Summer Reading for 2016-17 School Year
Please note: Reading assignments are for students’ grade levels/classes for the 2016-17 school year.
English Department
9th – Lit/ Composition CP:
The House on Mango Street
Author: Sandra Cisneros
OR
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Author: Sherman Alexie
9th – Lit/Composition H:
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
10th - World Literature CP & H:
The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
11th- American Literature CP & H:
Cannery Row
Author: John Steinbeck
OR
The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: John Steinbeck
12th – British Literature H:
Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley
12th – British Literature CP:
Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
AP Literature
An Artist of the Floating World (any edition)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Social Studies Department
US History H
Warriors Don’t Cry
Author: Melba Patillo Beals
AP European History
Packet from Mrs. Massey
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
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
Science Department
AP Chemistry:
Students will need to be enrolled in the google classroom course in order to receive summer online
assignments.
Honors Human Anatomy and Physiology:
The students will have the following summer work:
The textbook for this course is entitled “Hole’s Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology, twelfth
edition” by Shier, Butler and Lewis. Please read the chapter material and answer the assessment
questions at the end of each chapter according to the schedule below. You do not need to answer the
critical thinking questions. Email your work to [email protected] or mail your answers to St. Maria
Goretti, 1535 Oak Hill Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21742 attention Dr. Barton. The schedule is as follows:
Chapter 2: Chemical Basis of Life
due June 30th
Chapter 3: Cells
due July 30th
Chapter 4: Cellular Metabolism
due the first day of school
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.
Spanish IV H
La lengua de las mariposas by Manuel Rivas, Wayside
ISBN 978-1-938026-60-7
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
Latin I,II, III
AP Latin
Summer assignments have already been distributed to students.
Please read English translations of Vergil’s Aeneid & Caesar’s
De Bello Gallico. CHECK GOOGLE CLASSROOM FOR
THE FULL SUMMER ASSIGNMENT for AP Latin!!!!
French
Assignment for all French texts:
Highlight all new words in your copy of the book and create a
list of the new vocabulary French/English, as well as a summary
(not an essay, a short paragraph)(En français) of two chapters
(if you are going into CP) or three chapters (if you are going into
Honors) that you will turn in at the end of summer, along with
the highlighted book. (This assignment will count as a test
grade.)
French II
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/
French III
Histoires à lire le soir Marc Thil
ISBN : 978 1489556288
French IV
Le fantôme de l’Opéra Gaston Leroux
ISBN :978 082193 769 3
EMC publishing : www.emcschool.com
Le fantôme de l’Opéra Gaston Leroux
ISBN :978 082193 769 3
EMC publishing : www.emcschool.com