In addition to the school-wide summer reading assignments students enrolled in the courses below must complete the indicated assignments.
AP CALCULUS:
Calculus Summer Assignment Memo
Assignment 1- CALC 1.1
Assignment 2-CALC 1.2
Assignment 3- CALC 1.3
Assignment 4-CALC 1.5
Assignment 5-CALC 1.6
AP Language and Composition (Junior AP English):
- Please find, print, and read a copy of “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King
- Outline the Rhetorical situation of the text.
- Read The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Please take notes on his writing style.
AP Literature and Composition (Senior AP English):
- Read A Room with a View by E M Forster.
- Using the chapter titles as your guide, compose brief but complete summaries of each chapter. Additionally, make a list of elements of humor in the text. (These elements may be situations, phrases, specific word choices - anything.)
AP PHYSICS
The textbook we will be using this year is College Physics, a strategic approach (AP Edition) 4th Edition. Please note that this is the same textbook that was used in last year’s Physics class. You do not need the textbook to do the summer work, but it would definitely help if you could follow along with the text as you go through the prepared videos.
The work I have assigned for summer work covers Chapter 1 and the start of Chapter 2 in your textbook. I will be collecting the Summer Assignment on the first day of classes. This assignment will be graded and we will be having a quiz on this material during the second week of classes.
Summer Assignment:
- Unit 1 Formula Sheet – You will be creating your own formula sheet to be used on tests and quizzes throughout the year. For summer work, please begin preparation of your formula sheet by adding pertinent formulas and constants as you watch the videos. Depending on how large you write, your formula sheet may end up being more than one page, but please limit the formula sheet to only formulas and constants. No worked example problems allowed.
- Chapter 1 & 2 Assignments - Each assignment (attached on the following pages) is broken up into main topics that cover the same content as your text and contains a link to a video by the previous AP Physics 1 professor Mrs. Kenerson meant to provide course notes and worked examples followed by problems for you to complete this summer. You must show all work for the sample problems. If you only provide answers, you will receive a zero for the assignment.
- Please note that the videos are broken up into sections that DO NOT correspond to the textbook you will be using this coming year. The content follows the same basic flow but some sections are renamed or rearranged in the textbook we will be using this year.
If you have any questions as you work through this assignment, please feel free to reach out to me. My email address is below. Please note it is a temporary email address and I will provide you all with my official email address as soon as it is available. I am looking forward to a fantastic school year with lots of fun and investigation in the classroom.
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Sincerely,
Mr. Steele
osteele@nda-worc.org
AP US HISTORY:
11th Grade A.P. U.S. History (330) 2022-23
Dr. Heise
Summer Project: Museum Trip
I am assigning you a trip to a museum for your summer work for APUSH. New England is overflowing with history, but if you happen to be taking a summer trip this break, anywhere you visit will have historical institutions. Visit one of these establishments, spend some time learning about the past, and come to class at the start of school with a new perspective on how the world used to be, and how we have arrived in this bright future.
The Assignment:
Step 1: Visit a museum. It does not necessarily HAVE to be a historical museum, but I would prefer if it were. Any museum you visit will have a historical aspect to it. Yes, even a science museum will have some historical exhibits.
Step 2: While you visit the museum, take notes on the ways in which the museum presents the past. Do they have historical reenactors? Do they have interactive activities? Do they have a tour you can take (you don’t actually have to take the tour, but if you ask about it, most museums will be more than happy to give you an overview of what the tour is about)? Does the museum have a way for the patron to interact with the historical material on hand, or is it static (i.e. displays with words written on them, or maybe some videos)?
Step 3: Read James Gardner’s “Contested Terrain: History, Museums, and the Public” and reflect upon the museum you visited, and what you saw. Consider the following questions: did the museum provide a nuanced, messy, difficult interpretation of the past, or was their story simpler? Did the story the museum told contain both features of progress and failure in the past, or did it provide a linear, always progressing story? What groups were represented in the museum displays, and how did the museum discuss diverse perspectives on the past?
Step 3: Write a 3-5 page paper that answers the following question: how did the museum live up to the standards laid out in the article we read, and how did the museum challenge or change your understanding of the past? Paper should be 1000-1500 words double spaced, in a standard 12 pt. font . Somewhere in the paper you should probably also tell me which museum you visited, how long you were there, any notable things you noticed, things like that.
Step 4: Turn your paper in on the first day of class! Late papers will lose points.
Link to Gardner, “Contested Terrain”: Gardner - Contested Terrain.pdf
AP WORLD HISTORY:
10th Grade AP World: Modern (310) Summer Work 2022-2023
Please complete the following work before our first class. Be prepared for a Unit 0 quiz in the first two weeks of school.
- WHAP Unit 0 Guided Notes
- World Religion Chart (complete this with information only up to the year 1200)
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
- Read the book.
- Create an informative poster about one of the beverages.
Your poster should include:
- A large map of the world, with the origins of your drink shaded. (Feel free to also show where the beverage spread).
-A timeline with 5 major world events (religions, wars, new states, exploration, developments, etc) that occurred in the same time period as the creation of your drink.
-At least one RELEVANT quote from the book. Explain how it applies to your drink and time period.
-Explain how two of the AP World History themes apply to your drink/drink’s time period.
-How did your drink influence religious, social, political, etc beliefs or practices?
-How did your drink spread past its geographic origins? How did your drink help connect other parts of the world with the drink’s origins?
-What are or were health benefits of your drink?
-Do people still enjoy this beverage? If so, who? Where is it most popular? Are there any United States laws about consumption of your beverage?
-Be prepared to share your poster when we get back!
