Students entering 1st Grade:
Due to the fact that students are emerging readers and are at various reading levels, please have your child read 10 to 20 minutes daily. Please continue to practice phonograms at least three times a week.
Students entering 2nd Grade:
Due to the fact that students are emerging readers and are at various reading levels, please have your child read 10 to 20 minutes daily. Please continue to practice phonograms. The first book is required and may be read to your student.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Students entering 3rd Grade:
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Magicians Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Students entering 4th Grade:
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Students entering 5th Grade:
Greek Myths by Olivia Coolidge
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Optional:
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Mythology
Students entering 6th Grade:
The Canterbury Tales (Puffin Classic) retold by Geraldine McCaughrean
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
Optional:
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Students entering 7th Grade:
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne
Optional:
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall
Students entering 8th Grade:
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Optional:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Students entering 9th through 12th Grade: TCA High School Summer Reading Assignment
Assignment: Write an essay which explores the Good, the Beautiful, and/or the True in each of the novels. Students may focus on language, characters, theme, etc. Both required books must be discussed in the essay. 750 word minimum. Due Friday, August 14th.
9th Grade:
Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Optional:
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Robe by Lloyd Douglas
10th Grade:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Optional:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
11th Grade:
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Optional:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
12th Grade:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Optional:
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Light in August by William Faulkner