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HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

SUMMER READING LIST – 2008

 

 

 

Am History 9 EC             Under the Quilt of Night – Deborah Hopkinson – Aladdin Paperbacks                                      

 

Am History 9 Acd            The Little Regiment – Stephen Crane – Dover Publications

                                      

Am History 9 Hon           Looking Backward – Edward Bellamy – Dover Publications

                                      

Am History 10 EC           Declaration of Independence and Other Documents – Dover Publications

                                      

Am History 10  Acd         Night – Elie Wiesel – Hill and Wang

                                      

Am History 10 Hon         1984 – George Orwell – Various Publishers

                                      

Am History 10 AP           The Jungle – Upton Sinclair – Various Publishers

                                      

Wld History EC               The Adventures of Don Quixote – Argentina Palacious – Dover Publications      

 

Wld History Acd              Monkey: A Journey to the West – Wu Cheng’en – Grove Atlantic Inc.

                                      

Wld History Hon             A Passage to India – E.M. Forster – Harcourt Publisher

                                      

Wld History AP               Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies – Jared Diamond – W. W. Norton and Co.

                                      

Am Gov’t EC                   The Story of Frankenstein – Mary Shelley – Dover Publications    

                                      

Am Gov’t  Acd                John F. Kennedy and PT 109 - Philip Abraham – Scholastic Library Publishing

                                      

Am Gov’t Hon                 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass – Dover Publishers

                                      

Human Geog AP            Fast Food Nation:  The Dark Side of the All-American Meal – Eric Schlosser – Houghton Mifflin

                                      

School and Society         Minds in Motion – Susan Griss – Heinemann Publishing

                                      

The Vietnam War           See Ms. Vogel for your packet of reading material                        

                                      

Sociology                        Why Love Matters:  How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain – Sue              Gerhardt – Brunner-Routledge

 

State and Local 

History                            Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill – Richard Ketchum –                                         Henry Holt & Co.