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.

Senior Values and Visions: Read three books, one from each group.
Choose one of the following three titles from Senior Group A:
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
or
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
or
Ironweed, William Kennedy
or
The Chosen, Chaim Potok

Choose one of the following five non-fiction titles from Senior Group B:
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us, James Carroll
or
Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman
or
The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese American, From Number Two Son to Rock 'N' Roll, Ben Fong Torres
or
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester
or
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, David Remnick

Choose one of the following four titles from Senior Group C:
Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
or
Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel, Andrea Barrett
or
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
or
Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha, Roddy Doyle

AP Senior English: Required Titles:
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

Boston College High School Social Studies Department
SUMMER READING LIST 2002 (Updated May 31, 2002)

Modern World History:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (any edition)
ISBN: 5-768-40706-5
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (any edition)
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
ISBN: 0-674-854292

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: 0-385-48451-8

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