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Norris School District


Welcome to Pre-AP

Here's our approximate reading and schedule for the year:

First quarter:

bulletThe Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
bulletMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

bulletPoetry by various American and European poets

Second Quarter:

bulletThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
bulletWar and Remembrance unit (journals written  by soldiers and nurses over the course of America's wars)

Third quarter

bulletPoetry writing unit
bulletThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Group novella unit- each student will choose one of the following books: 

bulletOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
bulletCall of the Wild by Jack London
bulletAnimal farm by George Orwell
bulletThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
bulletThe Old Man and the Sea by E. Hemmingway

Fourth quarter

bulletLord of the Flies by William Golding

OR

bulletThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Pre-AP calendar including reading schedules and vocabulary

Pre-AP syllabus

Please contact me via email or phone.

My email address is Joseph.Hornung-Scherr at nsdtitans.org

My extension at school is 2251.

Here's a link for  The Purdue Owl that can help you with MLA formatting.

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