Summer Assignments: 2014
Summer Assignments are both a requirement and an enrichment opportunity for IB
students. The reading and learning enable students to start the 2014-15 school year at
a proper pace and focus, as well as provides students to earn early course credit
toward 1st quarter grades.
Grade 9
English:
“Bride Price” by Buchi Emecheta
an unabridged version of Buchi Emecheta's Bride Price, which runs
approximately 168-177 pages, (not the blue elementary school version).
Here are three of several unabridged Bride Price versions:
ISBN-13: 9780807609514
ISBN-10: 0807616281
ISBN-13: 978-0807616284
“The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck
World History:
"A World Lit by Fire" by William Manchester.
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Grade 10
English:
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak
AP Human Geography: “The Power of Place: Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough
Landscape” by Harm De Blij
(Elective) AP European History: "A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara W.
Tuchman
Grade 11
All Juniors:
“The Gatekeepers” by Jacques Sternberg
TOK: “What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy” By Thomas Nagel; Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1987.
English:
“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Kiss of the Spider Woman” by Manuel Puig
German:
students have
1) a 4 page summer study packet to do, and
2) this past school year’s flashcards to study.
AP US History/HOA 1: “ Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics” by Howard Zinn
World Religions: “Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches” by Marvin Harris
Economics I: “Naked Economics” by Charles Wheelan
Business & Management: Students should read the first unit of their textbook at:
http://issuu.com/ibidpress/docs/business_management_3rd_edition_sam
IB Visual Arts:
You will have the following assignments due the first week back:
http://teacherweb.com/FL/Riverview/JackieHenson-Dacey/photo1.aspx
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Grade 12
English:
“Poisonwood Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver
“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
German:
students have 1) a 4 page summer study packet to do, and
2) this past school year’s flashcards to study.
World Religions II: “The Source” by James Michener
Economics II: “The Bottom Billion” by Paul Collier
History of the Americas HOA 2
“Overthrow” by Kinzer
ITGS: Students have their I.A. product to finish: Criterion E is due the first week of school.
Film Studies: http://ibfilm.wordpress.com/category/senior-summer-assignment/
IB Visual Arts:
You will have the following assignments due the first week back:
http://teacherweb.com/FL/Riverview/JackieHenson-Dacey/photo1.aspx
(Elective) AP European History: "A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara W.
Tuchman