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2005

All Berkeley students are required by the English Department to read three books during the summer.  These books have been chosen for their appeal to young people and for their literary merit.  At the beginning of the school year, students will have tests, class discussions, and writing assignments on these books.  A significant part of the first marking period grade is based on summer reading.  Instructor-designed reading guides, posted at the English department’s web site (http://www.berkeleyprep.org/english), are available to help students read more critically.

Grade Level

Summer Reading Texts
AP Literature & Senior Honors English

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky (Norton Critical Edition)
Jude the Obscure, Hardy (Norton Critical Edition)
Madame Bovary, Flaubert (Norton Critical Edition)

AP Language

Amazing Grace, Kozol*
Tuesday’s With Morrie, Albam*
EITHER  The Perfect Storm,  Junger , OR
 Into Thin Air, Krakauerj
Seniors

An Enemy of the People, Ibsen
 The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
 Pygmalion, Shaw* 

Honors Juniors

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston
The Bell Jar, Plath
Juniors

Ordinary People, Guest
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Kesey*
Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
Sophomores

Growing Up, Baker
Jane Eyre, Bronte
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Freshmen

The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd
The Outsiders, Hinton
The House on Mango Street, Cisneros
Grade 8

Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
Rebecca, Du Maurier
Grade 7

The Cay, Taylor
Walk Two Moons, Creech
Little Women(Chapters 1-28), Alcott (Student Edition)
Grade 6

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, Farmer
A Land Remembered, Smith
Either Sing Down the Moon, O’Dell or My Side of the Mountain, George

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