Henderson High School Summer Reading Assignments
Summer 2018
Summer 2018
English
ENGLISH 9
English 9 Accelerated Honors
Read The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You. You will need these texts in class in September.
English 9 Honors
Read The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti. You will need this text in class in September.
English 9 Career and College Prep
Read Monster by Walter Dean Myers. You will need this text in class in September.
ENGLISH 10
English 10 Accelerated Honors
Students entering 10 accelerated honors are required to read both All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr and The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgewick. You will need to bring these texts to class in September.
English 10 Honors
Read The March (Book One) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell – a graphic novel detailing the struggle for Voter’s rights, depicted in this graphic novel by Rep. John Lewis, who was a participant.
Read “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The article can be found at:
The Atlantic - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
The article speaks directly to the issue of redlining in Chicago, which will provide invaluable background for A Raisin in the Sun.
English 10 Career and College Prep
Read Maus (I): A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegleman – Graphic Novel, which depicts the tragedy of the Holocaust during WWII.
ENGLISH 11
Advanced Placement Language and Composition
Read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver AND The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi. You will need both texts in class in September.
English 11 Honors
Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Make sure that you borrow or purchase the unabridged edition. You will need this text in class in September.
English 11 Career and College Prep/ Literature
Read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros…You will need to bring this text to class in September.
ENGLISH 12
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition
Read both Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders AND an age-appropriate graphic novel that (a) does not involve superheroes, (b) is not a novelization of a film, and (c) is not a graphic “telling” of an established work of literature (e.g., Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis). Examples of graphic novels that meet these standards are Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba; The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire; The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell; Che by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon; Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. You may choose one of these texts or a graphic novel of comparable literary merit. Keep reading notes for both texts; you will need these texts and your notes in class in September.
English 12 Honors/ British Literature
Students will choose and read a novel by one of the contemporary British authors listed below. Ascertaining that the novel selected has not been turned into a film, students will be expected to return to class in the Fall prepared to work with the text. Students and parents are encouraged to seek out reviews of the authors and their works before making a selection. Selections should be made before June 30, 2017.
Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro
You will need this text in class in September.
English 12 Career and College Prep: Literature
Read ONE of the following texts; bring your selection to class in September.
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
STUDENTS OF DIRECT INSTRUCTION
Read an age-appropriate novel that you have not previously read. While this is a novel of your choice, students should make the selection with the intention of discussing the text in September.
**STUDENTS AND PARENTS SHOULD WORK TOWARD ACQUIRING THE ASSIGNED TEXT BEFORE JUNE 30, 2017. QUESTIONS ABOUT SELECTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO [email protected] **
Download the file to see assignment details.
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Social Studies
2018 Henderson High School Summer Reading
Social Studies
Ninth Grade
9 Honors- Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
9 Accelerated: Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Tenth Grade
10 Honors: Read ONE of the following books and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Dead Wake
Author: Erik Larson
Title: No Less Than Victory
Author: Jeff Shaara
AP Euro:
Title: The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol Strickland
Assignment: Read the instructions in the packet posted on the library webpage and use the document below to complete the assignment.
summer_packet_2018_ml.pdf - Instructions
https://www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2013/4/28/46164969/The%20Annotated%20Mona%20Lisa.pdf
Eleventh Grade
11 Honors/ APUSH: Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Author: Steven Gillon
Twelfth Grade
12 Honors Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Rights of the People
Author: David K. Shipler
AP Government: All students must read two books.
One book required for all students to read:
Title: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution
Author: Joseph Ellis
Students read one of the following three books:
Title: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Author: Todd Purdum
Title: The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Author: Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse
Title: Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Author: David Sanger
AP Economics
AP Economics: Read one of the following books and complete the Federal Reserve Assignment
Read one of the following
Title: Naked Economics
Author: Charles Wheelan and Burton G. Malkiel
Title: New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economics
Author: Todd G. Buchholz
Title: Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Author: Pietra Rivoli
Title: The Undercover Economists
Author: Tim Harford
Complete the online course that will introduce you to the concept of comparative advantage. This course is offered by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and will require about two to three hours to complete. The process is as follows:
Social Studies
Ninth Grade
9 Honors- Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
9 Accelerated: Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Tenth Grade
10 Honors: Read ONE of the following books and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Dead Wake
Author: Erik Larson
Title: No Less Than Victory
Author: Jeff Shaara
AP Euro:
Title: The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol Strickland
Assignment: Read the instructions in the packet posted on the library webpage and use the document below to complete the assignment.
summer_packet_2018_ml.pdf - Instructions
https://www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2013/4/28/46164969/The%20Annotated%20Mona%20Lisa.pdf
Eleventh Grade
11 Honors/ APUSH: Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Author: Steven Gillon
Twelfth Grade
12 Honors Read the following book and be prepared to work with the text when school begins.
Title: Rights of the People
Author: David K. Shipler
AP Government: All students must read two books.
One book required for all students to read:
Title: The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution
Author: Joseph Ellis
Students read one of the following three books:
Title: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Author: Todd Purdum
Title: The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right
Author: Michael J. Graetz and Linda Greenhouse
Title: Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
Author: David Sanger
AP Economics
AP Economics: Read one of the following books and complete the Federal Reserve Assignment
Read one of the following
Title: Naked Economics
Author: Charles Wheelan and Burton G. Malkiel
Title: New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economics
Author: Todd G. Buchholz
Title: Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
Author: Pietra Rivoli
Title: The Undercover Economists
Author: Tim Harford
Complete the online course that will introduce you to the concept of comparative advantage. This course is offered by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and will require about two to three hours to complete. The process is as follows:
- By the end of the 2017-18 school year you will receive an email in your school account advising you of your unique student code and password.
- Go to the following link, click on Student Portal and Summer Activity for AP Econ. https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/
- Click on the course entitled “comparative advantage.” Follow the instructions fully and complete the survey when finished.
- When we begin class in the fall, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge to economic policy in the US.
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