St. David’s Upper School Summer Reading 2018 Dear St. David’s Students and Families: St. David’s Summer Reading Program is an important component of our academic curriculum. The required summer readings are carefully selected by the instructors of the upper school courses to set the groundwork for the themes and content of the coming year’s studies. Students should note the required readings in the English, AP, and language courses for which they are registered. The titles on the upper school suggested reading lists are chosen to enhance the year’s curriculum and to expose our students to important and interesting works. These include literature classics that introduce students to the concepts, characters, themes, and literary allusions that have become part of our cultural conversation. Also included are more contemporary fiction and nonfiction. We look forward to discussing the readings when we return to school in August. Enjoy your summer! Mrs. Peggy Swearingen, Director of Libraries Miss Sarah Jane Keegan, English Department Chair Upper School Faculty May 2018 St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP English Literature Students in AP English Literature are required to read the following two books over the summer and are expected to come to class ready to discuss the reading. Group activities, oral presentations, or written assessments about the literature will be part of the first week of class. Required: AP English Literature The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis Nonfiction ISBN: 978-0060652944 (Please use this edition.) This is perhaps Lewis’ most important nonfiction work. Lewis begins with the difficult question of how we approach literature in general. His inquiry leads him to conclude that the author and the reader share certain indisputable values, which are essential to human knowing. If through our critical analysis of literature, or indeed, our analysis of any reality whatsoever, we attempt to step outside of this truth, we find ourselves reduced to nothing more than the brute force of nature. The result of stepping outside these indisputable values is the abolition – the destruction – of man. The glory of this work of Lewis is his compelling argument that man is made for nothing other than the true, the good, and the beautiful. The Abolition of Man provides us with the true perspective of how to approach the greatest literature of human history. While the work is less than a hundred pages, the turns of the argument are sometimes difficult to follow, but you must master them: read and reread. Required: AP English Literature Chance or the Dance?: A Critique of Modern Secularism by Thomas Howard ISBN: 978-1621642299 (Please use this edition.) 1 St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP English Literature In Chance or the Dance? Thomas Howard sets forth the essential difference between the world of the imagination before the rise of modern secularism, which he calls “the old myth,” and the state of the imagination since its subjection to modern secularism, which he calls “the new myth.” In the “old myth” we remember the world in which nature and poetry and music define what is human, and in the “new myth” we postulate an existence in which science and technology and commercialism preoccupy sensibility. In Howard’s words, “The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new age is that nothing means anything.” Which myth is true? Which will rule your imagination? Suggested Reading: AP English and English IV Alighieri, Dante …The Divine Comedy; The New Life Austen, Jane…Emma; Mansfield Park; Pride and Prejudice Bronte, Charlotte …Jane Eyre Cather, Willa…Death Comes for the Archbishop; O Pioneers Conrad, Joseph…The Heart of Darkness; Nostromo; The Secret Agent Defoe, Daniel…Moll Flanders Dickens, Charles…Bleak House; Tale of Two Cities Dostoevsky, Fyodor… Crime and Punishment; The Gambler Dreiser, Theodore…An American Tragedy; Sister Carrie Eliot, George…Middlemarch; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner Faulkner, William… As I Lay Dying; The Hamlet; The Sound and the Fury Fielding, Henry…Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones Fitzgerald, F. Scott…The Beautiful and Damned; The Last Tycoon; This Side of Paradise Forester, E.M….Howard’s End; A Passage to India; A Room with a View 2 St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP English Literature Goethe, Johann von… Elective Affinities; The Sorrows of Young Werther Green, Graham… Brighton Rock; The End of the Affair; The Heart of the Matter Hardy, Thomas…Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure; Tess of the D’Urbervilles Hawthorne, Nathaniel…The Blithedale Romance; The Marble Faun (or you may choose a short story collection) Hemingway, Ernest…The Sun Also Rises Hugo, Victor...The Hunchback of Notre Dame; Les Miserables Ibsen, Henrik…The Lady from the Sea; The Master Builder; Peer Gynt; When We Dead Awaken James, Henry…The Bostonians; The Portrait of a Lady; The Wings of the Dove Kafka, Franz…The Castle; The Trial Mann, Thomas…Death in Venice; The Magic Mountain Melville, Herman…Moby Dick; Typee Milton, John…Lycidas; Paradise Lost; Samson Agonistes O’Connor, Flannery…The Complete Stories; The Violent Bear It Away Proust, Marcel…Swann’s Way; Within a Budding Grove Shakespeare, William…As You Like It; Henry the IV, Part I; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; The Tempest Steinbeck, John… East of Eden; The Grapes of Wrath Tolstoy, Leo…Anna Karenina; War and Peace Twain, Mark…Joan of Arc; Life on the Mississippi; Roughing It Wharton, Edith…The Age of Innocence; Ethan Frome; The House of Mirth Williams, Tennessee…Night of the Iguana; The Rose Tattoo; Suddenly Last Summer; Summer and Smoke Wright, Richard…Black Boy; Native Son Suggested Reading: Classical Texts Ovid…Metamorphoses Plato…Republic Sophocles…Antigone 3 St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP European History Required Reading: AP European History The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop Nonfiction ISBN: 978-0618057030 (Please use this edition.) The AP European History course begins its survey of European history at the very end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Renaissance. However, students of Modern European history should have an understanding of the history of Europe between the fall of Rome and the beginnings of the Renaissance. Bishop Morris’ book, The Middle Ages, does a great job of presenting this long scope of history in a clear and accessible way. From the Dark Ages, to conflicts between Church and State, to invading Vikings and Crusaders, the book moves quickly through a dynamic period of history that all too often slips through the cracks of the history curriculum. Politics, economics, religion, philosophy, family and work life all receive the author’s attention as he gives us a 10,000-ft. view of the European Middle Ages. Enjoy the flight! St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP Seminar AP Seminar does not have a summer reading requirement this year. St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 AP United States History Required Reading: AP U.S. History The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Historical fiction ISBN-13: 9780345348104 (Please use this edition. Both ISBNs represent the same edition.) ISBN-10: 0345348109 The Killer Angels is an historical novel which tells the story of the Battle of Gettysburg which occurred over four days in July 1863. The battle was pivotal to the outcome of the American Civil War. Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel invites the reader to consider what led to this moment, the meaning of this moment and the lingering consequences of this moment in American history. The battle unfolds at what might be described as the chronological and thematic “midpoint” of American history. In August, we will begin by considering what this means for us as students of the American past. St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 Department of Classical Languages The Department of Classical Languages requires summer reading of its students taking Latin V: AP Latin, Caesar and Vergil. For 2018, the department has optional texts for its students in Latin II, III, IV; and in Greek I, II, III, IV. (Middle school students taking Latin II: Please see the summer reading list under Middle School: Department of Classical Languages.) Required Reading: AP Latin V: Vergil Aeneid by Vergil, translated by Stanley Lombardo ISBN: 9780872207318 (Please use this edition.) Students are to read the entire Aeneid in English from the edition referenced above in preparation for their work with this poem during the year. Optional Reading: Latin II, III, IV; and Greek I, II, III, IV Aeneid by Vergil, translated by Stanley Lombardo ISBN: 9780872207318 (Please use this edition.) 1 St. David’s School Upper School Summer Reading 2018 Department of Classical Languages Students may read the Aeneid in English from the edition referenced above in preparation for their work with this poem during the year. 2 St. David’s School Department of Modern Languages Required Summer Reading 2018 For rising Spanish IV Honors: Breaking the Spanish Barrier 3 Available at: http://www.tobreak.com/shop/spanish-level-3- advanced-book-student-edition/ ISBN 0990312267 Students will be assigned grammar review and practice from Breaking the Spanish Barrier 3 by the Spanish IV Honors instructor. This resource will also be used throughout the 2018-2019 school year. Also for rising Spanish IV Honors: Todo lo que brilla, Chris Mercer Available at: https://tprsbooks.com/shop/todo-lo-que-brilla/ ISBN 978-1603721431 “Jose was a happy young man From Ecuador. He worked hard on his small Farm with his best Friend, Ignacio. Jose believed that soon he would realize his dream oF marrying Emilia, the most beautiFul girl he had ever met.