Pre-IB English 10 Summer Reading

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Martin Eden by Jack London. (Renaissance Classics). RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING: Students would benefit from reading one or two selections from.
Pre-IB English 10 Summer Reading REQUIRED SUMMER READING: Students should read this novel PRIOR to the start of school.

Martin Eden by Jack London

(Renaissance Classics)

RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING: Students would benefit from reading one or two selections from this list of biographies, autobiographies, and works of contemporary fiction.

Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by James Haley Jack London: A Life by Alex Kershaw Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew Broccoli A Short Autobiography by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Edited by James L. W. West) Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin’s Press, 2013) Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald by R. Clifton Spargo (Overlook, 2013)

OPTIONAL SUMMER READING: Students will study these texts during the school year. Students do not need to read these texts during the summer, but are welcome to do a preliminary reading.

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald An Enemy of the People and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Othello by William Shakespeare

(Scribner Paperback Fiction) (in Four Great Plays , Bantam Classics) (Folger Shakespeare Library Edition)

The Stranger by Albert Camus The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

(Everyman’s Library) (Ballantine Books) (HarperPerennial: Modern Classics)

NOTE: The publishers and editions listed are those used in class. Students will need to be able to cite text and page numbers for the correct editions during class. If you have any questions about the summer reading assignment, please contact the Pre-IB English 10 teachers: Mr. Koenig at [email protected] and Mr. Oakes at [email protected].