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Summer Assignments 2013 for English, Foreign Languages, Social Studies, and Science

*Please check back for Social Studies.

SCIENCE

AP Biology - ASSIGNMENTS DUE 8/16/13:

*Please feel free to contact Mr. Porter dporter@saintursula.org with any questions.

• Summer Assignment Part I (click here)
• Summer Assignment Part II (click here)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

LATIN:

• Latin II:
  • Vocabulary and Grammar Pages DUE 8/13/13
  • Assigned Reading/Translation DUE 8/13/13
• Latin IV: Assigned Reading/Translation DUE 8/13/13
• Latin IV Honors: Summer Packet SEE PACKET FOR DUE DATES
• AP Latin: Please see Latin IV Honors Summer Packet for books that you need to purchase for class.

SPANISH:

• Spanish II: Study the following files for a TEST the week of 8/13/13.
  • Vocabulary
  • Verbs Review I
  • Verbs Review II
  • Stem Changer
• Spanish IV Honors: "UN VERANO MISTERIOSO"

ENGLISH

CP Literary Genres (click here to download PDF file to read):

• "Antaeus" by Borden Deal
• "The Sniper" by Liam O'Flaherty
• "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
• "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan

 

Class of 2016:

Honors SOPHOMORE American Literature:

• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

 

CP SOPHOMORE American Literature (click here to download PDF file to read):

• "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter

• "Average Waves in Unprotected Waters" by Anne Tyler

• "Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish

• "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

• "Poetry" by Marianna More

 

Class of 2015:
Honors JUNIOR American Literature:

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

 

CP JUNIOR American Literature (click here to download PDF file to read):

• "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway

• "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte

• "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather

 

Class of 2014:

AP:

• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

• Poetry 180 by Billy Collins (ed.) (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

 

CP World Literature (click here to download PDF file to read):

• "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka (NO E-READERS, PLEASE.)

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