American Literature

Summer Reading List

Mr. Garner

Students enrolled in British Literature next year, may receive and apply extra credit to marking periods of their choice up to a maximum of 10 points per period or 40 points for the year.  To receive credit, read a selection option from the list below, write a paper summarizing the book (one and one half pages typed, double space, 12 font, Times New Roman), to include themes and applied Biblical principles, and attach a signed parental confirmation sheet verifying your work. Due on the first day of school, each assignment below is worth 10 points. You may, therefore, choose only four assignments for credit.  Do not turn in a reading completed prior to this summer. It must be a reading on this list completed this summer.

Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Parental/Guardian Confirmation

I, ____________________ hereby verify that my child, ________________, read the following material this summer.

Parent/Guardian Signature ______________________

List the readings below: