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Hampton District One

English Department Information for Students

WADE HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL

REQUIRED SUMMER READING

 

DIRECTIONS:   Find the English course you will be taking next year (2010-2011) to find your assigned reading for the summer.  All students will complete journals to hand in on the first day of class in August..  These books may be purchased at the book store of any mall or ordered on line through Amazon.  A few will be in the town library and a few are available at the WHHS Library.

 

Honors English IV and English 430 CP

 

            Lord of the Flies  by William Golding  (Honors journal given in class)

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Honors English III

            To Kill a Mockingbird   by Harper Lee

           

Eleventh Grade English  (English III CP):

            The Pigman  by Paul Zindel

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Tenth Grade English  (English II Honors, English II CP):

 

            And Then There Were None  by Agatha Christie

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Ninth Grade English (at North District Middle School and Wade Hampton):

Hit the Road   by Caroline B. Cooney 


Sixteen-year-old Brit is illegally driving her grandmother Nannie and two other elderly women to their 65th college reunion. To arrive at their destination, Brit has to improve her driving, keep her parents from finding out what she and Nannie are up to, and give constant updates on her cell phone to her various friends and Coop, the boy she has loved for ages but who has blatantly snubbed her. Coop becomes suddenly interested in Brit and her cross-country caper involving a kidnapping of one of the elderly women. Brit has to confront the grown son of the kidnapped woman in a final showdown, but along the way she learns some valuable lessons about growing up and growing older.

 

or         Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson


After being convicted of viciously beating a classmate, Cole Matthews elects to participate in Circle Justice, an alternative sentencing program based on traditional Native American practices that results in his being banished to a remote Alaskan island where he is left to survive for a year. He has an encounter with the Spirit Bear that leaves him wounded and gives him six months of healing time to reconsider his options. While trying to accept responsibility for what he has done, his pride, pain, and anger get the best of him, and he knows that he has to learn to control his anger before it destroys him.
 

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SUMMER READING 2011

 

  • All students will be assigned a summer reading novel.
  • All students will have to complete a journal to be handed in the first day of class.
  • The journal will count as two grades.
  • Honors students will be given their journal questions.

 

College Prep Journals will include

                       

·         Two – Three sentences of  overview for each chapter

·         Three – five sentences in a  response to each chapter

 

Example:

            Chapter One of Animal Farm introduces the animals and their lives on the farm.  Old Major gives his speech urging the animals to rise up against man who has them in slavery.  Also, the animals learn the song “Beasts of England.”

            I thought reading about animals was pretty neat but also funny with animals talking and hating man.  I felt sorry for the poor treatment they were given by Mr. Jones. His forgetting to feed them and forgetting to milk the cows was inexcusable.   Even though the story is about animals wanting to revolt, the author made the story very real because the animals have human characteristics. This realness makes the story even more interesting.

 

  • Students who transfer to WHHS during the week before school starts will have four days to complete a journal on a novel they read at their previous school.  Students who register to transfer during the summer will be responsible for doing the assigned reading.  Guidance will be given a copy of the summer reading list.

 

  • Eighth graders will receive written information about the summer reading; students at WHHS will be told about summer reading by their present teacher, including those in Alternative School.