Summer Reading and Course Work
Below are the Summer Reading lists, Reading Guides, and required summer work for some Spanish and Math courses.
When you return in the fall, you will begin working with your summer reading immediately. Within the first several days of school, you will be required to take a test or write a paper on your assigned books and to discuss or write about them in class. Your teacher in each of your courses will determine the form of assessment, and your work with your summer reading will count as part of your first quarter grade.
Beginning May 3, 2022, summer reading books may be purchased at St. Sebastian's online academic bookstore:
stsebs.ecampus.com
All-School Read
Fidelity (Five Stories) by Wendell Berry
(ISBN: 9781640090750)
Summer Reading Guide
Spanish
Spanish AP Language & Culture (4AP), Spanish AP Literature (5AP), and Spanish 6H students will receive their readings from Mr. Moore or Mrs. Goldstein.
Mathematics
There is Summer Review required for students entering the following courses. Note the second row contains the answer key which you are encouraged to use.
Algebra 2 or Algebra 2H | PreCalculus H or PreCalculus Accelerated | Trig/Stats | BC Calculus
Algebra 2 Key | PreCalculus Key | Trig/Stats Key |
Grade 7
English
Summer Reading Guide
Holes by Louis Sachar (ISBN: 9780440414803)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor for Kids by Thomas Foster (ISBN: 9780062200853)
Religion
Summer Reading Guide
The Power of the Powerless by Christopher De Vinck (ISBN: 9780824519742)
History
Summer Reading Guide
Great Hurricane of 1938 by Cherie Burns (ISBN: 9780802142542)
Grade 8
English
Summer Reading Guide
Required: The Pearl by Steinbeck (ISBN: 9780140177374)
In addition, choose one of the following:
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles (ISBN: 9780743253970)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (ISBN: 9780486400778)
- The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien (ISBN: 9780547928227)
Religion
Summer Reading Guide
Bronze Bow by Speare (ISBN: 9780395137192)
History
Summer Reading Guide
Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (ISBN: 9780312644291)
Grade 9
English
Summer Reading Guide
Unbroken by Hillenbrand (ISBN: 9780385742528)
Freshman Writing
Summer Reading Guide
Born a Crime: Stories from a S. African Childhood by Trevor Noah (ISBN: 9780399588198)
Religion
Summer Reading Guide
Season of Life by Jeffrey Marx (ISBN: 9780743269742)
Grade 10
English
Summer Reading Guide
1984 by George Orwell (ISBN: 9780451524935)
Religion
Summer Reading Guide
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist (ISBN: 9780385531863)
History
MEH H (Modern European History Honors)
Summer Reading Guide
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (ISBN: 9780449213940)
Mod Eu Hist (Modern European History)
Summer Reading Guide
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (ISBN: 9780449213940)
Grade 11
English
English 11 & Honors
Required: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (ISBN: 9780143105022)
Optional reading:
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines (ISBN: 9780375702709)
- There There by Tommy Orange (ISBN: 9780525436140)
Summer Reading Guides for English 11 & Honors:
Religion
Summer Reading Guide
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (ISBN: 9780060652937)
History
U.S. History & U.S. History Honors
Summer Reading Guide
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (ISBN: 9780345348104)
U.S. History AP
Summer Reading Guide
April 1865 by Jay Winik (ISBN: 9780060899684)
U.S. History Preparing for the AP Exam by Perfection Learning. (ISBN: 9781690305507).
Read Chapters 1-3.
Grade 12
English
Eng 12H Honors
Summer Reading Guide
The Road by McCarthy (ISBN: 9780307387899)
Eng Lng AP (AP Language & Composition)
Summer Reading Guide
Choose ONE:
- Growing Up by Russell Baker (ISBN: 9780451168382)
- Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (ISBN: 9780684842677)
Eng CW AP (AP Creative Writing)
Summer Reading Guide
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (ISBN: 9780679748267)
Eng Lit AP (AP Literature & Composition)
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (ISBN: 9780198748847)
(Students will receive Reading Guide from Mr. Lynch)
Senior Writing
Summer Reading Guide
Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (ISBN: 9780316017930)
Religion 12
Summer Reading Guide
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt (ISBN: 9780679728221)
History
Gov't AP (U.S. Government AP)
Summer Reading Guide
Leadership by Doris Kearns Goodwin (ISBN: 9781476795928)
Adv. Hist H (Advanced Topics: US and the World in the 20th Century)
Summer Reading Guide
One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs (ISBN: 9781400078912)