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Textbooks, Summer Reading & Assignments: Upper School Summer Assignments

Menlo School Textbooks, Summer Reading & Assignments

Upper School English

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        

View teacher instructions

     
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      

Upper School History

Course Teacher Assignment
 

 Modern World History (Freshmen)

All teachers View teacher instructions
 

US History (Sophomores)

All teachers

View teacher instructions

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
 
 

Upper School Math

Course Teacher Assignment
 
Precalculus All teachers

Summer math assignment
Video links
Solutions

Intro to Calculus All teachers Summer math assignment
Video links
Solutions
Honors Intro to Calculus All teachers Summer math assignment
Video links
Solutions