Summer Reading 2008
Grade 12
Required Reading
All required summer reading books will be available from www.varsitybooks.com after June 1, 2008. If you have any difficulty obtaining these titles, call Sue Clayton in the Business Office at (410) 263-9231, ext. 1262.
To supplement the books listed below, Key's Upper School librarians have compiled a list of websites that provide additional options for summer reading. Many reading lists are available at the Young Adult Library Services Association's Outstanding Books for the College Bound. Jayne Karsten has shared this wonderfully annotated Humanities Texas Summer Reading List, featuring books in both English and Spanish. And for the latest from the National Council of Teachers of English on how books make it into summer reading lists, check out Shaking Up Summer Reading.
Required Reading For All Upper School Students
| Gaviotas ISBN 1890132284 (guiding questions) |
Alan Weisman |
Astronomy
Read ONE of the titles below.
| 2001 A Space Odyssey ISBN-10: 0451457994 ISBN-13: 978-0451457998 Publisher: Roc (September 12, 2000) |
Arthur C. Clarke |
| Contact ISBN-10: 1857235800 ISBN-13: 978-1857235807 Publisher: Orbit; New Ed edition (September 18, 1997) |
Carl Sagan |
| Eater ISBN-10: 0380790564 ISBN-13: 978-0380790562 Publisher: Eos (May 1, 2001) |
Gregory Benford |
Advanced Biology
| Biology |
Neil A. Campbell |
Read Chapters 1-6. There will be a test the first week of class.
Advanced Chemistry
| Chemistry 6th Edition |
Zumdahl |
Please read Chapters 1-3 and complete the following problems by the first day of school.
- Chapter 1: 25, 27, 31, 33, 41, 49, 53, 59.
- Chapter 2: 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 69, 71.
- Chapter 3: 23, 29, 33, 43, 51, 61
English 12
| One Hundred Years of Solitude ISBN 0060883286 (guiding questions) | Gabriel García Márquez |
French IV
| Le Petit Prince | Antoine St. Exupéry |
Read the entire book. Select your four favorite chapters and explain in four paragraphs in French, about ten lines each, why you selected those chapters.
French V
| La Symphonie Pastorale (National Textbook Co.) |
André Gide |
Read up to page 62. Summarize the reading in French in about three pages, double spaced. Select two of the following characters and characterize them in two different paragraphs, about twelve lines each: le Pasteur, Gertrude, Jacques, and Amelie.
Advanced French Literature
| Candide (Integral Version) |
Voltaire |
Read the entire book and be prepared to discuss it the first week of school.
Latin IV
| The Aeneid of Virgil | Tr. Mendelbaum |
Spanish II
| Realidad y fantasia | Noguez & Boyd |
Read Nada es perfecto (pages 1-10), En defenso de los vampiros, (p. 11- 14), and El perro es el mejor amigo del hombre (p. 15-20). Students are to answer all follow-up questions and be ready to do the in-class speaking exercises from each reading.
Spanish III
| Realidad y fantasia | Noguez & Boyd |
Read Juan Gómez, detective (pages 62-70), El origen de los aztecas (p. 71-75), El Cid Campeador (p. 84-91). Students are to answer all follow-up questions and be ready to do the in-class speaking exercises from each reading.
Spanish IV
| La Catrina, La novela | David Curland |
| El Misterio de la Llave | Fernando Uria |
Spanish V
Students will obtain a summer reading packet from the instructor.