Summer Reading and Textbook Information

Below is a list by subject of Summer Reading assignments for the 2010-2011 school year. 

English
English I
Lord of the Flies*
Author: Golding, William Gerald
ISBN: 0-399-50148-7

English I - Honors

Life of Pi* Author: Martell, Yann ISBN: 0-15-602732-1

Nineteen Eighty-Four* Author: Orwell, George ISBN: 0-451-52493-4

English II
Fences*
Author: Wilson, August / Richards, Lloyd (Ed.)
ISBN: 0-452-26401-4

English II - Honors

Kindred - 25th Anniversary* Author: Butler, Octavia E. ISBN: 0-8070-8369-0

Black Elk Speaks* Author: Neihardt, John G. ISBN: 1-4384-2540-6

English III
One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Text and Criticism*
Author: Kesey, Ken
ISBN: 0-14-023601-5

AP Language - Click here for additional assignments and further details.

The Road* Author: McCarthy, Cormac ISBN: 0-307-38789-5

The Grapes of Wrath* Author: Steinbeck, John ISBN: 0-14-303943-1

English IV

Heart of Darkness* Author: Conrad, Joseph ISBN: 1-59308-123-5

Mythology* Author: Hamilton, Edith ISBN: 0-316-34151-7

AP Literature

Madame Bovary (Trade)* Author: Flaubert, Gustave ISBN: 1-59308-052-2

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Trade)* Author: Wilde, Oscar ISBN: 1-59308-025-5

A Room of One's Own Author: Woolf, Virginia ISBN:0-15-678733-4

Fine Art
Acting III
Click here for reading and movie lists.

Science
AP Biology
Click here for summer assignment.

AP Physics
1.  Read "The Physics of Superheroes."  There will be a test the first day of school.
2.  Click here for an Algebra worksheet to complete in August.

Social Studies
AP European History
Students need to read parts of two books, "The Seekers" by Daniel Boorstein and "Sophie's World" by Jostein Gaarder, and complete assignments for these texts. In addition, students need to read and take notes on parts of the introduction and chapters 9 and 10 from their textbook and study a map of Europe. Click here to view the full assignment.

*Available on mbsdirect.net.

View the Textbook List for next year.  Visit mbsdirect.net to order books online.  The textbooks for the 2010-2011 school year will be available on July 15.  Students will receive their schedules during the first week of July. 

Remember!  Your student will not receive their schedule if they have not completed the Registration Form online.