Notre Dame High School Summer Reading List 2008

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Grade 9

English 1 & English 1G:

• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Human Comedy by William Saroyan

English 1 Honors:

• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Separate Peace by John Knowles

Grade 10

English II

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

English II Honors

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gavriel Garcia Marquez
• Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Grade 11

English III

• Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

English III AP

• Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

• Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok

Grade 12

English IV

• Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

English IV AP / World Literature:

Chose one:

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Voyage of Argo by Apollonius of Rhodes

In addition, choose one of the following:

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• Othello by William Shakespeare
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut