Summer Reading 2013
The New Trier English Department endorses summer reading as an enriching experience that builds skills in the language arts and fosters sensitivity to and understanding of issues important to us all.
Each course in English has a required summer text to read in preparation for discussion, activities, assignments, and assessments in your class during the first days of school. The reading guide for each book outlines the expected reading activities for each text. We suggest that you read the book within two weeks of the beginning of school, or review the text before school begins in August.
Your text may be purchased at area bookstores or online.
Commonly Asked Questions
Q: My course verfication shows English 1T (the combined English History class) at level 3, but I don't see a level 3 text, only level 9 and level 4. What should I read?
A: The level 9 course is taken for 3 level credit, which is why it appears printed that way on your course verification. You will read the level 9 text.
Q: Can I use a different edition if I find one cheaper or used?
A: Yes.
Summer Reading 2013
Course | Title | Author |
| English 1, Level 2E & 2 | ONE from the 2014 Abe Lincoln Master Book List | various |
| http://www.islma.org/lincoln.htm |
| English 1, Level 3 | Lucy | Gonzales |
| English 1, Level 4 | The Once and Future King | White |
| (“The Sword in the Stone” section ONLY) |
| English 1-T, Level 9 | Bound Feet and Western Dress: A Memoir | Chang |
| English 1-T, Level 4 | Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China | Chang |
| English 2, Level 2E | An Abundance of Katherines | Green |
| English 2, Level 2 | Big Mouth and Ugly Girl | Oates |
| English 2, Level 3 | When the Emperor Was Divine | Otsuka |
| English 2, Level 4 | The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger |
| English 3, Level 2E | Montana 1948 | Watson |
| English 3, Level 2 | Montana 1948 | Watson |
| English 3, Level 3 | The Color of Water | McBride |
| English 3, Level 4 AP | Mississippi: An American Journey | Walton |
| English 3-T, Level 9 AS | Snow Falling on Cedars | Guterson |
| English 3-T, Level 4 AS | The Soiling of Old Glory | Masur |
| Journalism, Level 3 | Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago | Kotlowitz |
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| Creative Writing, | Stitches | Small |
| English 4, Level 3 |
| English 4, Level 4 AP | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ANDThe Picture of Dorian GrayANDThe Power and the Glory | Stevenson |
| Wilde |
| Greene |
| Good & Evil in Literature, | The Mysterious Stranger | Twain |
| English 4, Level 9 |
| Great Books, | How to Read a Book | Adler |
| English 4, Level 3 |
| Great Books, | The Sun Also Rises | Hemingway |
| English 4, Level 4 AP |
| Humanities, | Picasso at the Lapin Agile | Martin |
| English 4, Level 9 |
| Literature & Film, | Oedipus The King in The Oedipus Cycle | Sophocles |
| English 4, Levels 2 & 3 | ANDthe film, Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002) | Trans.-Fagles |
| Literature & Psychology, | A Separate Peace | Knowles |
| English 4, Level 2 |
| Literature & Psychology, | Love’s Executioner | Yalom |
| English 4, Level 3 |
| Myth & Mind, | The Alchemist | Coelho |
| English 4, Level 3 |
| Senior Writers Seminar, | This Boy’s Life | Wolff |
| English 4, Levels 4 & 9 |
| ESL ENGLISH | Selections from Oxford Bookworms Reading Series (See ESL Office for details) | |
| Levels 1, 2, 3 & 4 |