St. Margaret’s School
22560
Dear
I understand
from Mrs. Farmer that you are enrolled in Advanced Placement
These books
may substitute for or be in addition to the school summer reading list. I will
read and grade the books you choose from this list. I have tried to pick books
that focus on people and how life and time both make history.
Requirements
1. Read any 2 books. (It would be an
advantage to choose from different
time periods.) Remember you need a total
of 3 for the school requirement.
2. Respond by using the attached
questions.
3. Having the assignment finished on
time is a must.
The List
Love and Hate in
by David
A. Price
Big Chief Elizabeth : The
Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in
by Giles
Milton
What Would the
Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers (Hardcover)
by Richard
Brookhiser
Founding Father (Paperback)
by Richard
Brookhiser
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American (Paperback)
by Richard
Brookhiser
American Sphinx : The Character
of Thomas Jefferson (Vintage) (Paperback)
by Joseph
J. Ellis
Founding Mothers : The Women Who
Raised Our Nation (Paperback)
by Cokie Roberts
Miracle At
by Catherine
Drinker Bowen
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and
the Opening of the American West (Paperback)
by Stephen
Ambrose
Strength And Honor: The Life Of Dolley Madison (Hardcover)
by Richard
N. Cote
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the
by Scott
Zesch
The Age of Gold : The
by H.W.
Brands
The Boys' War : Confederate and
by Jim
Murphy
by Bruce
Catton
April 1865: The Month That Saved
by Jay
Winik
by David
Herbert Donald
General Lee: A Biography of Robert E. Lee (Paperback)
by Fitzhugh
Lee
by Judy
Crichton
Only Yesterday : An Informal
History of the 1920's (Perennial Classics) (Paperback)
by Frederick
L. Allen
Daily Life in the
United States, 1920-1940 : How Americans Lived During
the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (Paperback)
by David
E. Kyvig
Since Yesterday : The 1930's in
by Frederick
L. Allen
The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day (Paperback)
by Cornelius
Ryan
The Greatest Generation (Paperback)
by Tom
Brokaw
The Greatest Generation Speaks :
Letters and Reflections (Paperback)
by Tom
Brokaw
Slaves in the Family (Ballantine
Reader's Circle) (Paperback)
by Edward
Ball
Having Our Say : The Delany
Sisters' First 100 Years (Paperback)
by Sarah
L. Delany, A.
Elizabeth Delany, Amy
Hill Hearth
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents (Paperback)
by Bonnie
Angelo
Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil
Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 (Paperback)
by Lynne
Olson
The Sixties : Years of Hope,
Days of Rage (Paperback)
by Todd
Gitlin
RONALD REAGAN: HOW AN ORDINARY MAN BECAME AN
EXTRAORDINARY LEADER (Paperback)
by Dinesh D'Souza
Questions
Summer Reading will be one of your first grades in the 1st trimester. In thoughtful paragraphs, which represent careful reading, answer all of the following questions.
1. Which person faced the greatest challenge? What was that challenge? What methods did the person use to overcome the challenge?
2. All biography is really about what we value. Comment on three core values you
Demonstrated in what you read? What are the values? Why are they Important?
How have you used them in your life?
3. Character is developed by how we deal with loss. Describe a great loss someone
In the book had to endure. What methods did the person use to deal with the loss?
What element of character was built by facing the loss and by taking action?
4. How does the author develop the importance of a "sense of place"? How does
The importance of "place" influence the characters in the story?
5. History is the story of people in time. How is the time of the book you read
Different from your time? How it the same?
Happy
reading! Remember the discount you get by ordering through the St. Margaret’s
School Amazon.com bookstore. I look forward to having you in this class next
year. If you have any questions, feel free to call over the summer. My Number
is 804-443-3563.
Yours
truly,
Louise
M. Velletri
Head of the History Department