CHS English 9 Honors 2019 Summer Reading Assignments 9 Honors 2019...4. The Adventures of...

CHS English 9 Honors 2019 Summer Reading Assignments

Welcome to Cabrillo High School, Incoming Freshman! As a member of the CHS Honors/AP program, you are required to complete some summer reading assignments before you start high school in the fall. There are so many great works of literature to read in preparation for college and AP Exams, so to keep your brain sharp, please read any TWO books from the attached “Summer Reading Book List”. In response to your reading, choose one of the following options for EACH book (You may do two slide shows, two MWDS, or one slide show and one MWDS): OPTION #1: Major Works Data Sheet (MWDS) Print a copy of the English 9 Honors Major Works Data Sheet (MWDS) from the CHS Website <Academics> <English-Summer Reading>. Be sure to print out the correct form from the CHS Website. Complete the MWDS as you read your book. All MWDS must be handwritten. Typed notes will not be accepted for credit. Submit your completed MWDS on the due date during the second week of school. OPTION #2: Google Slide Show Complete a 10-slide Google Slide Show, and be ready to share it with the class as a 5 to 10-minute visual presentation during the second week of school. Feel free to use charts, visuals, sound, and animation. Slide 1: Title and Author Slide 2: Plot/Book Summary (Be prepared to warn the audience of any spoilers here!) Slide 3: Theme (A theme is a universal truth, not a mere topic, about human nature or life. Ask yourself,

What does this book show to be true about people or life? State the theme as a complete idea and explain how the theme applies to the book.

NOT A THEME: Love (POSSIBLE THEME→ Love can blind a person to logic and reason.) NOT A THEME: Growing up (POSSIBLE THEME→Often, growth can be uncomfortable.)

NOT A THEME: Equality (POSSIBLE THEME→No group or individual is innately inferior to any other group or individual.)

Slides 4-6: Narrative Style and Voice (On slide 4, describe the narrator’s voice & use of language. Is the narrator educated? Childlike? Adolescent? Passionate? Hopeless? Kind? Sarcastic? Poetic? Eloquent? What is his or her attitude toward the subject or characters? On slides 5 & 6 copy and explain two to four passages that demonstrate the narrator’s voice and style.)

Slides 7-9: Three Memorable Quotes & Significance (Choose one from the beginning of the book, one from the middle, one from the end; use quotation marks; be sure to note who says each quote; and explain any insight about the significance of each quote.)

Slide 10: Review (What did you enjoy about the book? What connections did you make between the book and our world—current events, history, pop culture, science, government, medicine, sports? Was there anything you did not like about the book? How did the book make you feel? How did you feel about the resolution or organization of the book? If you could ask the author one question, what would it be?)

You may be tempted to take “shortcuts” with your summer reading, but please do not cheat yourself. There is no substitute for reading the complete books. Remember, reading should be pleasurable and enriching, and often it takes more work to seek “shortcuts” than to simply cozy up in a comfortable place and read the book. If you view reading and writing as tedious or meaningless, please do not take this course. It is a weighted English course in preparation for the college-level AP English courses, and it is intensive. Manage your time wisely, complete your assignments, and you will be fine. Please contact me at [email protected] if you have questions. Happy reading! Sincerely, Mrs. Torina

LUSD Cabrillo High School. Mrs. Torina English 9 Honors Summer Reading Book List (2019). Abstracts excerpted from Amazon.com, 14 May 2018.

Summer Reading Book List CHS English 9 Honors

1. 1984 by George Orwell

London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your

mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the

Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.

2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey

That’s what Sean Covey’s landmark book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, has been to millions of teens: a

handbook to self-esteem and success. Now updated for the digital age, this classic book applies the timeless principles of

the 7 Habits to the tough issues and life-changing decisions teens face. In an entertaining style, Covey provides a simple

approach to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, and get along with

their parents, as well as tackle the new challenges of our time, like cyberbullying and social media. In addition, this book is

stuffed with cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world.

3. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian

Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend

an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and

beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own

experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the

contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to

live.

4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a

young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice.

Influencing subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian, T.S. Eliot,

from Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner to J.D. Salinger -- Huckleberry Finn, like the river which flows through

its pages, is one of the great sources which nourished and still nourishes the literature of America.

5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in

search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever

imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing

opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

6. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and Maurice del Bourgo

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become

soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And

as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that

meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come

out of the war alive.

7. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir


Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor

risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by

ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the

Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels

who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military

academy. There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to

be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are

intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

8. Animal Farm by George Orwell

This is Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals,

that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All

Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

9. Anthem by Ayn Rand

Anthem takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by

irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking (the use of the word I is punishable by death, for example) and

economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept

of individuality has been eliminated.

10. Beloved by Toni Morrison

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as

Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years

later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous

things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose

tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.

11. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate

concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s

history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but

falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and,

today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a

way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its

burden?

12. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and

Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep

brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed

black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way

through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly

relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read.

13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier

still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by

stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father,

she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish

man hidden in her basement.

14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an

unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and

pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full

humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is

furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is

his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian

makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a

hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: A man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat

missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be

relieved.

16. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

They killed my mother.

They took our magic.

They tried to bury us.

Now we rise.

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned

waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared.

Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess,

Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in

Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie

herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.

17. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen

start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with

the houses in which they are hidden.

18. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston

During World War II a community called Manzanar was created in the high mountain desert country of California.

Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese Americans. Among them was the Wakatsuki family, who were

ordered to leave their fishing business in Long Beach and take with them only the belongings they could carry.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, who was seven years old when she arrived at Manzanar in 1942, recalls life in the camp

through the eyes of the child she was.

19. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas


Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy

suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the

fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon

afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger.

Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her

family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can

answer that is Starr.

20. Hiroshima by John Hersey

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John

Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this

timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The

New York Times).

21. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold

stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, an

unassuming Hobbit dwelling in peaceful Hobbiton. Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders,

and worse. But as they journey from the wonders of Rivendell to the terrors of Mirkwood and beyond, Bilbo will

find that there is more to him than anyone—himself included—ever dreamed. Unexpected qualities of courage and

cunning, and a love of adventure, propel Bilbo toward his great destiny . . . a destiny that waits in the dark caverns

beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring.

22. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered

a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at

heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.

23. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first,

with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything

they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of

adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued.

24. The Lord of the Rings (Any of the following: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, or The Return of

the King) by J.R.R. Tolkien

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One

Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though

he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the

hobbit Bilbo Baggins. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young

cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark

Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest

undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam;

Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

25. The Martian by Andy Weir


Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the

first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead,

Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he

could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have

time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much

more likely to kill him first.

26. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white

whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville

produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the

deepest depths of the human soul.

27. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Monsters by Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman

and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human

creativity from antiquity to the present. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We

hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We discover the origins of

the names of the constellations. And we recognize reference points for countless works for art, literature and culture

inquiry-from Freud's Oedipus complex to Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes

Electra

28. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal

Bascomb

In 1945, at the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution, walked

into the mountains of Germany and vanished. Sixteen years later, an elite team of spies captured him at a bus stop in

Argentina and smuggled him to Israel, resulting in one of the century's most important trials -- one that cemented the

Holocaust in the public imagination.The Nazi Hunters is the thrilling and fascinating story of what happened

between these two events. Survivor Simon Wiesenthal opened Eichmann's case; a blind Argentinean and his teenage

daughter provided crucial information. Finally, the Israeli spies -- many of whom lost family in the Holocaust --

embarked on their daring mission, told here in full.

29. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the

mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs

on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George

cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's

unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

30. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and

power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing

battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

31. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane


The novel is told through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young soldier caught up in an unnamed Civil War battle who

is motivated not by the unselfish heroism of conventional war stories, but by fear, cowardice, and finally, egotism.

However, in his struggle to find reality amid the nightmarish chaos of war, the young soldier also discovers courage,

humility, and perhaps, wisdom.

32. A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a

harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is

a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself,

banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

33. The Stormlight Archives (Any of the following: The Way of Kings,Words of Radiance, or Oathbringer) by

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power

sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Roshar is shared by

humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war. It has been centuries since the fall of the

ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain. Men trade

kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them, but in the war against the Parshendi, the

ancient weapons and armor may not be enough.

34. Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle

For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle

Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he distills his

experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith. Arranged by theme and

filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if

we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at

JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God's love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the

importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue

someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s gentle, hard-earned wisdom. These essays

about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love and the importance

of fighting despair. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.

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