East Longmeadow High School

Summer Reading

 

General Information

 

Honors Students

• are required to read 2 or more texts during the summer.
• will be given a 25 question, multiple choice test on the titles with an asterisk (*) below during the third to fourth week of school in September.
• will complete a journal, essay and/or other assignment(s) for the other texts listed.
• will have test, journal, essay and any other assignment grades included in the first marking period grade of the semester in which the student has English.

All Other Students

• are required to read one book during the summer.
• will be given a 25 question, multiple choice test during the third to fourth week of school in September.

 

Required Reading -- Study Guide Available, CLICK HERE
Grade	Honors		Other Classes
	Title	Author	Title	Author
9	Eleven Seconds *	Travis Roy with E.M. Swift	Eleven Seconds *	Travis Roy with E.M. Swift
	Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
10	To Kill a Mockingbird*	Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird*	Harper Lee
	Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton
11	Lord of the Flies*	William S. Golding	Lord of the Flies*	William S. Golding
	Pride & Prejudice	Jane Austen
	Genesis, Chapters 1-4	from the Bible
	Prometheus, the thorough myth	on-line
	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
12	As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	Night*	Elie Wiesel
	Billy Budd	Herman Melville
	Long Day’s Journey into Night	Eugene O’Neill
	Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
	The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway