2014 ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT

 

Students are expected to read one or more books from the list for each course he/she will take in the fall. During the first week of school students will complete assignments regarding their summer reading.  Please note that unless indicated (*), these books are for specific classes and will NOT count for the summer reading club. Additional information and assignments can be found on www.duvalschools.org/fhp.

 

9th & 10th SUMMER READING (SRC**)

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey**

• Pilgrim  in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida:  Jeff Klinkenberg**

• The Yearling, Marjorie K. Rawlings**

• The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, Steve Sheinkin**                                        

 

ENGLISH II (TENTH GRADE)

• Dawn, Elie Wiesel

• Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

• Life of Pi, Yann Martel

 

ENGLISH III (ELEVENTH GRADE)

• A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

• Our Town, Thornton Wilder

• Copper Sun, Sharon Draper

• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

• Divergent, Veronica Roth**

 

ENGLISH IV (TWELFTH GRADE)

Choose One: *See school website for activity.

• Wuthering Heights: A Kaplan SAT Score Raising Classic by Emily Brontë

• Rave New World SAT Vocabulary Novel Series by Lynne Hansen

• Vampire Dreams: An SAT Vocabulary Novel by Tyche

• A Doll’s House by Ibsen

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens**

11TH & 12TH SUMMER READING

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey**

 

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens**  

 

Divergent, Veronica Roth**       

 

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury**

 

AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION

Summer assignments are on the website:

• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

• A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

• The Crucible, Arthur Miller

 

AP LITERATURE

Students are expected to read one of these and complete a Major Works Data Sheet (available on website)

• The Piano Lesson, August Wilson

• Othello, William Shakespeare

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

• Fahrenheit 451, Kurt Vonnegut**

• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

 

JOURNALISM

Read and bring one copy of the following to class:

The New York Times

The Wall Street Journal

U.S. News and World Reports

The Florida Times Union

 

SPANISH ONE

See: The Realidades program page & select Level 1. Study the “Para Empezar” chapter. http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=jck&wcsuffix=0001

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

• Complete the assignment found on the following website

•   https://sites.google.com/site/snyescience

 

BIOLOGY I & BIOLOGY I HONORS

• Read one article from any of the following:

“Discover Magazine,” “Scientific American,” “National Geographic,” “Smithsonian” or “Natural History.”

• Type a 1-2 page summary. See school website for details or email FHP_Biology@gmail.com

 

BIOLOGY I HONORS (ADDITIONAL)

• The Dooms Day Key by James Rollins

See school website for details or email FHP_Biology@gmail.com

 

AP WORLD HISTORY

• Vocabulary and map assignment found on website: https://sites.google.com/site/iwilldominatetheapworldexam/

 

AP PSYCHOLOGY

Summer assignments are on the website: http://sites.google.com/site/pamelawhitesocial studies/

 

U.S. / HONORS / AP U.S. HISTORY

The U.S. Declaration of IndependenceThe U.S. ConstitutionThe U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

 

AP GOVERNMENT

• See assignment on teacher’s website: https://sites.google.com/site/apgopoboos/home

 

 

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

• The Manipulative Child, Earnest Swihart Jr. MD and Patrick D. Cottier PHD

This is Our Child, Antonya Cooper and Valerie Harpin-Special needs

 

**SRC – SUMMER READING CLUB