JOHN A. FERGUSON HIGH SCHOOL READING LIST, SUMMER 2010
In an effort to maintain high academic standards, summer reading is a requirement at John A. Ferguson Senior High. Required books are listed below for each grade level, academic level and academy. Students will be held responsible for all the books listed under their appropriate category. Students will be given assessments based on their reading at the beginning of the school year.
Gifted |
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9th Grade Maus 1 and 2 by Art Spiegelman The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade The Turn of the Screw by Henry James A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
International Business and Finance |
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9th Grade The Firm by John Grisham The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade Freakonomics by Steven Levitt Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade The Jungle by Upton Sinclair The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
Design and Architecture |
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9th Grade The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade All the PresidentŐs Men by Carl Bernstein The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
Information Technology |
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9th Grade The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade Digital Fortress by Dan Brown Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade Neuromancer by William Gibson A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade Prey by Michael Crichton The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
Medical Skills and Biomedical |
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9th Grade Coma by Robin Cook The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade ItŐs Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade The Adromeda Strain by Michael Crichton A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade Experimental Heart by Jennifer L. Rohn The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
Hospitality and Tourism |
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9th Grade Married to the Mouse by Richard E. Foglesong The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
10th Grade Julie and Julia by Julie Powell Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee |
11th Grade Three Weeks with my Brother by Nicholas Sparks A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway |
12th Grade Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
International Baccalaureate |
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9th Grade Pre IB The City of Beasts by Isabel Allende The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima |
AP Literature/10th Grade Pre IB In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Frankenstein by Mary Shelley BarronŐs AP English Literature and Composition 3rd Edition by George Ehrenhaft, Ed.D. |
11th Grade 1984 by George Orwell FielaŐs Child by Dalene Matthee How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster |
12th Grade The HandmaidŐs Tale by Margaret Atwood Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig |
Advanced Placement |
AP Language and Composition Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield On Writing by Stephen King In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
AP Literature Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
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