HALDANE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

required summer reading lists 2008

Elementary School

Incoming Grades
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
Fifth Grade

MS/HS SCHOOLS

Grade 6
Because of Winn-Dixie by DiCamillo  (also see question sheet)
1 Independent Choice (from suggested booklist)

Grade 7
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Speare (required)
1 Independent Choice (from suggested booklist or selected with prior approval) 

Grade 8R
Tom Sawyer by Twain (required)
1 Independent Choice (from suggested booklist or selected with prior approval)
or Twelfth Night  (presented at Boscobel)

Grade 9R/H
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway (required)
1 Independent Choice (from suggested booklist or selected with prior approval) orTwelfth Night (presented at Boscobel)

Grade 10R
The Time of the Butterflies by Allende (required)
1 Independent Choice (from suggested booklist or selected with prior approval)

Grade 10H
Frankenstein by Shelley (required)
2 Independent Choices (from suggested booklist or selected with prior approval)

Grade 11R/H
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger

Black Boy by Wright 

Grade 11AP
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne
The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Turn of the Screw by James 

Grade 12R 
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
Beowulf  (Seamus Heaney translation)

Grade 12H & AP
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge
Dracula by StokerWaiting for Godot  by Beckett
The Hollow Men by Eliot

 ALL SENIORS WHO ARE TAKING THE FOLLOWING COURSES FOR THEIR ENGLISH CREDIT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUMMER READING!!!! 
Literature and the Film
Dracula by StokerBeowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
Science Fiction

Invisible Man by Wells

*See Ms. Pearce or e-mail her at apearce@haldane.lhric.org for the second reading 

 

 

 

 

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