LHS Summer Reading |
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| Class | Title | Author | Assignment |
| English | |||
| 9th Honors | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
| 9th Honors | The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens | Sean Covey | |
| 9th Gifted | The Ring of McAllister: A Score Raising Mystery Featuring 1000 Must Know SAT Words | Roberts Marantz | Assignment for both books |
| 9th Gifted | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | Grading Criterion |
| 10th Honors | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins | |
| 10th Honors | My Forbidden Face | Latifa | |
| 10th Gifted | Tooth and Nail: A Novel Approach to the new SAT | Charles Harrington Elster | Assignment for both books |
| 10th Gifted | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Grading Criterion |
| 11th Honors | A Break With Charity | Ann Rinaldi | Assignment for both books |
| 11th Honors | Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | |
| 11th AP | Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser | Assignment for both books |
| 11th AP | Ella Minnow Pea | Mark Dunn | |
| Social Studies | |||
| 11th AP American History | 1776 | David McCullough | |
| 11th AP American History | Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose | |
Please note that individual teachers will require specific assignments for the books they have assigned. Please check back here for more information during the summer. |
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| Books students will read during the school year: | |||
| Class | Title | Author | |
| English | |||
9th |
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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10th |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Harper Lee |
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10th |
Night |
Elie Wiesel |
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11th |
The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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11th |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
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11th |
The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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11th H/AP |
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail |
Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence |
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11th AP |
Things Fall Apart |
Chinua Achebe |
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11th AP |
Macbeth |
William Shakespeare |
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| ** This list is not comprehensive and is subject to teacher's discretion ** |
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