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May,2010Dear FutureFreshmanEnglish students,Welcometo the high school andbestwishes for an exciting andrewarding yearwith us. Since readingprovides mmeasurablepleasure,assistsstudentsn all their studies,and improves scores n standardizedtesting,we urge you to read widely over the summer, To prepare you for the specific demandsofFreshmanEnglish andWesterncivilization, we requireyou to readtwo books.Requirement#1 :THE ALCHEMIST: A Fable about Following your Dreams by paulo coelho

As you read his shortnovel,we ask hat you choose3 golden lines, inesthat inspireyou or strikeyou assignificant,and write thesedown. In addition,when you finish the novel, make a list of elementsin the story that strike you astypical of myth, fairy-tale, or story-telling in general. For example, heHarry Potter seriesshowcaseshe classicconflict betweengoodversusevil, a wise old man,and he heroon a ouest.

Bring your lines and list to classthe irst weekof school.Requirement#2:Read ONE other book from the following list on the back of this page. Somebooksrelate o topicswe will cover during freshman year (suchas the Holocaust, he Middle Ages, myth, ClassicalGreece),butyou may chooseanything from the list.

Be preparedo write aboutyour secondbook during he first week of school.We encourage ou to challengeyourself. Consider eadingmore thanonebook from the list

Sincerely,

Wilton High School English Department

m Until feared would ose t, I never oved o read.Onedoesnot ovebreathing.HarperLeem Outside f a dog,a book s man'sbest riend. Inside f a dog, t's oo dark o read. GrouchoMarxm Books anbedangerous. hebestones hould e abeledThis ould hange our ife." HelenExley

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TheRed Tent+ Diamant The Yearof LivingBiblicallv+ JacobsTheGirl with thePearl Earcing+ Chevalier Shakespeare:heWorld as Stase+ BrysonYearof Wonders* Brooks Sailing he Wine-DarkSea+ CahillEastof Eden+ Steinbeck Mysteriesof theMiddle Asest CahillTheBull rom theSea+ Reanault stiff RoachThe Crvstal Cave+ Stewart Blink GladwellTheSword and theStone+ White Freakonomics rSuperfreakonomics LevittTheGoldenCompass*+ Pullman Into Thin Air KrakauerThe Wove*+ Strasser Marley andMe* GroganTheBookThief+ Zusak The RadioactiveBoyScout* SilversteinPillars of the Earth+ Follett A Walk in theWoods* BrysonTheDaVinci Code+ Brown The Boy WhoHarnessedhe Wind KamkqambaandMealerEnder'sGame Card ThreeCupsof Tea MortensonA TreeGrows inBrooklyn SmithThe Bell Jar PlathPersepolis (graphicnovel) SatrapiTheKite Runner HosseiniTheAbsolutely TrueDiary of a Part-TimeIndian*

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Twisted* AndersonWintersirls AndersonThirteenReasonswhv* AsherTheGoodThief TintiThe First Part Last JohnsonThe Hunger Games CollinsI Kill Giants Kelly

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*Representsbooks that are quick reads.*Representsbooks that relate to the FreshmanEnglish/WestemCivilization Curriculum.

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Hello, 2010-2011Humanities studentMany students andtheir parents ) want to know how Humanities differs from courses hat thev have encounteredin earlieryears.ExcellentquestionThis classwill askyou to think in abstract erms as well asconcreteones.You already have sharpcomprehensionskills; when you read a book now, you not only know who lives or dies,but whetheror not the butler did it .Furthermore, you have begun to work with interpreting hemes,deciding what the author saysby having the butlerdo it. We will go deeper nto theme with an examinationof style, deciding what the author was doing wittr tone anddiction and figurative laneuagewhile the butler was doing it.To prepare or the course, ead a newspaperon a regularbasis, f you do not do so already. The New york Times shighly recommended,despite ts lack of daily comics.Periodicals like TheNew Yorker and, heAtlantic also offermuch to you' As you read,notice how the sameeventmay be interpretedand reported differently by varioussources.why? can we apply this line of questioningo fiction as well? (yes )The initial discussions,ssessments,nd writing for classwill be basedon the titles below, all readily availableatthe library andyour localbook stores.Purchasehem f possible,as we will re-visit them throughouithe year.L Sailing the Wine-DarkSea: Wy the Greel

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Summer eadingor Studerrts4tering Otr rade.20l Q-201You arerequired to read two books this summer,one fiction and onenon-fiction toprepare or the sophomoreEnglish course,American Experience. These exts addressimportant topics that appear n this year-longcourse'scurriculum but are also excitinsnew books hat teil provocativestories.While you will not be required to take notes, he questionsbelow should guide yourreading.You will be writing about thesebookswhen you return to school, so piease eadthesebooksas horoughly as possible.

Rick Bragg'sAll OverBut the Shoutin,Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond MountainsChooseone of Lhesewo fiction books:Lany Watson'sMontana I94BSueMonk Kidd's TheSecretLife of Bees

o What are your thoughts and questionsabout this story? You might reflect on thecharacters,heir problems, the author'suseof symbolism, the tiile, or other ideasin the story.o Describehow the main characterhaschanged hrough the story. Support yourthinking with details from the story.o What does his book say aboutpeopleor life in general (theme)?In what waysdoes t remind you of people you haveknown or experiencesyou have had?youmay alsowrite about storiesor booksyou haveread,or movies,works of art, orTV programs you have seen.o How successfulwas the author in creatinga good piece of literature?

Enjoy your summerandyour summer reading.We look forward to your ideasabout thesebooks?/-VS gd7ld4 DAaaa*zt

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summer Reading for AP Language and composition studentsDear FutureAP LanguageStudents,Next year you will be taking two semesters f our high honorscourses hat togetherearnyou ApLanguageandCompositioncredit: EnglishNovel, SelectedEnglishAuthors, SelectedAmericanAuthors,Modem EuropeanAuthors. Thesecoursesoffer you the opportunity to experience he richnessof classicand modem literature aswell as non-fiction. You canexpecta rigorous coilege-levelapproach o readingandwriting, anda chance o practicerhetorical analysiswhich will prepareyou for taking the ApLanguageandCompositionExam. You canalsoexpect ively discussion, oodreads,and hought-provoking assignments.In order to prepare or the challengesahead,you arerequired o complete the following andbring finishedwork to your English class he first week of school.

1. Read he following essays nd complete he attached uestions."On Listening" by EudoraWelty"Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan

2. ReadTheAutobiography of Frederick Douglas andbe prepared or follow-up assignments.3. R:eadThe Collector by John Fowles andbe prepared or follow-up assignments.4. ReadThe Assault by Harry Mulisch and be prepared or follow-up assignments.

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June2010To A.P.Students 0l0l20ll :

Many of you haveexpresseda desire for suggestedeadings o do before the coursebegins and a list ofbooksthat we will read next year. The following list containsbooks andplays that you should havereadbeforecoming intoA. P. All of theseworks are taught at WHS.Lord of the Flies-Golding 'F*{'{'*anabsolutemustThe Tempe t-Shakesp eareOthello-ShakespeareMacbeth--ShakespeareRomeoandJuliet--ShakespeareA Farewell to Arms--HemingwayLieht in August--FaulknerCatch 22--HellerGlassMenagerie--WilliamsDeathof a Salesman--MillerPrideand Prejudice--AustenTessof the D'Urbervilles-HardyToo Late the Phalarope-PattonFrench Lieutenant'sWoman-FowlesThe following is apartial list of works that we will cover in A. P. next year. Please,considerbuying thenovelsso that you can mark your copy as you read.Hamlet-ShakespeareMacbeth-ShakespeareOthello--ShakespeareA Doll's House--Ibsen"No Exit"--SartreLong Day's Journey nto Night--ONeillBeowulf--AnonymousGrendel--Gardner"Everyman --AnonymousParadiseLost-MiltonThe Road-McCarthyThe Sound and the Furv-FaulknerStreetcar amedDesire--WilliamsMetamorphosis--KafkaHeart of Darkness--ConradPortrait of the Artist as a Young Man--JoyceMrs. Dalloway--Wool fThe Great Gatsby-F itzgeraldThe Things They Canied-O'Brien

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YouCan'tGo HomeAgaln-WolfeC{imeandPunishment--DostevskyThe ollowing ist contains oursummereading.Pleaseead n the ordergiven. After readingFranke{rstein,erusehe chaptersn the Ha+dbook f Critical Approachesq I.iterature payingspecialattentiono theessays n Frankenstein.We will usevariousmethods f criticism hroughouthecourseThese riticalapproacheso literaturewill alsohelpwith yoursummereading.After reading heabove, ead heseworks n the ordergiven:A Roomof One'sOwn-WoolfTheAwakening-ChopinA Doll House-IbsenMrs. Dalloway-WoolfSula MorrisonTheHandmaid'sale----AtwellSummer eadingwill be estedduring hefirst weekof class. Theseworkswill alsoserveasdiscussionmaterialduring he irst weeksof class.Summerwritingassignments: eepa ournalasyoureadso hatyouwill be able o engagen thoughtfuldiscussionswebeginclass.Keepa ist of topics or discussionndanalysis.

We look forward o ourcourse extyear.Haveagreat ummerMs. HenryandDr. Vogel

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SumrnerReadingfor llth eg 2'h GradersAs rising ju,niorsand seniors,you are required to read wo books (from the following lists) over rhesummerand to be prepared to write about them during the first week of schooinextTail. i.ryo.r" rakinganHonorsEnglkhoursenext year s required o read hree books. Research asshown that readingoverthe summerhelpsensureyour academicsuccess.And, of course, t's a great pleasure o read aswell. Wehave isted quite a few books in many categories,andwe hope you finisome books you will "nioyi

?,/75 t,4t//42 Deqad*.rlaaClassics to ConsiderAnna Karenina LeoTolstoyEastof Eden ]ohnSteinbeckTheCountof MonteCristoor TheManlilFlronMask A-lexandreDumasOn the Road fack KerouakSense nd Sensibility faneAustenJane yre CharlorteBronteRebecca Daphene u MaurierTender s the Nieht F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Trial Franz KafkaCry heBeloved ountry AIan PatonHard Times CharlesDickensAn AmericanTragedy TheodoreDreiserBeloved Toni MorrisonContem >orary l-Iction to Contempl.The Blind Assassin MarqaretAtwoodThe Kite Runner KhaledHosseiniExtremelyLoud, ncredibly Close fonathanSafranFoerA Prayer or Owen Meany fohn IwingCat'sCradle Kurt VonnezutCold Mountain CharlesFrazierTheHouseGun Nadine GordimerTsotsi Athol FugardGoingAfter Cacciaro Tim O'BrienWater BapsiSidhwa4 gl9 rf Repose Wailace StegnerA Thousand cres ]aneSmileyA LessonBeforeDying ErnestGainesHow the Garcia Girls Losr Their Accenr |ulia AlvarezThe Hour I First Believed Waliy LambAll thePretrvHorses CormacMcCarthvWe Were the Mulvaneys |oyceCarol Oates

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The Shipping News E.AnnieProulxThe SweetHereafter RussellBanksSophie'sChoice William SwronPIot Against America Philip RorhWhite Noise DonDelillioSarurdav Ian McEwanBeICanto Ann PachettHouseof Sandand Fog AndreDubos IiThe Lone RangeJand Tonro Fistfighr in Heaven ShermanAlexieLove n the Time of Cholera Gabriel GarciaMarquezEllen Foster KaveGibbonsEmnire Falls RichardRussoThe Reader BernhardSchlinkDracula Bram StokerTheColor Pumle AliceWalker

Fiction to PonderThe Absolutely True Story of a part-Time Indi:an ShermanAlexieWintergirls Laurie HalseAndersonThe HungerGames SuzanneCollinsThe DaVinci Code DanBrownY"lqgrtv DeanKoontzTheBournedentiw RobertLudlumBlankets CraigThompsonPersepolis MarjaneSatrapiEnder'sGame OrsonScott CardNineteenMinutes fodi PicoultTheGoodThief Hannah TintiThe Help Kathnm StockettCarrie StephenKingSunriseOver Falluiah Walter DeanMversLovinglrank Nancv HoranThe Divine Secrersof the Ya-YaSisterhood RebeccaWellsPillars of the Earth Ken FollettGone Michael Grant

Memoir/A to ReIIectBeautiful ov David SheffTweak Nic SheffLoneSurvivor:TheEyewitness ccountofOperationRedwingand rheLosrHeroesof SEALTeam10

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When I Was PuertoRican EsmeraldaSantiagoGhostsof War: The lh:e Ston'of a ig-Yeal{ld GI Ryan Smithson

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Autobioqraphy of Malcolm X Alex HailevRunninsWith Scissors AuzustenBurrouehsThe BoyWho Harnessed he Wind: C.reatingCurrentsol ElectricitvanclHone \A/il iam Kiunl

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Newjack Guarding Sing Sing TedConoverSongbook Nick HornbyMidnight in the Gardenof Good and Evil JohnBerendtSupercrunchersWhy Thinking-By-Numberss theNewWayto BeSmart IanAyresTheDevil'sTeeth: True StoryoMSurvivalAmongAmerica'sGreatWhite Sharks Susan aseyThe LostCiryof Z: ATaIeof DeadlyObsessionntheAmazon David GrannTheBigShort: nside he DoomsdayMiffie Michael Lewis