Summer Assignments
Summer Assignments for 2024 - 2025 School Year
Students should be prepared to discuss / test on all of their assigned reading books during the first days of school.
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Summer Reading
Required Essay Assignment – 500 words
After reading your Summer Reading selections, explain which one you liked the best and provide specifics from the works for your choice. In addition, include a character who made a distinct personal impression on you and provide supportive reasons for your choice. The impression can be either positive or negative, but make sure you give reasons for your choice.
For All Students - Theology Book Requirement
Shadow of His Wings - Fr. Gereon Goldmann
Abridged Edition (168 pages)
For English Classes
- Freshman - College Prep
- Lord of the Flies - Golding
- Freshman - Honors
- Lord of the Flies - Golding
- Fahrenheit 451 - Bradburry
- Sophomore - College Prep
- Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
- Sophomore - Honors
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
- Junior - College Prep
- A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
- Junior - Honors
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Senior - College Prep
- 1984 - Orwell
- Senior - Honors
- Long Day's Journey Into Night - O'Neill
- Waiting for Godot - Beckett
- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
- AP Literature
- Klara and the Sun - Ishiguro
- Brave New World - Huxley
- A Prayer For Owen Meany - Irving
- AP Seminar
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
- The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
- Their Eyes are Watching God - Hurston
- AP Research
- They Say, I Say - Graft and Birkenstein
- AP Language and Composition
- Great Expectation - Dickens
- Jane Eyre - Bronte
- Frankenstein - Shelley
AP Summer Assignments
Senior College Summer Tasks
All seniors should be completing the college tasks assigned by the Student Services department in the spring. Click HERE to view the tasks, which includes the college essay prompts.