Summer Reading 2015
Grade 9--English I
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Grade 10--English II
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Grade 11—Chemistry Honors
Napoleon’s Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History by Penny Le
Couteur and Jay Burreson
And Introduction and chapters 1-3 Peppers, Nutmeg, and Cloves, Ascorbic Acid, and
Glucose and write a typed three page report on these sections as to what important
information did you learn in each section. This paper will be due on the first day of class
in September. During the course of the school year, on a regular basis, chapters 4
through 17 will be assigned for reading along with a typed paper on that chapter’s
important information.
Grade 11--English III
Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Grade 11—Physics Honors
Prism and the Pendulum: the Ten Most Beautiful Experiments in Science
by Robert Crease
Write a three page paper summarizing the book, this paper will be due on the first day of
class.
Grade 12--English IV
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
AP Chemistry (Grade 12)
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
by Robert Crease
Write a three page paper summarizing the book, this paper will be due on the first day of class.
And in the textbook, Chemistry: the Central Science, version 11E, do the following:
Chapter 1— Introduction and Measurement, page 32, problems 27, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39, 40, 45,
49, and 71.
Chapter 2—Atoms, Molecules, Ions, Basic Atomic Structure. Tables 2.4 and 2.5, Know Ions and
Their Charges, page 70, problems 11, 12, 16, 25, 32, 35, 43, 45, 54-58, 61-68, 71, 72, and 84.
Chapter 3—Stoichiometry, Moles, Equations and Yield Problems, page 109, problems 11, 12,
14, 20, 22, 24, 34, 36, 38, 39, 45, 47, 50, 51, 58, 64, 71, 73, 77, 79, 88, and 90.
Chapters 4.1 and 4.2 Properties of Aqueous Solutions and Precipitation Reactions, learn general
rules for the solubility of salts, page 156, problems 16-18, 20-28 even.
All work must be clearly shown by the student as to how these problems were solved. These
problems are due the first class meeting of AP Chemistry. Selected problems, from each
chapter, will be scored for the first exam grade in the course. Therefore, please do them all at
various times over the summer. I would not wait until the last weekend before school begins to
start this assignment as you will probably not have enough time to successfully complete it.
AP English Language and Composition (Grade 11)
Reading Lolita in Tehran: by Azar Nafisi
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
AP English Literature and Composition (Grade 12)
How to read literature like a professor: a lively and entertaining guide to
reading between the lines by Thomas C. Foster
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Finish reading The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
AP Physics (Grade 12)
Physics Algebra/Trig by Eugene Hecht (required textbook) ISBN:
9780534377298
Students must read chapters 1-3 as a review of those topics that they had seen and dealt with
in honors physics. It is important that students do this review as A.P. Physics B covers a
number of new topics not seen in honors physics and time is needed to deal with them in a
manner in which the student is successful. Students should also come to class the first day of
school with the following problem sets finished in detail, for the work they did, and not with
just an answer without any work. – Mr. Z.
Chapter 1 p.18 problems (30, 31, 46, 47, 63)
Chapter 2 p.47 problems (3, 5, 12, 23, 32, 40, 45, 48, 51,71,73,75, 77, 81, 94, 98, 99)
Chapter 3 p.79 problems (3, 5, 16, 19, 24, 38, 39, 40, 46, 58, 59, 63, 66, 73, 79, 81, 84, 89, 93,
103, 106, 115, 124)
AP Biology (Grade 12)
Campbell Biology In Focus AP® Edition 1e 2014 with Mastering Biology
and Pearson eText --ISBN 13: 9780133102178, ISBN 10: 0133102173
Required readings on Evolution and Ecology: Chapters 1, 39 (pages 803814), 40, 41, 42, and 43
AP United States History (Grade 11)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook
Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
& a Presidential biography of your choice