Outside Reading Book (ORB) Information and List
Outside Reading Requirement: 500 pages per Term Biotech Honors English 9--Kahrs Emigh
In addition to daily assignments each student will spend at least 80 minutes per week reading during the evenings and weekends. This time, combined with SSR time in class, will result in a student’s increased vocabulary, fluency, and knowledge of grammar.
Outside Reading Requirements per TERM
Term One/Three students must read:
1. One book related to Anthem;
2. One book related to The Odyssey;
3. One Quality YA novel
Term Two/Four students must read:
1. One book related to Romeo and Juliet;
2. Two Quality YA novels
Assessment: Students will complete two quizzes throughout the term. Additionally, students will, from time to time, write responses to their outside reading books.
Term One/Three ORB Choices Term Two/Four ORB Choices
Anthem Odyssey Quality YA Books Romeo and Juliet
1984 A Thousand Splended Suns A Long Way Home Midwife's Apprentice
After Autobiography of a Face Angela's Ashes Blue Avenger Cracks…
Being Daughter of Fortune Cut Butterfly Lovers
Brave New World Dracula Book Thief, The Children of the River
Candor EllenFoster Homeboyz Crispin
Catching Fire Frankenstein Destroy All Cars Flipped
Double Helix Kindred Looking for Alaska Hawksong
Ender's Gam Goddess of Yesterday Memory Keeper's… Katherine Called Birdy
Gulliver's Travels Elsewhere Midwives King of Shadows
Ender's Puppet Inside the Walls of Troy Nineteen Minutes Kissing Kate
Ender'shadow Ithaka Impossible Letters to Juliet
Fahrenheit 451 March Perks of Being a Wallflower Loving Will Shakespeare
Feed Middlesex Secret Life of Bees Other Bolyen Girl, the
Genesis Alpha Nightsong Sister of My Heart Romeo and Juliet Together...
House of the Scorpion Nobody's Princess Sold Romeo's Ex: Rosalines' Story
Little Brother Nobody's Prize My Sister's Keeper Romiette and Julio
The Declaration Oh My Gods Night Saving Juliet
The Fountainhead The Curious Incident… Thaw Scribbler of Dreams
The Hunger Games The Lovely bones The Glass Castle Shakespeare's Scribe
The Resistance Sirena The Kite Runner Shakespeare's Secret
The Road the Color Purple The Christopher Killer Shakespeare's Spy
Unwind The Tenth Circle Papertowns Son of the Mob
Troy The Curious Incident… Swan Town: The Secret...
Waiting for Odysseus: :Prayers for Bobby The Playmaker
The God BoxT The Poinsonwood Bible The Tempest
They Cage the Animals… The Red Tent
Water For Elephants Impossible
The Life of Pi Things Not Seen
Papertowns Winter Girls
Wild Roses
Looking for Alaska
Things Not Seen
*Note to parents – these books have been chosen for literary merit. If you have concerns about the content of any of the books, it is your responsibility to monitor your child’s choices. If you have questions regarding any of the books, please email me at [email protected].
*Titles with an asterisk are not technically considered classic texts, but they do relate directly to the Core Literature read Term 1/3.
+Titles with a + are not technically considered classic texts, but the do relate directly to the Core Literature read Term 2/4.
