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Verona
High School Summer Reading - 2007
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FRESHMEN
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A Lesson Before Dying, by
Ernest Gaines
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Montana
1948, by
Larry Watson
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Speak, by
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by
Mark Haddon
HONORS:
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
SOPHOMORES
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The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life, by
Steven Pressfield
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Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King
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Anthem, by
Ayn Rand
HONORS: An Enemy of the People and one other play by Henrik
Ibsen
JUNIORS
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The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
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The Color of Water, by James McBride
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Bag of Bones, by Stephen King
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The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,
by John Berendt
HONORS: Nine Stories, by
J.D. Salinger and Ragtime,
by E. L.
Doctorow
AP LITERATURE I: A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
SENIORS
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Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton
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Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King
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Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
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Girl with a Pearl Earring, by
Tracey Chevalier
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Wicked, by
Gregory Maguire
HONORS: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and Wuthering Heights,
by Emily Bronte
AP Literature II:
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf and The Hours, by
Michael Cunningham
AP Language: Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt and The
Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
Accounting
I & II:
Ms. Sorrentino
Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens:
The Secrets about Money That You Don’t Learn in School!
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
UNITED STATES
HISTORY I:
Mr. Carollo
Explorers
whose contributions led to the discovery of the North American
Continent:
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Christopher Columbus
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Hernando Cortes
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Francisco Pizzaro
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Juan Ponce De Leon
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Giovanni de Verrazzano
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Henry Hudson
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John Cabot
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Cartier
AP UNITED
STATES HISTORY I:
Mr. Galbierczyk
Select one of the historical novels listed
below (You may select a
different book, but instructor must approve it first.
Your book must possess both literary and historical
merit.):
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Rise to Rebellion
– Jeff Shaara
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The Fifth of March - Ann
Rinaldi
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Challenge the Wind
- Christine Echeverria Bender
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Killer Angels
- Michael Shaara
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Lincoln
– Gore Vidal
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Harriett Beecher Stowe
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Dawn’s Early Light - Elswyth
Thane
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O Beulah Land -
Mary Lee Settle
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Last of the Mohicans*
- James Fennimore Cooper
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Cold Mountain* - Charles Frazier
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Hope Leslie
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick
United States History II Honors:
Mr. Galbierczyk
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
AP American Government and Politics
ASSIGNMENT:
Choose three of the
philosophers below:
- John Locke (Social Contract)
- Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan)
- Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)
- Plato (The Republic)
- Sir Thomas More (Utopia)
- Baron de
Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws)
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