Grade 12 Regents
Summer Reading
Summer of 2020
The objective of summer reading for the students is to assist them in cultivating skills that have been built upon throughout their academic year. It is the hope that reading will strengthen and reinforce those skills that are vital to all aspects of academics and beyond.
The English department recognizes that this year is one of unprecedented changes, especially in terms of education. In lieu of the traditional summer reading assignment, we strongly encourage and suggest that students entering grade 12 in the 2020-2021 academic year read something that is appealing to them and that they will enjoy. We hope that this will foster the love of reading while still allowing students to strengthen their reading and comprehension skills.
Listed below are resources for students. There is a list of suggested readings and also links to online access for students.
A video explaining how to access online reading and audiobooks from CVMS Media Specialist, Robin Renahan.
Make sure to check out your school’s library:
- CVMS: https://sites.google.com/pinebushschools.org/cvms-library/home
- Crispell: https://sites.google.com/pinebushschools.org/libraryatcrispell/home
Don’t forget your local libraries!
- Middletown Thrall Library– 12 Depot Street, Middletown, NY https://www.thrall.org/WelcomeHome.html
- Pine Bush Area Public Library– 223-227 Maple Ave, Pine Bush, NY https://pinebusharealibrary.org/
- Mamakating Library– 128 Sullivan Street, Wurstboro, NY
Mamakatinglibrary.org
Grade 12 Regents Reading Suggestions:
Non-Fiction:
- Abramson, Jeffrey B.; We, The Jury
- Alderman, Allen; Caroline Kennedy; The Right to Privacy
- Bordewich, Fergus; Killing the White Man’s Indian
- Carson, Rachel; Silent Spring
- Fallows, James; Breaking the News
- Golden, Marita; Saving Our Sons
- Hasker, Andrew; Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
- Hayden, Torey L.; Ghost Girl
- Hesse-Biber; Sharlene Janice; Am I Thin Enough Yet?
- Hunter, Evan; The Blackboard Jungle
- Korem, Danny; Suburban Gangs
- Kozol, Jonathan; Amazing Grace
- Kozol, Jonathan; Savage Inequalities
- Larson, Erik; Lethal Passage
- Minow, Newton Norman; Abandoned in the Wasteland
- Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff; When Elephants Weep
- Preston, R.; Hot Zone
- Setterberg, Fred; Toxic Nation
- Sykes, Charles J.; Dumbing Down our Kids
FICTION
- Adams, Douglas; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Bradbury, Ray; The Illustrated Man
- Bradbury, Ray; The Martian Chronicles
- Clarke, Arthur C.; Singing the Dogstar Blues
- Doyle, Roddy; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
- Hamilton, J.; Book of Ruth
- Heig, U.; Stones from the River
- Herbert, Frank; Dune
- Hoffman, Alice; Second Nature
- Kerr, M.E.; Deliver Us from Evie
- Lipsyte, Robert; The Brave
- Niven, Larry; Ringworld
- Oates, Joyce Carol; The Assignation
- Pennebaker, Ruth; Don’t Think Twice
- Rand, Ayn; The Fountainhead
- Reynolds, S; Rapture of Canaan
- Sharp, Paula; Crows Over a Wheatfield
- Tolkien, J.R.R.; The Fellowship of the Ring
- Wells, H.G.; The Time Machine
- Wells, H.G.; The War of the Worlds