Summer Reading

Summer reading assignments are up-to-date. Three academic departments (English, Social  Studies, and Religious Studies) participate in the summer reading program, and students are required to read for each department. Students should expect to be assessed on their assigned books during the first week of classes in August.
** Updated: May 8, 2012 **

SOCIAL STUDIES:

• World History
• Anonymous, Epic of Gilgamesh.  Trans. N. K. Sandars.  Penguin Classics, Revised Edition
• ISBN-10: 014044100X
• ISBN-13: 978-0140441000
• Study Guide 

• Western Civilzation
• Machiavelli, Niccolo.  The Prince. Trans. Harvey Mansfield.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• ISBN-10: 0226500446
• ISBN-13: 978-0226500447

• AP European History
  • Machiavelli, Niccolo.  The Prince. Trans. Harvey Mansfield.  Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998.
    • ISBN-10: 0226500446
    • ISBN-13: 978-0226500447
    • AP Required Summer Paper Topic 
• US History [Read EITHER one of the following]
• Urrea, Luis Alberto.  The Devil’s Highway.  New York:  Little Brown and Company, 2004.
• ISBN-10: 0316010804
• ISBN-13: 978-0316010801
• Napoli, Donna Jo.  Alligator Bayou.  New York:  Random House, 2009.
• ISBN-10: 0385746547

• AP US History
• McCullough, David.  1776.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 2006.
• ISBN-10:  0743226720
• ISBN-13:  978-0743226721
• AP Required Summer Paper Topic 
• Economics  (none)
• US Government  (none)
• AP Government and Economics  (none)

ELECTIVES

• Psychology  (none)
• AP Comparative Politics  (none)
• AP Psychology
• Hock, Roger R.  Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research.  6th Edition.  New York:  Prentice Hall, 2008.
• ISBN-10: 013603599X
• ISBN-13: 978-0136035992

RELIGIOUS STUDIES:

Freshmen:
Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesus by August Derleth (ISBN: 9780898707229)
-Study Guide

Sophomores:
He Leadeth Me by Fr. Walter Ciszek S.J. (ISBN: 0898705460)
-Study Guide

Juniors:
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Greg Boyle, SJ (ISBN: 1439153159)
-Study Guide
-Vocabulary List

Seniors:
The Shack, by William P. Young (ISBN-10: 0964729237)
-Study Guide

ENGLISH:

* Students are expected to read the novel assigned to their appropriate grade.  In addition to the reading, students are required to respond in short-answer format to a set of study questions specific to that book; those responses should be typed, and will be collected for credit. Teachers will integrate the summer reading and responses to study questions into the beginning of the course, so students should bring their book and responses to class when they begin in August.  Furthermore, students should expect some form of assessment on the book—test or essay—during the first week of class.

Freshmen:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
Study Guide

Sophomores:

The Glass Castle
- by Jeannette Walls

Study guide

Juniors:

Old School
by Tobias Wolff

Study guide

Seniors:

Into the Wild
- by Jon Krakauer

Into The Wild_- Study Guide

Required 12th Grade Into the Wild Essay