AP (and Other classes)SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS 2008
AP Environmental required summer reading
The purpose of this assignment is to initiate some ideas in your head that
we will discuss throughout the year. Read the following books, maintaining
a journal of your questions, thoughts, and responses to what you read. Your
submission should be 7 - 10 pages (typed, single-spaced, 11 point font, Times
New Roman). All entries in your journal should be dated. The journal will
be collected the
first day of class. Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Documented stories on the effect of pesticides on ecosystems. Available at
any public library. The Earth Policy Reader- Lester R. Brown, reports
on global environmental degradation and the resulting economic effects.
AP English Language and AP Composition
will have the same assignment:
read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.
AP English (only)
Completely read Ralph Ellison's The Invisible
Man
Latin 4 and AP Latin Literature the following for the summer:
Metamorphoses: Pyramus and Thisbe, lines 55 - 166 -- A review packet including
grammar, MC, translations, scansion, essays, and vocabulary.
AP Stats
AP STATISTICS SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS 2008 (document is in pdf)
AP Studio Art
AP STUDIO ART SUMMER ASSIGNMENT ( htm web page)
AP Computer Science
(has two separate
files)
English required reading list for all grade levels
ESOL Suggested Reading List 2008