Summer Reading

ENGLISH:
All incoming frosh in ENGLISH 100 MUST read ONE of the following.  All incoming frosh in ENGLISH 103H MUST read TWO of the following.

• Turtles All the Way Down (John Green)
• Darius the Great is Not Okay (Adib Khorram)
• Patron Saints of Nothing (Randy Ribay)
• Frankly in Love (David Yoon)

RELIGIOUS STUDIES:

Students must read and view both:

• "The Journey of Ignatius of Loyola" (Rev. Kevin O'Brien, S.J. with illustrations by Thomas Fong, '23) - download
• View this video: "Ignatius of Loyola – Finding God In All Things" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeq8p687RIY

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Students must read all three books: 

• March, Book One (John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell) 
• March, Book Two (John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell) 
• March, Book Three (John Lewis, Andres Aydin, Nate Powell) 

https://www.amazon.com/March-Issues-3-Book-Series/dp/B01JM9RVII/ref=sr_1_1 

LANGUAGE:
Freshmen who are enrolled in any language class are not required to do summer work. 

ENGLISH:  
Students must read both:

• The Book Thief (Marcus Zusak)
• The Hate You Give (Angie Thomas)

SOCIAL SCIENCE:   
MODERN WORLD HISTORY -- Students are to read one of the following:

• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick)
• In the Shadow of the Banyan (Vaddey Ratner)
• A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Ishmael Beah)
• City of Thieves (David Benioff)
• The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Ernesto Che Guevara and Cintio Vitier) 
• Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)

SCIENCE:  Scroll down for Science Summer Reading. 

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Scroll down for AP Computer Science Summer Reading. 

LANGUAGE:  Click here for your summer language assignments.

ENGLISH:  
ENGLISH 300 - Students must read two of the following:

• There, There (Tommy Orange)
• Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)  
• Behold the Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
• The Sentence (Louise Erdich)
• Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow)
• The Resisters (Gish Jen)
• NOTE:  Be prepared for a written assignment on return to school.

English 303H - Students must read Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow) and choose one of the following.  We encourage students to show their love of literature by reading more than one.  

• There, There (Tommy Orange)
• Behold the Dreamers (Imbolo Mbue)
• The Sentence (Louise Erdich)
• The Resisters (Gish Jen)
• NOTE:  Be prepared for a written assignment on return to school.

SOCIAL SCIENCE:  
US HISTORIES AND CULTURES -- Students are to read one of the following:

• Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
• Enrique's Journey (Sonia Nazario)
• The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
• Out of the Shadow (Rose Cohen)
• On Gold Mountain (Lisa See)

Economics:  Only for students who are enrolled in honors:  Read Economics: The User's Guide (Ha-Joon Chang).  Click here for the summer assignment. 

Social Movements and Social Justice:  For ALL students:  Click here for the summer assignment.

Social Cognitive Psychology:  All students must see 'Summer Assignment' in Preface module on Canvas after June 15. 

Behavioral Neuroscience:  All students must see 'Summer Assignment' in Preface module on Canvas after June 15.  

SCIENCE:  Scroll down for Science Summer Reading. 

COMPUTER SCIENCE:  Scroll down for AP Computer Science Summer Reading.

LANGUAGE: Click here for your summer language assignments.

ENGLISH: 
Students are to read the one appropriate to the class(es) they are signed up to take:

• Eng. 403AP:  The Color Purple (Alice Walker) ISBN: 9780156028356 AND Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
• Eng. 420: Satire in Literature and Popular Culture:  Beauty Queens (Libba Bray) 
• Eng. 430: Modern American Authors: No Reading Assignment
• Eng. 435: Women in Literature: Americanah (Chimamanda Adichie)
• Eng. 440: Shakespeare: No Reading Assignment
• Eng. 450: Mythology:  Circe (Madeline Miller) 
• Eng. 460: Fiction into Film:  View the film “The Godfather” and "The Godfather II" before class.
• Eng. 473: Burning Illusions:  The Will to Change (Bell Hooks)
• Eng. 482: Literature and Composition:  Educated (Tara Westover) 

RELIGIOUS STUDIES:

RS 477: Ecological Justice and Spirituality:  Students are to read The Story of More (Hope Jahren) - pages 1-23. Students need to have the paperback version of the textbook in class on Day One. 

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Students are to read the one appropriate to the class they are signed up to take:

• US Gov't: Constitutional Law:  Students should view these two PBS programs BEFORE their first day of class:  "A Plot to Overturn the Election " (53 min) min   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plot-to-overturn-the-election/  AND  "Supreme Revenge" (54 min)  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supreme-revenge/. Students should be prepared for a quiz on the first day of class. 
• US Gov't: Crime, Law and the Constitution:  For ALL students:  Read Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson) 
• US Gov't: San Francisco Case Studies:  For ALL students:  Read 1906 (James Dalessandro) before the first day of class. 
• US Gov't: Race, Gender and Power:  For ALL students:  Click here for the summer assignment.
• Social Movements and Social Justice:  For ALL students:  Click here for the summer assignment.
• Economics:  Only for students who are enrolled in honors: Read Economics: The User's Guide (Ha-Joon Chang).  Click here for the summer assignment. 
• Social Cognitive Psychology:  All students must see 'Summer Assignment' in Preface module on Canvas after June 15.  
• Behavioral Neuroscience:  All students must see 'Summer Assignment' in Preface module on Canvas after June 15. 

SCIENCE:  Scroll down for Science Summer Reading.

COMPUTER SCIENCE:  Scroll down for AP Computer Science Summer Reading. 

LANGUAGE: Click here for your summer language assignments.

Freshmen who are enrolled in any language class are not required to do summer work.

Students entering other classes: Click here for your summer language assignments.

AP Biology and AP Chemistry:  The summer assignment will be available on the class canvas page on July 1, 2022. 

AP Physics:  No Summer Assignment.

AP Computer Science:  Please click here for the summer reading assignment. The assignment is on Canvas.