Stockbridge High School Summer Reading Assignment

Summer 2015 – AP Environmental Science

Mason. W. Sheffield

The Summer Assignment is due the first day of the 2015-16 school year, counts as two test grades, and is mandatory for all students taking AP Environmental Science. Due the first day of school.

 Choose a book from the reading list (on the back of this sheet).

 As you read, create a chart listing the words that are unfamiliar to you and the page number where it can be found. Define each of these terms and note an appropriate synonym. If you are familiar with all of the terms, identify at least 12 vocabulary terms, define them, and list synonyms as described below. We will utilize the vocabulary throughout the school year.

Example:

Terms Definition Synonym Contemporaneous p. 361 (adj.) Happening in the same synchronous period

 Pick 12 chapters and write a brief synopsis/summary for each. Four entries must come from the beginning chapters, four from the middle chapters, and four from the last chapters. Keep this in a formal tone, and use correct grammar and punctuation, as well as citations for anything directly quoted from the book.

 You must do six double-entry journal responses. To do this, draw a line down the middle of the page or create two columns. On the left side, copy a passage from the book that has meaning, was especially interesting, was especially confusing, or has personal significance to you (note the page, too). On the right side, offer your response to this passage. Why did you choose this? What is its meaning to you? Why did this strike you?

Example of a double-entry journal response:

Quote Response “As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, I had no idea that petroleum was known of 19th-century chemists found the middle and used as a fuel back then. I thought it was distillate fraction useful as a fuel for oil interesting how people understood a need for lamps. The chemists discarded the most finding a use for the waste from petroleum volatile fraction (gasoline) as an unfortunate production, which led to furthering their waste product-until it was found to be an ideal technologies. It helped me think about how fuel for internal-combustion engines.” (page this may have happened with several other 247) inventions and technologies. Summer Reading List (Choose one)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond ISBN-10: 0393061310 ISBN-13: 978-0393061314 Climate: The Counter-Consensus - A Palaeoclimatologist Speaks by Robert M. Carter ISBN-10: 1906768293 ISBN-13: 978-1906768294 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen ISBN-10: 0393066800 ISBN-13: 978-0393066807 The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin ISBN-10: 1595587098 ISBN-13: 978-1595587091 Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock ISBN-10: 0929173252 ISBN-13: 978- 0929173252 The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson ISBN-10: 1583227008 ISBN-13: 978- 1583227008 Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 by Rosa Koire ISBN-10: 0615494544 ISBN-13: 978- 0615494548 Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward T. Haslam ISBN-10: 0977795306 ISBN-13: 978- 0977795307 The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston ISBN-10: 0345466632 ISBN-13: 978-0345466631 Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory by Michael Christopher Carroll ISBN-10: 006078184X ISBN-13: 978-0060781842 Killer Germs by Barry Zimmerman and David Zimmerman ISBN-10: 0071409262 ISBN-13: 978-0071409261 Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together by Sylvia Bernstein ISBN-10: 086571701X ISBN-13: 978-0865717015 Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn ISBN-10: 0452274141 ISBN-13: 978-0452274143 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan ISBN-10: 0143038583 ISBN-13: 978-0143038580 How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich by Franz- Josef Bruggemeier (editor) ISBN-10: 0821416472, ISBN-13: 978-0821416471