Thursday, October 29, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Author Elizabeth Wein to Visit Bryn Mawr
Author, Elizabeth Wein, spoke to Middle and Upper School students yesterday about the writing process, finding primary sources, the significance of illustrations in her work, and being a pilot. She then joined students in the Edith Hamilton Library to chat and sign books. Students asked great questions about writer's block, keeping a journal, and integrating real life experiences and memories into one's work. Elizabeth headed to Washington D.C. after lunch to meet astronaut, Cady Coleman.
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Summer Reading 2015
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 requirements for each grade are listed below.
Incoming Grade 9:
English Department: The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. (Get the Back Bay Books edition, available from Amazon.com ISBN-10: 0316769177 or ISBN-13: 978-0316769174 )
Technology Department: The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson. You are required to read only the chapter on Ada Lovelace (pgs 7-33).
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 one book from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
Incoming Grade 9:
English Department: The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger. (Get the Back Bay Books edition, available from Amazon.com ISBN-10: 0316769177 or ISBN-13: 978-0316769174 )
Technology Department: The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson. You are required to read only the chapter on Ada Lovelace (pgs 7-33).
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 one book from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
Incoming Grade 10
English Department: Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys W. W. Norton & Company; Reissue edition, ISBN-10: 0393308804 or ISBN-13: 978-0393310481. Do NOT get the the Norton Critical Edition.
History Department: (Modern World) Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (paperback, $10.95)
AP World History: AP World History will read the grade wide book Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and a selection of AP specific works. Dr. Riley will send a packet with the AP specific works over the summer.
French 4H."Rex" by Sempe-Gosciny and an additional reading/assignment to be determined. Get packet from Ms. McAndrew.
Spanish 4H: Packet including listening exercise; questions; short story "La desesperación de las letras” by Ginés S. Cutillas ; and a short writing piece. Get packet from Ms. Gray.
AP World History: AP World History will read the grade wide book Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, and a selection of AP specific works. Dr. Riley will send a packet with the AP specific works over the summer.
French 4H."Rex" by Sempe-Gosciny and an additional reading/assignment to be determined. Get packet from Ms. McAndrew.
Spanish 4H: Packet including listening exercise; questions; short story "La desesperación de las letras” by Ginés S. Cutillas ; and a short writing piece. Get packet from Ms. Gray.
Personal Choice: Choose one book from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
Incoming Grade 11:
Biology Department: For both Biology and Honors Biology: Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollen (Paperback, you are encouraged to purchase a used copy.)
English Department: The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien. (Mariner Books; 1st edition, 2009)
Please note: Students taking English at Gilman must check their reading list. It is linked to our library webpage.
French 4H. "Rex" by Sempe-Gosciny and an additional reading/assignment to be determined. Get packet from Mme McAndrew.
Spanish 4H: Packet including listening exercise; questions; short story "La desesperación de las letras” by Ginés S. Cutillas ; and a short writing piece. Get packet from Ms. Gray.
AP French Language: Packet including listening exercises; questions; grammar exercises; and a short writing piece. See Dr. Barck.
AP Spanish Language: Packet with various activities including a choice of short stories by Juan Rulfo, Isaac Aisemberg or Isabel Allende. Get packet from Mr. Mendaro.
AP Spanish Language: Packet with various activities including a choice of short stories by Juan Rulfo, Isaac Aisemberg or Isabel Allende. Get packet from Mr. Mendaro.
Personal Choice: Choose one book from the Upper School Student Nominated Books List.
Please note: If you are taking classes at Roland Park or Gilman, you must check their summer reading lists!
Please note: If you are taking classes at Roland Park or Gilman, you must check their summer reading lists!
Incoming Grade 12:
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. 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 Student Nominated Summer Reading Book List, and 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.
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. 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 Student Nominated Summer Reading Book List, and 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.
English Department Electives:
Creative Writing; Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (Paperback $10.50)
History Department Electives:
AP Economics: The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts. Princeton, 2008 (Paperback $11.50)
Baltimore Issues. Also called Charm City: Down to the Wire: Cop in the Hood by Peter Moskos (Paperback $12.87)
America in the World: The Post-American World:Release 2.0 , by Fareed Zakaria. W.W. Norton, (Paperback $9.35)
Legal Systems: In the Name of Honor: A Memoir by Mukhtar Mai. (Paperback $10.00 through Amazon)
World Languages and Cultures Electives:
French 4H: "Rex" by Sempe-Gosciny and an additional reading/assignment to be determined. Get packet from Mme McAndrew.
French Senior Honors Seminar: Students should see Mme McAndrew for a packet that includes the story "La Belle et la Bête" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1756) and some other activities.
Spanish 4H: Packet including listening exercise; questions; short story "La desesperación de las letras” by Ginés S. Cutillas ; and a short writing piece. Get packet from Ms. Gray.
Spanish 4H: Packet including listening exercise; questions; short story "La desesperación de las letras” by Ginés S. Cutillas ; and a short writing piece. Get packet from Ms. Gray.
Spanish Senior Honors Seminar: "En la ardiente oscuridad" (first two acts) by Antonio Buero-Vallejo. Get instruction sheet from Ms. Gray. Book available through the Bryn Mawrket.
AP Courses :
AP Biology: Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species, by Sean Carroll ( Paperback, you are encouraged to purchase a used copy.)
AP Economics: The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts. Princeton, 2008 (Paperback $11.50)
AP English Bright Lights, Big City, By Jay McInerney (Paperback $9.71)
AP Environmental Science: How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Unbalanced Nature by H. H. Shugart (Paperback, you may purchase a used copy.)
AP French Language: Packet including listening exercises; questions; grammar exercises; and a short writing piece. See Dr. Barck.
AP Physics C: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, ed. By Edward Hutchins. W.W. Norton. (Paperback, you are encouraged to purchase a used copy.)
AP Courses :
AP Biology: Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species, by Sean Carroll ( Paperback, you are encouraged to purchase a used copy.)
AP Economics: The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts. Princeton, 2008 (Paperback $11.50)
AP English Bright Lights, Big City, By Jay McInerney (Paperback $9.71)
AP Environmental Science: How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Unbalanced Nature by H. H. Shugart (Paperback, you may purchase a used copy.)
AP French Language: Packet including listening exercises; questions; grammar exercises; and a short writing piece. See Dr. Barck.
AP Physics C: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, ed. By Edward Hutchins. W.W. Norton. (Paperback, you are encouraged to purchase a used copy.)
AP Spanish Language: Packet with various activities including a choice of short stories by Juan Rulfo, Isaac Aisemberg or Isabel Allende. Get packet from Mr. Mendaro.
AP Statistics: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff. (W.W. Norton, $11.00)
Please note: If you are taking classes at Roland Park or Gilman, you must check their summer reading lists!
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