English
Department
Fall Assessment: On the first test day of the second cycle,
all summer reading will be assessed. Freshmen will take an objective
test on the three required readings and will write a short essay
in class. The essay topic will be given at the time of the test.
Sophomore and junior students will take an objective test on the
required book and will write an essay on the others. Seniors will
write essays.
Sophomore English II: Read three books, one required,
two from Soph.Grps. A and B.
Required for all regular sophomores:
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Choose one of the following autobiographies from Soph.Group
A
Colors of the Mountain, Da Chen
or
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother,
James McBride
or
When I Was a Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago
or
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Choose one of the following three titles from Soph. Group B
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
or
A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines
or
Montana, 1948, Larry Watson
Sophomore Honors:
Required Titles NOTE: No requirement to read others
Wildlife, Richard Ford
Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (with study guide)
English II Honors will be tested on the Ford, Hurston, and O'Connor
titles at the beginning of school. Moby Dick will be tested during
the term.
Social Studies Department
SUMMER READING LIST 2002 (Updated May 31, 2002)
Modern World History:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhentisyn
(any edition)
ISBN: 5-76840706-5
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse (any addition)
ISBN: 0-553-208845
US History:
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
ISBN: 0-345-348109
US History Honors:
In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
ISBN: 0-140-186417
Principles of Government:
Choose one (1)
The Simple Truth - David Baldacci
ISBN: 0-446-60771-1
Summer for the Gods -- Edward Larson
Government Honors:
Profiles in Courage for Our Time - Caroline Kennedy
ISBN: 0-786-867930
Principles of Economics:
The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Tom Friedman
ISBN: 0-385-499345
Psychology:
Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
ISBN: 0-385-495653-X
20th Century World History:
Choose one (1)
Flags of Our Fathers - James Bradley
ISBN: 0-553-38029-X
Ghost Soldiers - Hampton Sides
ISBN: 0-385-495653-X
AP American History:
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
- Howard Zinn
ISBN: 0-060-937319
AP Economics:
The Commanding Heights - Daniel Yergin & Joseph Stanislaw
ISBN: 0-684-83569-X
AP European History:
Agony and Ecstasy - Irving Stone
ISBN: 0-451-17135-7 published by Signet
The Foundations of Early Modern Europe, 1460-1559
ISBN: 0-393-96304-7 published by Norton
AP Government:
Dirty Politics -Kathleen Hall Jamieson
ISBN:0-19-508-5531
