NOTICE: Students must bring their notebook, book, and scholarly articles on the 1st day of school.
They will NOT be accepted late.
Purpose of Summer Reading: To create life-long learners who value literacy and critical thinking. With that purpose in
mind, AP Language students must respond to one or both guided inquiry questions:
How will today affect tomorrow? Or How did yesterday affect today?
OVERVIEW: Students will select a nonfiction book from the list provided (or find one that is comparable in complexity),
OR an autobiography or biography of an American historical figure or American political leader. Students may not use
This Fleeting World since it is required for Honors and AP World History. Next, students will procure five scholarly
articles from the databases listed below. Each article must address or answer at least one of the two inquiry questions.
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Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en)
Gale (username male, password bulldogs)*
SIRS (username male, password bulldogs)*
Kentucky Virtual Library (as of June 1st username jefferson1 , password drawly19)
*Can be accessed through Male’s library data base accessed through the library website
http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Schools/High/Male/library/pages/MaleHomePage.htm
Along with reading the book and the five scholarly resources, students must complete the following project:
REQUIREMENTS: This assignment must be submitted in handwritten form only. It must be compiled in a spiral
notebook. Students will turn in the notebook and present their book to their English teacher on the first day of school.
Plagiarism will result in a zero on the affected portion of the project and could result in a zero for the entire project along
with disciplinary action as determined by the AP teacher.
Summer Reading Project
*Your project should be divided by chapters. For each chapter you must have the following in the assigned
order:
1. Write a summary of each chapter highlighting the key points and events. While the minimum is five
sentences for each chapter summary, the writing should also be concise with word choice (diction)
and sentence structure (syntax) demonstrating the caliber of an AP student.
2. Identify two significant quotes per chapter. Write the page number of the quote, write the actual
quote verbatim, and write an explanation of why the quote is important. Things to consider when
choosing your quote:
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The idea presented provokes the reader to deeper thought.
It reflects upon a theme central to the work.
It addresses the guided inquiry question.
3. Connection to the guiding questions. Write a paragraph for each chapter reflecting on how your
chosen book addresses either one or both of the guided inquiry questions.
4. For your articles: Write a paragraph summary of each of your articles. In addition, write a second
paragraph for each reflecting on how it connects to your guiding question (since you picked it, it has
to connect!) – five sentences minimum per chapter. ALSO, CREATE A TYPED WORKS CITED
PAGE –INCLUDE YOUR BOOK AND ALL ARTICLES— FOLLOWING MLA FORMAT. More
info on the next page..
This handout provides an example of a Works Cited page in MLA 2009 format.
See https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/12/
General guidelines for works cited in MLA style
In an MLA works cited entry, the first author’s name is inverted
(the last name comes first, followed by a comma and the first
name), and all other names are in normal order. In titles of
works, all words are capitalized except articles (a, an, the),
prepositions (to, from, between, and so on), coordinating
conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, so, yet), and the to in
infinitives — unless they are the first or last word of the title or
subtitle. Titles of periodical articles and other short works, such
as brief documents from Web sites, are put in quotation marks;
titles of books and other long works, such as entire Web sites,
are italicized.
Works Cited
"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental
Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May 2007. Web. 24 May
2009.
Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate
Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May 2007. Web. 25 May
2009.
GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.
Gowdy, John. "Avoiding Self-organized Extinction: Toward a Co-
The city of publication is given without a state name.
Publishers’ names are shortened, usually to the first principal
word (“Wiley” for “John Wiley and Sons,” for instance), and
“University” and “Press” are abbreviated “U” and “P” in the
names of university publishers: UP of Florida. The date of
publication is the date on the title page or the most recent date
on the copyright page.
All works cited entries must include the medium in which a
work was published, produced, or delivered. The medium
usually appears at the end of the entry, capitalized but neither
italicized nor in quotation marks. Typical designations for the
medium are “Print” and “Web.”
evolutionary Economics of Sustainability." International Journal of
Sustainable Development and World Ecology 14.1 (2007): 27-36.
Print.
Leroux, Marcel. Global Warming: Myth Or Reality?: The Erring Ways of
Climatology. New York: Springer, 2005. Print.
Milken, Michael, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, and Daniel Kahneman. "On
Global Warming and Financial Imbalances." New Perspectives
Quarterly 23.4 (2006): 63. Print.
Nordhaus, William D. "After Kyoto: Alternative Mechanisms to Control
Global Warming." American Economic Review 96.2 (2006): 31-34.
bedfordstmartins.com
Print.
---. "Global Warming Economics." Science 9 Nov. 2001: 1283-84. Science
Online. Web. 24 May 2009.
Shulte, Bret. "Putting a Price on Pollution." Usnews.com. US News &
World Rept., 6 May 2007. Web. 24 May 2009.
Uzawa, Hirofumi. Economic Theory and Global Warming. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2003. Print.
SUGGESTED NONFICTION BOOKS
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm
Gladwell
First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an
Atlantic World by Francis Bremer
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden
Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by
Howard Zinn
Scratch Beginnings by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by
Nicholas Carr
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American
History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big
Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Century by Thomas L. Friedman