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All Upper School students are required to read four books during the summer. At least one of the four is a selection from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List. Remaining book choices for each grade are listed below. Please note on the BMS library’s Summer Reading website movies and music that will complement the history and English courses you will be taking. Viewing and listening are encouraged, but not required.
For a printer friendly list of 9th grade reading, click here.
English Department: Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. (get the Back Bay Books edition, available at the Bryn Mawrket or from Amazon.com ISBN-10: 0316769177 or ISBN-13: 978-0316769174 )
Technology Department: Footprints of God, by Greg Iles (Paperback, $7.19)
Math Department: Algebra Success in Twenty Minutes a Day is strongly recommended for all incoming 9th graders but not required, problem sets.
Personal Choice: Choose from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
For a printer friendly list of 10th grade reading, click here.
English Department: The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls.
History Department: (Modern World and AP) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (paperback, $10.95)
AP World History :In addition to Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, after graduation Ms. Margolis will send each AP student an envelope with the detailed summer reading information.
French 4H. Le Petit Prince (first six chapters) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, available at the Bryn Mawrket. Get packet from Ms. Miller.
Spanish 4H. "El delantal blanco" by Sergio Vodanovic contained in a packet from Ms. Gray.
Personal Choice: Choose from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
For a printer friendly list of 11th grade reading, click here.
Biology Department: The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson Or Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest , by Mark Plotkin OR Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by Tracy Kidder. (all choices are available through Amazon.com)
English Department: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien. (Broadway Books, $13.95)
French 4H. Le Petit Prince (first six chapters) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, available at the Bryn Mawrket. Get packet from Ms. Miller.
Spanish 4H. "El delantal blanco" by Sergio Vodanovic contained in a packet from Ms. Gray.
AP French Language. Candide ou L’Optimiste de Voltaire adapted for intermediate students by Gilles de France. Lincolnwood: National Textbook Company, 2001(available at the Bryn Mawrket) and a handout from Ms. Manrique.
AP Spanish Language. Batallas en el desierto by José Emilio Pacheco
Personal Choice: Choose from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
All Upper School students are required to read four books during the summer. One of the four is a selection from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List. Students enrolled in more than one AP course should read AP choices first (after the Nominated Summer Reading selection ). Since many seniors choose electives elsewhere, the students are required by honor and, it is hoped, inclination to read four books (including one or more selections from the Nominated Summer Reading Book List) from the combined lists of Departmental and AP. Teachers of BMS English and history electives have listed books which you should read if you are taking their courses. If taking Gilman or Roland Park courses, you should ask the faculty teaching those courses if they have pre-requisite reading. Suggested Reading is also provided.
For a printer friendly list of 12th grade reading, click here.
English Department Electives:
Contemporary Family Literature: Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons. (Paperback $8.50)
Creative Writing; Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (Paperback $10.50)
Politics and the Literary Imagination: In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O'Brien ( Paperback $10.20)
Terror in American Literature: “The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar A. Poe and "The Masque of Red Death," by Edgar A. Poe. Both stories are available from this web page: Terror in American Literature
History Department Electives:
AP Economics: Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1993
Native American Studies: The Toughest Indian in the World, by Sherman Alexie. Grove Press, 2001. (Paperback $12.00) [Book will be discussed in first semester of Ms Henry’s Native American History/Lit.]
Latin American History: In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez. (Dutton/Plume, $14.00) OR Sugarball: The American Game the Dominican Dream, by Alan Klein (paperback $20.00)
Understanding Africa From Colonial To Modern Times: No Longer at Ease, by Chinua Achebe. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, 1960.
America in the World: Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine
Foriegn Language Electives:
French 4H. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Available at the Bryn Mawrket. Get packet from Ms. Miller.
German 4H. Die Nibelungen This will be available in the Bryn Mawrket in about 6 weeks.
Spanish 4H. "El delantal blanco" by Sergio Vodanovic contained in a packet from Ms. Gray.
Spanish Senior Honors Seminar. “En la ardiente oscuridad” (first two acts) by Antonio Buero-Vallejo, available at the Bryn Mawrket.
AP Courses :
AP Biology: Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson (Paperback $15.00)
AP English Bright Lights, Big City, By Jay McInerney (Paperback $9.71)
AP Environmental Science: Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson. Houghton Mifflin, 1994. (Paperback $14.00) OR A Plague of Frogs, by William Souder (Paperback $12.00)
AP Economics: Murder at the Margin: a Henry Spearman Mystery, by Marshall Jevons. Princeton University Press. (Paperback $15.95)
AP French Language. Candide ou L'Optimisme, by Voltaire, edited by Gilles de France, available at the Bryn Mawrket.
AP French Literature. Pierre et Jean, by Guy de Maupassant in Anthology of Advanced Placement French Literature for the 2008 Exam. Available at the Bryn Mawrket.
AP Physics C: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, ed. By Edward Hutchins. W.W. Norton. (Paperback $14.95)
AP Spanish Language. Batallas en el desierto by José Emilio Pacheco
AP Statistics: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. (W.W. Norton, $11.00)
May 2008
