Summer Reading List for 2025-26

Freshwomen

• All But My Life – Gerda Weissmann Klein
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

• All But My Life – Gerda Weissmann Klein
• Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

• St. Francis of Assisi: Gentle Revolutionary – Mary Emmanuel Alves, FSP

Sophomores

• A Step From Heaven – An Na
• Before We Were Free - Julia Alvarez

• Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

• Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust – Immaculee Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens - Sean Covey
  These are great habits to know for all year, but we won't talk about them till January. PDF version of the book is available or if you don't like reading on a device, I would purchase the book. It does NOT have to be read till January 26, 2026.
• Assignment: Please come to the first seminar class in September with two ideas for your Personal Project. See this presentation from May for a reminder and examples. Please contact Miss D'Andrea ([email protected]) with questions Assignment: Read the books, take notes, note all the people.

• Assignment: Students will have a summer Schoology course page created where they can access their summer assignment. 

Juniors

• If I Ever Get Out of Here - Eric Gansworth
• The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls

• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens

• Assignment: Complete Gr 11 & 12 IB Analysis Summer Assignment 2025

• Assignment: Complete Gr. 11 & 12 - IB Math Apps. & Interpt. - Summer Assignment 2025

• Religions Around the World: Exploring the Beliefs of the 12 Major Faiths by David M. Eaton
• Read all of the following chapters: Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, and the Baha’i Faith.
• Then choose one additional chapter to read: Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism

• Assignment: Mrs. Whitney will send an e-mail with instructions in early July.

• Assignment: Students will have a summer Schoology course page created by 7/5 where they can access their summer reading and writing assignment. An email will be sent out when the page is open.

• Assignment: Students will have a summer Schoology course page created by 7/5 where they can see the AP summer assignment and access and submit work. An email will be sent out with more information. The assignment will consist of reading and writing about the first two time periods of the course.

• Assignment: Honors US students will have a summer Schoology course page created by 7/5. An email will be sent out when it is open. The assignment will involve reading and writing about the early topics of the course.

• Heroides – Ovid
• Odes & Epodes – Horace
• Assignment: Students will be reading Ovid's Heroides and Horace's Odes and Epodes this summer. Students should pick these textbooks up in the front office no later than July 1st. They are labeled with their names. Ms. Tuminno will send further instructions and information to these students via email.

• Assignment: Find someone with whom you can frequently talk in the language being studied. Do fun things using the language.

Seniors

• If I Ever Get Out of Here - Eric Gansworth
• The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls

• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

• A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• The Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• The Crucible – Arthur Miller

• Assignment: Complete Gr 11 & 12 IB Analysis Summer Assignment 2025

• Assignment: Complete Gr. 11 & 12 - IB Math Apps. & Interpt. - Summer Assignment 2025

• Assignment: Complete Part 1 and the 1st three questions of Part 2 of IB Biology IA Proposal. This will require you to email me during the summer with your ideas. DO NOT leave this until the last week of August!!!

• Assignment: Continue working on IA.

• Assignment: Mrs. Whitney will send an e-mail with instructions in early July.

• Assignment: Complete Gr. 12 AP Gov Summer Reading 2025 1
• Assignment: Complete Gr. 12. AP Gov Summer Reading 2025 2

• Assignment: Students should be working on researching, collecting evidence for, and writing their internal assessments. Students should revisit their Action Sheet for a link to the document with the two tables they will need to complete as part of their IA research this summer. One table is for secondary source research, and the other is for collecting their primary sources. By July 31st, students should have 1.) completed both tables according to the directions outlined in the document, and 2.) and have contacted Ms. Tuminno to schedule a check-in meeting during August on Zoom. Please keep an eye out for emails from Ms. Tuminno this summer for more information.

• Assignment: Students going into the second year of French IB, should find some sort of reading they find interesting in French (blog, news articles e.g. the United Nations, BBC Mundo, French-language newspapers) and read several articles that they will share with the class at the beginning of the school year.  Make sure to send the URL to Dr. Horohoe.  They should also share their Word Journal from the first year with Dr. Horohoe as soon as possible. Find someone with whom they can frequently talk in French. Try to talk daily in French.

• Assignment: Students going into the second year of Spanish IB, should find some sort of reading they find interesting in Spanish (blog, news articles e.g. the United Nations, BBC Mundo, Spanish-language newspapers) and read several articles that they will share with the class at the beginning of the school year.  Make sure to send the URL to Dr. Horohoe.  They should also share their Word Journal from the first year with Dr. Horohoe as soon as possible. Find someone with whom they can frequently talk in Spanish. Try to talk daily in Spanish.