Summer Reading List
Below is the 2020 Summer Reading List for De La Salle High School. The reading assignments are to be completed by the first day of class for the 2020-21 school year, which is scheduled for August 12, 2020.
Note: Not every student will have summer reading. Please review this list carefully to know what is required of your student.
Students must purchase their own summer reading books, they are not included in the textbook fee.
| English | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| English 1 | DLSHS | 9 | No Summer Reading Required |
| English 1 Honors |
DLSHS | 9 | Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (ISBN: 9781675993941) |
| English 2 | DLSHS | 10 | Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (ISBN: 9780812550702) |
| English 2 Honors |
DLSHS | 10 | Lord of the Flies by William Golding (ISBN: 9780399501487) |
| English 3 | DLSHS | 11 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (ISBN: 9780385486804) |
| English 3 | CHS | 11 | A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (ISBN: 9780375702709) |
| AP Language & Composition |
DLSHS/CHS | 11 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (ISBN: 9780743273565) |
| AP Literature & Composition |
DLSHS | 12 | The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (ISBN: 9780486278070) |
| DLSHS | 12 | The Odyssey by Homer; trans. by Robert Fagel (ISBN: 9780140268867) |
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| CHS | 12 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (ISBN: 9780143039433) |
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| The Short Story | DLSHS | 12 | Short Story Reader (PDF sent to all students enrolled in this course) |
| Podcasting & Storytelling |
CHS | 12 | No summer reading required |
| The Culture of Storytelling |
DLSHS | 12 | A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (ISBN: 9780547773742) |
| Shakespeare | DLSHS | 12 | Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal (ISBN: 9781848310544) |
| Literature, Conflict, & Human Ex. |
DLSHS | 12 | No summer reading required |
| Writing Seminar |
DLSHS | 12 | This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff (ISBN: 9780802136688) |
| Dystopian Fiction |
CHS | 12 | Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (ISBN: 9780307887443) |
| 21st Century Woman |
CHS | 12 | Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof (ISBN: 9780307387097) |
| Western Literature |
DLSHS | 12 | Shane by Jack Schaefer (ISBN: 9780544239470) |
| Psych Realism |
CHS | 12 | No summer reading required |
| Classics of Horror |
DLSHS | 12 | Carrie by Stephen King (ISBN: 9780307743664) |
| Social Studies | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| AP U.S. History |
DLSHS | 11 | The American Pageant: AP Edition Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here) |
| CHS | 11 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Chapters 1-12 (pages 23-149) (ISBN: 9780143122029) |
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| CHS | 11 | The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People Chapters 1-3 (PDF Here) Click here to review full summer reading assignment |
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| AP Psychology |
DLSHS | 11/12 | The Story of Psychology, 2007 edition by Morton Hunt (ISBN: 9780307278074) |
| CHS | 11/12 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (ISBN: 9780316010665) |
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| Science | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| AP Biology |
DLSHS | 10 | Survival of the Sickest by Dr. Sharon Moalem with J. Prince (ISBN: 9780060889661) |
| Health | |||
| Course | School | Grade | Title and Author |
| Health | DLSHS | 9 | Beautiful Boy by David Sheff (ISBN: 9870547203881) |
Updated May 21, 2020