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Summer Reading

Required and Common Reads

(Middle and Upper School required and common reads are available for purchase in the bookstore 20% of list price.)

 

Lower School          Middle School        Upper School

 

Lower School  

Below are the summer requirements for students entering grades 1-5.  Click on the link to see what activities are required.  The book lists are just suggestions.  You may choose other titles to meet the requirements.  For other reading ideas, check out the tab on the left called, "Hmm...What Should I Read Next?"

1st Grade

2nd Grade

3rd Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Suggested Books for Younger Readers

Suggested Books for Middle Readers

 

Middle SchoOL

Middle School Supply Lists - Grade 6 - Grade 7 - Grade 8

Required common read and grade level reading assignments are listed below.  For free choice reading ideas, check out Hmm...What Should I Read Next?

Grades 6-8 Common Read


Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin
6th grade  

The Giver by Lois Lowry                   
Assignment

7th grade

Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick  
Assignment

Suggested Titles for Free Choice Books

Math 7 Secure and Advanced

Math 7 Algebra

8th grade
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Assignment

 

Upper School

Required common read and course reading assignments are listed below.  For free choice reading ideas, check out Hmm...What Should I Read Next?

Grades 9-12 Common Read

Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Assignment

 English

English I 

A Separate Peace by John Knowles 
Assignment

English II

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Assignment

English III

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
Assignment

English IV

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Assignment

AP English Language
 

The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a book of poetry

Assignment

  AP English Literature

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

In the Skin of a Lion by Miachael Ondaatje

Assignment

History

World History I

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

Assignment

World History II 

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Assignment

U.S. History Since 1945

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson             
Assignment

U.S. History

Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis 
Assignment

AP U.S. History

Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
Inventing America, vol. 1

Assignment

AP Politics/Government

American Creation by Joseph Ellis

Assignment

Honors History II

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Assignment


For more information about summer reading, common reads and assignments, contact Debbie Lamir (x206).
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