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Summer Reading/Assignments for 2009-10



Language Arts


9th Grade Literature Honors (Assignment)
  • House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
  • Select one book from the list below.
  • Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
  • The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
  • Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
10th Grade Literature Honors (Assignment)
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
  • Select one book from the list below.
  • The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  • A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
  • Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
  • My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
  • The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
  • The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
11th Grade American Literature Honors (Assignment Website)
Assignment Description
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie (Assignment)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
AP English Language and Composition (11th Grade) (Assignment)
  • The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas L. Friedman
  • Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser
AP Literature and Composition (12th Grade) (Assignment)
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard

Mathematics


AP Calculus AB & BC

Visit the AP Calculus course website. Select syllabus, then summer study.

Science


AP Biology
  • Read chapters 50, 52, 53, and 54 in the textbook.
  • Complete the free response question(s) located on the class website under the Announcements link.
  • Be prepared for a test over these four chapters during the first week of school.
  • If you did not receive a textbook before school let out or if you have any questions, email Mr. Kuhn.
AP Physics B

View the following lessons and complete the questions presented in the lessons. The problems need to be turned in when school resumes in the fall.

Read the following chapters and complete the practice questions in the chapters. There will be a quiz on this information when school begins in the fall.

Social Studies


AP Government
  • Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria
  • The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria
AP US History
  • Founding Faith, Steven Waldman
  • Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
AP World History (Assignment)
  • A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage

World Languages


All Honors and AP World Language students should have received their reading packets prior to the end of school. If students do not have their reading assignments, they must go to the counseling office to pick them up prior to June 5th.

French 3 Honors (Assignment)

French 4 Honors (Assignment) (Reading)

AP French Language (Assignment)

German 3/4 Honors (Reading) (Verbs)

Read the short story and answer all questions at the end of the story. Memorize the verbs on the list. There will be a quiz over this material during the first week of school in the fall.

AP German Language (Reading) (Verbs)

Read the short story and answer all questions at the end of the story. Memorize the reflexive verbs on the list. There will be a quiz over this material during the first week of school in the fall.

Spanish 3 Honors

Read the short story "La venganza de los monstrous" and answer the comprehension questions included in the packet.

Spanish 6 Honors

Read the short story "El tiempo borra" and complete the activities included in the packet, except for the dramatization, group discussion, and comparision activites.

AP Spanish Language (Assignment)