Lower School Kindergarten: Can I Play Too? by Mo Willems First Grade: Choose one (or more) of the following books: The Dot Ish Sky Color all three are by Peter H. Reynolds Second Grade: Choose one (or more) of the following books: The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg & Bruce Ingman Lights Out by Arthur Geisert A Book About Design: Complicated Doesn’t Make It Good by Mark Gonyea Mapping Penny’s World by Loreen Leedy Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy Ish by Peter H. Reynolds Third Grade: How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills Fourth Grade: The Lemonade War by Jaqueline Davies Fifth Grade: All students should read: Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith ALSO, choose one of the following to read: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck Middle School Sixth Grade English: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin History: Read one (or more) of the following books by James M. Deem: Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii Bodies from the Bog Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past Seventh Grade English: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien History: Recommended, not required, for Science: Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardner OR The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat (Young Readers Edition) by Michael Pollan and Richie Chevat Eighth Grade English: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner History: With Every Drop of Blood by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier | Upper School English Assignment: History-World_I.pdf9th grade: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 10th grade: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Assignment: English II.pdf 11th grade: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 12th grade: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris Journalism: Optional assignment to be started at the beginning of summer: Journalism.pdf A.P. English Language and Composition: 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology by Samuel Cohen A.P. English Literature: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Assignment: English-AP-Lit.pdf Upper School History Please note: Topics in U.S. History (for International Students) does not have a summer reading book or written assignment. 9th grade: Antigone by Jean Anouilh 10th Grade: Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks Assignment: History-World_II.pdf U.S. History: Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick Assignment: History-US.pdf A.P. U.S. History: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen Assignment: History-AP-US.pdf A.P. European History: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, translated by Donna Freed Darkness at Noon: A Novel by Arthur Koestler Assignment: History-AP-Euro.pdf Extra credit: Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King Upper School Science A.P. Chemistry: The only assignment is the following written assignment: coming soon |