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Lemont High School has announced its summer reading selections for the 2022-23 school year. Over the summer, all students will be required to read various works depending on what English course they will be enrolled in next year.
A complete list of summer reading selections for Lemont High School students may be found below. Specific assignments for these selections are available on the school’s website on the Summer Homework page.
For questions concerning the summer reading program, contact English Chair Mark Cannon at (630) 243-3253.
2022-23 Lemont High School Summer Reading Requirements
English I
Take Me With You When You Go (David Levithan and Jennifer Niven; ISBN-10: 0525580999 or ISBN-13: 978-0525580997)
Alternate text: The Dark Matter of Mona Starr (Laura Lee Gulledge; ISBN-10: 1419734237 or ISBN-13: 978-1419734236)
English I Honors
Take Me With You When You Go (David Levithan and Jennifer Niven; ISBN-10: 0525580999 or ISBN-13: 978-0525580997)
Alternate text: Turtles All the Way Down (John Green; ISBN-10: 0525555366 or ISBN-13: 978-0525555360)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster; ISBN-10: 0062301675 or ISBN-13: 978-0062301673) – Chapters 1-5
English II
All We Have Left (Wendy Mills; ISBN-10: 9781681194325 or ISBN-13: 978-1681194325)
Alternate text: Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury; ISBN-13: 978-1982102609)
English II Honors
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini; ISBN-13: 978-1594631931)
Alternate text: Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton; ISBN-13: 978-0743262170)
English III
Various articles – assignment is available from the “Summer Homework” page
English III: AP Language & Composition
Friday Night Lights (H.G. Bissinger; ISBN-13: 978-0306824210) – Chapter 2 only
Alternate text: Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer; ISBN-13: 978-0385486804)
English IV
Born a Crime (Trevor Noah; ISBN-13: 978-0399588174)
Alternate text: We Should Hang Out Sometime (Josh Sundquist; ISBN-13: 978-0316251006)
English IV: AP Literature & Composition
Various poems – assignment is available from the “Summer Homework” page
“Sonnet 54” (Edmund Spenser)
“Though I Am Young” (Ben Jonson)
“Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat” (Thomas Gray)
“We Are Seven” (William Wordsworth)
“Tears, Idle Tears” (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
“Preludes” (T.S. Eliot)
“We Real Cool” (Gwendolyn Brooks)
“New Clothes” (Julia Alvarez)