Summer Reading
English Department
Study Guides are posted for each grade level.
Grade 7 Study Questions
Rhyme Schemer
K. A. Holt
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
The Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Ground Zero
Alan Gratz
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Stealing Buddha's Dinner
Bich Nguyen
Grade 10 STUDY Questions
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Passing
Nella Larsen
Grade 11 Study Questions
To Sir, With Love
E. R. Braithwaite
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
Grade 12 Study Questions
English IV
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Grade 12 Study Questions
AP English Literature
Atonement
Ian McEwan
The Three Theban Plays
Sophocles
Mathematics Department
The Mathematics Department at U of D Jesuit provides a practice set of basic skills for incoming students. This is NOT required work, but an opportunity for review and practice. Choose the topics that will help give you a solid start in August.
Entering 8th Grade Math: Click here for summer workbook
Entering Algebra I: Click here for summer workbook
Science Department
AP Biology - Check Mrs. Foerg's Moodle page for summer assignments.
Read one of the following:
Parasite Rex by M. Zimmer
Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem
Future of Life by E.O Wilson
AP Chemistry
Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
AP Physics
God’s Mechanics by Brother Guy Consolmagno
Social Studies Department
AP U.S. History
Lies my Teacher Told Me by Lames W Loewen
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
AP U.S. Government
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The U.S. Constitution
AP Modern European History
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis
World Languages Department
Latin IV and Honors Advanced Latin (Optional Reading)
Iliad (English Version) by Homer
Odyssey (English Version) by Homer
Aenied (English Version) by Virgil
Gallic Wars (English Version) by Caeser
Honors Advanced Spanish (Optional Reading)
La Lección de August (Spanish Version) by R. J. Palacio
Obsesión (Second Edition) By Edward Maddox