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CUMBERLAND HIGH SCHOOL'S
SUMMER READING LIST 2007
The tape color shows where the books are shelved in the
Summer Reading section at the Library.
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English
"To fulfill the CHS English Department's summer reading requirements, students must select a book of their choice to read over the summer. They will be required to write a book review of the their selection and to turn the review in during the first week
of school...". In making a selection, students must adhere to the following guidelines:
* The book must be age and subject appropriate.
* It should not be a book that they have previously read for pleasure or for a course.
* Students may read fiction, nonfiction, a complete poetry collection,a complete short story collection,a play, or a graphic novel."
---from the letter sent home to parents and students
English IIIAP
Summer Reading List
Mrs. Smith
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Select and read 30 poems from:
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New British Poetry. New York: Graywolf Press, 2004
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Be prepared to read and discuss your favorite poems when we return to school.
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Select and read 15 stories from:
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The Oxford Book of English Short Stories. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Be prepared to write an in-class essay on one or more of the stories when we return to school. |
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge
Shakespeare, William. Macbeth
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Social Studies
| U.S. History I |
| Recommended for honors and enriched levels |
| Brands, H.W. |
Andrew Jackson: His life and Times |
| Oshinsky, David |
Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crowe Justice |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Traxel, David |
1898: The Birth of the American Century |
| Shaara, Jeff |
Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War |
| Shaara, Jeff |
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War |
| Weintraub, Stanley |
Silent Night: The True Story of the World War I Christmas Truce |
| Miller, Nathan |
Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents |
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| U.S. History II |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Sides, Hampton |
Ghost Soldiers |
| Brokaw, Tom |
The Greatest Generation |
| Kurson, Robert |
Shadow Divers |
| O'Donnell, Kenneth P. |
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye |
| Schweizer, Peter |
Reagan's War |
| Not Acceptable for honors and enriched levels |
| Crowe, Chris |
Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case |
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ELECTIVE COURSES |
| U.S. History (AP) |
| Appleby, McPherson, et al. |
American Vision (Glencoe/McGraw/Hill) - First 3 chapters |
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| Western Civilization |
| Recommended for EEP |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
| Recommended for honors and general levels |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
| The Bible |
Exodus or Matthew |
| Bagdasarian, Adam |
Forgotten Fire |
| Filipovic, Zlata |
Zlata's Diary |
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| European History (AP) |
| AP students are required to read all three books in the order as they are listed below. |
| Howarth, David |
1066: The Year of the Conquest |
| Manchaester, William |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| Beck, Mast, and Tapper |
The History of Eastern Europe for Beginners |
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| Economics |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Johnson, Spencer |
Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens |
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| Psychology |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Rapoport, Judith L. |
The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing
(Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) |
| Keyes, Daniel |
Flowers For Algernon |
| Greenberg, Joanne |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
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| Law |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Leone, Richard |
The War on Our Freedoms: Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism |
| Nuwer, Hank |
High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wrongs |
| Picoult, Jodi |
My Sister's Keeper: a novel |
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| Social Studies for the 21st Century |
| Acceptable for all levels |
| Tashjian, Janet |
Vote for Larry |
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