Summer Reading List

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Below is the 2019 Summer Reading List for De La Salle High School. 

The reading assignments are to be completed by the first day of class for the 2019-20 school year, which will be August 14, 2019.

Note: Not every student will have summer reading. Please review this list carefully to know what is required of your student. 

Course	School Site	Grade	Title and Author
English
English 1	DLSHS	9	No summer reading required
Honors English 1	DLSHS	9	Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
English 2	DLSHS	10	Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Honors English 2	DLSHS	10	Lord of the Flies by William Golding
English 3	DLSHS/CHS	11	Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
AP Language and Comp	DLSHS/CHS	11	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
AP Literature and Comp	DLSHS	12	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
	DLSHS	12	The Odyssey by Robert Fagel (Penguin Publishers)
	CHS	12	The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Short Story	DLSHS	12	Short Story Reader
Voices of the Oppressed	CHS	12	No summer reading required
Podcasting and Storytelling	CHS	12	No summer reading required
The Culture of Storytelling	DLSHS	12	A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
Shakespeare	DLSHS	12	Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal
Literature, Conflict, and Human Ex.	DLSHS	12	No summer reading required
Writing Seminar	DLSHS	12	This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
	CHS	12	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates or The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas
Dystopian Fiction	CHS	12	Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
21st Century Woman	CHS	12	Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Western Literature	DLSHS	12	Shane by Jack Schaefer
Psych Realism	CHS	12	No summer reading required
Classics of Horror	DLSHS	12	Carrie by Stephen King
Social Studies
AP U.S. History	DLSHS	11	American Pageant textbook (chapters 1-3)
	CHS		American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (Students should login to Schoology for reading assignments in the textbook)
AP Psychology	DLSHS	11/12	The Story of Psychology, 2007 edition by Morton Hunt
Science
AP Biology	DLSHS	10	Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with J. Prince
Health
Health	DLSHS	9	Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

 

Updated August 6, 2019