Jefferson High School Summer Reading List 2008

Incoming Freshman - Read one of the following:

• This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Sophmores

• Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman

Sophmore Honors

• Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Juniors

• Flight by Sherman Alexie

Junior Honors - Read one of the following:

• Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• Awakening by Kate Chopin

Juniors AP Lang and Comp - Read all of the following:

• Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

• Everything is an Argument - A textbook which we do not carry, but must be obtained from the school
• Master AP English Language and Composition

Juniors - AP US History - Read the following:

• Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis

Seniors

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Senior Honors - Read one of the following:

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Senior AP Lit - Read the following:

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

• Daisy Miller by Henry James

ELL II, ELL III, and/or Transitional English

• The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez