Roanoke Catholic Upper School 2009-2010 Independent Reading List
English 12 - WORLD LITERATURE
During the summer, you must read a minimum of two works
from the list for YOUR '10-'11ENGLISH CLASS.
In addition, during each quarter of the school year,
you must read one work from your class list.
At the beginning of school, you are responsible for turning in the two written
assignments using the format, Writing about Summer Reading, attached to this list.
In place of the books and plays on these lists, you may read books about Greek and Roman
mythology and about King Arthur. However, you must have the permission of your English teacher
to read other works not on your class list.
CODE: F--fiction; N--nonfiction; D--drama; P--poetry
The Accidental Tourist (F) Tyler
Cry, Beloved Country (F) Paton
Follow the River (F) Thom
"Leaf Storm" and Other Stories (F) Marquéz
One Hundred Years of Solitude (F) Marquéz
The Trojan Women (D) Euripides
The Pot of Gold (D) Plautus
Future Shock (N) Toffler
Dawn (N) Weisel
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (N) Kingston
Slaughterhouse Five (F) Vonnegut
Thirteen Stories (F) Welty
Foundation Trilogy (F) Asimov
Don Quixote (F) Cervantes
Crime and Punishment (F) Dostoevski
Brave New World (F) Huxley
The Bell Jar (F) Plath
The Catcher in the Rye (F) Salinger
The Other (F) Tyron
Candide (F) Voltaire
The Fountainhead (F) Rand
The Color Purple (F) Walker
The Stranger (F) Camus
Madame Bovary (F) Flaubert
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (F) O'Connor
Needful Things (F) King
War and Peace (F) Tolstoy
The Cherry Orchard (D) Chekhov
WRITING ABOUT SUMMER READING
Do this assignment for both works you read this summer.
Look over this assignment before reading.
Do NOT respond on this sheet.
Give the following information about the work you read:
Title: (underlined)
Author:
Publisher:
Copyright Date:
Respond in complete sentences in paragraph form to each of the following. Write
one paragraph for each numbered response.
1. What was your first impression of this work (novel, play, nonfiction)? Why?
Give specific examples from the work to illustrate your points. (You may want
to respond to this after your first reading session.)
2. PLOT:
What are the most significant incidents in the story told in the work? (So not
summarize the entire\ story) Who/what are involved in the main conflict?
What is the main conflict? What event serves as the climax of the story?
3. CHARACTER:
Choose a character you like particularly well. Chooses another character you
dislike. Clearly identify each of the characters. Explain your feelings about
both characters. Support your opinions with specifics from the work.
4. WRITER’S Style
What is the overall mood of this work (sad, humorous, exciting, entertaining,
informative, depressing, etc.)? Describe the writer’s style (word choice and
sentence structure, organization of the work). Is it difficult, easy, interesting,
unusual, plain, complicated, etc.? Support your opinion.
5. Overall, what feelings/emotions did this reading evoke? Using quotation
marks and giving page number(s), quote a brief passage that made you feel
that way. (Keep this in mind as you read: you may want to make note of
specific passages.) Would you recommend this work to others? Give your
reasons.