Summer Reading

2023 THEOLOGY DEPARTMENT SUMMER READING LIST

 
Philosophy - Summer Reading Assignment
 
Honors Theology III: Moral Theology - Summer Reading Assignment
  1. Order a physical copy of Chris Stefanick's Living Joy. It is available for purchase via Amazon and via the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. 
  2. Take notes inside the book: underline, highlight, circle, etc. & write marginal notes. 
  3. Hand in your note-filled book on the first day of class in the fall (grade #1). 
  4. Be prepared to write an essay at the beginning of class in the fall. 
 
2023 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SUMMER READING LIST
 
The English Department at Lancaster Catholic High School believes that summer reading is an integral part of students’ continued learning. We suggest that students read the choice books first. Each teacher will have his or her own assessment for those. Save the required readings until August. You may want to take some brief notes to remember the characters, plots, and settings. Your English class will begin with discussions and evaluations on the required books.
 
Honors English 9
Required: Watership Down by Richard Adams (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose One Book to read from the following list:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - includes adult themes which may be disturbing
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
To be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry
Trouble by Gary Schmidt
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
 
Communications Arts CP English 9
Required: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary Schmidt (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose One Book to read from the following list:
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
Black Like Me by J. H. Griffin
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Yearling by M. K. Rawlings
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Trouble by Gary Schmidt
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
 
English 9 Communication Arts
Required: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Honors American Literature (Sophomore)
Required: My Antonia by Willa Cather. (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose TWO books to read from the following list; only one may be a play.
A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (Includes adult themes which may be disturbing.)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest Gaines
The Last of the Mohicans – J. F. Cooper (for the advanced reader)
The Color of Water – James McBride
Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair (You may never eat meat again!)
 
American Literature CP (Sophomore)
Required: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Jim, the Boy by Tony Earley
The Final Four by Paul Volponi
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
 
English 10: Communication Arts
Required: A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Honors British Literature (Junior)
Required: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose TWO books to read from the following list: only one may be a play.
1984 by George Orwell
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
 
British Literature CP (Junior)
Required: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose one book to read from the following list:
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Grendel by John Gardner
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Dracula by Bram Stoker
1984 by George Orwell
Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah
 
English 11-12 Composition and Literature
Required: The Noticer by Andy Andrews (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
A.P. English Literature and Composition (Senior)
Required: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien (Purchase, read both, and bring to class.)
 
Choose TWO books to read from the following list; only one may be a play.
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Crime and Punishment by Theodore Dostoevsky
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
One Hundred Years of Solitude by G.G. Marquez
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
 
Dual Credit English Composition/Communications (Senior)
Required: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien (Purchase, read both, and bring to class.)
 
Choose ONE book to read from the following list:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
In Cold Blood by Truman Capute
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seirstad
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
 
World Literature CP (Senior)
Required: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Purchase, read, and bring to class.)
 
Choose One Book to read from the following list:
The Color of Water by James McBride
For All of Us Today: An Inaugural Poet’s Journey by Richard Blanco
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
I am Malala by Malala Yousofzai
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Martian by Andy Weir
Selected Poems by Langston Hughes
The Carrying by Ada Limone
 
Honors Creative Writing Workshop (Junior and Senior)
Required: On Writing by Stephen King
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (Purchase both and bring to class)