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Ballard High School
Summer Reading
2018-2019
Grade 9: Rising Freshmen are to read ALL the following short stories:
1. “Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe
How far would you go to right a wrong? In “The Cask of Amontillado” Italian aristocrat
Montressor feels that he has been slighted by Fortunato and plots a dark and sinister
revenge that takes place amid the loud and raucous carnival celebration. In the end, it
is as they say, revenge is a dish best served cold – meticulously planned for permanence.
Read Online:
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the_cask_of_amontillado.pdf
2. “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell
He’s cocky and proud and lives for danger and adventure. However, American Sanger
Rainsford may have met his equal or better when he must match his wit and skill against
the shrewd and cunning Cossack, General Zaroff. Who will win? Games were never so
deadly.
Read Online: http://www.dukeofdefinition.com/dangerous_game.pdf
3. “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst
Little brothers. Always tagging along. Always making messes. And so, it is that little
brother, Doodle, tags along everywhere with his older brother, but physical and mental
challenges make Doodle work extra hard, perhaps too hard, to be like his big brother.
Life lessons always come at a cost.
Read Online: https://jjett.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/97072218/The_Scarlet_Ibis.pdf
4. “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
Ah, the perfect gift. Della and Jim Dillingham are newly married and want desperately
to get each other the perfect Christmas gift. Problem is, they have very little money,
and Jim’s salary just got cut. To make matters worse, it’s Christmas Eve. Time is
running out, choices must be made, and sacrifices often become necessities. What is a
person to do?
Read Online:
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/1-the_gift_of_the_magi_0.pdf
5. “Brownies” by Z. Z. Packer
Rumors have the power to ignite an inferno of rage
and retaliation. That is exactly what happens at
Camp Crescendo, a Girl Scout camp just outside of
Atlanta. As the summer of ’83 heats up, the Girl
Scout law is put to the test, and the issues of
racism, discrimination, equality, and fairness are
the topics to study. On a side note, although born
in Chicago, author Z. Z. Parker was raised for a time
right here in Louisville.
Read Online:
http://writ101van.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/7/3/22735066/packer_brownies.pdf
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Grade 10
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an
Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly
treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more
satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about
the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing
opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path,
and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.
From Harper Collins Publishers
Grade 11
Honors
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences & The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in
Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive
with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting
for her are her black musician sidemen, the white owner of the
record company, and her white manager. What goes down in
the session to come is more than music. It is a riveting portrayal
of black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds,
and of racial exploitation.
From Penguin Random House
AP Language & Composition
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
and
Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs
A master class in the art of persuasion, as taught by professors
ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill, newly revised and
updated. The time-tested secrets taught in this book include Cicero’s
three-step strategy for moving an audience to action, and Honest Abe’s
Shameless Trick for lowering an audience’s expectations. It is also
replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use of code
language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment
of persuasive tricks, including the Eddie Haskell Ploy, the Belushi
Paradigm, Stalin’s Timing Secret, and the Yoda Technique. Thank You
for Arguing is for you. Warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening, it
not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis when you hear it,
but also how to wield the weapons of persuasion the next time you
really, really, want to get your own way.
From Penguin Random House
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Grade 12
Honors
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
“A play that changed American theater forever.”
–The New York Times.
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was
awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that
season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A
pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play
was a radically new representation of black life.
From Penguin Random House
A Raisin in the Sun is a play about an African-American family
aspiring to move beyond segregation and disenfranchisement
in 1950s Chicago. Despite its specific era, the work speaks
universally to the desire to improve one's circumstances while
disagreeing on the best way of achieving them.
From biography.com
Dual Credit
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
For detailed description see AP Literature listing.
and
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
It began when New York journalist and author Stephen J.
Dubner went to Chicago to write about award-winning
economist Steven D. Levitt for The New York Times Magazine.
Dubner had been reluctant to take the assignment (he was in
the middle of writing a book about the psychology of money).
Levitt was reluctant to be shadowed by a journalist (but his
mother loved the Times Magazine, so he gave in).
The article came out and led to an unexpected partnership.
Levitt and Dubner wrote Freakonomics, a book about cheating
teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-
selling mama’s boys. They figured it would sell about 80 copies.
Instead, it took up long-term residency on the Times best-
seller list and went on to sell more than 5 million copies in 40
languages.
From http://freakonomics.com
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AP Literature & Composition
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby is the story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay
Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan and of lavish
parties on Long Island at a time when prohibition gave rise to
bootleggers, bathtub gin, Jazz, and the “new woman”. It is a
novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism of America in the 1920s
that resonates with the power of myth. First published in 1925,
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the
quintessential novel of the Jazz Age and is one of the great
classics of twentieth-century American literature.
From Simon & Schuster
and
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?
Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there
is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on
the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an
unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking
suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping
you.
In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster
shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths,
and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared
meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or
destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to
literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read
Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making
your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
From Harper Collins Publishers
Reading: A little each day goes along way!
Reading Comprehension
Time Reading per Day Words Learned per Year
Percentile Score
20 minutes 90th % 1.8 million
4.6 minutes 50th % 282,000
1 minute 10th % 8,000 1
1
It would take the 1-minute reader one year to read as many words as what a 20-minute reader would read in two days.
2
Anderson, Richard C., et al. “Growth in Reading and How Children Spend Their Time Outside of School.” Reading Research Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3, 1988, pp.
285–303.
For additional information go to https://schools.jefferson.kyschools.us/High/Ballard
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