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Summer 2006 Reading List
Required Reading For 2006-2007 school
All CGS students will read one required title and one personal
choice from the lists below, according to your entering grade level.
A two to three page word-processed, MLA formatted essay is
required for the book of your choice. The essay is a “reaction paper”
in which you comment on the piece that you read. Your comments
should center on main 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 references, either directly or
indirectly, to the text in your essay. The paper is assessed at 10% of
your first quarter grade. The required reading is the focus of your
class at the start of the school year. You are required to keep a
journal of notes on the reading to reference during 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. The journal will be assessed at 5% of the grade
received on the unit examination.
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:
Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah (non-fiction)
Chinese Handcuffs - Chris Crutcher
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Samurai William - Giles Milton
When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
Shogun - James Clavelll
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Students entering their Sophomore year will read one required
work, and one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* A Separate Peace - John Knowles (REQUIRED)
The narrator visits Devon Prep School some 15 years after
graduation to recall his teenage years of inner conflict and growing
self awareness..
Choice of one:
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt (a memoir)
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman (non-fiction)
Monkeys - Susan Minot
The Secrets of Mariko - Elizabeth Bumiller (non-fiction)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis
Stevenson
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Students entering their Junior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (REQUIRED)
Set in Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir, the narrator, recalls his
adolescence in Kabul, his friendship with Ali, his desire to be
accepted by his father, his betrayal of his boyhood friend that haunts
him throughout his life, and his ultimate redemption.
Choice of one:
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Son of the Revolution - Liang Heng
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
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Students entering their Senior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* American Childhood - Annie Dillard
* This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolfe
* When I was Puerto Rican - Esmeraldo Santiago
* (REQUIRED) Students will make a choice to read one of the three
required texts. At the start of the school year, students will be
grouped in literary circles according to the book they chose to read.
Choice of one:
Bound Feet and Western Dress - Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
(memoir)
Beloved - Toni Morrison
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Required Reading For 2006-2007 school
All CGS students will read one required title and one personal
choice from the lists below, according to your entering grade level.
A two to three page word-processed, MLA formatted essay is
required for the book of your choice. The essay is a “reaction paper”
in which you comment on the piece that you read. Your comments
should center on main 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 references, either directly or
indirectly, to the text in your essay. The paper is assessed at 10% of
your first quarter grade. The required reading is the focus of your
class at the start of the school year. You are required to keep a
journal of notes on the reading to reference during 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. The journal will be assessed at 5% of the grade
received on the unit examination.
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:
Childhood’s End - Arthur C. Clarke
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah (non-fiction)
Chinese Handcuffs - Chris Crutcher
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Samurai William - Giles Milton
When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka
Shogun - James Clavelll
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Sophomore year will read one required
work, and one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* A Separate Peace - John Knowles (REQUIRED)
The narrator visits Devon Prep School some 15 years after
graduation to recall his teenage years of inner conflict and growing
self awareness..
Choice of one:
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt (a memoir)
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Iron and Silk - Mark Salzman (non-fiction)
Monkeys - Susan Minot
The Secrets of Mariko - Elizabeth Bumiller (non-fiction)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis
Stevenson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Junior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (REQUIRED)
Set in Kabul, Afghanistan, Amir, the narrator, recalls his
adolescence in Kabul, his friendship with Ali, his desire to be
accepted by his father, his betrayal of his boyhood friend that haunts
him throughout his life, and his ultimate redemption.
Choice of one:
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (non-fiction)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Son of the Revolution - Liang Heng
Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Students entering their Senior year will read one required work, and
one of their choices from the following:
Title - Author
* American Childhood - Annie Dillard
* This Boy’s Life - Tobias Wolfe
* When I was Puerto Rican - Esmeraldo Santiago
* (REQUIRED) Students will make a choice to read one of the three
required texts. At the start of the school year, students will be
grouped in literary circles according to the book they chose to read.
Choice of one:
Bound Feet and Western Dress - Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
(memoir)
Beloved - Toni Morrison
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (non-fiction)
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson