Summer Reading 2015
Rising 9th to 12th Grade
9th Grade
I.
Required for Honors, Advanced Honors English and Advanced Honors World History:
Night.
Elie Wiesel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
For extra credit, please choose either of these titles:
The Life of Pi (for English)
Yann Martel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (for History)
Baroness Emma Orczy
10th Grade
I.
Required for Honors English tenth graders:
The Hobbit
Into the Wild
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jon Krakauer
For extra credit, please choose either of these titles:
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
II.
Required for Advanced Honors English tenth graders:
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
For extra credit, please choose either of these titles:
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
III.
Required for AP US History:
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation- Joseph Ellis (Please read: Chapter 1“The Duel”, Chapter 2 – “The Dinner” – Chapter 3 –“The Silence”)
Pre-Columbus--Handout includes readings, concepts, terms
Colonial America--Handout includes readings, concepts, terms
11th Grade
I.
Required for both British Masterworks and AP English Language:
Sophie’s World
Jostein Gaarder
For extra credit in British Masterworks, please read:
Mary Barton
Elizabeth Gaskell
For extra credit in AP English, please choose either of these titles:
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
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II.
Required for Global Studies and Honors Human Geography:
Choose one of the following:
Hot, Flat & Crowded (chapters: 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14) Thomas L. Friedman
Half the Sky
Nicholas Kristof
Choose one of the following for AP Human Geography:
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Ch. 1,3,5,9-11,15,18-Epilogue) Jared Diamond
Omnivore's Dilemma
III.
Michael Pollan
AP American Government and Politics
God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy -- Mike Huckabee
IV.
Choose one for Psychology:
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Blink
V.
Choose one for Economics and AP Economics:
Freakonomics
Blink
VI.
Carol Dweck
Malcolm Gladwell
Steven D. Levitt.
Malcolm Gladwell
For AP Art History
Students are required to see two works of art of their choice (paintings, sculptures, drawings,
or prints) in person at a museum. They will fill out a questionnaire for each work of art. The
assignment is due on the first day of class in August.
Intro to Music Theory
AP Music Theory
AP Sculpture
AP Art
Major scale practice sheet – 2 pieces
None
Summer Work
Summer Work—2 pieces
12th Grade—see the above for Social Studies electives’ readings
Required for AP English IV Literature:
Required:
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (only the translation by
Pevear & Volokhonsky) –Vintage Books
For extra credit, please choose either of these titles:
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
To Live
Yu Hua
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Required Heritage Advanced Honors:
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
May choose to read for extra credit:
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
AP Spanish Literature and Culture
Seniors
El Lazarillo de Tormes - Anonimo - (Complete text)
Available on the following website:
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http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/novela/lazarillo_de_tormes.htm
San Manuel Bueno, martir - Miguel de Unamuno - (Complete text)
Available on the following website:
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http://www.ciudadseva.com/textos/novela/esp/unamuno/san_manuel_bueno_martir.htm
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