Seminole High School Summer 2012 Reading Selections
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English I Honors
Students will select two (2) of the following books:
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
White Fang by Jack London
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
To access the website:
The user name is: student
The password is: duck9peach
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English II Honors
Students will read all three books.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
The short story “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela
This story can be found at: Southern Cross Review
These reading assignments are designed to be companion pieces to the works we will study together as a class throughout the upcoming school year.
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English III Honors
students will read all three books.
Please read these novels carefully taking notes and highlighting as you read by analyzing them for the following:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Tone and Satire – who and what institutions are being made fun of?
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Dialect and figurative language
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
Diction, tone and description
Be ready to take a test on these novels when you return to school.
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English IV Honors
Students will select two (2) of the following books:
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Grendel by John Gardner
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
If you do not have access to a computer, you can pick up hard copies of assignments in the Guidance Office at Seminole High School.
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AP English Literature
INCOMING AP LIT
select the above document (requires adobe acrobat reader) to find out more about the assignment, or click on the link below to go straight to the website.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster |
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE
The user name is: student
The password is: duck9peach
Once you access the website, click on the red INCOMING AP LIT link.
(Please don’t access the current AP English Lit page…it will only frighten you.)
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AP Language & Composition
assignment
Each student will read
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
On Writing by Stephen King
choice of
An American Childhood by Annie Dillard OR
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
for a total of three books.
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Florida Teens Read & Battle of the Books
Click for the list of Battle Books
Check out the list for some Exciting Virtual Adventures! This selection of books is read by students statewide and voted as the best of the best to receive recognition for this list. These are the books also used for Battle of the Books competition. Get an early start and read the books and try out for Battle next year.
We are looking for help to make our team better!! If interested in participating or being a coach, please email C. Sterling @ sterlingc@pcsb.org
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AP Microeconomics (Ms. Short)
accompanying website
Common Sense Economics by James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee.
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AP World History
WELCOME TO AP WORLD HISTORY
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
(ISBN-13: 978-0393061314)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
(ISBN-13: 978-0143036555)
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