Summer Reading

2012 Pope John XXIII High School Summer Reading List

Incoming Freshmen
  • English I = The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (see document in left column)

  • World Geography = Current events (see document in left column)
  • Theology I =  Prayer for Beginners by Dr. Peter Kreeft (ISBN-10: 0898707757 or ISBN-13: 978-0898707755 - see document in left column)
Sophomore

  • CP English II = Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (see document in left column)

  • Pre-AP English II = Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger AND The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (see document in left column)

  • CP & Pre-AP World History = Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (see document in left column)
     
  • Theology II = Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History by Dr. John Bergsma (ISBN-10: 1594712913 or ISBN-13: 978-1594712913)
     
Junior
  • CP English III = House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (see document in left column)

  • AP English III = un-Spun: finding facts in a world of [disinformation] by Jackson & Jamieson AND Into the Wild by J. Krakauer (see document in left column)

  • CP & AP US History = The Violent Bear it Away by F. O’Connor (see document in left column)

  • Theology III = Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel
    (ISBN-10: 0465092705 or ISBN-13: 978-0465092703)

     

 Senior
  • CP English IV = Pygmalion by G. Shaw

  • AP English IV = How to Read Literature Like A Professor by T. Foster AND Frankenstein by M. Shelley (see document in left column)

  • Theology IV = Father Elijah by Michael O’Brien (ISBN-10: 0898706904 or ISBN-13: 978-0898706901)
     

  • Economics = Freakonomics (2005) by Steven D. Levitt & Steven J. Dubner (see document in left column)


     
   Elective Classes
  • Latin I = Mythology by E. Hamiliton (1998)

  • Latin 2 = Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World by C. J. Richard (2003)

  • Latin 3 & 4 = Fall of The Roman Repulic: Six Lives (Revised Edition 2005) by Plutarch & Werner
     
  • Philosophy = The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
  • History of the American West = (see document in left column)
  • Greek History = Twelve Greeks & Romans Who Changed the World by C. J. Richard (2003)