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Summer Reading/Assignments for 2011-12



Career and Technical Education


AP Computer Science
Assignment Coming Soon
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
* The book is available free at the link above

Language Arts


9th Grade Literature and Composition Honors
Assignment
10th Grade Literature and Composition Honors
Assignment
  • The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
  • Select two novels from the list below.
  • The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
  • The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
  • Life of Pi, Yann Martel
  • My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
  • Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
  • The Well and the Mine, Gin Phillips
11th Grade American Literature Honors
Assignment | Great Works Readers Journal Template
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie | Sherman Alexie Assignment
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
AP English Language and Composition (11th Grade)
Assignment
  • Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
  • On Writing Well, William Zinsser
  • The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
AP English Literature and Composition (12th Grade)
Assignment
  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster (selected chapters)
  • The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
  • Self-selected volume of poetry

Mathematics


Accelerated Integrated Geometry Honors
Assignment Coming Soon

AP Calculus AB & BC

Visit the AP Calculus course website. Select Summer Assignment, then Summer Study.

Science


AP Biology
Assignment
  • Read chapters 50-54 in the textbook.
  • Complete the free response question(s) located on the class website under the Announcements link.
  • Be prepared for a test over these five chapters during the first week of school.
  • If you did not receive a textbook before school let out or if you have any questions, email Mr. Kuhn.
AP Chemistry
The AP Chemistry summer assignment is to learn the formula and charge for the ions listed on the handouts as well as the solubility rules. It is expected that you will be familiar with this information at the beginning of the school year.
Common Ions | Solubility Rules

AP Environmental Science
Assignment

AP Physics B
Visit Mr. Davis' Physics B website and click on the summer assignment link on the left hand side of the webpage. You will be taken to a word document containing ten links for summer assignments. You must control-click on the links to access the documents. Please print all ten. Some will be kept for you to review and reference and some of them are assignments that must be turned in on the first day of school. If you are asked for a username and password hit [cancel]. If you have trouble accessing the documents, please email Mr. Davis at davis1@fultonschools.org.

Social Studies


AP Government and Politics
Assignment
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, Fareed Zakaria

AP US History
Assignment
The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell

AP World History
Assignment
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

World Languages


French 3 Honors
Assignment | Reprise 1 | Reprise 2 | Reprise 3

French 4 Honors
Assignment

AP French Language
Assignment

German 3 Honors
Assignment

German 4 Honors
Assignment

AP German Language
Assignment

Spanish 3 Honors
Assignment

Spanish 4 Honors
Assignment

Spanish 6 Honors
Assignment

AP Spanish Language
Assignment