High School – Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12

Freshmen English (choose one) Honors students read one additional book. Persepolis (Volume 1) by Marjane Satrapi Lion by Saroo Brierley Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

 History  I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb

 Sophomores English (choose two)  The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (the entire series) All The Light We Cannot See  by Anthony Doerr Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer

 History Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass

 Juniors  English (choose two) Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood Kindred by Octavia Butler

 History: Students should read 10 interviews/excerpts from the assignment list on the school’s website from the following: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel 

 Seniors English – British Literature (choose two) The Lady Elizabeth: A Novel by Alison Weir Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

 History The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

 AP Language & Composition (all three) I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

 AP Literature and Composition (all three) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Road by Cormac McCarthy War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells or The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

 AP Government and Politics (all three)  Gideon’s Trumpet by Anthony Lewis  The Red Bandanna by Tom Rinaldi Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families  by J. Anthony Lukas.

 AP US History Students should refer to the assignment on the school’s website.  They will use the textbook entitled America’s History: For the AP ® Course, ninth edition.