Summer Reading List
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) |
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| CHS | 12 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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
