12th grade honors

Lafayette High English Dept. Summer Reading

Build Your Future through READING

Lafayette High School

12th Honors – Summer Reading Choices

Browse the websites to select the two books that interest you most. Each link provides a set of discussion questions that should guide your reading. Document quotes and personal reactions in your dialectical journals as you read your selections. These dialectical journals (see the first link below) will be turned in the first week of school. Additionally, you will participate in reading group discussions of the books you read.

Advisory to students and parents: in an attempt to prepare these talented young people for their senior year and for college, we have chosen contemporary ADULT titles because they are more challenging while at the same time entertaining. With that priority, we must advise you that as in most contemporary literature, some of these books have mature content. Please research your choices carefully.

Dialectical Journal

Use the format shown in the link below to respond to your book in a dialectical journal of at least 20 documented entries taken from throughout the entire book.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tdia.htm

Atwood – Alias Grace

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_A/alias_grace1.asp

Atwood – Handmaid’s Tale

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/handmaidstale_bgc.html

Austen – Persuasion

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/persuasion1.asp

Bradley - Mists of Avalon

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/mists_avalon1.asp

Carson - Gifted Hands

http://academic.pgcc.edu/bookbridge/ghquest.htm

http://www.dom.com/about/education/strong/pdf/teachguide_carson_activities.pdf

Coelho - The Fifth Mountain

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060930134&displayType=readingGuide

Coelho – Zahir

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=1858&isbn13=9780060825218&displayType=readingGuide

Didion – The Year of Magical Thinking

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/year_of_magical_thinking1.asp

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides2/crime_and_punishment.asp

Duncan – From Bags to Riches

http://www1.eboard.com/eboard/servlet/BoardServlet?ACTION=NOTE_SHOW&ACTION_ON=NOTE&OBJECT_ID=4948205&SITE_NAME=Destination&BOARD_NAME=lhsgamble&SESSION_ID=3iqw226f688n4665&TAB_ID=613801

Hardy – Tess of the d’Ubervilles

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/jgarret/446-F05/sq-tess.htm

Garcia – Dreaming in Cuban

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345381439&view=rg

Gladwell - Blink

http://www.bookbrowse.com/reading_guides/detail/index.cfm?book_number=1521

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_blink.html

Gladwell - The Tipping Point

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_tipping_point.html

Guterson - East of the Mountains

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_m/the_mountain_between_us1.asp

Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.state.lib.de.us/Center_For_The_Book/DE_Reads/Discussion_Questions/Snow_Falling_on_Cedars.shtml

http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/snow/

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/snow_falling_on_cedars.asp

Hesse – Siddhartha

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/siddhartha.html

Hosseini – Thousand Splendid Suns

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/thousand_splendid_suns.html

http://bestsellers.about.com/od/bookclubquestions/a/thousand_suns_q.htm

http://www.mahalo.com/A_Thousand_Splendid_Suns

Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/prayer_for_owen_meany.asp

http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/rc/library/display.pperl?isbn=9780345417978&view=rg

Jacobs - The Year of Living Biblically

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_Y/year_living_biblically1.asp

Johnson - The Ghost Map

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/ghost_map.html

Kidd - Secret Life of Bees

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/secret_life_of_bees1.asp

Kingsolver - The Bean Trees

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/bean_trees.asp

http://www.ket.org/bookclub/books/2001_may/questions.htm

Kingsolver - Pigs in Heaven (sequel to The Bean Trees)

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_P/pigs_in_heaven1.asp

Lahiri - The Namesake

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/lahiri_namesake.shtml

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/namesake1.asp

Larsen - Devil in the White City

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/devil_white_city1.asp

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Lemmon

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13=9780061732379&displayType=readingGuide

McBride - The Color of Water

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/color_of_water.html

McCarthy – Cities of the Plain

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/cities_of_the_plain1.asp

Mcewan – Saturday

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/saturday/mcewan_saturday_rgg.php

Morrison – Beloved

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_beloved.html

Norris - The Grace of Silence

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307378767&view=rg

Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/we_were_the_mulvaneys.html

http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/works/novels/mulvaneys.html

O’Brien - In the Lake of the Woods

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_L/lake_of_the_woods1.asp

O’Brien - Going after Cacciato

http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/goingaftercacciato_bgc.html

Paton - Cry the Beloved Country

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_cry_beloved_country.html

Pausch - The Last Lecture

http://www.thelastlecture.com/pdf/LastLecture_EdGuide.pdf

http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/a-totally-unauthorized-reading-group-guide-to-%E2%80%98the-last-lecture%E2%80%99-by-randy-pausch/

Picoult - Harvesting the Heart

http://www.jodipicoult.com/harvesting-the-heart.html

Picoult - Change of Heart

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_C/change_of_heart1.asp

Picoult - House Rules

http://www.jodipicoult.com/house-rules.html

Portis - True Grit

http://www.overlookpress.com/rg/truegrit.pdf

Quindlen – One True Thing

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_one_true_thing.html

Schlosser - Fast Food Nation

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/fast_food_nation1.asp

Tan - Hundred Secret Senses

http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/APS/asianamerican/story2.html

http://www.ywca.org/atf/cf/%7BAC4038C4-BCCA-4F24-B55C-F41063EDF6FE%7D/Discussion%20Points%20for%20The%20Hundred%20Secret%20Senses.doc

Tyler – Back When We Were Grownups

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_backwhenwe.html

Tyler – Digging to America

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307263940&view=rg

Walker - The Color Purple

Advisory – Mature subject matter

http://www.litlovers.com/guide_colorpurple.html

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