Summer Reading and Review, 2018
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June 22, 2018
Students, The purpose of summer work and reading is three-fold: to help keep you “on your toes” during the long summer months, where it’s easy to become intellectually sluggish; to reduce your work load next year when you’re taking 8 classes—by doing some of this now, you’ll have less to do then-- and finally, to emphasize that becoming an educated person is not merely a function of classroom time, but a life-long pursuit marked by curiosity and a continual desire to better yourself, intellectually and spiritually.
To that end, everyone has to read at least one book. If you’re in the Honors/A.P. program, you’ll be asked to read an extra book in English, some additional reading in History, and complete a Math problem set for review. Unless otherwise noted, you are responsible for this work when we start school in August.
Almost all of these books are likely available in local book stores or on line.
Take a little bit at a time over the next two months, and it won’t be difficult. Don’t wait until the last second to do it. Don’t wait until the last second. Don’t Wait.
Sincerely,
The St. Michael Faculty
I. English:Ninth grade: Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Honors Ninth: Animal Farm (Orwell) and Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
10th grade: Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Honors 10th grade: Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) and As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
11th grade: Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A.P. English 11: Passage to India (Forster) and Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
12th grade: All the King’s Men (Robert Penn Warren)
A.P. English 12: All the King’s Men (Warren) and Confessions (St. Augustine)
II. HistoryHonors World History: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
A.P. Geography: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
A.P. American History: Summer Work Here (click link)
A.P. Government: Good news! No additional summer work.
III. Honors Math: Students enrolled in Honors Math classes for 2018-2019 are asked to do problem sets as a way of brushing up on previous material learned. The work is due the first day of classes. Click on the links below: