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Paideia High School Summer Reading 2023: John Capute

Required Summer Reading

John's English Classes

Your summer reading assignment is to read ONE required book and TWO other books of your choice for a total of THREE books this summer.  

10th Grade English

Read ONE of the following (author must be non-American), plus plus any TWO additional books of your choice.   

Assigned choices:  read a novel, a play, a short story collection, a non-fiction book,  OR a collection of non-fiction essays. 


11th & 12th Grade Themes:  "The American Dream"

Read Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, plus any TWO additional books of your choice for a total of THREE books over the summer. 


11th & 12th Grade Seminar: "War and Peace"

Read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 

OR

Redeployment by Phil Klay,

plus any TWO additional books of your choice for a total of THREE books over the summer.