Ricky老师为美国蒙特沃德高中(上海校区)9-12年级的学生特别出了一份书单，希望同学们能在空余时间多读好书，提高英文能力的同时也能扩展自己的视野、增长更多见识。

美国蒙特沃德高中上海校区

9年级书单

1.Flowers for Algernon, Keyes.

Provocative novel of a dramatic medical experiment and its implications for society. Thirty-year-old retarded Charlie Gordon is turned into a genius. 216pp.

2.Hiroshima, Hersey.

Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey's interviews with survivors of Hiroshima's bomb when the ashes were still warm. 116pp.

3.Inherit the Wind, Lawrence & Lee.

Dramatization of the famous Monkey Trial in Tennessee of 1925, when Clarence Darrow put Darwinism on trial. 116pp

4.The Killer Angels, Shaara.

The Killer Angels, Shaara.

A gripping, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg, as seen by members of the Union and Confederate armies. 360pp

5.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey.

"Powerful, poetic realism... makes the tired old subject of life in a mental hospital into an absorbing Orwellian microcosm of all humanity." 273pp

6.The Time Machine, Wells.

The Time Traveler is transported into the distant future and learns a devastating truth about humanity. 115pp.

7.Alas, Babylon, Frank.

The next Pearl Harbor attack might be atomic. Pat Frank's novel about the end of the world... and the day after. 312pp.

8.Brave New World, Huxley.

Classic fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing, critical light on the shortcomings of the present. 176pp.

10年级书单

1.Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury

Alluding to Shakespeare's lines in Macbeth, this complex book tells the bleak story of a Southern family from many viewpoints. Nobel Prize-winning American author.

2.Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls

A timeless epic of the Spanish Civil War, portraying every facet of human emotions. If you examine Picasso's Guernica, you'll find it was based on this Civil War.

3.Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey

Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey

Written by the author of Catcher in the Rye, this novel shows kids pushed too hard by ambitious parents. Two siblings deal with the death of an older brother.

4.Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle

A muck-raking novel about the problems of industry in America after the turn of the century: reformist.

5.Thomas, Lewis. The Lives of a Cell

Notes of a Biology Watcher A classic scientific work on how a cell works when you breathe, eat, move. The notes of an optimistic scientist's view of a wide variety of subjects. Great tie-in to Biochemical Systems.

6.Ridley, Matt. Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Recently- published: A nearly jargonless expedition around the three billion characters in 23 chromosomes that carry the genetic instructions for making human beings. Good connection to biophysical systems.

7.Jones, Steve. Darwin's Ghost: "The Origin of Species" Updated

Recently-published: Darwin's narrative rewritten and sometimes just repeated by a geneticist who examines the state of Darwinism in the light of scientific discovery since Darwin's time. He finds it healthy and happy. Excellent for biophysical science study and for comparison with the play Inherit the Wind.

8.Dent, David J. In Search of Black America: Discovering the African-American Dream

Newly-published: The author, a professor of journalism at New York University, goes on the road to report how a range of black people are coping with America at the millennium. This book provides a modern perspective on The American Dream, a concept of crucial importance in both American Literature and American History.

11、12年级书单

1.Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America

Feature: twenty-five-year-old French aristocrat spent nine months criss-crossing the United States. Tocqueville’s sojourns in America lead to the writing Democracy in America, which remains one of most important books on America political life.

2.Paine, Thomas: Common Sense

Lesson: Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy

This lesson looks at Thomas Paine and at some of the ideas presented in Common Sense, such as national unity, natural rights, the illegitimacy of the monarchy and of hereditary aristocracy, and the necessity for independence and the revolutionary struggle.

3.Kennedy, John F: Profiles in Courage

Lesson: "The Missiles of October": The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

This lesson examines how this Cuban Missile crisis developed, how the Kennedy administration chose to respond, and how the situation was ultimately resolved.

4.Miller, Arthur: The Crucible

Miller, Arthur The Crucible

Lesson:Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In this lesson, students consider how Arthur Miller interpreted the facts of the witch trials and successfully dramatized them.

5.Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath

Lesson: Dust Bowl Days

This lesson introduces the 1930s to today's students through primary source accounts, images of people who lived through the Depression, and artists such as Steinbeck and Lange, who embedded this era in the American consciousness.

Website: New Deal Network documents images from the "Dust Bowl" era, when drought and the Great Depression combined to drive thousands from the Great Plains in an exodus John Steinbeck portrayed in The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Look in the website's Document Library for the Report of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee and in the Photo Gallery for images ofDust Bowl life.

6.Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice

Lesson: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: The Novel as Historical Source

This lesson involves using a novel as a "primary" source; students can also gain valuable insights in the study of social history. This lesson examines two themes in this novel — the status of women and the nature of class.

7.Asimov, Issac. Fantastic Voyage

A journey through the human body: good complement to scientific study of biophysical systems

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