Carver Center for Arts and Technology

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                  Towson, MD                              English 11 Standard
                                                                  Forest Carter, The Education of Little Tree
                   English Department                             Russell Banks, The Rule of the Bone*
                  Outside Reading Lists                           Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe
                        2010-2011                                 Richard Wright, Native Son
Outside reading assignments are required by the BCPS              Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
curricula in English for grades 9 through 12. The
following lists were developed by the English             English 11 Honors
department faculty for use throughout the school year.            Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
Students are expected to read one (1) book from the
                                                                  John Irving, The World According to Garp*
appropriate list each time an outside reading is
                                                                  Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour
required by the teacher. Some teachers may wish all of
                                                                  Tennessee Williams, The Night of the
the students to read the same book; others may wish to
give students a wide selection of books. Individual                Iguana
teachers will issue specific assignments which may                Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia
include, but are not confined to, in-class timed                   Woolf*
writings, dramatic monologues, character analyses,                Jack Kerouac, On the Road
research papers, and book reviews. To prepare for                 Judith Guest, Ordinary People
these assignments students should consider writing                Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
entries in their journals about the plot, characters,             Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
themes, and techniques of the book. Titles marked                 Reynolds Price, A Long and Happy Life
with an asterisk (*) have explicit language or content.           Tobias Wolfe, Old School
The first outside reading assignment will be                      Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
collected after September 30. The first outside
reading assignment will be on one (1) book. The
specific due dates will be assigned by individual         English 11 AP- OUTSIDE READING DUE DATE:
teachers. IF you are scheduled for either AP 11 or        SEPTERMBER 1, 2010
AP 12, PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE                                    Edward P. Jones, The Known World
DIFFERENT DUE DATE FOR THE OUTSIDE                                Pat Conroy, Lords of Discipline
READING.                                                          John Irving, The World According to Garp*
                                                                  Kathleen Cambor, In Sunlight, In a Beautiful
                                                                   Garden
                    9                                             Tobias Wolfe, This Boy’s Life AND Jon
                                                                   Krakauer, Into the Wild
English 9 Honors                                                  Any play by Eugene O’Neill
        Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My                      Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded
         Name*
                                                                   Knee
        Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees OR                    Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter
         Pigs in Heaven
                                                                  E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
        James McBride, The Color of Water
                                                                  Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
        Whitney Otto, The Passion Dream Book*
                                                                  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
        Glendon Swarthout, Bless the Beasts and the
                                                                  John Updike, S
         Children
                                                                  Philip Roth, American Pastoral
English 9 GT                                                      Richard Russo, Empire Falls
        Michael Dorris, Yellow Raft on Blue Water*               James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the
                                                                   Mohicans
        Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
        Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
        Reynolds Price, Tongues of Angels
        Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

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English 10 Honors
        Yann Martel, The Life of Pi
                                                                             SEE OTHER SIDE ---
English 10 GT
         Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
                       12                             English 12 AP (Continued)- OUTSIDE READING
English 12 Standard                                   DUE DATE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
        Arthur Conan Doyle, any three of the                 George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man
         Sherlock Holmes stories                              Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
                                                              Thomas Malory, Le Morte D’Arthur
English 12 Honors                                             Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
        Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility                   Ian McEwan, Atonement
        Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre                          Peter Shaffer, Amadeus*
        Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders*                         William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
        Charles Dickens, Hard Times                          William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale
        John Gardner, Grendel                                William Shakespeare, The Merchant of
        Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean                  Venice
         Brodie                                               William Shakespeare, King Lear
        Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country                  Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
        Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One                          Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
        H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau              Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
        Virginia Woolf, Orlando                              Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato
        Aldous Huxley, Brave New World*                      Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
        Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album*                     Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
        Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating            George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
         World                                                George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
                                                              Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
English 12 AP- OUTSIDE READING DUE DATE:                      Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
        Jane Austen, Emma
        Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
        A.S. Byatt [Antonia Susan], Angels and
         Insects*
        Lord Byron. Don Juan
        Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
        Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
        Roddy Doyle, A Star Called Henry*
        George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans], The Mill
         on the Floss
        Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
        E.M. Forster [Edward Morgan], A Passage
         to India
        Henry James, A Portrait of the Lady
        James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a
         Young Man
        Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook*
        W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
        Ben Orki, The Famished Road
        Zadie Smith, White Teeth
        Graham Swift, Waterland*
        William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
        Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger*
        H.G. Wells[Herbert George]Tono Bungay