each chapter.

 

            AND

 

Choose 1 of the following books to read:

 

            The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

            Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

            Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

            The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

 

Assignment as your read: annotate text for rhetorical strategies used.

 

 

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12^th Grade English And 

 

Standard – Choose 1 of the following books to read:

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Educated by Tara Westover

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

 

Honors – Must read Grendel by John Gardner

            AND Choose 1 of the following books to read:

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Educated by Tara Westover

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

 

AP Literature – Must read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

            AND Choose 1 of the following books to read:

            Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

            Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

            Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

            Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

            Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

            Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut