North Shore Country Day Upper School 2021 Summer Reading and Assignments Page 1 of 115 AP Studio Art, 2D 3 Photo-Based/Assignments 3 Mixed Media Portfolio/Assignments 3 AP Studio Art, 3D 5 3D Portfolio/Assignments 5 AP Studio Art, Drawing 7 AP Human Geography 9 Required Reading 9 About the Book 9 Your Assignment 9 Enrichment 11 Optional Reading 11 AP United States History 12 The Assignment 12 PART I 12 PART II 12 AP French Language and Culture 13 But du travail d’été 13 Lisez bien tout ce document pour comprendre ce que vous devez faire 13 Tableau des choix de films et liens aux sources d’information 14 Cours AP Français - Vos premières présentations 15 Liens aux sites à utiliser pour faire vos recherches: 16 AP Spanish Language and Culture 18 AP Spanish Literature 19 AP Music Theory 20 AP English 21 Critical Reading Journals 21 AP US Government & Politics 23 English 9 25 English 10 26 Part 1 26 Part 2 26 Part 3 26 English 11 27 English 11 Book Options 27 English 12 110 English 12 Summer Reading 111 Page 2 of 115 AP Studio Art, 2D Below are suggestions for 2D summer assignments. If you are in AP you must complete at least 4 pieces over the summer. If you are in AOS 1 semester, complete 1 assignment; 2 semesters, complete 2 assignments. Those pieces will be due the 2nd day of class, during which we will review your work in a group critique. If you are unsure which portfolio you will complete, you may choose from the Drawing, 3D or 2D lists. If you plan on using Photography, you must do assignments from the 2D Design portfolio, but you may choose from the Mixed Media or Photo lists. Photo-Based/Assignments Document everything Documentation must be high quality, lighting must be good/clear Look up any vocabulary in this list that you do not know. These include essential visual art terms. • Sew fragments of two or more of your photographs together. • Create a double negative in Photoshop. • Try out three different Photo editing applications. Make something in each. • Try out three different digital drawing applications. Make something in each. • Take 100 pictures of the same subject (ex. 100 post offices, 100 pairs of hands). • Melt something onto a photograph, mount the final photograph of something else. • Take 10 pictures of people working from different angles. • Take 10 pictures of fragments of walls. • Take a panorama photograph of the same scene at 3 different times of day/night. • Set up a still life that looks like it is from the 1700s. • Find old color photographs, dissolve them in water and document the photos at different points of dissolution (make sure the lighting and photo quality of the documentation is clear). • Find a way to print a photograph onto cloth. Paint, dye, or spill something on the cloth. • Take a photograph of parts of something, print them out, put the photographs together. Take a photograph of the combined fragments. • Take 20 images of different kinds of curves. • Take a photograph of someone, print the photograph, have them hold the printed photograph, take another photograph, print the photograph, have them hold the photograph, take another photograph, print the photograph. • Show the history of a person, animal, or object through a series of photographs. • Create a family tree using photography. • Take photographs of things people love, print the photographs, give the photographs to those people, take a picture of the person with the photograph of the thing they love. • Take 20 photographs of strangers from the eye level of a child. • Look at Cindy Sherman, create a piece inspired by her work. • Take 20 photographs of strangers from a bird’s eye view. • Find 10 ugly/ dirty/ moldy/gross things and photograph them with beautiful lighting. • Find 10 beautiful things, make them look scary. • Organize objects by color and take photographs of those objects neatly organized. • Take a photo that challenges figure-ground relationships. Mixed Media Portfolio/Assignments • Come up with your own fashion line. Make illustrations/collages of your designs. • Create a collage that incorporates photography and drawing. Page 3 of 115 • Come up with new packaging and/or branding for a product that already exists. • Create an album cover/ album artwork for your favorite musical artist • Design a book cover for a book that you had to read this past year. • Create a comic or graphic novel page. • Design an infographic for something mundane. • Take a flash photo of under your bed and the beds of other people. • Create a poster of shadows. • Design a character and an environment for that character. • Create a dynamic website. Take screenshots of it. • Create an animation. • Create a piece of sequential art or time lapse piece. • Project an image and use your body to break up the projection. Document it. • Create a fake business. Create an ad for your fake business. • Make a flyer about your day. • Create a piece of cartography, challenge what a map could be. • Create a visually compelling list of the qualities of an ideal friend/mate. • Use graphic design to comment on education. It can be yours, someone else’s, or the public in general. • Design visual directions to do a simple task, such as buttering bread. • If you know how to play music, find a way to incorporate musical information into a digital piece. • Destroy something. Document it. Create a new visual identity for it. • Make a documentary video. • Take a portrait of people who look like they are related together. • Design a building or other structure. • Take a portrait of two different families. • Make a video of someone dancing. Photograph the video stills. • Edit a photo album page (the old kind of photo albums). If these ideas do not work for you, please email Mr. Dupont with your list of other ideas. Page 4 of 115 AP Studio Art, 3D Below are suggestions for 3D summer assignments. If you are in AP you must complete at least 4 pieces over the summer. If you are in AOS 1 semester, complete 1 assignment; 2 semesters, complete 2 assignments. Those pieces will be due the 2nd day of class, during which we will review your work in a group critique. If you are unsure which portfolio you will complete, you may choose from the Drawing, 3D or 2D lists. Documentation is everything- make sure you take GREAT photos of your work. 3D Portfolio/Assignments Document everything Documentation must be high quality, lighting must be good/clear Look up any vocabulary in this list that you do not know. These include essential visual art terms • Create an Assemblage: A sculpture out of found objects • Look through your trash or recycling bin, find different textures and combine them in 3 different ways. • Make a sculpture using your hands as inspiration. • Make a wearable piece, it can fit on any part of the body. • Make an inflatable. Look at instructables.com for easy instructions- all you need is packing tape, plastic bags, and a fan. • Bury something, document the process. • Make an encouraging banner. Hang it somewhere. • Reorganize someone else’s room, document the reorganization process. • Make a temporary sculpture by using only your chair, clothes, and body. • Find someone with long hair, arrange it with objects to make a temporary sculpture. • Take a walk in an urban environment, make things out of what you find on your walk. • Go into the woods, use found natural objects to make a temporary structure, document it. • Sculpt a bust of someone. • Make a protest sign and protest. Document the experience and signage. • Create and perform the saddest song you can. Document the experience, the music, and the lighting. • Make a public memorial. • Make a thing from nature look unnatural, document it. • Recreate an object from someone’s past. • Make a sculpture that casts an interesting shadow, document the sculpture with its shadow. • Get lost, document the process of finding your way back. Collect things you found along the way. Document these things. Write a note about your experience. Document the note. • Create an architectural model. • Create work about gender or body representation in 3D. The work can also be an installation. • Create an installation using packing tape as your main material. • Create a sculpture made of wire that explores small and large shapes. • Create a sculpture or installation that hangs from the ceiling. • Create weaving of traditional and nontraditional materials. • Wrap an object with string, cloth, or other objects until it becomes unrecognizable. • Change the function of a common object. • Build a maze, document it. • Make a paper replica of your bed and bedroom. Page 5 of 115 • Start a lecture series. Document yourself lecturing and your audience. Include a slideshow of what you lecture about. • Carve into something, take a photograph. • Curate an art show in a public place. Document it from multiple angles. Make a kinetic sculpture. Make a sculpture that can float. Put it in a pool, a lake, or the ocean. Remember, document everything! If these ideas do not work for you, please email Mr. Dupont with your list of other ideas. Page 6 of 115 AP Studio Art, Drawing Below are suggestions for 2D summer assignments. If you are in AP you must complete at least 4 pieces over the summer. If you are in AOS 1 semester, complete 1 assignment; 2 semesters, complete 2 assignments. Those pieces will be due the 2nd day of class, during which we will review your work in a group critique. If you are unsure which portfolio you will complete, you may choose from the Drawing, 3D or 2D list.