Text Books

  • Electronic Text Books:

    •  Pearson EasyBridge - Pearson Ebook
    • JROTC - Curriculum outlined by Cadet of Command/ Ft Kox, KY
    • Online Courses: Financial Mgmt, History, Computer Literacy - Everfi
    • Homework - JPS Canvas
    • District Code of Conduct SY 24-25

Summer Reading Recommendations

  • Rising 9th graders:  Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury 

    Rising 10th graders: All American Boys | Jason Reynolds  

    Rising 11th graders:  Born A Crime | Trevor Noah 

    Rising 12th graders: Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward

    ALL Advance Placement or Honors English scholars will be given literature list upon registration acceptance into course. If no additional literature list is provided. refer to District list below

    9 (AP)

    I am Malala

    Malala Yousafzai

    9 (AP)

    Long Way Down

    Jason Reynolds

    9 (AP)

    The Moon is Down

    John Steinbeck

    9 (IB)

    Speak

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    9 (IB)

    Long Way Down

    Jason Reynolds

    10 (AP)

    Gathering of Old Men

    Ernest Gaines

    10 (AP)

    The Poet X

    Elizabeth Acevedo

    10 (AP)

    Persepolis, Book 1

    Marjane Satrapi

    10 (IB)

    Kindred

    Octavia Butler

    11 (AP)

    1984

    George Orwell

    11 (AP) Nonfiction Choice

    11 (AP)

    The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair

    11 (AP)

    Fast Food Nation

    Eric Schlosser

    11 (AP)

    The New Jim Crow

    Michelle Alexander

    11 (AP)

    The Beauty Myth

    Naomi Wolf

    11 (AP)

    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote

    11 (AP) Memoir Choice

    11 (AP)

    Becoming

    Michelle Obama

    11 (AP)

    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    11 (AP)

    Born A Crime

    Trevor Noah

    11 (AP)

    Long Way Gone

    Charles Martin

    11 (AP)

    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    11 (IB)

    Required

     

    11 (IB)

    How To Read Literature Like a Professor

    Thomas C. Foster

    11 (IB)

    Siddhartha

    Herman Hesse

    12 (AP)

    The Poisonwood Bible

    Barbara Kingsolver

    12 (AP)

    World of Wonders

    Aimee Nezhukumatathil

    12 (AP) AP Classic Novel Choice

    12 (AP)

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte

    12 (AP)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    James Baldwin

    12 (AP)

    The Color Purple

    Alice Walker

    12 (AP)

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    12 (AP)

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    12 (AP)

    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison

    12 (IB) Required

    12 (IB)

    King Lear

    William Shakespeare

    12(IB)

    Woman at Point Zero

    Nawal El Saadawi

    Note: Program schools may recommend that additional books are read during the summer in preparation for coursework during the upcoming school year.  Those listed above are the minimum books required by the District for each grade level and program school.

Last Modified on August 3, 2024