SUMMER READING
2008
Second Grade, Third Grade, Fourth Grade, Fifth Grade, Sixth Grade, Seventh Grade,
Eighth Grade, Ninth Grade, Tenth Grade, Eleventh Grade, Twelfth Grade, AP History Class Titles, Optional Reading
for 2nd-6th
As a learning community, WCDS focuses on reading skills. Because much is to be gained or lost during the summer months, a continuation of reading is required by both the Lower and Upper schools.
An investment of quality time is vital for the success of summer reading. A student might spread the reading out over the summer and then review the texts in the week before schools starts. Upper school students might find that keeping a reading journal helps. Simply write a brief summary at the end of each chapter or section.
If a student is multi-tasking while reading—watching television, writing IM or text messages, talking on the phone, or engaging in any number of other activities—reading comprehension will drop dramatically.
The only way to improve reading comprehension is to read and read and read increasingly more difficult texts. Even the most skilled readers find re-reading necessary. Summer is a time when the enhancement of reading skills becomes possible.
Encourage your child to discover the joys of reading this summer.
Second--
Monsoon ……………………………………………………Krishnaswami
The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo……………….Blume
Caps for Sale ……………………………………………Slobodkina
Third-
The Giving Tree ……………………………………………Silverstein
Freckle Juice ……………………………………………Blume
The Hundred Penny Box ……………………………………Mathis
Fourth--
The Far Side of the Mountain ……………………………George
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears ……………………Aardema
Shiloh ……………………………………………………Naylor
Fifth--
Dear Mr. Henshaw ……………………………………Cleary
Dogsong ……………………………………………………Paulson
The Cay ……………………………………………………Taylor
Sixth--
Freak the Mighty ……………………………………………Philbrick
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ……………………………Taylor
Across Five Aprils ……………………………………Hunt
Seventh--
To Kill a Mockingbird ……………………………………Lee
The Pearl ……………………………………………………Steinbeck
The Member of the Wedding ……………………………McCullers
A Pocket Style Manual …………………………………...….Hacker
Eighth--
Animal Farm ……………………………………………Orwell
Anthem ……………………………………………………Rand
The Old Man and the Sea …………………………....Hemingway
A Pocket Style Manual …………………………………...….Hacker
Ninth--
The Metamorphosis ……………………………….Kafka
Fahrenheit 451 ……………………………………….Bradbury
Oliver Twist ……………………………………….Dickens
A Pocket Style Manual ………………………………….Hacker
Tenth--
Silent Spring ……………………………………….Carson
Their Eyes Were Watching God ……………………….Hurston
Of Mice and Men ……………………………….Steinbeck
A Pocket Style Manual ………………………………….Hacker
Eleventh--
The Prince ……………………………………….Machiavelli
Madame Bovary ……………………………………….Flaubert
The Jungle ……………………………………….Sinclair
A Pocket Style Manual ………………………………….Hacker
Twelfth--
Candide ……………………………………………….Voltaire
Invisible Man ……………………………………….Ellison
Love in the Time of Cholera ……………………….Marquez
A Pocket Style Manual ………………………………….Hacker
*AP History Class Titles
AP WORLD HISTORY
Guns, Germs, and Steel………..Diamond
AP U.S. HISTORY
The Spirit of 1787 .......... Lomask
OR
The Summer of 1787...........Stewart
A Pocket Style Manual ……….Hacker
The following books will be read IN CLASS during the year, so they should not be read during the summer.
Second Grade
The Chocolate Touch Catling
Julian’s Glorious Summer Cameron
Third Grade
Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo
Ramona Qiumby, Age 8 Cleary
Fourth Grade
The Best Christmas Ever Robinson
Maniac Magee Spinnelli
Fifth Grade
Indian in the Cupboard Banks
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare
Sixth Grade
Phantom Tollboth Juster
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Curtis
All students in grades 7-12 are required to buy and keep Hacker’s A Pocket Style Manual. This manual will be referred to for the six upper school years.
Seventh Grade
Rascal North
A Christmas Carol Dickens
Treasure Island Stevenson
The Incredible Journey Burnford
Eighth Grade
Call of the Wild London
Kitchen Boy Alexander
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
The Odyssey Homer
The Outsiders Hinton
Ninth Grade
Medea Sophocles
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stevenson
A Separate Peace Knowles
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamtress Dai Sijie
Tenth Grade
Things Fall Apart Achebe
The Great Santini Conroy
The Joy Luck Club Tan
Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam
Hunger of Memory Rodriguez
Lais of Marie de France Marie de France
A Raisin in the Sun Hansberry
Julius Caesar Shakespeare
Antigone Sophocles
Night Weisel
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Solzhenitsyn
In addition, tenth grade honors will read
A Prayer for Owen Meany Irving
Inferno Dante
Tristan and Isolt Von Strassburg
Eleventh Grade
Honors
The Natural Malamud
Billy Budd Melville
The Crucible Miller
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald
And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Rivera
Eleventh Grade
AP
The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne
Brave New World Huxley
This Boy’s Life Wolff
Catcher in the Rye Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain
Twelfth Grade
Honors
The Canterbury Tales Chaucer
Macbeth Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex Sophocles
Jane Eyre Bronte
Bless Me Ultima Anaya
Pygmalion Shaw
Twelfth Grade
AP
Othello Shakespeare
Murder in the Cathedral Eliot
Dr. Faustus Marlowe
Heart of Darkness Conrad
Death of a Salesman Miller
The Sound and the Fury Faulkner
The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde
Enjoy your summer and enjoy your reading. Please save this form and return it to your child’s teacher the first week of school.
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