Summer Reading for 2015-2016 School Year
Please note: Reading assignments are for students’ grade levels/classes for the 2015-2016 school year.
English Department
9th – Lit/ Composition CP:
The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
9th – Lit/Composition H:
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
10th - World Literature CP & H:
The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
11th- American Literature CP & H:
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen- Rafter
12th – British Literature H:
Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
12th – British Literature CP:
Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
AP Literature
Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
(Mr. Cuthbert will provide a handout & assignment)
Social Studies Department
US History H
Warriors Don’t Cry
Author: Melba Patillo Beals
AP European History
Sophie’s World
Author: Jostein Gaardner
AP United States History
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
(ISBN-10: 0393317552)
*It can be purchased used on Amazon for $1.99
Modern World History
The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Religion Department
9th:
Saint Maria Goretti: In Garments All Red
Author: Fr. Godfrey Poage, C.P.
Publisher: Tan Books
ISBN-13: 978-0895556158
10th:
Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves
Author: Jason Evert
Publisher: Totus Tuus Press
ISBN-13: 978-0991-375-400
11th:
Left to Tell
Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
Publisher: Hay House
ISBN-13: 978-1401908973
12th:
Something Other Than God
Author: Jennifer Fulwiler
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN-13: 978-1586178826
Foreign Language Department
Spanish
Spanish II
A grammar packet has already been distributed to students
Spanish III CP
An assignment is available in the main office.
Spanish III H
Readings have already been assigned to students.
AP Spanish
El Lazarillo de Tormes, verb list and online work.
**Mrs. Grove has all of the information for Spanish in the office.
If students have questions, they can email Mrs. Unger**
Latin
AP Latin
French
Assignment for all French texts:
French II
French III
Please read an English translation of Vergil’s Aeneid
Highlight all new words in your copy of the book and create a
list of the new vocabulary French/English, for each chapter, as
well as a summary (En français) of the first two chapters (CP) or
three chapters (Honors) that you will turn in at the end of
summer, along with the highlighted book. (This assignment will
count as a test grade.)
Pirates Français des Caraïbes
Author: Mira Canion & Carol Gaab
Publisher: TPRS Publishing,Inc
ISBN # 978-1-934958-59-9
http://tprstorytelling.com/products-page/featurednovels/pirates-francais-des-caraibes/
Le secret de Louise
Author : M.C. Bertrand
Emcschool.com
ISBN: 978-0-82193-767-9
French IV
Mystères au Grand Hôtel
Author: M.C. Bertrand, S. Guilmault
ISBN: 978-0-82193-779-2