Redondo Union 9th Grade English Summer Reading Lists

All freshmen enrolled in English classes at have summer reading assignments, according to reading lists posted on the Redondo Union website.

College prep freshman are encouraged to read one or two books by the start of the school year. As an incentive, students who do their summer reading will get extra credit on a class assignment during the first week of school.

Freshmen in English honors classes must read Animal Farm and The Old Man and the Sea, as well as complete an assignment due Aug. 28 (the first day of school) for credit.

For the assignment, students must answer questions related to each novel and support their answers with several paragraphs containing specific details and quotes. The assignment should be typed, single-spaced and in 12-point font. See attached .pdf for the questions.

NINTH GRADE COLLEGE PREP ENGLISH

• The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society: A Novel by Anne Barrows
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

NINTH GRADE HONORS ENGLISH

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway