HUMANITIES - HIGH SCHOOL

REQUIRED SUMMER  READING               

Students are responsible for reading over the summer to prepare for the Humanities classes.   Students will complete a writing assignment or be prepared to respond orally to questions on the readings.  The date of this assignment will be announced on the syllabus at the start of the 2006/2007 school year.

Humanities I (9^th grade):    choose one

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn   

The King Must Die, Mary Renault

Humanities II (10^th grade):

Choose one of two:                                    Choose one poet:

Autobiography, Ben Franklin                     Poems of Robert Browning

Short Stories, Edgar Allen Poe                   Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Humanities III (11^th grade):      Choose one book from each column.

            Column One                                                               Column Two

Moby Dick—Herman Melville                                   Into Thin Air—Jon Krakauer

Gone With the Wind—Margaret Mitchell                 In Cold Blood—Truman Capote

Age of  Innocence— Edith Wharton                         The Secret Life of Bees—Sue Monk Kidd

Souls of Black Folks— W. E. B. Du Bois                   The Color of Water—James McBride

Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe                        On the Road—Jack Kerouac

The Red Badge of Courage—Stephen Crane                        Cold  Mountain—Charles Frazier

Last of the Mohicans—James Fenimore Cooper              My Antonia— Willa Cather

Humanities IV (12^th grade):

   Read both:

Beowulf, Seamus Henry

1984, George Orwell