Summer Reading 2008                                          St. Elizabeth High School

Please read the required books for your level. Make notes and annotations as you read. During the first two weeks of school, you will take a test and/or write essays based on your summer reading assignments.

Grade 9

Introduction to Literature:  Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

    (all students)                 The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

Grade 10

American Literature:   A Separate Peace – John Knowles

                                    Our Town – Thornton Wilder

American Literature:  The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

           Honors            To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Grade 11

British Literature:  Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 

                             1984 – George Orwell

British Literature:  1984 – George Orwell

       Honors           Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Grade 12

World Literature: Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

  (all students)     The Color of Water – James McBride

Advanced Placement:  Oedipus Rex - Sophocles

    Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri

                                       The Color of Water – James McBride

**AP students are required to complete an additional writing assignment and return with the completed assignment the first day of school. Please check the St. E’s page under Mrs. Mangan’s assignments after June 1^st for your assignment choices.