Summer Reading
English 10A


 

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
                                                                                -Francis Bacon

    Required Reading:  Read ALL
 Wish You Well--David Baldacci
  The Glass Menagerie--Tennessee Williams
   Night--  Elie Wiesel

   Optional Reading:  Choose ONE
Angela's Ashes--Frank McCourt
Death Be Not Proud--John Gunther
The Good Earth--Pearl Buck
Around the World in Eighty Days--Jules Verne
A Lesson Before Dying--Ernest Gaines
 


    Assignments
             You will be tested on all of the required reading.  Your test will be during the second week of school.  The test will be an essay test.  Consider taking notes on the books, making journal entries, or listing characters, as you may use your notes for the exam.  You must turn in all notes on the day of the test.

             Additionally, you will take a quiz on your optional reading book.

           You will be tested on ALL of the required novels on the midterm exam in January.