Summer Reading 2021-2022

All students attending TOPS for the 2021-2022 school year must complete a summer reading assignment past August 28, 2021. Each grade level volition provide three novel options.  Students are required to select and read one novel from their grade-level options and complete a reading log.

Novel selections for each form level and reading log templates are listed below. In that location are several means to access the reading selections.

For returning students, all novels are available through the Sora reading app, which can be found in Classlink. Delight view the video below for a tutorial that will walk y'all through using Sora: https://youtu.exist/zgHTY1J3Yok

Newly enrolled students volition need to utilize their local public library, choose a pick that is available online, or purchase their chosen novel.

AP English students are required to complete a different summer reading consignment (See Below)

Summer Reading Log Template (required for every grade level):

  • Google Physician

  • Microsoft Word:  Summer Reading Independent Reading Log 2021-22.docx

  • PDF: Summer Reading Independent Reading Log

If you have questions almost summer reading, please contact Ms. April Trivett.

Summertime Reading Novel Options (by form)

Freshmen (English I)

Students who are registered for English language I need to choose i novel to read from the selection below:

ane. The Call of the Wild by Jack London.  An online version of this novel can be found at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/215/215-h/215-h.htm

Jack London's break out novel of survival is the essence of the American dream, its longings, and frustrations.  Taste the cold with Buck in the unforgettable adventure of a dog in the Yukon.

2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

A begetter and his son walk alone through burned America. Nil moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the current of air. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is greyness. The heaven is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have zippo; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged nutrient—and each other.

3. The Joy Luck Guild by Amy Tan.

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "proverb" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, contempo immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to consume dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and promise, they call themselves the Joy Luck Society. Rather than sink into tragedy, they cull to get together to raise their spirits and money. Twoscore years afterward the stories and history continue.

All students are required to consummate a summer reading log for their novel selection, which will exist submitted in English class for a form.

Sophomores (English Ii)

Students who are registered for English II need to choose i novel to read from the choice below:

1. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.  An online version of this novel can be found here .

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits….

Four seekers have come up to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon chosen haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to exist merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, merely Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.

2. The Hobbit past J.R.R. Tolkien

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes goose egg ameliorate than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard's ring of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, barbarous wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo rapidly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he tin can render to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all - a treasure-troving dragon named Smaug.

3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Autonomously is a archetype narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe equally it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Autumn Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new society.

All students are required to complete a summer reading log for their novel selection, which will be submitted in English course for a class.

Juniors (English 3)

Students who are registered for English Iii need to choose i novel to read from the selection below:

one. The Ruby-red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. An online version of this novel tin be found at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/73/73-h/73-h.htm

Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of boxing. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage," to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment in one case over again faces the enemy, Henry acts equally standard-bearer. Although Crane was born later on the war, and had non at the time experienced battle first-hand, the novel is known for its realism.

2. The Devil in the White Metropolis  past Erik Larson

In a thrilling narrative showcasing his gifts equally storyteller and researcher, Erik Larson recounts the spellbinding tale of the 1893 Globe'due south Columbian Exposition. The White Urban center (as it became known) was a magical creation constructed upon Chicago'south swampy Jackson Park. Dr. Henry H. Holmes combined the off-white's appeal with his own fatal charms to lure scores of women to their deaths. Whereas the off-white marked the nascence of a new epoch in American history, Holmes marked the emergence of a new American classic, the serial killer, who thrived on the very forces then transforming the country.

3. The Assist by Kathryn Stockett

Written from the point of view of three Black housekeepers in 1922 Mississippi, their story is told, every bit well as that of the women who employ them. The social construction and societal mores of the day when it comes to employment of Blacks is vividly told. Information technology is a moving story with both laughs and, in some cases, tears. Picture show made on the ground of this best-selling novel.

All students are required to complete a summer reading log for their novel selection, which will be submitted in English grade for a course.

Seniors (English language Four)

Students who are registered for English IV need to choose i novel to read from the choice below:

1. 19 Eighty-4 by George Orwell An online version of this novel can exist found at Planet eBook: https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf

Written more than than seventy years agone,1984 was George Orwell'south spooky prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come up and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that volition do anything to control the narrative is timelier than e'er.

ii. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-Fourth dimension by Marker Haddon

A bestselling modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbour'due south canis familiaris and discovers unexpected truths well-nigh himself and the world.

iii. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen An online version of this novel tin can be institute at Planet eBook: https://world wide web.planetebook.com/gratuitous-ebooks/pride-and-prejudice.pdf

The story follows the master graphic symbol, Elizabeth Bennet, every bit she deals with bug of manners, upbringing, morality, didactics, and union in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Set in England in the early 19th century,Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet'south five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr. Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, accept moved into their neighborhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet girl, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local club and repeatedly clashes with the 2nd-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.

All students are required to complete a summer reading log for their novel selection, which will be submitted in English class for a grade.

AP English language

All students enrolled in AP English Literature and Composition at TOPS for the 2021-2022 school year will be required to participate in Summer Reading. Students will choose two books from the post-obit list to read this summer.  Students volition write a literary essay with each of the chosen novels in August in one case school begins. Students transferring to TOPS for the spring semester will be given fourth dimension to complete the readings.  If you take questions about Summer Reading, delight contactMrs. Kelly Vance.

Choose two novels to read:

1. Their Eyes Were Watching God  by Zora Neale Hurston

One of the most important and indelible books of the twentieth century,Their Eyes Were Watching Godbrings to life a Southern beloved story with the wit and desolation found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost xxx years—due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female person protagonist—Hurston's archetype has since its 1978 reissue go perhaps the virtually widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

2. There, At that place  by Tommy Orange

Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering bestselling novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Large Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in means they may non yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Plume, newly sober and trying to make it dorsum to the family she left backside. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle'south death and working at the confab to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional trip the light fantastic for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a circuitous and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.

3. Nifty Expectations  by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic piece of work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel contains some of Dickens nigh memorable scenes, including its opening, in a graveyard, when the young orphan Pip is accosted past the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch.Great Expectationsis a graphic book, total of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships ("the hulks"), barriers and chains, and fights to the death.

iv. Motion-picture show of Dorian Gray- past Oscar Wilde

Showtime published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott'south Monthly Mag, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication. Despite that censorship,The Flick of Dorian Grey offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.

Summaries provided past Amazon.