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Verona High School Summer Reading - 2007
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FRESHMEN

·        A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines

·        Montana 1948, by Larry Watson

·        Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson

·        The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon

      HONORS:  Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

SOPHOMORES

·        The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life, by Steven Pressfield

·        Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

·        The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King

·        Anthem, by Ayn Rand

      HONORS: An Enemy of the People and one other play by Henrik Ibsen

JUNIORS

·        The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath

·        The Color of Water, by James McBride

·        Bag of Bones, by Stephen King

·        The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

·        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

·        Eaters of the Dead, by Michael Crichton

·        Eyes of the Dragon, by Stephen King

·        Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel

·        Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracey Chevalier

·        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:      

  •       Christopher Columbus 

  •       Amerigo Vespucci 

  •       Ferdinand Magellan

  •       Hernando Cortes

  •       Francisco Pizzaro 

  •       Juan Ponce De Leon

  •       Giovanni de Verrazzano 

  •       Henry Hudson 

  •       John Cabot 

  •       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.):

  • Rise to Rebellion – Jeff Shaara

  • The Fifth of March -  Ann Rinaldi

  • Challenge the Wind - Christine Echeverria Bender

  • Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

  • Lincoln – Gore Vidal

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriett Beecher Stowe

  • Dawn’s Early Light -  Elswyth Thane

  • O Beulah Land  -  Mary Lee Settle

  • Last of the Mohicans* - James Fennimore Cooper

  • Cold Mountain* - Charles Frazier 

  • 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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