Below are the summer reading requirements for students enrolled in these classes for the fall of 2018. Students must read the books listed for any class in which they are enrolled for the fall. Teachers will hold students accountable for having read these books on the first day of class. Whatever class the student is enrolled in before schedule changes in the fall determines which book the student is required to read for the first day of class. We have contacted the CCHS Library/Media Center and Koelbel and Castlewood libraries to let them know there will be students asking to check out these books this summer. We have also contacted our school bookstore and the Barnes and Nobles stores in our attendance area, as well as Tattered Cover, so that these stores can stock enough books for students who want to buy them.
The Cherry Creek High School English Department’s
2018English Summer Reading Requirement List - Final Revision
-Students enrolled in these classes must read the book listed below before the first day of class in August –
CP English 9:From the following list, read the first 2 short works plus 4 more of your own choosing
(you will read a total of 6 short works). All works may be found on the CCHS Website
English Department>Summer Reading>CP English 9
1) “Thank You M’am” by Langston Hughes (Required)5)”My English” by Julia Alvarez
2) ”By Any Other Name” by Santha Rama Rau (Required)6) “Just Walk on By” by Brent Staples
3) ”The F Word” by Firoozeh Dumas 7) “The Jacket” by Gary Soto
4) “The Sacrificial Egg” by Chinua Achebe8) “Running” by Ellen Howard
English 9 Honors:A Separate Peace by Johnathan Knowles
Humanities 9:Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
CP English 10:The Color of Water by James McBride
English 10 Honors:Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Humanities 10:Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
CP English 11:Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
AP Language:Select and read only one of the following titles. You can find more information about these titles on the CCHS website>English Department>Summer Reading>AP Lang
1) The Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
2) What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
3) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 4)The Social Animal by David Brooks – Be careful; There is more than one book with this title, so be sure to read the one written by Brooks.
AP Literature: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and “The Overcoat” by Nikolai
Gogol. (Gogol’s story is available as a download off the internet.)
African American Literature:Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Award Winners:An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Creative Writing:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
CE Intro to College Composition:On Writing by Stephen King
CE Intro to College Literature: No book, meets only second semester
Journalism: The Elements of Journalism Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What
Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect by Bill Kovach and
Tom Rosenstiel – for required reading sections, see CCHS website>English>summer
reading
Multi-Cultural Literature:No book, meets only second semester
The Narrative Art in Literature and Film:Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Reading/Writing for Success:No book, meets only second semester
Science Fiction: Who Goes There by John Campbell, available at: http:/ or
http:/ - also available in bookstores
Senior SeminarLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Shakespeare:Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal
Writing Clinic:The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi
Writing on Film:A River Runs Through It by Norman Macclean
Beginning Debate: Packet of readings can be found on the CCHS Website>English Dept>summer readingBeginning Debate 2018
Advanced Debate Interp and Oratory:Best American Non-Required Reading 2017 by Sarah Vowell (Editor)
Advanced Debate Extemp: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Advanced Debate PF: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Advanced Debate LD: Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? By Michael J. Sandel
Cross-Ex Debate: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder