When purchasing books for Upper School English classes, teachers typically require print books. Please purchase the specific edition indicated by the ISBN, as assignments will refer to the page numbers in that edition. You can email the teacher as indicated on the assignment sheet or Ms. Otero, the librarian, with any questions.
| Course |
Teacher | Title | Author | ISBN | Assignment/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
English 1 (Freshmen) |
All teachers | ||||
| English 2 (Sophomores) |
All teachers | Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 9781101971062 | Homegoing reading guide |
| Into Thin Air | John Krakauer | 9780385494786 | Into Thin Air reading guide | ||
| Junior Year Options: | |||||
| English 3: Rebels |
Plamondon | Looking for Alaska (required) + another title of your choosing (see list on instructions) | John Green | 9780142402511 | View teacher instructions |
|
English Language (AP) |
Sincoff/King | View teacher instructions | |||
| English Literature (AP): |
Pressesky | Passing (required) + another title of your choosing (see list on instructions) | Nella Larsen | 9780593437841 | View teacher instructions |
| Senior Year Options: | |||||
| Café Society: Paris in the 1920's | Longust | Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare and Co. |
Jeremy Mercer | 9789312347406 | View teacher instructions |
| Dystopian Fiction and Film | Plamondon | View teacher instructions | |||
| East Asian Pop Culture | King | Anime Explosion!: The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation - Revised and updated edition, 2014 | Patrick Drazen | 9781611720136 | View teacher instructions |
| Gothic South (H) | Newton | As I Lay Dying (1991 edition) |
William Faulkner | 9780679732259 | View teacher instructions |
| Medicine & Narrative | Blumenthal | View teacher instructions | |||
| Modernist Poetry Workshop (H) | Bush | Modernism: The Lure of Heresy | Peter Gay | 9780393333961 | Read (at least) up to page 230 |
| Odysseys | Garvey | View teacher instructions | |||
| On Being | Ramsey | View teacher instructions | |||
| Shakespeare Now (H) | Warren | View teacher instructions | |||
| Course | Teacher | Assignment | |||
|
Modern World History (Freshmen) |
All teachers | View teacher instructions |
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US History (Sophomores) |
All teachers | ||||
| Criminal Justice | Ballantyne | No summer assignment | |||
| Economic Theory | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| Ethnic Studies I | Aquino | View teacher instructions | |||
| European History (AP) | K. Hanson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Gender & Queer Studies | Nelson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Global Issues for Global Citizens | Nelson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Modern Political Rhetoric | Nelson | Read On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt, ISBN: 9780691122946 | |||
| Philosophy I | Bowen | View teacher instructions | |||
| Pursuit of Happiness | Brown | No summer assignment | |||
| Renaissance: Humanities I | Gertmenian | View teacher instructions | |||
| The U.S. Since 2000 | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| United States Government (AP) | All teachers | View teacher instructions | |||
| Course | Teacher | Assignment |
| Precalculus | All teachers | |
| Intro to Calculus | All teachers | Summer math assignment Video links Solutions |
| Honors Intro to Calculus | All teachers | Summer math assignment Video links Solutions |