--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
more -- Patricia Dunn former HP chair went to TL http://blogs.marinij.com/allaboutmarin/2006/10/terra_linda_high_to_hp_to_the.html And thinking about the religious issue -- The orchestras and choirs at these schools perform religions songs -- that is classics chorale arrangements having to do with God. And the Drama Depts perform JC-superstar, etc. And if high school kids have such tender minds, why do they let them, even force them to read Checkov, Wright, Wolfe, Keroac, Kesey, Hemingway, Steinbeck, twain, Marquez, Camus, etc where adult issues are handled. There is sex, homsexuality, drugs, adultry, discussion of racism and economic exploitation, masterbation, drinking, teen sex... We surely can't have the tender minds of teens exposed to such adult themes!! And certainly can't expose them to ancient tradions of various cultures! My GOD! Do you want these kids to start thinking for themselves!!!! Here are some HS summer reading lists -- with requirements to read a certain quota: CARAMELO Sandra Cisneros THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT Walter Mosley SNOW IN AUGUST Peter Hamill Mystery THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME Mark Haddon DANCE HALL OF THE DEAD Tony Hillerman THE CAT WHO KNEW SHAKESPEARE Lilian Jackson Braun BAD BUSINESS Robert Parker Q IS FOR QUARRY Sue Grafton THE DAVINCI CODE Dan Brown THE INTELLIGENCER Leslie Silbert THE DANTE CLUB Matthew Pearl Social/ Political EMPIRE FALLS Richard Russo ALL SOULS Michael MacDonald CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN John Perkins ETERNAL HOSTILITY Frederick Clarkson INSIDE THE WIRE Erick Saar Miscellaneous A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (nonfiction: science) Stephen Hawkins THE IMMENSE JOURNEY (nonfiction: science) Loren Eiseley PARENTAL SIGNATURE FORM I verify that my son/daughter ___________________________________ has read the following books during the summer. 1.____________________________________________________________ 2.____________________________________________________________ 3.____________________________________________________________ 4.____________________________________________________________ 5.____________________________________________________________ 6.____________________________________________________________ 7.____________________________________________________________ 8.____________________________________________________________ 9.____________________________________________________________ 10.___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________ Signature of Parent or Guardian BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY SUMMER READING LIST 2006 CLASS I (GRADE 12) A frequently repeated question on college applications and in interviews is, "What books have you read recently, and how have they influenced your life?" All of the books on this list will help you give a most impressive answer. You are required to read five books, the one that is required and four others of your own choice. Use this list to guide your choices, but feel free to use other lists, such as those provided by your local library or the Boston Public Schools, as well. Format your summer reading notes according to the boxed outline on the right. Required Reading: 1984 George Orwell War KILLER ANGELS Michael Shaara GOING AFTER CACCIATO Tim O'Brien THE THINGS THEY CARRIED Tim O'Brien PERFECT SOLDIERS (911 hijackers) Terry McDermott THE GREATEST GENERATION (WW2) Tom Brokaw SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL Romeo Dallaire TERRORIST John Updike Sports THE NATURAL (baseball) Bernard Malamud ELEVEN SECONDS (hockey) Travis Roy FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS (football) H.G. Bissinger THE TEAMMATES (baseball) David Halbertstam MONEYBALL (baseball) Michael Lewis Memoirs/ Autobiographical PAULA Isabel Allende DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD Zora Neale Hurston OCTOBER SKY Homer Hickman GIFTED HANDS (YA) Dr. Ben Carson UNDER AND ALONE William Queen Young Adult IN COUNTRY Bobbie Ann Mason CEREMONY Leslie Silko REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher THE LOVELY BONES Alice Sebold Multicultural/ Ethnic KITE RUNNER (Afghanistan) Khaled Hosseini WOMEN OF THE SILK (China) Gail Tsukiyama THE SAMURAI'S GARDEN (China, Japan) Gail Tsukiyama ALBURQUERQUE Rudolfo Anaya BY THE LIGHT OF MY FATHER'S SMILE Alice Walker THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES Sue Monk Kidd MONKEY BRIDGE Lan Cao Historical Themes BURR (America) Gore Vidal TRINITY (Ireland) Leon Uris CENTENNIAL (Colorado) James Michener ELEANOR AND THE FOUR KINGS (Middle Ages) Amy Kelly THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Depression) John Steinbeck ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (Russia) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Sports THE NATURAL (baseball) Bernard Malamud SEEING RED (basketball, Red Auerbach) Dan Shaughnessy HORSE HEAVEN (horse racing) Jane Smiley Miscellaneous WE WERE THE MULVANEYS (social issues) Joyce Carol Oates EVERYTHING TO GAIN (social issues, grief) Barbara Taylor Bradford A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ (Scifi) Walter Miller Jr. TOXIN (scifi) Robin Cook ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (cont. lit) Ann Tyler MARTIN EDEN (adventure) Jack London WITHOUT REMORSE (adventure) Tom Clancy THE SUMMERHOUSE (fantasy) Jude Deveraux GORILLAS IN THE MIST (nonfiction: science journal) Dian Fossey ANY BOOK BY TOM CLANCY (fantasy thriller, conspiracy theories of history) PARENTAL SIGNATURE FORM I verify that my son/daughter _______________________________________ has read the following books during the summer. 1.______________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________________________ 7.______________________________________________________________ 8.______________________________________________________________ 9.______________________________________________________________ 10._____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Signature of Parent or Guardian BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY SUMMER READING LIST 2006 CLASS 11 (GRADE 11) If you are seriously interested in S.A.T. scores above 500, the best thing you can do for yourself and your future is to read as much as possible this summer. Nothing else will prepare you as effectively or as pleasantly as reading. The books on this list include mysteries, science fiction, romance, adventure, intrigue, and sports. Use this list to guide your choices, but feel free to use other lists, as well, such as those provided by your local library. By the time you report to school in September, you must have read at least five books, the required book and at least four others of your own choice. Format your summer reading notes according to the boxed outline on the right. Required Reading: Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis Multicultural/Ethnic SULA (AfroAm) Toni Morrison KAFFIR BOY (ApartheidSouth Africa) Mark Mathabane HAVING OUR SAY (AfroAm) Sara L. & A. Elizabeth Delany QUENTINS (Ireland) Maeve Binchy HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS Julia Alvarez THE COLOR PURPLE (AfroAm) Alice Walker PARADISE OF THE BLIND (Vietnamese) Duong Thu Huong A LESSON BEFORE DYING (AfroAm) Ernest Gaines SHAMAN WINTER (book one of trilogy; MexicanAm) Rudolfo Anaya RIO GRANDE FALL (book two of trilogy) Rudolfo Anaya ZIA SUMMER (book three of trilogy) Rudolfo Anaya BREATH, EYES, MEMORY (Haitian) Edwidge Danticat THE NAMESAKE (IndianAm) Jhumpa Lahiri THE LANGUAGE OF THREADS (China) Gail Tsukiyama DREAMING OF WATER (JapaneseAm) Gail Tsukiyama SISTER OF MY HEART (IndianAm) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Mystery STARGAZY Martha Grimes ICARUS AGENDA Robert Ludlum DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS P.D. James A PAINTED HOUSE John Grisham SHRINK WRAP Robert Parker S IS FOR SILENCE Sue Grafton ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE Mary Higgins Clark THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES Arthur Conan Doyle Art of the Film (#040): Watch: On the Waterfront (movie) Read: A Street Car Named Desire Directed by E. Kazan Tennessee Williams Beginning Semiotics (#041): Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Contemporary Literature (#043): The Natural Bernard Malamud Modern Literature (#044): The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Theology in Literature (#045): The Flight of Peter Fromm Martin Gardner **Packet of Reading** British Literature (#046): The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Writing, Memoir, Fiction & Poetry (#051): Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Wall Senior Literature & Composition (#042): Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. Abe, Kobo, The Box Man Ali, Monica, Brick Lane Allende, Isabel, The House of the Spirits Ambrose, Stephen, Undaunted Courage Angelou, Maya, Heart of a Woman Austen, Jane, Sense and Sensibility or Persuasion Auster, Paul, The Book of Illusions Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It On the Mountain, or Giovanni's Room Barker, Pat, T he Regeneration Trilogy Barnes, Julian, Arthur and George Booth, Martin, Industry of Souls Bowen, Elizabeth, The Death of the Heart Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange Camus, Albert, The Stranger, or The Fall Carroll, James, An American Requiem Cather, Willa, Death Comes for the Archbishop Chabon, Michael,The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Danticat, Edwidge, Krik? Krak! Davies, Robertson, The Deptford Trilogy Dickens, Charles, Great Expectations or Bleak House Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose Erdrich, Louise, Tracks Fadiman, Anne, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (nonfiction) Farrell, J.G., The Siege of Krishnapur Faulkner, William, As I Lay Dying, or Intruder in the Dust Flaubert, Gustav, Madame Bovary Foer, Jonathan Safran, Everything is Illuminated Forster, E. M., Passage to India Fowles, John, The Magus, or The French Lieutenantπs Woman Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections Frazier, Charles, Cold Mountain Gordimer, Nadine, Burgherπs Daughter Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the Native Hawking, Stephen W., A Brief History of Time Hegi, Ursula, Stones from the River Heller, Joseph, Catch-22 Hesse, Herman, Demian Hulme, Keri, The Bone People Ishiguro, Kazuo, Never Let Me Go Irving, John, Widow for One Year Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Kafka, Franz, The Trial Kerouac, Jack, On the Road Kidder, Tracy, Mountains Beyond Mountains Kingston, Maxine Hong, The Woman Warrior Kogawa, Joy, Obasan Krakauer, Jon, Into Thin Air (nonfiction) Kundera, Milan, The Unbearable Lightness of Being Laurence, Margaret, The Stone Angel Lawrence, D.H. , Sons and Lovers Laxness, Haldor, Independent People Lee, Chang-Rae, Native Speaker Lethem, Jonathan, Motherless Brooklyn Malamud, Bernard, The Fixer Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Love in the Time of Cholera Martel, Yann, Life of Pi McCarthy, Cormac, All the Pretty Horses or The Crossing McCullough, David, John Adams Morrison, Toni, Song of Solomon Mulisch, Harry, The Assault Murikami, Haruki, Kafka on the Shore Nemirovsky, Irene, Suite Francaise O'Brien, Tim, Going After Cacciato Ondaatje, Michael, Anilπs Ghost Olson, Tillie, Tell Me a Riddle and other stories Ozick, Cynthia, Heir to the Glimmering World Pamuk, Orhan, Snow or My Name is Red Proulx, E. Annie, Shipping News Pynchon, Thomas, The Crying of Lot 49 or Gravity's Rainbow or Mason Dixon Robinson, Marilynne, Gilead Roth, Henry, Call It Sleep Roth, Philip, American Pastoral or Human Stain Rushdie, Salman, Midnigh''s Children Russo, Richard, The Risk Pool Saramago, Jose, Blindness Sacks, Oliver, An Anthropologist on Mars Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Spark, Muriel, The Finishing SchoolSteinbeck, John, East of Eden Swift, Graham, Waterland Tan, Amy, The Hundred Secret Senses Toibin, Colm, The Master Troung, Monique, The Book of Salt Unsworth, Barry, Sacred Hunger Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence Wharton, William, Birdy Whitehead, Colson, The Intuitionist Wideman, John Edgar, Philadelphia Fire Winterson, Jeannette, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wright, Richard, Native Son > > I'd love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting... > > > > maybe a blogger will report. 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