Summer Work

Required Summer Work

Our approach to summer reading aims to engage and inspire girls, especially by helping to develop a lifelong love of reading. Many classes require summer work or summer reading. These assignments are an opportunity to exercise an important level of intellectual independence. Often, the required readings introduce themes that will be covered in the next year's curriculum. Graded assignments on the reading in the fall are designed to assess reading diligence and skill as well as writing ability.

Summer Work 2008-2009:   Hide All

  • Fine Arts  Hide

    AP Art History
    The Object Stares Back, by James Elkin

  • English  Hide

    You will be given tests, quizzes or writing assignment on these texts upon your return to school.

    English Fundamentals
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
    John Knowles, A Separate Peace

    English I
    Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street, Vintage (1991), 0-679-73477-5

    English II
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Dover (2003), 0486424499
    Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood, Heinemann (1996), 0435909592

    English III
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (1990),
    0-06-091650-8
    Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams, Harper Perennial (1990), 0-06-092114-5

    English IV
    All Seniors Read: Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Knopf (2001),    037541309X

    Required Elective Text
    Getting Medieval (Ward)
    Umberto Eco, William Weaver (trans.), Baudolino, Harvest Books (2003), 0156029065

    Literature and Philosophy: A Heady Brew (Osborn)
    Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go,Vintage (2006), 1400078776

    Cross-Cultural Encounters (Arizmendi)
    Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa, Vintage (1989), 0-67-972475-3

    Irish Literature (Sokolov)
    William Trevor, Fools of Fortune,Penguin Classics, 0-14-303962-8

    Altered States (Barbour)
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,Dover Thrift, 9780486282114

  • History Hide

    AP European
    The Prince by Machiavelli
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

    AP U.S. History
    Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
    The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates
    US AP Summer Reading Assignment

    Comparative Religious Ethics
    The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal

    Carefully read Simon Wiesenthal’s account of his experiences in a concentration camp. Begin to formulate a personal response to the central question of the book – how would you have reacted? Why? Read the second part of The Sunflower. Take detailed notes on SIX responses, three that you agreed with and three that you disagreed with. Come prepared to class ready to discuss your reactions to these responses as well as how you personally would have acted.

    Global Civilizations
    Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

    Middle East
    Holy War, Inc. by Peter L. Bergen

    Modern World History
    All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein

    U.S. History
    The Crucible by Arthur Miller & summer work packet

  • Language  Hide

    French II – Vocabulary sheets
    French III – Vocabulary sheets

    AP French Literature
    Read Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant. Then using the Focus Publishing edition of the book (ISBN 9781585101832), answer the multiple choice questions for each chapter pages 201 to 225. Be ready to discuss the book on the first day of class.

    AP Vergil – If you are coming from Latin III

    GRAMMAR- review all of Davis book (until conditions) & complete at least one "practice" exercise from each concept. (Be prepared to turn these in on the first day of school.)
    VOCABULARY- learn parts and meanings of all words provided in packet.

    AP Vergil – If you are coming from AP Latin Literature

    VOCABULARY- learn parts and meanings of all words provided in packet.
    CONTENT- read synopsis of Aeneid provided.
    TRANSLATION- translate lines 1-22 from text provided.

    During the first week of school, there will be a test on vocabulary and synopsis
    During the second week of school, there will be a test on grammar and the first 49 lines of text

  • Math Hide

    Precalculus – multi-page worksheet packet
    AB Calculus – 6 worksheet packet
    BC Calculus – multi-page worksheet packet
    Algebra I – worksheet
    Algebra II and II/Trig – worksheet
    Geometry and Advanced Geometry – worksheet

  • Science  Hide

    AP Biology
    Students will meet with Dr. Binger at 7:30 one morning in May. At this meeting they will receive the summer work packet which will include:

    assignments from the course textbook, Biology, Life on Earth, 8th Ed. by Audesirk and Audesirk
    a book by Stephen J. Gould
    excerpts from Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species

    The summer reading book is: The Panda’s Thumb, by Stephen J Gould; ISBN: 0-393-3 818-7 (Students need access to this book, but do no have to own this book.)

    AP Chemistry
    The book is: Chemistry by Zumdahl/Zumdahl, 6th edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. An AP Chemistry student meeting will be held in May with Dr. Boyette to discuss expectations and the summer assignment.

    AP and Advanced Physics
    The book is: Physics by Cutnell and Johnson, 7th edition, Wiley and Sons. This is the same book as was used in Physics with Trig, so students should not need to buy a new book. The specific assignment will be handed to students in class in May.