Summer Reading and Academic Work

4AP Art & Design (Drawing, 2-D, 3-D):                                   

Continue the Sustained Investigation you started in Studio Art 3H in the spring (mini-investigation)

Sustained Investigation Project #3 - complete by July 1

1. Digital image of project #3. The image must be cropped properly and edited. You may also include detail images.
2. Process pages. The process page is a way to document your research and ideas.
3. Digital log or images from your sketchbook that shows practice, experimentation, and revision. This is where you submit evidence of research and documentation.
4. Restate your investigation questions. In a 7-9 sentence paragraph explain how this project attempts to address your investigation questions. Also, include an explanation of how your project shows a synthesis of your idea, process and materials.

Sustained Investigation Project #4- submitted before the beginning of our first class.

Submit Project 3 (#1-4) and ALL the following:
1. Digital image of project #4. The image must be cropped properly and edited. You may also include detail images.
2. Process pages. The process page is a way to document your research and ideas.
3. Digital log or images from your sketchbook that shows practice, experimentation, and revision. This is where you submit evidence of research and documentation.
4. Restate your investigation questions. In a 7-9 sentence paragraph explain how this project attempts to address your investigation questions. Also, include an explanation of how your project shows a synthesis of your idea, process and materials.

Advanced Art History Seminar:

In this course, we will be looking at art through various perspectives:

1.       Art & Community (Civic & Ceremonial Places, Manmade Mountains, Ritual: Performance, Balance & Healing, Art in the Public Sphere)

2.      Spirituality & Art (Spiritual Beings & Ancestors, Connecting with the Gods, Sacred Places)

3.      Art & Illusion (Art as an Illusionistic Window, Illusionism is Trickery, Illusion & the Transformation of Ideas)

4.      Art of Social Conscience (Art as Social Protest, Art as the Object of Protest, Memorials & Remembrance)

5.      The Body in Art (Archetypal Images of the Body, Ideal Proportions, Notions of Beauty)

6.      Art & Gender (Gendered Roles, Feminist Critique, Ambiguous Genders)

Directions: You will write a long essay that will compare and contrast two chosen works of art. These two works of art will be selected from the AP Art History 250 list that can be downloaded History Course here: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-art-history

The course description guide contains 10 units. The 250 list starts on page 33.

Pick one perspective from the six that are listed above and select two works of art that might fall into that perspective. You may also use one of the subheadings listed with each six. See example below. Your essay should follow this outline:

Introductory Paragraph

Introduce a general statement regarding your chosen perspective (from the 6 listed above). Briefly explain that chosen perspective. Conclude your introductory paragraph with an underlined thesis (Main idea). In Paragraphs 2-4, you will prove your thesis with specific evidence.

Second Paragraph
Select one artwork that falls into your chosen perspective. Be sure to identify the artwork using all five identifiers:

Title
Artist name (if known)
Date
Place/Culture
Medium (materials the artwork is made of)
Briefly describe the work of art as it relates to the perspective. Add historical context as it relates to the perspective. Explain how the artwork falls into that perspective.

Third Paragraph
Select a second artwork that falls into your chosen perspective. Be sure to identify the artwork using all five identifiers:

Title
Artist name (if known)
Date
Place/Culture
Medium (materials the artwork is made of)
Briefly describe the work of art as it relates to the perspective. Add historical context as it relates to the perspective. Explain how the artwork falls into that perspective.

Fourth Paragraph
Using the same perspective, explain how the two works of art are similar and how the two works of art are different.

Concluding Paragraph
Summarize your evidence. Restate your thesis. Introduce a related but new idea.

Sources
List the URL of all sources used during your research and while writing your essay.

Example:
You may want to choose the perspective of Art as Social Protest.
Two good examples of social protest are:

Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000). Michel Tuffery. 1994 C.E. New Zealand artist. Mixed media.
The Swing (after Fragonard). Yinka Shonibare. 2001 C.E. British-Nigerian artist. Mixed media installation.

Have fun with this assignment! Pick a topic you are truly interested in. If the six topics do not interest you, make up a new one of your own. All I ask is that you dive deeply into the research, learn a lot of new and interesting things, and follow the outline given when writing your essay.

Calculus Honors and AP Calculus AB

Your instructor will contact you in June with specific Delta Math assignments. Please keep an eye out for that email in your Hill account.

AP Latin:

Required:

1. Read The Aeneid by Virgil: Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 (any translation).
2. Read Caesar, Gallic War: Books 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 (any translation).
3. Translate Virgil, Aeneid Book 1 lines 1-33. Use one or both of the following linked texts for guidance: Dickinson College Commentaries or College Vergil (Steadman).

Expect assessments on English translations and on Aeneid lines in the first week of school.

Suggested but not required:

1. Read Homer, Iliad (in translation).

Advanced Latin and Greek Seminar

Required:

Read Homer, Odyssey (any translation; no graphic novels). Suggested translations: Fagles; Wilson.

Expect discussion and assessment in first week of school.

AP Economics:

• Required: New Ideas from Dead Economists 4th edition by Todd Buchholz
• Optional: Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan (optional)

AP US History:

Students are to listen to the Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies series of audio lectures by clicking the links below. Please review this Guidebook that contains outlines for each lecture.

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 14
• Lecture 15
• Lecture 16
• Lecture 17
• Lecture 28

Humanities 3 AP 

Required: Tobias Wolff’s memoir, In Pharaoh’s Army, and The Colossus of New York, essays by Colson Whitehead and write 300-500 word response for each to your reading.

Due in writing at first class in September: Your responses to Wolff and Whitehead. 

Humanities 4AP 

Required: Read Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Choose one of the following as your second book:

• James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Albert Camus, The Plague
• Joseph Heller, Catch-22
• John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick
• Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Write a one page (250-300 word) personal reaction to each novel

Due in writing at first class in September:  The one page reaction to each book you read.

AP Biology

REQUIRED: Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne, ISBN-13: 978-0143116646

AP Chemistry

Download this PDF for AP Chemistry Assignments