Summer Reading
Summer 2018
English Department
Study Guides are posted for each grade level. Click on the underlined grade title.
Grade 7 Study Questions
Ghost
Jason Reynolds
Schooled
Gordon Korman
Grade 8 Study Questions
Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo-Beals
Crossover
Kwame Alexander
Grade 9 Study Questions
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Grade 10 Study Questions
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines
Grade 11 Study Questions
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
To Sir, With Love
E. R. Braithwaite
Grade 12 Study Questions
Atonement
Ian McEwan
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 merely an opportunity for review and practice. Choose those topics that will help you to have 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
Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks
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
Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America by Keith W. Olson
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
The U.S. Constitution
AP Modern European History
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
What Went Wrong? by Bernard Lewis
World Languages Department
Latin IV and Honors Latin (Suggested not required, in English)
Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer
Aenied by Virgil
Gallic Wars by Caeser