2021-2022 Summer Reading List
The Summer Reading Program at Mary G. Montgomery High School is designed to engage students while giving them opportunities to expand their reading skills. Each grade level has a set of novel choices for regular, honors, and Advanced Placement students. Guides for what will be covered on the grade-level Summer Reading Test can be found below. Students will take a mandatory Summer Reading Test within the first two weeks of the semester he or she takes an English class.
MGM Summer Reading List 2021-2022
9th Grade Selections
Regular and Honors
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers OR The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Reading Guide
10th Grade Selections
Regular
Night by Elie Weisel OR Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Reading Guide
Honors
Matched by Ally Conde AND ONE from the REGULAR list
Reading Guide
11th Grade Selections
Regular
Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voight
OR
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher
Reading Guide
Honors and Dual Enrollment
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck AND ONE from the REGULAR list
Reading Guide
AP Language and Composition
Fiction AP List (CHOOSE ONE)
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Nonfiction AP List (CHOOSE ONE)
- A Lion Called Christian by Anthony Burke and John Rendall
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- They Cage the Animals at Night by James Michael Burch
Reading Guide
12th Grade Selections
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen OR Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Reading Guide
Regular
Dual Enrollment
Black Boy by Richard Wright
AND
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster (nonfiction)
Reading Guide
Honors and AP Literature and Composition
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas Foster (nonfiction)
AND
ONE from the REGULAR list
Directions: Choose ONE novel to read with the nonfiction selection.
FOR AP STUDENTS: Read and take notes based on the note-taking guide. You can find the guide below. The Summer Reading Test will cover most or all of the information addressed in the guide. You will use portions of How to Read Literature Like a Professor based on the teacher’s choice. Your test will be given within the first two weeks of the semester.
Reading Guide
Summer Reading Disclaimer
Please be aware that these novels and books are choices. If there is a problem with a novel or book on the list, please follow the Mobile County Public School System’s appeal process. See the English department chair for further details. Before your son or daughter chooses a novel, be sure to research them to learn more about the novel’s content.
Students will be expected to have all notes on their selected books once they begin their grade level English course. Teachers will provide specific guidelines on how those notes will factor into their Summer Reading assessment and into their grade for the course. If a student takes an English course the second semester of the school year, they still must be prepared with notes and to take an assessment within the first two weeks of the course. Lastly, all summer reading assessments will be counted as a quiz grade. If you find that your son or daughter’s assessment is counted as a test grade, be sure to contact the grade level teacher.
Standards Addressed
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
By the end of grade 9-12, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of the grades’ text complexity band independently and proficiently.