DALLAS HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER SUGGESTED READING LIST

For students entering grade 9 in 2005-06

That Was Then, This is Now by SE Hinton

Rumble Fish by SE Hinton

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

For students taking Literary Genres in 2005-06

Ellen Faster by Kaye Gibbons

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Illiad by Homer

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

For students taking World Literature in 2005-06

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Patton

In a Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson

For students taking American Literature in 2005-6

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Narrative of the L9ife of a Slave by Frederick Douglas

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

For students taking Modern American Literature in 2005-06

Babbit by Sinclair Lewis

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

For students taking English Literature in 2005-06

Grendel by John Gardner

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory

For students taking Communication and/or Critical and Research Writing in 2005-06

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White

The Art of Writing True by Elizabeth Berg

On Writing by Stephen King

The English Department strongly encourages students to read the above selections appropriate to the classes students have selected for 2005-06. Any additional readings of course are welcomed.