To add a work click on the words 01 2013 Participants and Titles to see what your colleagues have already selected. To add your book, click EDIT on the top right floating tool bar. Be sure to hit save when you finish.
Click on the words 1 2012 Participants and Titles here or on the left navigation bar to see what works your colleagues selected for 2012. See also there the 2011 Participants and Titles and 2010 Participants and Titles should you want to see works used the last two years. It is perfectly OK to lead a discussion on the same work you led in the past. If more than 1 person wants to lead a discussion on any one work, we will form two groups if over 20 select that title. Otherwise, two teachers might "team lead" a discussion on the first Tuesday of school.
Can't decide? Several teachers last year volunteered to read any work that had high demand, that filled up quickly with 20. I really appreciated that group of folks. We ended up offering quite a few sections of very popular works . Just let me know to offer you a title that fills up quickly.
Consider
your interest,
the interest of 9-12th graders generally or of a subgroup of that age group (sports, mystery, true crime, sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction, history, romance, satire, biography, business, science, math),
the length (longer than 80 pages and only as long as the interest-level merits),
availability in paperback (in electronic format is also great; check amazon.com to make sure the work you select is still in print),
the appropriateness of content (choose a book you would feel comfortable discussing with your high-school aged child).
works offered last year that "sold out" quickly, and something you have seen your own high school children read.
Contemporary works and classics are all encouraged, but we ask you not to select a book currently in our summer reading program or year-long curriculum. Other works by these same authors would be fine.
The first Tuesday of school, during a B activity period, you will meet with your group of students to discuss the work. You will not give a test, but we do ask you to note on the role if the student has not read the work (he or she might tell you so, or it may be blatantly obvious).
Currently in the English Department Program (and thus not for summer reading options): Achebe, Things Fall Apart Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie Anonymous, Beowulf Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale Auburn, Proof Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Brontệ C, Jane Eyre Brontệ E., Wuthering Heights Childress, Crazy in Alabama Cisneros, The House on Mango Street Conrad, Heart of Darkness Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (but not Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, or a host of others) Faulkner, The Portable Faulkner (but not As I Lay Dying, The Reivers, The Unvanquished) Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Gardner, Grendel Golding, Lord of the Flies Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Hardy, Jude the Obscure Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Homer, The Odyssey, The Iliad Horowitz, Myths and Legends Hosseini, The Kite Runner Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (but not her autobiography Dust Tracks in the Road) Ibsen, A Doll House Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail Krakauer, Into the Wild Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Marlow, Doctor Faustus Melville, Moby Dick Miller, The Crucible Milton, Paradise Lost Morrison, Beloved O'Brien, The Things They Carried O’Connor, The Complete Stories Orwell, 1984 Potok, The Chosen (but NOT David's Harp or The Promise) Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Shakespeare, Macbeth , Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello Shaw, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession Shelley, Frankenstein Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Virgil, The Aeneid Voltaire, Candide Warren, All the King's Men Watson, Montana 1948 Wilde,The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilson, Fences
2013 WOODWARD ACADEMY
UPPER SCHOOL SUMMER READING
BOOK DISCUSSION PROGRAM
FACULTY INFORMATION PAGE
This is an open wiki. You can make changes without asking to join.
Dear WA US Faculty Member or Staff Member,
Thanks for joining the English Department in sharing your love of reading with US students.
Picking a book or play should be an easy task.
Here is the invitation letter again that was to be attached to the weekly bulletin.
To add a work click on the words 01 2013 Participants and Titles to see what your colleagues have already selected. To add your book, click EDIT on the top right floating tool bar. Be sure to hit save when you finish.
Click on the words 1 2012 Participants and Titles here or on the left navigation bar to see what works your colleagues selected for 2012. See also there the 2011 Participants and Titles and 2010 Participants and Titles should you want to see works used the last two years. It is perfectly OK to lead a discussion on the same work you led in the past. If more than 1 person wants to lead a discussion on any one work, we will form two groups if over 20 select that title. Otherwise, two teachers might "team lead" a discussion on the first Tuesday of school.
Can't decide? Several teachers last year volunteered to read any work that had high demand, that filled up quickly with 20. I really appreciated that group of folks. We ended up offering quite a few sections of very popular works . Just let me know to offer you a title that fills up quickly.
Consider
Contemporary works and classics are all encouraged, but we ask you not to select a book currently in our summer reading program or year-long curriculum. Other works by these same authors would be fine.
The first Tuesday of school, during a B activity period, you will meet with your group of students to discuss the work. You will not give a test, but we do ask you to note on the role if the student has not read the work (he or she might tell you so, or it may be blatantly obvious).
Currently in the English Department Program (and thus not for summer reading options):
Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Anonymous, Beowulf
Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Auburn, Proof
Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Brontệ C, Jane Eyre
Brontệ E., Wuthering Heights
Childress, Crazy in Alabama
Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (but not Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, or a host of others)
Faulkner, The Portable Faulkner (but not As I Lay Dying, The Reivers, The Unvanquished)
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Gardner, Grendel
Golding, Lord of the Flies
Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Homer, The Odyssey, The Iliad
Horowitz, Myths and Legends
Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (but not her autobiography Dust Tracks in the Road)
Ibsen, A Doll House
Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Krakauer, Into the Wild
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Marlow, Doctor Faustus
Melville, Moby Dick
Miller, The Crucible
Milton, Paradise Lost
Morrison, Beloved
O'Brien, The Things They Carried
O’Connor, The Complete Stories
Orwell, 1984
Potok, The Chosen (but NOT David's Harp or The Promise)
Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, Macbeth , Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello
Shaw, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Shelley, Frankenstein
Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, The Winter of Our Discontent
Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Virgil, The Aeneid
Voltaire, Candide
Warren, All the King's Men
Watson, Montana 1948
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilson, Fences