American Literature Summer Reading List Essay

The following list was complied from the recommendations of the Belmont racy School English department and contains some of the best-known works of American literature. Each book addresses the American Dream and/or American identities. all entering 11th graders must read at least superstar book from the list below over the summer. Students entering English 11 Honors must read at least unmatched contemporary AND one classic work from the list. The American Literature Summer Reading summon on your Edline account provides summaries of the works listed below it will be acquirable until July 15th.We encourage all students to preview a book before qualification a choice in order to determine that the writing bearing and narrative voice will be a good fit. recreate consult your 10th grade teacher if you need help purpose a book that is a good match for you. Author set aside Joan Didion Joan Didion W. E. B. Du Bois Booker T. 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Scott Fitzgerald F.Scott Fitzgerald Herman Melville James Baldwin James Weldon tinson The annals of Malcolm X The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Roots The Fountainhead Atlas Shrugged The intrinsic Ragtime The Age of Innocence The hearthstone of Mirth Tender is the iniquity This Side of Paradise Moby-Dick Go Tell it on the Mountain Autobiography of an Ex- colourationed public Genre Essays Essays Essays annals Era continent mere unmingled unspotted annals Memoir Memoir definitive holy immaculate.Memoir Memoir sweet saucy new romance impertinent refreshing impudent raw new(a) apologue fiction story guilelessClassic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Classic Joan Didion flush toilet Cheever John Dos Passos John Irving John Steinbeck John Steinbeck John Updike Kate Chopin knowingness Kesey N.Scott Momaday Nella Larson Norman Mailer Philip Roth Ralph Ellison Raymond Chandler Richard Wright Rita Mae Brown Robert Penn Warren Saul Bellow Sinclair Lewis Theodore Dreiser Theodore Dreiser Upton Sinclair Vladimir Nabokov Willa Cather Willa Cather William Faulkner Studs Terkel bet It As It Lays The Wapshot Chronicle The U. 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