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. You can email the teacher as indicated on the assignment sheet, or email Mrs. Rettberg, the librarian, with questions about these assignments.
| Course | Teacher | Title | Author | ISBN | Notes |
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English 1 (Freshmen) |
All teachers | The Fifth Season | N.K. Jemisin | 9780316229296 | View teacher instructions |
| When the Emperor was Divine | Julie Otsuka | 9780385721813 | |||
| English 2 (Sophomores) Two required books |
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 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 |
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English Language (AP) |
Sincoff/King | Readings are listed on teacher instructions page. | View teacher instructions | ||
| English Literature (AP): One required title plus one book from teacher instructions list. Two books in total. |
Pressesky | Oryx and Crake (required) |
Margaret Atwood | 9780385721677 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Emerson | Ramsey | No reading; see assignment sheet for journaling instructions | View teacher instructions | ||
| Gothic South | Newton | As I Lay Dying (1991 edition) |
William Faulkner | 9780679732259 | View teacher instructions |
| Investigations | Plamondon | League of Denial | Mark Fainaru-Wada | 9780770437541 | View teacher instructions |
| Listen to one of five podcasts from a list of options | |||||
| Medicine & Narrative | Blumenthal | Choose one book from the list on the assignment sheet | View teacher instructions | ||
| Modernist Poetry Workshop | Bush | Modernism: An Anthology | Lawrence Rainey | 9780631204497 | View teacher instructions |
| Course | Teacher | Assignment | |||
| History courses | |||||
| Freshman Modern World History | All teachers | View teacher instructions Menlo Okta login required to access assigned reading - login info will be sent to students new to Menlo near the end of June. |
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| Sophomore US History | All teachers | View teacher instructions Menlo Okta login required to access assigned reading - login info will be sent to students new to Menlo near the end of June. |
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| Economics (AP) | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| Ethnic Studies | Borbón | 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 | Bowen | Summer reading: portions of The Dream Weaver: One Boy's Journey through the Landscape of Reality by Jack Bowen, ISBN: 978-0205528868 View teacher instructions |
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| The Pursuit of Happiness | Brown | No summer assignment | |||
| Renaissance: Humanities | Gertmenian | View teacher instructions | |||
| US Economic History | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| United States Government (AP) | Okunnuga | View teacher instructions | |||
| War & Peace in the Modern Middle East | K. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| 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 | ||||
| App Design & Development | Kiang |
Download the Develop in Swift Fundamentals textbook |
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