Summer Assignments 2009

Below are the Summer Assignments, grouped by subject area. Select the appropriate class to open the Adobe Acrobat PDF file in a new window.

English

English I and English I Honors:  Students must read all assigned books.  Students are required to produce an essay on one of the assigned summer reading books. The essay MUST be typed. This assignment will be collected the first week of school.

English III:   Students will need to read all assigned books. Students will be assessed during the first week of school.

Summer Reading Books:

• English I
  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Honors English I
  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles - OR - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Honors English II and English II
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  • No Excuses by Kyle Maynard
• English III
  • The Traveler’s Gift by Andy Andrews
  • Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
• English IV
  • Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser
  • Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
• AP English Literature
  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
    • The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife”
    • “The End of Something”
    • “The Three Day Blow”
    • “The Killers”
    • “In Another Country”
    • “Soldier’s Home”
    • “Big Two-Hearted River”
    • “Cat in the Rain”
    • “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
  • The following Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:
    • The Speckled Band”
    • “A Scandal in Bohemia”
    • “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
    • “The Five Orange Pips”
    • “The Blue Carbuncle”
    • “Silver Blaze”
    • “The Musgrave Ritual”
    • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    • (NOTE: The Barnes and Nobles’ edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 (Hardcover) contains both the above short stories and The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is often sold as a separate book. Do not purchase the softcover edition.

English Summer Assignments

• English IV & AP Literature (Montalbano) (.pdf)

Math

• Click here to view the instructions and assignments for all math courses

AP Chemistry

• Click here to view the instructions and assignments