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. Many of the reading assignments have a written component. If you are uncertain about the written component, please contact your teacher.

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.

 

 

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:

  • Montana, 1948 by Larry (Lawrence) Watson

English II Honors:

  • Montana, 1948 by Larry (Lawrence) Watson
  • What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a novel by Dave Eggers

AP English III:

  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

English III Honors:

  • A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel

English III College Prep:

  • A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute

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
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan

English IV Colleg Prep:

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

AP American Government:

  • Words We Live By by Linda Monk
  • Chpts 1-3 of  American Government: Continuity & Change by Karen O’Connor & Larry J. Sabato
  • Skim units 1 & 2  of We The People

 AP United States History:

  • Chpts 21-22 in The American Promise 4th ed.
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair