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 Parable of the Sower | Butler | 9781538732182 or 9780345807274 |
View teacher instructions |
| When the Emperor was Divine | Otsuka | 9780385721813 | |||
| English 2 (Sophomores) Two required books |
All teachers | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 9780312427733 | View teacher instructions |
| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi | 9781101971062 | |||
| 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 | View teacher instructions | |||
| English Literature (AP): One required title plus one book from teacher instructions list. Two books in total. |
Harris | Frankenstein - Norton Critical Edition (required) |
Mary Shelley | 9780393927931 | 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 Two required books |
King | Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 9780307455925 | View teacher instructions |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 9781594483295 | |||
| Dangerous Ideas Two required books |
Jinnett | Madness: A Very Short Introduction | Andrew T. Scull | 9780199608034 | View teacher instructions |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
9780393341768 |
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| 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 |
| Global Mythologies (Two books) |
Bush | The Truth of Myth: World Mythology in Theory and Everyday Life | Tok Thompson | 9780190222802 | No additional instructions |
| Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined | Stephen Fry | 9781452178912 | |||
| Gothic South | Newton | Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | Any edition | No additional instructions |
| Investigations | Plamondon | League of Denial | Mark Fainaru-Wada | 9780770437541 | View teacher instructions |
| Listen to one of five podcasts from a list of options | |||||
| Poetry Workshop | Blumenthal | Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine | 9781555976903 | View teacher instructions |
| Course | Teacher | Assignment | |||
| History courses | |||||
| Freshman Modern World History | All teachers | View teacher instructions | |||
| Sophomore US History | All teachers | View teacher instructions (Menlo Okta login required) | |||
| Sophomore US History (AP) | Tieck | View teacher instructions (Menlo Okta login required) | |||
| California Dreaming | Mansdorf | No summer assignment | |||
| Economics (AP) | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| Ethnic Studies | Borbón | View teacher instructions | |||
| European History (AP) | K. Hanson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Global Issues for Global Citizens | Nelson | View teacher instructions | |||
| Humanities I | Gertmenian | Summer reading: portions of The Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione - out of print so purchase a used copy View teacher instructions |
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| 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 | |||
| United States Government (AP) | Okunnuga | View teacher instructions | |||
| The US Since 2000 | C. Hanson | No summer assignment | |||
| 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 and Development | D. Kiang |
Download the Develop in Swift Fundamentals textbook. |
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