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
The Awakening Chopin
"'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
Heart of Darkness Conrad
The Things They Carried O'Brien
"Some Character-types Met With in Psycho-Analytical Work" Freud
"Heart of Darkness: An Introductory Lecture" Dintenfass
"Stories, Healing, and Redemption?: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried" Blyn
(Please refer any questions to Mr. Vigneux.)
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