2019 Summer Reading Requirements

11Honors
All entering grade 11 Honors students will read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Steps:
  1. Read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (see below).
  2. Read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (see below).
  3. Take notes in your books as you read (or on sticky notes)
  4. Be prepared for an exam when you return to school.
Below are FREE resources, including print and electronic books/audiobooks, to explore the summer reading list. To access these resources, you must be signed up for a SAILS and/or a BPL e-card. Once you are signed up, you can access FREE resources immediately, and download e-content onto your computer/phone via an app. If there are any issues, please don't hesitate to email. 

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* Summaries below were not written by ORRHS staff members. They were provided by publishers and/or review sites. *

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley
"​Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming and media--has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity."
Subjects: Dystopias, Religion, Science fiction, Collectivism, Far future, Genetic engineering, Passivity (Psychology), Totalitarianism

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury
"​A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit."
Subjects: ​Books, Censorship, Dystopias, Fires, Freedom, Reading, Science fiction, Resistance movements
Header Image Source: Couleur - Pixabay - CC0 Public Domain
​Book covers provided by publisher ​