& Social Studies Department - All Students

Choose one of following books to read.  

1. The Illiad                                       by: Homer

2. The Aeneid                                    by Virgil

   &  English Department - REQUIRED - All Students - Except Honors

                Read the following book.

1. Death Be Not Proud                                by: John Gunther

 Honors class students read both of the following books.

1. The chosen                                             by: C. Potok

2. Watership Down                                     by: Richard Adams

  & Math  Department -Integrated Algebra Honor's Students

 &   Religious Studies Department – REQUIRED – All Students

                     1. The Case for a Creator                         by: Lee Strobel

&   English Department  

REQUIRED - All Students – Except Honors Class Students

 Read the following book.

 1. Animal Farm                                          by: George Orwell

              Honors Class Students: 

              Read the following book.

             1. The Bridge Over the River Kwai            by: Pierre Boulle

&   Social Studies Department

                 REQUIRED - All Students – Except A.P. Class Students

 Choose one of the following two books to read:

 1. David Copperfield                    by: Charles Dickens

 2. Tale of Two Cities                    by: Charles Dickens

 AP European History class students read the following book:

             1. Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding      by: John Locke

&        Language Department – All Students

                Italian II students read the following book.

    1. Avventure in Citta’            by: Mario Costantine and Heywood Wald

   Spanish II students read the following book.

    1. El cantar del mio Cid                  by: Nivel Cid

 Latin II Honors students read the following book.

              1. Archaic Latin Verse           by Mario Erasmo

&  Religious Studies Department – All Students - Required

    1. The Case for Christ                          by: Lee Strobel

& English Department - REQUIRED

American Literature Class:

1. All Souls                                                  by: Michael Patrick MacDonald   

                British Literature Class:

                1. The Secret Agent                                    by: Joseph Conrad

                2. A Modest Proposal                                   by: Jonathan Swift       

AP English Language and Composition Class :

1. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis    by: Robert F. Kennedy

2. The Man Without a Country                                      by: Edward Everett Hale             

& Social Studies Department - REQUIRED

          ALL STUDENTS/EXCEPT ADVANCED PLACEMENT:

1. Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America        by: Steven M. Gillon

 ADVANCED PLACEMENT UNITED STATES HISTORY STUDENTS:

1. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis    by: Robert F. Kennedy

&     Language Department – REQUIRED

1. Un estate tutta diversa        by: Mario Procopio – Demas & Mariastella Cocchiera

1. La Gitanilla                           by: Cervantes

1. Vergil: A Legamus Transitional Reader      by: Thomas J. Sienkewiz

&  Religious Studies Department – REQUIRED – All Students

 1. Mr. Blue    by Myles Connolly  Also available through website:

 &   Social Studies Department

 All students

 1. Up In Smoke                              by: Martha Derthick

&   English Department

        A.P. English Literature Classes 

        Read all four of the following books:

1. King Lear                                                          by: William Shakespeare

2. Bluest Eye                                               by: Toni Morrison

3. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man      by: James Joyce

4. Aristotle’s Poetics                                    by: Aristotle

All other students:

1. Generation Kill                             by: Evan Wright

&  Religious Studies Department – Required – All Students

          1. The Grunt Padre                           by Fr. Daniel L. Mode                                

 &  AP Computer Science:

        Note: All books are available at your local library or bookstore.