Lake Zurich High School

English

Summer Reading List

2006

AP Language and Composition -Juniors

James Joyce’s, Dubliners. Dover Publications version. ISBN number is 048617824. 

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Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition -Seniors

Beowulf. Seamus Heaney (translator). Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002. ISBN: 0-393-97580-0

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. 2nd ed. New York: Vintage International, 1995.

ISBN: 0-679-73276-4  

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 Honors English I

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. ISBBN 01401.7739.6

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World Cultures

Selections from Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, Warner Books Edition, copyright 1942 by Edith Hamilton, copyright renewed 1969 by Dorian and Doris Fielding Reid.

Please read the following selections:

  1. How the World and Mankind were Created, pg. 65
  2. Cupid and Psyche, pg. 96
  3. Pyramus and Thisbe, pg. 105
  4. Perseus, pg. 146
  5. Theseus, pg. 155
  6. Hercules, pg. 166
  7. Atalanta, pg. 180
  8. The Royal House of Thebes, pg. 266 – 277
  9. The Trojan War, pg. 185
  10. The Fall of Troy, pg. 201

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Ordinary People by Judith Guest  ISBN: 0140065172
Paperback, September 1982

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Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.  Del Rey reissue edition (August 12, 1987).  ISBN number is 0-345-342968-8

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Honors American Studies

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.  Penguin Classics (2003)

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Honors English IV

William Shakespeare’s King Lear.  Specifically, we ask that you purchase the Signet Classic Shakespeare Edition edited by Russell Fraser.  For easier reference, the ISBN number is 0-451-52693-7.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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