Freshmen 9 Honors Book Assignment

Oprah Winfrey:

 

I think the book that moved me most when I was growing up was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I had a tree in my backyard, too, so I identified with her. I just thought, "Oh, this is my life." And then I discovered Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.  

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

While not a summer requirement, Freshman Honors will study this novel later in the year.  If you want to read ahead feel free!!  Hard to read at the beach, but necessary for the honors level of critical thinking and learning! Allow plenty of time to read!

No other novel in the English language so epitomizes upward mobility, the rise from poverty to wealth, as Great Expectations. Often considered to be one of Dickens's best novels, it tells the story of young Pip who is mysteriously helped by two people: escaped convict Magwitch and the eccentric dowager Miss Havisham. Here is storytelling at its best, alive with bigger-than-life characters, plot twists that turn on a dime, and scenes that burst off the page with color.