2009 Summer Reading List

Students are highly recommended to visit the teacher’s webpage. Method(s) and timeline(s) of student evaluation for summer reading are listed and described.

 
6th Grade

Course

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL630 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Michele Schmidt
ENG630 Tangerine Edward Bloor Tim Gauvain
SST630 The Lightning Thief Rick Riorden Jason Lange
7th Grade

Course 

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL730 The Magician's Nephew C.S. Lewis Kevin Popit
ENG730 A Single Shard  Linda Sue Park Sue Kerr
SST730 George Washington's Socks Elvira Woodruff Chris Chiburis
8th Grade

Course 

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL830 Father Marquette and the Great Rivers August Derleth Michael Thro
ENG830 Peak  Roland Smith Lindsey Hill
SST830 Under a War-Torn Sky L.M. Elliot Jack Wilson
9th Grade

Course

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL130/ENG130 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Ryan Slattery 
Greg Miller
Brett Desnoyer
Steve Murphy
SST130

The Book of Virtues*
(*click on title to see
required selections)

William Bennett Jim Chrismer
Andrew Schmitt
Rev. Oscar Vasquez, S.M.
10th Grade

Course 

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL230/ENG230 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Dan Stout
Ryan Slattery
Dan Karcher
SST230 How Soccer Explains the World Franklin Foer Bob Murphy
Andrew Schmitt
11th Grade

Course 

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL330/ENG330
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Greg Miller 
AP ENG370 Brave New World
Three Cups of Tea
Aldous Huxley
Greg Mortenson
Jerry Boyle
SST330
Killer Angels Michael Shaara Michael Diffley
AP SST370

Killer Angels
and one of the
following selections:

Michael Shaara

Jack Wilson

Alexander Hamilton, American

Richard Brookhiser

Confederates in the Attic,
Dispatches from American's
Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

Founding Brothers:  The
Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis

1776

David McCullough

Brave Companions:
Portraits in History

David McCullough

Up From Slavery:
An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington
Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy

Citizen Soldiers:  The U.S.
Army from the Normandy
Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose
12th Grade

Course

Title  

Author

Teacher

REL470/ENG470 Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Michael Corte
Andrew Siewert
Brett Desnoyer
AP ENG471 Three Cups of Tea
Out Stealing Horses
Greg Mortenson
Per Petterson
Andrew Siewert
SST430 The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Will Armon
AP SST 70 AP European History
students are required
to read one of the following:
Bob Murphy
For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Darkness At Noon Arthur Koestler
Don Quixote:  Book One Miguel de Cervantes