Required Reading List for Summer 2010:

Mount Assisi Academy 2010 Summer Reading List

Freshmen (Class of 2014)
English I Margaretan
1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
2. Standing Tall by C. Vivian Stringer

English I Academic
1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
2. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

English I Honors
1. All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein
2. With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge

Sophomores (Class of 2013)
English II Margaretan
1. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dreams by Paulo Coelho
2. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
3. FILM: Joan of Arc starring LeeLee Sobieski and directed by Christian Duguay

English II Academic
1. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dreams by Paulo Coelho
2. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
4. FILM: Joan of Arc starring LeeLee Sobieski and directed by Christian Duguay

English II Honors
1. The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dreams by Paulo Coelho
2. A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
3. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
5. FILM: Joan of Arc starring LeeLee Sobieski and directed by Christian Duguay

OPTIONAL FOR SOPHOMORES:
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Performance at Oak Park Festival Theater (Friday, July 16)

Juniors (Class of 2012)
English III Margaretan
1. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
3. FILM: In America (2002) directed by Jim Sheridan

English III Academic
1. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
3. FILM: In America (2002) directed by Jim Sheridan

English III Honors
1. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2. There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
3. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
4. FILM: In America (2002) directed by Jim Sheridan

Seniors (Class of 2011)
Contemporary Literature Margaretan
1. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hasseini
3. FILM: I Am Sam (2001) Jessie Nelson

Contemporary Literature Academic1. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hasseini
3. OPTIONAL: Crank by Ellen Hopkins
4. FILM: I Am Sam (2001) Jessie Nelson

British Literature
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. FILM: Becoming Jane (2007) Julian Jarrold

AP English
1. Satire: From Horace to Yesterday’s Comic Strips by James Scott
2. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
3. Your choice on one book by either Annie Dillard or Joan Didion
4. Cliffs AP Language and Composition 3rd Edition by Barbara V. Swovelin