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Summer Reading List
For 2005-2006
All CGS students have one required title, and one personal choice
from the lists below. A two to three page word-processed essay is
required for the title of your choice. The essay is a "reaction paper"
in which you comment on the piece that you read. Your comments
should center on central ideas or themes and how they manifest in
the text, analysis of character(s), and a general comment as to the
piece's worth to you. Please make reference to the text in your
essay. The paper is assessed at 10% of your first quarter grade.
The required reading is the focus of our class at the start of the
school year. Keep a journal of notes on the reading to reference
during the class discussions, and as a study guide for an exam on
the book. Notes are in the form of questions or reflections, and not a
summary of each chapter.
Click here to see the CGS Summer Reading List in Adobe Reader format
Freshmen entering CGS will read one required work, and one of
their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Picture Bride - Yoshiko Uchida (REQUIRED)
Hana Omiya's life is changed when she leaves her home in Japan
as a "picture bride" to someone she has not met.
Choice of one:
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Chinese Cinderella -Adeline Yen Mah (non-fiction)
In our Time - Ernest Hemingway
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Samurai William - Giles Morton
When the Emperor was Devine - Julie Otsuka
Shogun James Clavell
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Students entering their Sophomore year will read one required
work, and one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Lord of the Flies - William Golding (REQUIRED)
A plane carrying a group of British prep school boys crash lands on
a deserted island. The boys must find ways to survive before the
remote possibility of rescue. The central theme explores man's
capacity for constructive and civilized behavior, pitted against his
primitive, self-destructive tendencies.
Choice of one:
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (a memoir)
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman (non-fiction)
Monkeys - Susan Minot
The Secrets of Mariko - Elizabeth Bumiller (non-fiction)
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Students entering their Junior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (REQUIRED)
The novel explores a utopian society engineered for the maximum
pleasure and happiness of all its citizens.
Choice of one:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Color of Water - James McBride
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
On of the Revolution - Liang Heng
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
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Students entering their Senior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer (REQUIRED)
It is Tibet during and after World War II, until the Chinese invasion in
1950, and Austrian Heinrich Harrer, a prisoner of war, escapes from
a British internment camp, finding refuge in the Forbidden City of
Lhasa, where he befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Choice of one:
Bound Feet and Western Dress - Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
For 2005-2006
All CGS students have one required title, and one personal choice
from the lists below. A two to three page word-processed essay is
required for the title of your choice. The essay is a "reaction paper"
in which you comment on the piece that you read. Your comments
should center on central ideas or themes and how they manifest in
the text, analysis of character(s), and a general comment as to the
piece's worth to you. Please make reference to the text in your
essay. The paper is assessed at 10% of your first quarter grade.
The required reading is the focus of our class at the start of the
school year. Keep a journal of notes on the reading to reference
during the class discussions, and as a study guide for an exam on
the book. Notes are in the form of questions or reflections, and not a
summary of each chapter.
Click here to see the CGS Summer Reading List in Adobe Reader format
Freshmen entering CGS will read one required work, and one of
their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Picture Bride - Yoshiko Uchida (REQUIRED)
Hana Omiya's life is changed when she leaves her home in Japan
as a "picture bride" to someone she has not met.
Choice of one:
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Chinese Cinderella -Adeline Yen Mah (non-fiction)
In our Time - Ernest Hemingway
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Samurai William - Giles Morton
When the Emperor was Devine - Julie Otsuka
Shogun James Clavell
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Sophomore year will read one required
work, and one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Lord of the Flies - William Golding (REQUIRED)
A plane carrying a group of British prep school boys crash lands on
a deserted island. The boys must find ways to survive before the
remote possibility of rescue. The central theme explores man's
capacity for constructive and civilized behavior, pitted against his
primitive, self-destructive tendencies.
Choice of one:
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (a memoir)
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman (non-fiction)
Monkeys - Susan Minot
The Secrets of Mariko - Elizabeth Bumiller (non-fiction)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Junior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (REQUIRED)
The novel explores a utopian society engineered for the maximum
pleasure and happiness of all its citizens.
Choice of one:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Color of Water - James McBride
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
On of the Revolution - Liang Heng
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Senior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
*Seven Years in Tibet - Heinrich Harrer (REQUIRED)
It is Tibet during and after World War II, until the Chinese invasion in
1950, and Austrian Heinrich Harrer, a prisoner of war, escapes from
a British internment camp, finding refuge in the Forbidden City of
Lhasa, where he befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Choice of one:
Bound Feet and Western Dress - Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Falling Leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion - Yukio Mishima
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)