All History students are required to complete a summer reading assignment prior to the commencement of school in September. You can purchase these texts easily online, or keep your local bookstore in business by buying locally: we recommend the Bookshop at Beverly Farms (978.927.2122) where the owner, Pam Price, will keep your reading proclivities engaged. She will be happy to order any book for you if it is not available at the store. Students should be prepared to bring their summer reading books to class at the beginning of the trimester and should anticipate an evaluative opportunity based on their summer reading within the first week or two of school.
Prospective AP Students: Students interested in taking an Advanced Placement course must receive departmental permission to do so in the spring, prior to enrolling. Summer reading will be assigned to prospective AP students on an individual basis prior to summer vacation. Students enrolling in Pingree over the summer who would like to take an AP course should contact the Department Chair, Carolyn Paczkowska, for further information
Grade 9: World History: Cultures in Conflict
Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi (NY: Random House, 2004. ISBN-9780812968378)
Grade 10: Modern European History
William Golding, Lord of the Flies (NY: Penguin, 2003. ISBN- 978-0399501487)
Grade 11: US History
John Okada, No No Boy (Washington: University of Washington Press, 2014. ISBN-13 978-0295994048)
Grade 11: AP US History
America’s History, 8th Edition by Henretta, Hinderaker et al. (Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2015. ISBN 978-1457628931).
Specific summer reading assignment is handed out to enrolled students in early June, prior to summer vacation. Any questions, please contact Ms.Paczkowska, Department Chair.
Grade 11: American Cultural Studies
Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree ( New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN-13: 978-0826328090)
Charlotte Gordon, Mistress Bradstreet (Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 2005. ISBN 978-0316169042).
NOTE: Read up to chapter 10, chapter 12.
Grade 12 Electives
Art History (AP & Honors): The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (NY: Vintage Press, 2008. ISBN-13 978-0307277244)
Art History, 6th Ed, by Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren (Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education Inc., 2017. ISBN-13: 9780134485041).
NOTE: See specific summer textbook reading assignment handed out in the summer work packet. A link to this can be found on the Schoology site which will be shared with you by July 1. Note: be sure to purchase the 6th edition of the textbook, updated for the new AP Art History curriculum.
History of Immigration in America: Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario (NY: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. ISBN 978-0812971781)
Holocaust and Human Rights: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, translated by Giulio Einaudi (NY: Orion Press, 1956. ISBN 978-1492942580)
Intro to Economics: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by S. D. Levitt, S.J. Dubner (NY: William Morrow, 2009. ISBN 978-0060731335)
Just War: Regeneration, by Pat Barker (NY: Plume, 2013. ISBN 978-0142180594)
Intro to Psychology: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (NY: Bantam Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0553383713).
