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RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL
 2009 SUMMER READING PROGRAM

To contact Dr. Janet Ankiel, Supervisor of Language Arts, via email, please click here or call 908-204-2610 Ext. 131.

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         New Students
Rationale 2009 Book Order List

Grade 9 Titles

Student Directions for Literary Experience 9 and Honors English 9:
Please refer to the RHS Code of Ethics link.  For each book, select two specific topics from the RHS Code of Ethics and then watch for characters or events that illustrate the significance of the two topics you have selected.  Annotate your text, using sticky slips, or make journal entries that record your thoughts pertinent to topics of ethics.

LITERARY EXPERIENCES
Read the required title
and one choice title for this course.         
A Lesson Before Dying (required)     
Eragon
Habibi
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
Monster
Sphere


 HONORS ENGLISH 9
Read one required novel
and two choice titles course.
A Lesson Before Dying (required)
Fahrenheit 451
Into Thin Air
Speak

Grade 10 Titles

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Read the required title and one
choice title for this course.
The Color of Water (required)
Animal Dreams
Digital Fortress
Montana, 1948

     

HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE
Read the required title and two
choice titles for this course.
The Catcher in the Rye (required)
Into the Wild
Pigs in Heaven
Their Eyes Were Watching God
AMERICAN STUDIES
Read the required title and one
choice title for this course.
The Color of Water (required)
Deception Point
In Country
The Killer Angels 
The Secret Life of Bees 		 HONORS AMERICAN STUDIES
Read the required title and two
choice titles for this course.
Their Eyes Were Watching God (required)
In Country
The Lords of Discipline
The Secret Life of Bees
 

Grade 11 Titles

BRITISH LITERATURE AND LITERATURE
OF THE COMMONWEALTH
Read the required title and one
choice title for this course.
The Elephant Man (required)
Marvel 1602
Rebecca
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency		     


 

ADVANCED PLACEMENT 11:
LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION
Read two required titles and one
choice title for this course.
1984 (required)
Fast Food Nation (required)
Hamlet's Dresser
The Road From Coorain

                     

Grade 12 Titles 

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Read the required * title and one
choice title for this course.
The Things They Carried *
The Pact 
The Hours: A Novel
The Lovely Bones: A Novel
Tuesdays With Morrie		      

HONORS POST MODERN
WORLD LITERATURE
Read three required * titles.
Angela's Ashes *
Persepolis *
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories *

ADVANCED PLACEMENT 12:
LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

AP 12 Literary and Composition Overview

Read four required * titles.
A Prayer for Owen Meany *
Bible Selections KJV *
The Awakening *
The Kite Runner *



 
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