Summer Reading List

McAuley Summer Reading Requirements

Catherine McAuley High School recognizes that one of the most important things you can do for yourself in your years of high school and beyond is to read. It has been proven over and over that the best way to prepare oneself for tests such as the PSAT and SAT is to read widely. It has also been found that students who read become better writers.

Required Community Read for All Students & Staff:

In addition to specific summer reading assignments, ALL STUDENTS and staff are required to read a non-fiction community read.  Past works have included Packaging Girlhood by Lyn Mikel Brown and Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza.  The community assignment for the 2011-2012 academic year is Teens With the Courage to Give: Young People Who Triumphed Over Tragedy and Volunteered to Make a Difference by Jackie Waldman. 

The Community Read should be completed by Tuesday, September 6. There will be a guest speaker in the fall, as well as a community project that coincides with the guest speaker and the book. More information will be given in September.

 

 

Summer Reading assignments by level:

English I College Prep:

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

English I Honors:

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

English II College Prep:

  • Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • Montana by Larry (Lawrence) Watson

English II Honors:

  • Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany by Irving

AP English III:

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Breathing In and Out by Ralph Fletcher
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
  • Visit the Summer Reading Blog for Writing Assignments: www.juniorreading.blogspot.com

English III Honors:

  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Breathing In and Out by Ralph Fletcher
  • Visit the Summer Reading Blog for Writing Assignments: www.juniorreading.blogspot.com

English III College Prep:

  • Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen
  • Breathing In and Out by Ralph Fletcher
  • Visit the Summer Reading Blog for Writing Assignments: www.juniorreading.blogspot.com

AP English IV:

  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

English IV Honors:

  • The Red Tent by Diamant
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver

English IV College Prep:

  • The Red Tent by Diamant
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini