THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO DO YOUR SUMMER READING!!!!!
Please see the attached list for 2022-23 required summer reading for English class.
2022 Central Catholic Summer Reading
Central Catholic Department of English
2022 Summer Reading List
Students are encouraged to read print or digital versions of these selections. If students opt for a digital version of the text, it must be available to them through their school-issued laptop or a digital reading device, but NOT through their phones. There is a Kindle App for our computers in the App Store.
Students are to have their books read before school begins. When students return to school, each teacher will have an assignment associated with the summer reading selections.
Students should have access to the text in school for use in completing assignments.
This assignment will be a part of the students’ 1st quarter grades.
7th Grade Shooting Kabul by N.H. Senzai (Expect a mini-quiz on day 1!)
8th Grade Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Freshman
Select One of the Following
Diamond Boy by Michael Williams
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
(Students will receive projects and essay assignments upon returning in the fall and should not expect stories to be taught in detail during class. They MUST read during the summer)
Freshman Honors
The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
(students need to have read prior to class, we will immediately read another book upon returning to school and discuss the books in tandem)
ALL Sophomores – Select One OR Read Both
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Junior – Select ONE of the Following
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Junior Honors – Select ONE of the Following
Down and Across by Arvin Ahmadi
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Senior – Select ONE of the Following
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Atonement by Ian McEwan
ACP English
Summer read: Educated by Terra Westover
Order the following books for classes: duboisbookstore.com OR search Amazon, abebooks.com, booksrun.com for used (get used in May and June stores will run out)
W131 Required Text: (MUST have BEFORE first day of school)
Writing Analytically, 8th edition (ISBN-13:9781337559461)
AND
Writing & Reading for ACP Composition, 3rd edition (ISBN# 1323847618 / 9781323847619)
L202 Required Text: (need to have for first day of class Spring 2022)
The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter 13th Edition (ISBN 9780393664928).