Entering Grade 9

Pre-IB and IB MYP – all classes
Dove – Graham (required for all students; some copies available via MYP office)

Students should also choose a second work from the list of suggested readings found on the assignment page for Grade 9 or a comparable work of serious fiction or nonfiction.

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Entering Grade 10

On-Level Classes
*Selected stories from Points of View – Moffett and McElheny, eds., 1995 ed. –
      Danny Santiago,
        "The Somebody,"
      Shirley Jackson,
        "The Lottery,"
      T. Coraghessan Boyle,
        "Sinking House,"
      John Updike,
        "A & P," and
      Raymond Carver,
        "The Bridle"
             AND
MYP Personal Project Packet

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Pre-IB and Honors Classes (IB MYP)
*Part 3, "The Ill-Made Knight" from The Once and Future King – White
             AND
MYP Personal Project Packet

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Entering Grade 11

On-Level and Honors Classes
A work of literary merit chosen by the student (novel, full-length play, or a volume of poetry).

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IB English 11 Classes
*All the Pretty Horses – McCarthy
*Siddhartha – Hesse

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IB Theory of Knowledge 1 Classes
Selections from The World is Flat – Friedman (copies available via IB Office)

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AP Language Classes
*Hunger of Memory – Richard Rodriguez
              AND
Select one of the following or a nonfiction work of comparable merit that interest you:

Seabiscuit – Hillenbrand
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer – Kidder
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens – Walker
*The Road From Coorain – Conway
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America – Ehrenreich
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream – Barbara Ehrenreich
*A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League – Suskind
*Silent Spring – Carson
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges – Golden  

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On-Level Classes
The Alchemist – Coelho
            or
*Woman Warrior – Kingston

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Honors Classes
*The Things They Carried – O'Brien
            AND
Select either The Alchemist – Coelho
            or
*Woman Warrior – Kingston

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AP Literature Classes
*The Things They Carried – O'Brien

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IB English 12 Classes
*For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway
The God of Small Things – Roy
Selected poems from Seamus Heaney and Elizabeth Bishop

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Theory of Knowledge 2 Classes
Packet of readings including:
"Ethics" – Linda Pastan and
"Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle" – Lance Morrow. From 8th edition of the Norton Reader.

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