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Rising 9th Graders

Grade 9 English - All students are REQUIRED to:

• Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (ISBN-13: 978-1400032716)
• Complete the following writing assignment about the text:
  • Journal about 3 of the following questions and bring your journal responses to class for discussion:
    • How does the main conflict of the text drive the outcome of the book?
    • Choose a situation and tell what you would've done differently.
    • From the perspective of a main character, write a diary entry exploring the motivations, anxieties, dreams, and conflicts the character is experiencing in or after a key moment.
    • If you were to bring one of the main characters to school with you tomorrow, what would you ask him and what would you say? How would you help him navigate your world?
    • Is the book primarily a book about growing up and maturing or primarily a book about family relationships? (Cite quotations from text for support.)
• Choose ONE work to read from this list

Grade 9 History 

• REQUIRED: Imperium – Robert Harris (ISBN-13: 978-9604531622)
• OPTIONAL: Salt: A World History - Mark Kurlansky (ISBN-13: 978-0142001615) and A World Lit Only by Fire – William Manchester (ASIN: B000SEWJ0M)

Rising 10th Graders

Grade 10 English - All students are REQUIRED to:

• Read Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (ISBN-13: 978-0735212206)
• Complete the following writing assignment about the text:
  • Journal about 3 of the following questions and bring your journal responses to class for discussion.
    • Rewrite the ending of the novel.
    • What literary techniques does the writer use? How do they create a pointed effect in the writing? (Cite quotations from text.)
    • How, if at all, does this novel reflect the time period/culture in which it is set? (Cite quotations from text.)
    • From the perspective of a main character, write a diary entry exploring the motivations, anxieties, dreams, and conflicts the character is experiencing in or after a key moment..
    • Would you describe this novel as “Global Literature”? Why or why not? (Cite quotations from the text.)
• Choose ONE work to read from this list

Grade 10 History 

• REQUIRED:
  • Between Shades of Gray – Ruta Sepetys (ISBN-13: 978-0142420591)

Rising 11th Graders

Grade 11 English - All students are REQUIRED to: 

• Read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (ISBN-13: 978-0618485222)
• Complete the following writing assignment about the text:
  • Journal about 3 of the following questions and bring your journal responses to class for discussion.
    • Rewrite the ending of the novel.
    • What literary techniques does the writer use? How do they create a pointed effect in the writing? (Cite quotations from text.)
    • How, if at all, does this novel reflect the time period/culture in which it is set? (Cite quotations from text.)
    • From the perspective of a main character, write a diary entry exploring the motivations, anxieties, dreams, and conflicts the character is experiencing in or after a key moment.
    • Would you describe this novel as “American Literature”? Why or why not? (Cite quotations from the text.)
• Choose ONE work to read from this list

Grade 11 History

• REQUIRED: 1776 by David McCullough (ISBN-13: 978-0743226721)

AP US History

• REQUIRED: The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch (ISBN-13: 978-1250130334)

Rising 12th Graders

Grade 12 English - All students are REQUIRED to: 

• Read The Leavers by Lisa Ko (ISBN-13: 978-1616208042)
• Complete the following writing assignment about the text:
  • Journal about 3 of the following questions and bring your journal responses to class for discussion.
    • Create your own thematic questions about the text and respond to one of them.
    • Read a review of the book and find a place to disagree or draw a distinction from the reviewer’s opinion. (Cite quotations from the text.)
    • From the perspective of a main character, write a diary entry exploring the motivations, anxieties, dreams, and conflicts the character is experiencing in or after a key moment.
    • Rewrite the ending of the novel.
    • In the context of a “protest novel,” what does Ko protest”? How is Ko’s message complicated and imperfect?  (Cite quotations from the texts.)
• Choose ONE work to read from this list

Grade 12 History Electives:

Economics

• REQUIRED: 
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science - Charles Wheelan (ISBN-13: 978-0393356496)
  • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America – Barbara Ehrenreich (ISBN-13: 978-0312626686)

International Relations

• REQUIRED: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (ISBN-13: 978-0393354324)

AP Government and Politics: U.S. and Comparative

• REQUIRED: The Supremes’ Greatest Hits (2nd ed.) by Michael G. Trachtman (ISBN-13: 978-1454920779)

AP European History 

• REQUIRED: In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made – Norman F. Cantor (ISBN-13: 978-1476797748)
• Select ONE of the following:
  • Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder (ISBN-13: 978-0374530716)
  • The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (ISBN-13: 978-1594482694)

Screening America

• REQUIRED: American Film: A History 1st Edition – Jon Lewis (ISBN-13: 978-0393979220)