FAYETTE WARE’S SUMMER READING LIST 2017

Read one (or two)...for Extra Credit in English

* Each student can read two (or more) books from his/her appropriate list for Extra Credit in their English class. The extra credit will be at that teacher's discretion.

STUDENTS GOING INTO 9TH GRADE Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Plague by Albert Camus Billy Budd by Herman Melville Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Once and Future King by T.H. White Waiting for Godot by Samuel Becket Moby Dick by Herman Melville Oliver by Charles Dickens Walden by Henry D. Thoreau Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes STUDENTS GOING INTO 10TH GRADE To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolfe Silas Marner by George Eliot The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Finnegans Wake by James Joyce Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Ivanhoe by Walter Scott STUDENTS GOING INTO 11TH GRADE 1984 by George Orwell Last of the Mohicans by James F. Cooper Nausea by Jean Sartre Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Middlemarch by George Elliot Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner The Trial by Franz Kafka Lord of the Flies by William Golding Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

STUDENTS GOING INTO 12TH GRADE Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Being and Time by Martin Heidegger Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Students are to use a composition book (easily obtained at Walmart or Kroger or Fred’s) and answer the Novel Analysis items (below) for each novel they read during the summer break. These composition books will be turned in to their

English teacher the first day of school, fall 2017.

Novel Analysis Elements of Literature

1. List and describe each major character (three physical traits and three personality traits) 2. Author 3. Genre (history, mystery, comedy, drama, action, romance, sci-fiction, war) 4. Setting (time and place) 5. Date of first publication 6. Narrator (if applicable) 7. Point of view (1st; 3rd objective, omniscient, or limited) 8. Protagonist (hero) (Can be included in #1) 9. Antagonist (villian) (Can be included in #1) 10. Basic plot (story line: five paragraphs minimum) 11. Major conflict (biggest problem) 12. Rising action (s) (leading to climax) 13. Climax (highest point in plot) 14. Falling action (after climax) 15. Resolution (results) 16. Theme(s) (moral or message)