AP English 12
All students must read:
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Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus
English 12 Honors
All students must read: James McBride, The Color of Water
And Choose one of the following:
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Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle
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Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
English 12 CCP
Choose one of the following:
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Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming
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Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle
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Robert Parker, Mortal Stakes
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Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
English Language and Literature
Choose one of the following:
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Sonia Nazario, Enrique’s Journey
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Robert Lipsyte, The Contender
GRADE 11/12 AP Social Studies
AP Economics
Levitt and Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything,
A test will be administered the first week of school.
AP Government and Politics
Sherrod Brown, Desk 88
A test will be administered the first week of school.
Email Ms. McMillen at [email protected] with any questions.
AP Modern European History
Rick Steves, Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler (Page 92 to the end)
Assignment is on the website: www.matthewsqhs.weebly.com
Suggested Additional Readings:
Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England
Ken Follett-Long, A Column of Fire
AP Psychology
Lauren Slater, Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century.
New Your: W.W. Norton, 2004.
There will be a test given in class during the first double period of the school year.
See https://doylepsych.com/ap/summer/ for the assignment.