2024 Summer Reading Assignments
In addition to the assignments below, all students will be tested on the book(s) and terms upon returning to school in September.
Common Read - All Grades 9-12
All students must read The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Please note that The Last Lecture is the only required reading for non-honors/AP classes.
English 9 Honors
9 Honors must read:
- The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch) AND
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Boyne)
Assignment(s):
Define and study the following literary terms:
English 10- Honors
10 Honors must read:
- The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch) AND
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
English 10 R and 10H Lit. Terms for Mastery:
English 9 terms AND...
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Assonance
- Consonance
- Dialogue
- Hyperbole
- Imagery
- Metaphor
- Oxymoron
- Personification
- Simile
- Sonnet
- Symbol
- Symbolism
- Theme
English 11- AP English Language and Composition
AP English Lang and Comp must read:
- The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch) AND
- Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson) ** (Students will need a copy of this book in class during the months of September and October)
AP Lang. Rhetorical Devices for Mastery:
- Allusion
- Anaphora
- Antecedent
- Anecdote
- Asyndeton
- Chiasmus
- Connotation
- Denotation
- Diction
- Ellipsis
- Ethos
- Euphemism
- Figurative Language
- Irony
- Jargon
- Juxtaposition
- Logos (logical)
- Loose (cumulative) sentences
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
- Paradox
- Parallelism (parallel structure)
- Parenthetical Idea
- Pathos (emotional)
- Polysyndeton
- Rhetoric
- Rhetorical Question
- Satire
- Shift
- Synecdoche
- Syntax
- Thesis
- Tone
- Understatement
- Vernacular
English 12- AP English Literature and Composition
AP English Lit and Comp must read and prepare for assessments on:
- The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch) AND
- Jekyll and Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- Students will need a copy of Stevenson's book in class in September
AP Literature Lit. Terms for Mastery:
An extensive list of literary elements with definitions can be accessed at https://literarydevices.net/, which AP Lit seniors will be responsible for on an assessment in the fall.