English Department Belchertown High School

 

Honors English 9-11

Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Required Summer Reading Lists

Required Journal Assignment (9 and 10)

11 th grade and AP assignments available upon request

Students entering 9th grade Honors English: 

Of Mice and Men                    Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies                      Golding                       

Death of a Salesman                Miller

Things Fall Apart                     Achebe

 

(Please refer any questions to Ms. Vaz.)

 

Students entering 10th grade Honors English 

The Catcher in the Rye                        Salinger

The House on Mango Street                Cisneros

 The Chosen                                         Potok

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn                   Smith

 

 (Please refer any questions to Mrs. Waldron.)

 

Students entering 11 th grade Honors English 

Their Eyes Were Watching God                        Hurston

East of Eden                                                     Steinbeck

The Sun Also Rises                                           Hemingway

"'Tuh de Horizon and Back': The Female Quest for Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God" Kubitschek

"The Story of a Writing: Narrative Structure" Owens

 "The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises" Spilka

(Please refer any questions to Mrs. Relihan.)

                                                                             

  Students entering Advanced Placement Literature and Composition (AP English)

 Macbeth                                              Shakespeare

Native Son                                          Wright

Heart of Darkness                              Conrad

"Some Character-types Met With in Psycho-Analytical Work"                  Freud

"Bigger's Great Leap to the Figurative"                                                            Gallagher

"Heart of Darkness: An Introductory Lecture"                                              Dintenfass

(Please refer any questions to Mr. Vigneux.)

 

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