When purchasing books for upper school English classes, be aware that teachers require print books (no ebooks). Please purchase the specific edition indicated by the ISBN, as assignments will refer to the page numbers in that edition.
| Course | Teacher | Title | Author | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English 1 (Freshmen) (One required title plus one choice. Two books in total.) |
All teachers | Required: When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka | 9780345807274 | View teacher instructions |
| Choose one from this list: | |||||
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 9780765378484 | |||
| The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | 9780061765223 | |||
| There There | Tommy Orange | 9780525436140 | |||
| Monster | Walter Dean Myers | 9780064407311 | |||
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | 9781984827616 | |||
| English 2 (Sophomores) (two required books) |
All teachers | The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | 9780679734772 | View teacher instructions |
| The Glass Castle: a Memoir | Jeannette Walls | 9780743247542 | |||
| Junior year options: | |||||
| English 3: Rebels (One required title plus one choice from teacher instructions list. Two books in total.) |
Plamondon | Looking for Alaska (required) | John Green | 9780142402511 | View teacher instructions |
| English Language (AP) | Sincoff/King | In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction | Lee Gutkind, ed. | 9780393326659 | View teacher instructions |
| English Literature (AP): One assigned title + one choice - see instructions. |
Harris | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 9780375703867 | View teacher instructions |
| Senior year options: | |||||
| Café Society: Paris '20s & '30s | Longust | Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. |
Jeremy Mercer | 9789312347406 | View teacher instructions |
| Contemporary Global Literature | King | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 9780307455925 | View teacher instructions |
| Dangerous Ideas | Jinnett | Madness: A Very Short Introduction | Andrew T. Scull | 9780199608034 | View teacher instructions |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ramsey | No reading assigned; see teacher-provided journal assignment | View teacher instructions | ||
| Global Mythologies (Two books) |
Bush | The Power of Myth | Joseph Campbell | 9780385418867 | |
| A Short History of Myth | Karen Armstrong | 9781841958002 | |||
| Gothic South | Newton | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | 9781501126079 | |
| Investigations | Plamondon | League of Denial | Mark Fainaru-Wada | 9780770437541 | |
| Course | Teacher | Assignment | |||
| History courses | |||||
| Freshman Modern World History | All teachers | View teacher instructions | |||
| Sophomore US History | All teachers | View teacher instructions | |||
| Sophomore US History (AP) | Tieck | View teacher instructions (Menlo login required) | |||
| American Economic History | C. Hanson | View teacher instructions Download assigned reading (Menlo login required) |
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| AP Economics | C. Hanson | View teacher instructions | |||
| AP European History | K. Hanson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Philosophy | Bowen | View teacher instructions | |||
| Math courses | |||||
| Precalculus | All teachers | Summer math assignment Video links Solutions |
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| Advanced precalculus | All teachers | Summer math assignment Video links Solutions |
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| Honors precalculus | All teachers | ||||
| Science courses | |||||
| Physics (non-AP) | All teachers | View teacher instructions | |||