Please purchase your summer reading books from your favorite bookseller.
Seniors - Class of 2010
ENGLISH:
Students are to read the one appropriate to the class(es) they are signed up to take:
- Eng. 403AP: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz) AND So Long, See You Tomorrow (William Maxwell)
- Eng. 430-Modern American Authors: Straight Man (Richard Russo) ISBN: 0-375-70190-7
- Eng. 440-Shakespeare: Read Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey) AND view “Richard III” with Ian McKellen & Annette Benning (DVD 2000)
- Eng. 450: Mythology: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell translation) ISBN: 07432-6169-0 (PLEASE NOTE: Students can skip reading the introduction.)
- Eng. 456-Nature/Nexus: Prodigal Summer (Barbara Kingsolver) ISBN-10: 0060959037 or ISBN-13: 978-0060959036
- Eng. 460-Fiction into Film: Read Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust [ISBN: 0-451-52348-2 (Signet Classics )] AND view “The Purple Rose of Cairo” (directed by Woody Allen) Home Entertainment, 1984
- Eng. 482-Literature and Composition: Nonfiction: No Summer Reading
- Eng. 492-Dramatic Literature: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
SOCIAL SCIENCE:
For all government courses, read either:
- In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action (Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy) OR
- The Right to Privacy (Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy)
For AP Psychology A: Read:
- Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research (Roger Hock) 5th Edition
- Schedules and textbook purchasing information will be mailed July 11 for continuing students.
- The SI Bookstore will open for returning students on July 30 for Pickup & Pay Orders only for sales of Fall 2009 textbooks.
- Full service hours for all students begin on August 17.
- Freshmen schedules will be mailed August 8.
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