Waterford High School English Department

Waterford High School English Department

Summer Reading Assignment

Grade Ten

The Assignment

Student reading assignments are organized by course level. It is your responsibility to complete the reading assignment for the first day of school.

Advanced and Standard English 10

Your assignment is to read one text from the list below and prepare for a quiz on the plot and characters.

Honors English 10

Your assignment is to read two texts: A Separate Peace by John Knowles and another text from the list below. You will be assessed on both of these texts when you return to school.

Ironman / Chris Crutcher / YA Fiction / Teen sent to anger management must learn to deal with his anger for his father.
Bleachers / John Grisham / AD Fiction / Former team members return to support a dying high school coach.
Dead Connection / Charlie Price / YA-AD Fiction / Boy hears the dead, and one dead girl in particular needs his help.
Kitchen God’s Wife / Amy Tan / AD Fiction / Chinese-born mother must reveal secrets of her past to her American-born daughter.
Prom / Laurie Halse Anderson / YA Fiction / Resourceful teens cope after a class sponsor steals the prom money.
Shadow Divers / Robert Kurson / AD Nonfiction / Account of the search for a World War II German U-Boat sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey in 1991.

Reading List