Text Books
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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
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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.