English Studies Book List

New students are encouraged to read titles from previous years for summer reading.

  

Third Grade - Farmer Boy, Charlotte's Web, The Moffats

Fourth Grade  - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Heidi, Lassie Come-Home

Fifth Grade -  Adam of the Road, Robin Hood, King Arthur

Sixth Grade - The Bronze Bow, Anne of Green Gables, The Hobbit, Treasure Island 

Seventh Grade -  Wind in the Willows, Shakespeare (As You Like It), HLS Poetry Anthology, Robinson Crusoe 

Eighth Grade - English Literature I. Shakespeare (Henry V, Twelfth Night), Beowulf the Warrior (Ignatius Press), Everyman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canterbury Tales

Ninth Grade - The Divine Comedy

Tenth Grade - British and American Literature II. Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice), The Scarlet Letter, Selections from the Renaissance, Puritan Interlude, and Age of Reason,

Eleventh Grade - British and American Literature III. Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities,  Shakespeare (Hamlet, Henry IV Part I), Death Comes for the Archbishop, Selections from the Romantic and Victorian Periods.

Twelfth Grade - Shakespeare (King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar), The Spirit of St. Louis, Anna Karenina, Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community (Wendell Berry), Canticle for Leibowitz, All Creatures Great and Small