SPARTAN ACADEMY

The new 9th grade reading list is hot off the press.   Before you go to the beach, visit your neighborhood bookstore or maybe your parents’ bookshelf to get a couple of exciting works of literature for the summer.

Traditional English 9

Choose either:Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt) or Waiting for Rain (Sheila Gordon)  and one of these - 

Good Poems (Garrison Keillor); Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea (Thomas Cahill) or The Winslow Boy (Terrance Rattigan) – either read the play or watch the video

Honors English 9

Read both Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) – Bantam Classis and choose one of the following

Good Poems (Garrison Keillor); Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea (Thomas Cahill) or The Winslow Boy (Terrance Rattigan) – either read the play or watch the video

CLUE English 9

Read both Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) – Lowell Blair translation                                             and choose one of the following

Good Poems (Garrison Keillor); Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea (Thomas Cahill) or The Winslow Boy (Terrance Rattigan) – either read the play or watch the video