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2023 Summer Reading

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English Department

Students may purchase copies of the summer reading books in the Milton Academy bookstore or on their own. All students should bring paper copies of the texts to their classes in the fall and should be sure to purchase the specified edition.

Class IV

Class IV English
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie) ISBN: 9780140157376

Class III

Perspectives: Genre and Culture
The Dew Breaker (Edwidge Danticat) ISBN: 9781400034291

Founding Voices: Literature from the Ancient World through the Renaissance
Circe (Madeline Miller) ISBN: 978-0316556323

Performing Literature
The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Sherman Alexie) ISBN: 9780802121998

Seeing Literature
Ways of Seeing (John Berger) ISBN: 0140135154
Passing (Nella Larsen) ISBN: 9780142437278 (Penguin edition)

Class II

American Literature
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) ISBN: 978-0812993547
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) ISBN: 978-0-7432-7356-5

Literature and the Human Condition
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) ISBN 978-0141441146

Contemporary Literature in Context 
The Power (Naomi Alderman) ISBN: 978-0316547604 

People and the Natural World
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy  ISBN: 978-0-679-74439-9
World of Wonders (Aimee Nezhukumatathil) ISBN: 97801571313652

Reading Consciousness
Nervous Conditions (Tsitsi Dangarembga) ISBN: 1644450712

Class I

Modern Comparative Literature
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) ISBN 9780553213423
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) ISBN 978-0451530066

Themes in Contemporary World Literature
The Year of the Flood (Atwood) ISBN 978-0-307-45547-5

Shakespeare and Cinema
The History of Cinema: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP), ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198701774
Hamlet (Arden, 2nd ed, Ed. Ann Thompson), ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472518385
This is Shakespeare (Emma Smith) ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎  9781984898159

Fictions
The Magus (revised version) (John Fowles) ISBN 0-316-29619-8

Literature and the Nature of Reality
The Magic Mountain (Mann) Vintage ISBN-13: 9780679772873

The Craft of Non-Fiction
Invisible Child (Andrea Elliott) ISBN: 9780812986952

Philosophy and Literature
The Anomaly (Herve Le Tellier) ISBN: 9781635421699

Journalism
Podcast The Trojan Horse Affairhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html
Students need to listen to all 8 chapters.

“It was all a dream…”: The Power of Poetry through Close Reading and Analysis
How to be Drawn (Terrance Hayes) ISBN: 978-0-14-312688-1 pb

History and Social Science Department

Challenges and Changemakers in World History
This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity (David Christian) ISBN: 9781933782041

The United States in the Modern World 1
When America First Met China (Eric Jay Dolin) ISBN: 9780871406897

The United States in the Modern World 2
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo) ISBN: 9781501191053

United States History (Class III)
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo) ISBN: 9781501191053

United States History (Class II-I)
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo) ISBN: 9781501191053

History of the Middle East
Contending Visions of the Middle East (Zachary Lockman) ISBN: 9780521133074

Modern China
NO summer Reading.

Topics in Modern World History: In the Aftermath: Case Studies in Transitional Justice
Black Dog of Fate (Peter Balakian) ISBN: 9780465010196

Adv History: Cold War America
NO Summer Reading

African-American History
Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo) ISBN: 9781501191053

Activism/Justice in a Digital World
NO summer reading

American Government
The Future of Freedom (Fareed Zakaria) ISBN: 9780393331523

Microeconomics
Freakonomics (Steve Leavitt) ISBN: 9780063032378

Macroeconomics
The Instant Economist (Tim Taylor) ISBN: 9780452297524

Psychology Seminar
NO summer reading

Topics in Psychology
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Mark Haddon) ISBN: 9781400032716

Historical Archaeology
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life (James Deetz) ISBN: 9780385483995

Economic Inequality
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It (Heather Boushey) ISBN: 9780674251380

Class IV Ancient Civilizations
This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity (David Christian) ISBN: 9781933782041

Classics Department

Over the years, we have noticed that students often come to Milton with a varying range of mythological, historical, and cultural background concerning Greece and Rome. To level the playing field for all students and to supplement our current Latin and Greek curriculum, the department has selected two to three books (depending on whether you are taking Latin or Latin AND Greek) from which you will read selections over the course of your Classics career at Milton Academy. The texts are all in English and touch on important aspects of Greek and Roman mythology, history, and daily life. For some of you, these readings will be a review. For others, the material may seem less familiar. Regardless, having some familiarity with the material covered in the assigned readings will provide useful contextual information for your courses in the fall. Please consult the course titles below to see which particular books and chapters have been assigned for your specific course. You may purchase the texts independently or through the Milton Academy bookstore.

Texts:

  1. Abigail Graham & Anthony Kamm, The Romans, 4th edition ( ISBN-13: 9781138543898)
  2. Marianthe Colakis & Mark Joan Masello, Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook ( ISBN-13: 978-0865165731)
  3. Thomas Martin, Ancient Greece, 2nd edition (ISBN-13: 978-0300160055)
  4. Virgil’s Aeneid (9780553210415)
  5. Caesar’s Gallic Wars (9780199540266)

LATIN 1:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 1-4: the Muses; the Creation of the World & Earliest Deities; the Olympians Part 1; the Olympians Part 2
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)

LATIN 2:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 1-4: the Muses; the Creation of the World & Earliest Deities; the Olympians Part 1; the Olympians Part 2
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)

LATIN 3:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 1-4: the Muses; the Creation of the World & Earliest Deities; the Olympians Part 1; the Olympians Part 2
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)

LATIN 2-3:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 1-4: the Muses; the Creation of the World & Earliest Deities; the Olympians Part 1; the Olympians Part 2
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)

LATIN 4:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 16, 18-19: the House of Troy & the Trojan War; Aeneas; the Kings of Rome
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 2-3, 8: the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus); Roman Literature

AP LATIN:
Virgil’s Aeneid: books 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12
Caesar’s Gallic Wars: books 1, 6, and 7
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 16, 18: the House of Troy & the Trojan War; Aeneas

Roman Philosophy:
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-4: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus); Religions & Mythology

Roman Historians:
The Romans: An Introduction: chapters 1-3: the Origins of Rome; the Republic; Twelve Caesars (through Augustus)

Intensive Greek:
Classical Mythology & More: chapters 1-4, 16, 17: the Muses; the Creation of the World & Earliest Deities; the Olympians Part 1; the Olympians Part 2; the House of Troy & the Trojan War; Odysseus

Advanced Greek: Plato
Martin’s Ancient Greece: chapters 7-8: Culture & Society in Classical Athens; Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath

Mathematics Department

Welcome to the hub for our Mathematics Summer Skills Refreshers.

Each of these DeltaMath collections focus on core concepts in Mathematics to help minimize the summer drain when learned skills tend to seep away under the sun.

It is important to note that these sets of skills are not comprehensive to any class, so completion of one does not constitute having taken the prerequisite course for that set of problems.

We strongly encourage you to join the DeltaMath ‘class’ linked below for the course you are entering in the Fall. The concept-based assignments within are in no way required but are rather recommended for practice focused on skills in which you are less confident. Pick and choose those you know you need to strengthen.

Consider trying 1 problem in each skill, and then continue problems within those skills which you want to practice. DeltaMath automatically generates continuing problems, which means you have as many problems as you want to work on. You get to choose when to move on to a new skill.

To join, click the name of the course you are taking in the Fall. Login using your school Google account, if you have one, or make sure you register using your full name.

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Algebraic Concepts

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