Murdock students entering the following classes for the 2009-2010 school year will be expected to read the corresponding selections over the summer.  Students will be assessed on this reading within the first few weeks of the new school year.  Most of these titles can easily be found at local bookstores or through online retailers.

 

MURDOCK HIGH SCHOOL MANDATORY SUMMER READING

 

 

 

Grade 9 Honors         And Then There Were None          Agatha Christie

 

 

 

Grade 10 Honors               Black Like Me                          J.H. Griffin

 

                                Call of the Wild                   Jack London

 

 

 

American Lit. Honors  Huckleberry Finn                  Mark Twain

 

                                The Natural                                Bernard Malamud

 

                                The Maltese Falcon                      Dashiell Hammett

 

 

 

British/World Lit. Honors    Othello                                 William  Shakespeare

 

                                The Return of the Native              Thomas Hardy

 

                                Beyond the Chocolate War            Robert Cormier

 

 

 

Grade 12 Adv. Placement   Oedipus the King                Sophocles

 

                                Utopia                                       Sir Thomas More

 

`                              Othello                              William Shakespeare

 

                                A Passage to India                      E.M. Forster

 

                                The Lord of the Flies                    William Golding