Hayfield High School Junior and Senior Summer Reading Program

Dear parents and students,

One key to a student’s success is making their reading experiences entertaining, relaxing, and enjoyable. Allowing students to choose their own reading materials based on their reading interests is one way to ensure academic success.

Reading for understanding and appreciation is a skill that translates effectively to every academic area. The purpose of the summer reading program is to provide students the opportunity to select works which are of literary merit from lists developed by their language arts teacher from various high school and college curriculum lists. It is strongly recommended that high school students take part in a summer reading program in order to maintain or improve their reading skills over the summer. This program also helps jump start the upcoming school year’s curriculum.

Students are to choose two books – one from the required reading column appropriate for the grade they are entering in the fall, and a choice novel which can be any title of their choosing. Students may NOT read a book that is part of the school’s curriculum and/or a previously used choice novel (teachers keep track of choice novels each year). The order of reading does not matter but students should plan ahead – perhaps schedule one book for July and one for August. Books can be checked out from the local or area libraries, or you may contact the teacher via email to arrange books for students ().

If students misplace their handouts, all documents will be available on the HHS teacher page, select Mrs. Stasko’s website. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact via email.

PICK ONE from your appropriate grade level

Required Reading – Grade 11 / Required Reading – Grade 12
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexi (600L)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (780L)
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (790L)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (840L)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (890L)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (870L)
Anthem by Ayn Rand (880L)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (930L)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1070L)
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Speak by Laurie HalseAnderson
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1040)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1080L)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton / Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101stAirborne, from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nestby Stephen E. Ambrose
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritanceby Barack Obama
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (610L)
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Speigelman
The Kite Runner by KhaledHosseini (840L)
Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (880L)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (880L)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (890L)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (930L)
The Great Gatsby by F Scot Fitzgerald (1070L)
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1050L)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1050L)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1170L)
Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle (1430L)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte