2010 Summer Reading List
The English department recognizes the need to encourage students to read consistently and deliberately during the summer months as part of the intellectual and cultural development of the students. As specified in the Oak Hill Academy vision statement, "This institution acknowledges the present and future needs of education and accepts the challenge to develop a program for the academic achievement of all students." Every study conducted on raising PSAT, SAT, and ACT scores indicates that students who are well read score better than their peers who do not read or read non-challenging material. Good readers make better writers. Students who read quality literature are exposed to vocabulary and sentence structure which become a part of their own writing experience. Readers develop the ability to use their imaginations and problem solve creatively. Finally, the expertise gained from academic reading is a constant process that begins in elementary school and is encouraged and reinforced throughout middle and high school so that Oak Hill Academy students will become lifelong readers.
English 6: A Long Way to Chicago - Richard Peck
English 7: The Giver - Lois Lowry
English 8:
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
English I: The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) - Alexandre Dumas
Honors English
I:
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged) - Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
English II: Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Honors English II:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
English III: A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Honors English III:
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
English IV: The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
AP English Language
and Composition: In
Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynne Truss
AP English Literature
and Composition: The
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Composition I & II: Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
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