Secondary

Supplies Needed for the 2009-10 School Year &

Suggested summer reading lists

Table of Contents

Secondary supply lists

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

ESOL

MATHEMATICS

SCIENCE

SOCIAL STUDIES

SPANISH

Secondary Summer reading lists

Sixth Grade Language Arts

Seventh Grade Language Arts

Eighth Grade Language Arts

6-8^th Grades ESOL

Ninth Grade English

Ninth Grade Academic Writing

Tenth Grade English

Eleventh Grade AP Language

Eleventh Grade English

Twelfth Grade English

Twelfth Grade AP Literature

AP Social Studies: Psychology , U.S. History, & World History, & MUN/Global Issues

Spanish

Math Topics

SECONDARY SUPPLY LISTS

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

Sixth Grade Language Arts:

· One accordion folder with ten divisions

· Two hundred sheets of lined paper (to start the year)

· One box of crayons, markers, or colored pencils

· Scissors

· Ruler

· Glue stick

· Ten blue or black ink pens

· *Optional – dictionary and /or thesaurus for personal use

Seventh Grade Language Arts:

· One binder divided into three sections, each section labeled: Class Notes, Vocabulary, Grammar

· One notebook divided into two sections, one labeled “Cool Writing Ideas” and the other labeled “What Was I Thinking?”

· One packet of lined paper

· A handwritten list of your top ten favorite books of all time and why you selected each book

8^th: 1-inch binder, dividers, loose-leaf, pencils, black- and blue-ink pens, highlighters, mini stapler.

9^th: 1-inch binder, dividers, loose-leaf, black ink pen, and a spiral notebook, highlighters

11th and 12th: 1-inch binder, dividers, loose-leaf, and blue- and black-ink pens, highlighters, mini stapler, Post-It notes (AP Class)

Grades 8-11

· Three-ring binder

· At least 5 dividers (six would be better)

· highlighters

· index cards (3 x 5 and 4 x 6)

· mini stapler

9^th Grade

· Highlighters

· Markers or colored pencils

· Blue or black ink pens

· Loose leaf

· USB is suggested

12^th Grade

· Highlighters

· Markers or colored pencils

· Blue or black ink pens

· Loose leaf

· USB is suggested

AP English Literature

· Highlighters

· Three-ring binder

· Dividers

· index cards (3 x 5 and 4 x 6)

· Post-It notes, variety of sizes

· mini stapler

AP English Language

· Post-its

· Index cards

· Highlighters

· Markers or colored pencils

· Blue or black ink pens

· Loose leaf

· USB is suggested

All assignments must be printed out at home and brought to class on or before the due date ready to hand in. This means printed and stapled. Assignments are not considered complete if they are on a laptop or a USB. They must be printed and available for submission at the beginning of class.

ESOL

Required Supplies for Secondary ESOL and Academic Writing

· Please make sure your kids bring these materials during the first week of school.

· 3-ring, 2 inch binder and loose leaf paper

· 8 binder dividers

· 1 folder with pockets

· 3 highlighters

· 1 USB

· Pencils, pens, and eraser.

MATHEMATICS

6^th Grade Mathematics

Loose leaf lined paper (60 sheets)
Loose leaf graph paper (30 sheets)
Glue stick
Scissors
One 3-ring binders 1” thick
One pack of pencils and pens
Compass, protractor, a 30°- 60°- 90° triangle, a 45°- 45°- 90° triangle, 30 cm /12 in. ruler
Calculator:

You will need a calculator for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade math classes. You have a few options. You can get a simple scientific calculator without a graphing screen for about $15 to $30 (A graphing screen is not needed in 6th grade). Or, for about $100, you could go ahead and purchase a graphing calculator with lots of buttons and a large graphing screen (required for 8th grade math). In the 7th grade math class the graphing calculators will be used at times, but it is not required that you buy them. If you buy the more expensive graphing models, please be sure your son/daughter can take care of this expensive calculator for at least the next three years. If you do plan to get a graphing calculator, it is highly recommended that you get a Texas Instruments TI-83 or TI-84 model. In 6th grade, the Texas Instruments TI-30 IIs is a good model to use. It can be found at the TI website, which also directs you to several retailers from whom you can buy it at a store location or on-line. Click here for the link.

7^th Grade Mathematics

· Scientific Calculator

· Three-Ring Binder

· Lined Paper

· Graph Paper

· Pencils and erasers

· Ruler

8^th Grade Algebra I Supplies List

Here is what you need for 8^th grade Algebra I:

· one three ring binder (8 x 11 size, one inch thick)

· loose-leaf paper: both lined paper and graph paper

· supply of pencils and erasers (no pens used in class)

· Texas Instruments TI - 83 or TI - 83 Plus or TI-84 Plus or TI-Nspire graphing calculator*

*VERY IMPORTANT: This calculator can be difficult to find (and more expensive) in Guatemala . If you don’t have one, start looking right away (Radio Shack, Office Depot, FPK, and Max sometimes have them). If you or a friend will be in the U.S. during vacation, it would be best to buy one there. For more information about this calculator, visit Texas Instruments’ web site. Please note that the TI-83, TI-83 Plus, and TI-83 Plus Silver Edition, and all editions of the TI-84 Plus are all acceptable versions; however, a few of the programs I will distribute in class will not work on the regular TI-83.

Math Topics

You need to get the following supplies for Math Topics:

· one three ring binder (8 x 11 x one inch thick)

· loose-leaf paper: both lined paper and graph paper

· supply of pencils and erasers (no pens used in class)

· scientific calculator (If you have a graphing calculator, that is great. I will occasionally distribute programs for the Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus. If you don’t have one, that’s okay: you may use any scientific calculator that performs basic arithmetic as well as exponents and roots, and uses scientific notation and algebraic order of operations.)

Geometry

You need to get the following supplies for Geometry:

· a ruler that measures at least 12 inches and 30 cm;

· a compass (get a sturdy compass that adjusts with a screw; it will probably cost at least Q100; I recommend Staedtler brand—they can be found at the school supply store in the shopping center across from Colegio Maya);

· a 3-ring binder with 5 divider tabs, loose-leaf paper (both lined and graph);

· calculator (you may use any scientific calculator—one that has “sin,” “cos,” and “tan” buttons; I recommend a Texas Instruments TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator because you will use these for all other math classes at Colegio Maya);

· protractor (optional).

AP Calculus

· Graphing Calculator (TI-84 model recommended)

· Three-Ring Binder

· Lined Paper

· Graph Paper

· Pencils and erasers

· Ruler

Algebra 2

· Graphing Calculator (TI-84 model recommended)

· Three-Ring Binder

· Lined Paper

· Graph Paper

· Pencils and erasers

· Ruler

Functions/Trig/Stats

· Graphing Calculator (TI-84 model recommended)

· Three-Ring Binder

· Lined Paper

· Graph Paper

· Pencils and erasers

· Ruler

Pre-calculus

· Spiral Notebook - Large

· TI Graphing Calculator (preferably TI-84)

· Pencils and erasers

SCIENCE

6^th Grade Science

Loose leaf lined paper (60 sheets)
Loose leaf graph paper (30 sheets)
One 3-ring binders 1” thick
One pack of pencils and pens
Calculator (see 6^th grade math required materials for a description)

Physics

· Graphing Calculator (TI-84 model recommended)

· Notebook

· Pencils

SOCIAL STUDIES

6^th Grade Social Studies

· One accordion folder with ten divisions

· Two hundred sheets of lined paper (to start the year)

· One box of crayons, markers, or colored pencils

· Scissors

· Ruler

· Glue stick

· Ten blue or black ink pens

· *Optional – dictionary and /or thesaurus for personal use

7th Grade Social Studies:

· One binder divided into three sections, each section labeled: Class Notes, Reading Notes, Special Assignments

· One packet of lined paper

8^th grade & 9^th grade Social Studies

· standard size lined notebook (for note taking)

· ruler

· small packet of colored markers

· black, blue, and red pens

· scissors

· pocket folder

· liquid correction paper

· USB for project files

AP World History

· 2 inch large binder with paper

· Lined notebook

· Binder dividers

· Blue and black pens

· Pencils

· Colored pencils/ crayons

· Flags and/or notes

· Highlighters

· Flashcards and a ring or box to hold them

· Optional:

· **Review book (Recommended)

Best review book is Princeton Review’s Cracking the AP World History Exam

World History

· 2 inch large binder with paper

· Lined notebook

· Binder dividers

· Blue and black pens

· Pencils

· Colored pencils/ crayons

· Flags and/or notes

· Highlighters

· Flashcards and a ring or box to hold them

Anthropology

· standard size lined notebook (for note taking)

· ruler

· small packet of colored markers

· black, blue, and red pens

· scissors

· pocket folder

· liquid correction paper

· USB for project files

AP Psychology

· 1 large binder with paper

· Lined notebook

· Binder dividers

· Blue and black pens

· Pencils

· Colored pencils/ crayons

· Flags and/or notes

· Highlighters

· Optional:

· Flashcards and a ring or box to hold them

· Optional: **Review book (Recommended): 5 Steps to a 5 (Maitland)

AP US History

· 2 large binders

· Binder dividers

· Blue and black pens

· Pencils

· Colored pencils/ crayons

· Flags and/or notes

· Highlighters

· Flashcards and a ring or box to hold them

· Optional: **Review book (Recommended)

MODEL UNITED NATIONS

· 1 large binder

· 1 USB or other memory device

· Highlighters

· Pens/Pencils

· Note cards

GLOBAL ISSUES

· 1 binder with paper

· 1 folder

· Highlighters

· Pens/Pencils

· 1 USB or other memory device

US History

· 3-ring binder

· Dividers

· Lined paper

SPANISH

MS Spanish, Grades 6^th – 8^th

· A three ring binder, labeled with your name, with lined paper

· A set of binder dividers

· A bilingual (Spanish- English or the native language of the student) pocket dictionary to carry with you at all times. (For levels I-II-III)

· A Spanish-Spanish dictionary for level IV, to be used at home.

· pens (red, blue and black), pencils, eraser, ruler, glue, one whole puncher (the kind that punches one whole) to carry it in your pencil case.

· USB 7^th class

HS Spanish, Grades 9^th -10^th

· A three ring binder, labeled with your name, with lined paper

· A set of binder dividers

· A bilingual (Spanish- English or the native language of the student) pocket dictionary to carry with you at all times. (For levels I-II-III)

· A Spanish-Spanish dictionary for level IV, to be used at home.

· pens (red, blue and black), pencils, eraser, ruler, glue, one whole puncher (the kind that punches one whole) to carry it in your pencil case.

· USB 9^th class

HS Spanish, Grades 11^th - 12^th

· A three ring binder, labeled with your name, with lined paper

· A set of binder dividers

· A bilingual (Spanish- English or the native language of the student) pocket dictionary to carry with you at all times. (For levels I-II-III)

· A Spanish-Spanish dictionary for level IV, to be used at home.

· pens (red, blue and black), pencils, eraser, ruler, glue, one whole puncher (the kind that punches one whole) to carry it in your pencil case.

· USB 11^th class

SECONDARY SUMMER READING LISTS

· Selected Sixth Grade Summer Reading Recommendations

Title

Author

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

Ann Brashares

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis

Kira Kira

Cynthia Kadohata

The Giver

Lois Lowru

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Rohl Dahl

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

Jamie Gilson

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot

The Pigman

Paul Zindel

· Seventh Grade Summer Recommended Reading List

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

Toby Wilson is having the toughest summer of his life. It's the summer his mother leaves for good; the summer his best friend's brother returns from Vietnam in a coffin; and the summer that Zachary Beaver, the "fattest boy in the world," arrives. There are heartaches, friendships gained, and old friendships renewed. And it's Zachary Beaver who turns the town of Antler upside down and leaves everyone, especially Toby, changed forever.

Holes by Louis Sachar

As further evidence of his family's bad fortune (which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative), Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hideous correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.

Slam! by Walter Dean Myers

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball

talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi

While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Inspired by his teacher, 11-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.

Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

The 13-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal

in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic

crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with their uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England .

Witness by Karen Hesse

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

8^th Grade Summer Reading List

· The Braid, Frost

· Runaround, Hemphill

· Life As We Knew It, Pfeffer

· The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Boyne

· Side Effects, Goldman Koss

· Fallout, Krisher

· Turnabout, Peterson Haddix

· A Step from Heaven, An Na

· Swollen, Lion

· Rules of the Road, Bauer

· Children of the River, Crew

· Homecoming, Voight

· The Miracle Worker, Gibson

ESOL Grades 6-8

6^th grade:

· Hatchet

· Julie of the Wolves

· The Jungle Book

· Catherine Called Birdy

· Island of the Blue Dolphins

· Call It Courage

· Four Against the Odds

· Rifka

· Great Gilly Hopkins

· The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

· Dragon Wings

· Where the Lilies Bloom

· Journey Home

· After the Dancing Days

· Shadow of the Bull

· Acorn People

7^th grade:

· The Red Pony

· Walkabout

· Where the Red Fern Grows

· A Midsummer Night’s Dream

· The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

· The Giver

· A Wrinkle in Time

· Going Solo

· Across Five Aprils

· Diary of Anne Frank

· Year of Impossible Good-byes

· A Door in the Wall

8^th grade:

· To Kill a Mockingbird

· A Day no Pigs Would Die

· April Morning

· Animal Farm

· Cry, The Beloved Country

· Adventures of Tom Sawyer

· Old Man and the Sea

· The Pearl

· Shane

· The Outsiders

· The Hobbit

· Waiting for the Rain

· 9^th Grade Summer Reading List

Black Like Me - Griffin

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Brown

Good Earth, The - Pearl Buck

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe - Edgar Allen Poe

The Little Prince - Saint Exupery

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time- Mark Hadden

Bless Me; Ultima- Rudolfo Anaya

Speak- Louise Halse Andersen

Dandelion Wine- Ray Bradbury

Lilies of the Field- William Barret

Bullfinch’s Mythology- Thomas Bullfinch

The Red Badge of Courage- Stephen Crane

Over Twist- Charles Dickens

The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexander Dumas

The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank

The Princess Bride- William Goldman

Death Be Not Proud- John Gunthur

December Stillness- Mary Downing Hahn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn- Betty Smith

Dawn- Elie Wiesel

The Red Pony- John Steinbeck

The Pearl- John Steinbeck

The Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

Academic Writing

9^th grade:

The Chocolate War.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

Holes

The Earth Sea Trilogy

The Count of Monte Cristo

When Legends Die

Fahrenheit 451

Murder on the Orient Express

The Time Machine

War of the Worlds

Beauty

Go Ask Alice

Haunted Sister

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

The Dark Materials Trilogy

· 10^th Grade Summer Reading List

All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

Farewell to Manzanar- Watasuki Houston

The Book Thief – Zusak

Great Expectations – Dickens

Angela’s Ashes – McCourt

The Kite Runner – Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini

· 11^th Grade Summer Reading List

The Scarlet Letter - Hawthorne

Uncle Tom's Cabin - Beecher Stowe

Gone With The Wind - Mitchell

Beloved - Morrison

The Jungle - Sinclair

O Pioneers! - Cather

My Antonia - Cather

Three Soldiers - Dos Passos

U.S.A. - Dos Passos

Babbit – Lewis

The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck

The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway

Winesburg , Ohio – Anderson

Nickel and Dimed - Ehrenreich

The Gatekeepers – Steinberg

Fast Food Nation - Schlosser

Waiting for Lefty and other Plays – Odets

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Dillard

A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving

The Road – McCarthy

Leaves of Grass – Whitman

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Foer

Ragtime – Doctorow

The Iceman Cometh – O’Neill

· 11^th Grade: AP Language and Composition Summer Reading List

Conservationist Manifesto- Scott Russell Sanders

Nonzero- Robert Wright

Moral Animal- Robert Wright

Audacity of Hope: Barack Obama

Bananas: Peter Chapman

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Jean Dominque Bauby

The Professor and the Madman: Simon Winchester

Rogue Economics: Napoleoni

The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx

Achilles in Vietnam : Sway

Farwell to Manzanar: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Cod: Mark Kurlansky

Three Cups of Tea: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

The Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Travels with Charley: John Steinbeck

The Snow Leopard: Peter Matthiessen

How to Read Literature like a Professor: Thomas C. Foster

Angela’s Ashes: Frank McCourt

The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students: Suzanne Jurmain

The Informant: A True Story: Kurt Eichenwald

The Shopkeeper: James D. Best

In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War: David Reynolds

The Year of Yes: Maria Dahvana Headley

Black Elk Speaks: Black Elk

Cotton: Christopher Wilson

Salt: A World History: Mark Kurlansky

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II : Douglas A. Blackmon

The Post-American World: Fareed Zakaria

The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephen William Hawking

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance - Barack Obama

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.;

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Martin Luther King Jr.;
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945: Saul Friedlander

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala - Rigoberta Menchu

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo - Hayden Herrera

Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism - Muhammad Yunus

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. - Luis J. Rodriguez

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea - JaHyun Kim Haboush

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11: Lawrence Wright
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya: Caroline Elkins
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of The CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet by Steve Coll
Gulag: A History: Anne Applebaum
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide: Samantha Power
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution: Diane McWhorter
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan: Herbert P. Bix
Embracing Defeat: John W. Dower
Annals of the Former World: John McPhee
Guns, Germs, and Steel: Jared Diamond
Ashes to Ashes : Richard Kluger
The Haunted Land: Tina Rosenberg
The Beak of the Finch: Jonathan Weiner
Lenin's Tomb: David Remnick
Lincoln at Gettysburg: Garry Wills
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power: Daniel Yergin
The Ants: Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson
And Their Children After Them: Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Neil Sheehan
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Richard Rhodes
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land: David K. Shipler
Common Ground: J. Anthony Lukas

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House: Jon Meacham
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father: John Matteson
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher: Debby Applegate
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
De Kooning: An American Master: Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era: William Taubman
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Robert A. Caro
John Adams: David McCullough
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963: David Levering Lewis
Véra: Stacy Schiff
Lindbergh: A. Scott Berg
Personal History: Katharine Graham
God: A Biography: Jack Miles
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life: Joan D. Hedrick
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919: David Levering Lewis
Truman: David McCullough

· 12^th Grade Summer Reading List

1984 - Orwell

All But My Life- Klein

Bean Trees - Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible –Kingsolver

Death of the Nile- Kingsolver

Pope Joan - Woolfolk Cross

Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare

Emma - Austen

Rebecca - DuMaurier

Smack - Burgess

Simple Path - Mother Teresa

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Brooks

Acceptance- Coll

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier -Beah

Senior Year - Shaughnessy

Bringing Down the House: the Inside Story of Six MIT Students who Took Vegas for Millions- Mezrich

· 12^th AP Literature Reading List

In addition to required reading, these works are recommended.

A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving

The Road – McCarthy

Leaves of Grass – Whitman

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Foer

The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Díaz

East of Eden – Steinbeck

Anna Karenina – Tolstoy

Paradise Lost – Milton

The Poisonwood Bible –Kingsolver

anything by Shakespeare

The Shipping News – Proulx

The Kite Runner – Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Hosseini

AP Psychology

AP World History / World History

Mythistory by William H. McNeill. This book is more of a monograph than a story or literary classic. It is a contemporary world historian’s proposition that all of history is part myth, and that mythistory derives from a deep-seated need in man to explain, understand, and bequeath his past to the future.

The Alchemy of Happiness by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazzali (1058 – 1111). al-Ghazzali was on of the most important religious figures in Islamic history. He is particularly noted for his brilliant synthesis of mysticism and traditional Sunni Islam. The book was written toward the end of the al-Ghazzali’s life and provides a succinct introduction to both the theory and practice of Sufism (Islamic mysticism). It also offers many insights into traditional Muslim society and religion.

Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill. In this book, contemporary world historian William McNeill takes up the general question of the effects of plagues on world history and the more specific analysis of the plague that traveled across Asia in the Middle Ages and the effects of disease diffusion during the great encounter with the Americans.

The Great Pandemic by Alfred Crosby. Historian, Crosby examines the ferocity of the world plague 1918 – 1919. This plague killed more people than any pandemic in history and more than all of the casualties of World War I.

Cross-Cultural Trade in World History by Philip Curtin. This study examines trade between peoples of differing cultures throughout the course of world history. Curtin’s discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships like the Mediterranean trade with China , the Asian trade in the East, the European entry in the trade with maritime Asia and son on.

The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang Until Today by Fred Spier. This book is the best known of a new genre of world history that attempts to join the social and natural sciences into one historical narrative. The book gives a straightforward account of the latest scientific views on the history of the universe, the solar system, earth, life and human kind. It investigates the origins of humankind, the rise of agriculture and the emergence of early states.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon translated and edited by Ivan Morris. This book is one of the great classics of Japanese literature and the most detailed source of factual material on life in 11^th century Japan during the Heian period. It is also a work of great literary beauty, full of lively insights, humor and subtle impressions of a curt lady who, a thousand years ago, kept a diary.

Still Life With Rice by Helie Lee. In this radiant memoir of her grandmother’s life, Helie Lee, a first generation American of Korean descent, illuminates the intricate and powerful experiences of her Korean grandmother who lived through Japanese occupation of Korea , World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the modernization of her country and emigration to America . Writing in her grandmother’s voice, Helie Lee interprets issues that are both strangely Korean, and yet fundamentally our own; the complex nature of family relations, the impact of social and political upheaval on an individual, the rapidly changing lives of women in this century, the horrors of war, the loss of loved ones, the courage of survival, and the meaning of humanity.

DaddyJi by Ved Mehta. This book is Ved Mehta’s biography of his father, a public health official in colonial India . It chronicles both the imperial experience of millions of peoples around the world and the transition from tradition to modernity. A series of vivid vignettes highlights the encroachments of western values and customs on this Indian family and the subtle changes that take place when the lure of western ways infects the traditional family. It is an emotionally engaging portrait of an individual who successfully made the enormous journey across cultures and time, from old to modern and from purely Indian to worldly.

A Daughter of Han by Ida Pruitt. What began as author’s Ida Pruitt’s curiosity of the old customs of Chinese families in childbirth, marriage and death ended in this meticulous, touching and rich oral history of Ning Lao, a Chinese “everywoman” who lived from 1867 to 1938. It is the story of living and surviving in a weak and devastated China during the latter part of the 19^th century and the early 20^th century. In this story, Ning Lao emerges as both an oppressed citizen and stoic observer, gossip, and chronicler of history and life.

Don’t Be Afraid Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart by Elvia Alvarado. This book presents the life story of Elvia Alvarado, a Honduran activist for social change, especially in agrarian reform in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Stereotypes about poor, ignorant, pathetic peasants are severely challenged in this book. Though Elvia has only a formal education of second grade, her wisdom, intelligence, courage and human dignity stand out through the chapters of her life. The book teaches much about social, economic and cultural conditions in a poor, Latin American society, the dynamics of change, and the relationship between rich and poor, western and non-western.

Family by PaChin (Ba Jin). The author is one of China ’s most popular writers of fiction this century. His story is a poignant personal account of the injustice and oppression found in the traditional Chinese family, the need to overthrow the yoke of oppression and the accompanying Confucian ideology which allowed it to endure since ancient times. Written in 1931, the book reflects the period around the world of international anarchism (i.e. Russian populism) and reflects a time of great upheaval in China . The Qing dynasty had been overthrown, World War I had ended, the Russian Revolution consummated, the call for science and democracy had been firefly introduced by Sun Yet-sen, and Chiang K’ai-shek and the warlords were fighting for control of China . In the Kao family, “Third Younger Brother” emerges as the novel’s hero of the rebellion.

The Hummingbird and the Hawk: the Conquest and Sovereignty in the Valley of Mexico : 1503 –1541 by R.C. Padden. This book is narrative history of the Aztecs from the inception of the Empire to the post-Spanish conquest. It espouses a particular point of view that is part of the contemporary controversy surrounding the 500-year celebration of the Columbian Encounter. It contrasts, for instance, with K. Sale’s views in Conquest of Paradise though some find it a balanced consideration of Aztec and Spanish motives that are currently under attack in “politically correct” academia. It is an engaging story of the conquest from both sides.

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz. Midaq Alley is Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s engaging account of the residents of a Cairo ally in the early 1940’s. Intended as a “slice of life” portal of the lower reaches of Cairo society, it follows a group of vividly drawn characters whose relationships highlight the full range of human emotions. The characters in the book make the story somewhat ahistorical form the point of view that little can be learned about Egyptian attitudes toward colonialism, nationalism, the impact of World War II, the effects of urbanization, the influence of Islam, or other themes relevant to time or place. Yet, this in itself might tell a useful story in that much of the world lives in a day-to-day existence largely oblivious to the larger social, economic, and political forces that swirl around it.

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya. This book brings beauty and meaning to peasant life and poverty. This is a story set in rural India as modern industry comes to a town and community. Through the eyes of Rukmani, an Indian woman, the lives of many Indians and peasants the world over, especially as they face transition to modernity, are traced. The rich imagery of this book brings understandings, not judgments about Indian life. It is a story of courage, hope, love and land.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney Mintz. This is not literature but rather a detailed and fascinating study of how the consumer appetite for one product can alter world history, institutions and society. Sugar becomes a case study for the development of capitalism, slavery, the plantation complex, migration and ecology.

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh. Having lived through the riots resulting from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Khushwant Singh has written a novel that gives the reader an understanding of what Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs must have felt – such horror that only a master could capture it. Starting with a powerful description of Indian village life, the story progresses to one where safety in this small village in 1947 becomes almost impossible as trains traveling in both directions cross the Mano Majra Bridge between the two countries.

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon’s classic “handbook for the black revolution,” published in 1963, is valuable both as insight into the process of decolonization and as analysis of what went wrong in newly independent African countries. Fanon’s thinking was influenced both by Marxism and negritude. His description of tactics by which revolutionaries can channel their aggression and discover a communal destiny, had a strong influence on the Black Power movement in the US in the late 1960’s. When reading this book, it is interesting to contrast Fanon’s response to colonialism in Africa with Gandhi’s satyagraha movement in India .

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels and the Little Red Book or The Sayings of Mao Tse-tung (aka. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung). These are the revolutionary handbooks that influenced and guided Communist revolutionaries the world over from Fidel Castro to Che Gueverra, Chou En-lai and radical Americans of the 60’s. They are remarkable studies in what Marx and Mao really did say that so influenced the world.

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence. In 1577, the Jesuit priest, Matteo Ricci, set out from Italy to bring the Christian faith and Western thought to the Ming dynasty in China . In order to convert the Chinese, Matteo Ricci tried to impress them with his ability to memorize the Bible, thus challenging the abilities of Confucian scholars to remember vast amounts of Confucian doctrine. To do so, Ricci created four images derived from events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty’s elite. Jonathan Spence, the foremost historical raconteur of imperial China , has written a compelling narrative about Ricci’s remarkable life and a significant history of the world of counter-Reformation Europe and Ming China.

Memories of Silk and Straw – A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan by Dr. Junichi Saga. Every day after finishing work in the clinic of the small town of Tsuchirura , Dr. Saga went around the town visiting one elderly person after with a portable tape recorder in his medical bag. The people he talked to came from all walks of life: day laborers, tradesmen, farmers, fishermen, gangsters and geisha. They spoke candidly about the realities of traditional Japanese life. In the memories of these people are the sole surviving stories of the end of the feudal period in 1868 and the alteration in less than half a century of Japan from feudal to modern. The interaction of people and their environment makes this portrait of Japan unique. No one can read this book without being touched by how the Japanese dealt with the problem of unwanted children and how, amidst poverty and unhappiness, there was a strange kind of serenity, strength and community that seems entirely lost in modern life.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. No book conveys the horrors of the Stalinist era in Russian history better than this little book written by the giant of contemporary Russian protest literature. Ivan’s one day in a slave labor camp in Siberia becomes one of hundreds and thousands of days in the lives of millions of Russians who lived and died in the archipelago of labor camps that were strung across Siberia . It is a graphic picture of a slow and demoralizing holocaust. It is a moving tribute to the Russian will to prevail over relentless dehumanization by fellow Russians.

The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Robert M. Levine and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy. This book provides the world history student an opportunity to engage in issues of gender, race and poverty in the developing world through the experience of one of Brazil ’s most remarkable women.

Fantasia – An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar. This is a translation of one volume of a quartet by Algerian born author, Assia Djebar. The story is told from the perspective of a lady of the Harem during the French occupation of Algeria beginning in 1827. The story ends in the 20^th century after Algerian independence and the return of the remains to Algiers of the hero of the 19^th century resistance movement, Abd al-Qadir.

Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands by Nellie Campobello, translated by Doris Meyer and Irene Mathews. These two stories are autobiographical evocations of the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico told through the eyes of a child. In the writing of these stories, the author, along with Diego Rivera and others, played an important part in Mexico ’s post-revolutionary cultural renaissance during the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. This novel offers an interpretation of the history of technology and tackles the alleged problem of an ecological crisis. It challenges the notion that science, technology and invention are positive forces in history. These views are articulated by Quinn’s hero, a gorilla named “Ishmael.” The main point boils down to humanity’s having taken a technological turn that leads to a dead end. The big mistake that humans made, according to Quinn, was in buying into the Neolithic Revolution. All the other changes, including the Industrial Revolution, are determined by that wrong turn.

The Secrets of the Talking Jaguar by Martin Prechtel. Martin Prechtel, son of a Swiss father and Indian mother, grew up on an Indian reservation in New Mexico before moving to Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala for over a decade. In this book he reaches deep into the spiritual soul and history of the Maya people and their Shamans. Beautifully and eloquently related in the book are ideas like, it’s good for each person in the village to be in debt, economically and spiritually, to every other person in the village; that it is good to weep generously when a human being dies so he or she can make it all the way across to the other side; that it is essential to ask permission for every bit of iron and jade or silver or corn that we steal from the earth; and that it is good to know that most of life is maintenance – of roof, leafed huts and our own connections with the spirits. In this book you will learn much about the Mayan culture and Shamanism, which is the ritual religion of all early societies across Asia and the Americans, and which has mixed and fused with many elements of traditional religions in today’s world.

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa by Donald R. Wright – This fascinating work shows how global events and world systems have affected people’s lives for the past eight centuries in Niumi, a small area at the mouth of the Gambia River in West Africa. Topics addressed include slavery and the diaspora, colonial policy and the changing role of women.

Vietcong Memoir – An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath by Truon Nhu Tang. This memoir begins in the final years of French rule in Vietnam ’s extended “decolonization” process. The author grew up in privileged circumstances in French Indochina, going to French schools and engaging Chinese maidservants. However, as the French power in Indochina began to erode, he became a revolutionary. Inspired by Ho Chi Minh whom he met in Paris , he became a revolutionary – founder of the National Liberation Front, Minister of Justice for the Vietcong Provisional Revolution Government, and one of the most determined adversaries of the U.S. during the war, Truon is able to tell the political story of what Vietnam itself thought it was fighting for. At the end of the war, he describes a reunified Vietnam that did not – could not – fulfill his dream. The new Vietnam was as unjust as the old. In 1978, Truon climbed aboard a ramshackle boat and left the shores of the country he fought to create. He became one of thousands of boat people who eventually landed on American shores.

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross Dunn The story told by a remarkable Muslim traveler intimate with the court life and politics of the Arab world. Battuta was a contemporary of Marco Polo.

The Travels of Marco Polo by Lathen. The incredible tales of this 13^th century traveler and his journeys form Italy to China and back.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy. A masterful, albeit somewhat controversial assessment of the rivalry for world power over the past 500 years. This book reads like a more traditional history book rather than a novel. Note Kennedy’s conclusions are particularly controversial.

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Fascinating perspective on the cross-cultural effects of these stimuli on world history.

The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History by John Robert McNeill and William Hardy McNeill. The spread of agriculture, the growth of world religions and the rise of European civilization to world dominance are some of the themes explored in this engrossing addition to the distinctive McNeill brand of broad-brush macro-history. The motor of history this time is the growing "web" of interactions-weaving together hunter-gatherer bands, then civilizations and finally the whole world-by which people, goods, diseases and ideas spread. As it binds ever more people ever more tightly, the web both brings them into conflict and lets them share and build on each other's achievements.

The World That Trade Created by Kenneth Pomeranz. This is a very entertaining overview of the development of world trade and world economy. The short essays (3 to 4 pages each) each cover a different topic and are far too short to become boring. If anything some of the chapters are too short. The authors take an approach that is refreshingly not euro-centric, with many chapters covering the Far East and South America . In fact the authors' cynicism and disapproval of the hypocrisy of European colonial expansion is a recurring theme throughout the book. The book covers such varied topics as the connection between tea and the drug trade; the adoption of international time zones; piracy; the origin of coffee; and the impact of slave trade on the industrial revolution.

The Book of Saladin: A Novel by Tariq Ali A fictional memoir of Saladin, the Kurdish liberator of Jerusalem .

The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee, The Chinese Nail Murders, or any of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee novels.

Classical Chinese detective stories; reveal ancient Chinese society, culture and government.

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf. Story of Omar Khayyam, a poet, mathematician, and astronomer; and fanatical cult leader Hassan, who commands an invincible army of assassins

Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan -The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier. Story of a Dutch protestant girl who works for Vermeer.

Journal of the Plague Year.  By Daniel Defoe.  Account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665.

Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. Tells the story of how tapestries were created in 15^th C Europe.

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf. The adventures of real-life Hassan al-Wazzan from his birth in Spain , to North Africa, Timbuktu , Cairo and finally the Rome of Pope Leo X.

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk; contemporary writer about 16th century Istanbul.

The Samurai by Shusaku Endo. A samurai goes with a Spanish Jesuit to the Philippines , Mexico , Spain , Rome and back.

Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree by Tariq Ali Tells the story of a family targeted by the late 14^th C Catholic Church that spawned the Inquisition, as its members decide to either flee, fight, or are brutally slain.

The Twentieth Wife  by Indu Sundaresan – love story about Mughal India

A Woman Named Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart.  Slim novel about the black resistance on Guadeloupe.

Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres. Tells the story of the decline of the Ottoman Empire from the perspective of a small Anatolian town of Eskibahce and the life and career of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin or Xueqin Cao. Romeo and Juliet love story from Qing China .

The Glassblowers by Daphne DuMaurier--French revolution told by a family split by the revolution.

Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy It is 1852, and Hadji Murat, one of the most feared Muslim mountain chiefs, is the scourge of the Russian army. Tells of Russia encounter with its Muslim neighbors and then inhabitants.

Red Earth and Pouring Rain : A Novel by Vikram Chandra Various stories from India including 18^th and 19^th C Mogul India, but also earlier and later.

The Rock of Tanios by Amin Maalouf, Depiction of social and political turmoil in Lebanon during the 1880s.

The Stone Woman by Tariq Ali Story of a family and the decay of the Ottoman Empire .

The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi, by Arthur Japin. Novel based on the true story of two cousins, Ashante princes, who are sent to Holland in 1837. Their travels expose them to the horrors of the slave trade, life in Holland and in Indonesia where one of the characters spent the last years of his life.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – by Sijie Dai. Two teenage boys are sent to the countryside for “re-education” during the Cultural Revolution in China .

Beneath a Sky of Porphyry by Aïcha Lemsine. Describes life in an Algerian village before, during & after the war of liberation against French.

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks; WWI love story shows both lives of men and women and trench combat

The Bone People by Keri Hulme; this novel focuses on three people one Maori, one European and one of mixed blood who are locked together in animosity and love.

The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street by Najib Mahfuz (or Naguib Mahfouz) Story of a family living in Cario during the early part of the 20^th C, when Egypt was under British control. Can read one or all. Palace Walk introduces us to Al-Sayyid Ahmad, his oppressed wife, cloistered daughters, and his three sons. In Palace of Desire Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street - the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician.
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks; WWII story of a British woman taking part in the French Resistance

Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus by Carolina Maria De Jesus, Written between 1955 and 1960, journal of a single mother who supports her three young children by picking through garbage in a Brazilian slum.

The Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai Present day Indian family and their experiences since the death of Gandhi.

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagasarian. Armenian boy during the genocide of WWI

A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer. Girl’s hard life in a village in Mozambique and her escape to Zimbabwe .

House of Spirits – Isabel Allende – Describes life in Chile leading up to the military overthrow of President Allende.

House of the Winds by Mia Yun. A family whose lives have been affected by Japanese occupation and the Korean War

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende. Describes life under the Chilean dictator Pinochet.

Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff; A couple battle entrenched poverty, racism and other ills that overwhelm their traditional Maori culture and children in a Maori ghetto of urban New Zealand.

Paradise of the Blind – Duong Thu Huong – effects of the Vietnamese revolution on a particular family.

Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir. Stories exchanged by two wives in a mental hospital whose experiences typify Jordanian experience during the British Mandate.

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Story of an US missionary family in turbulent times of 20th Congo/Zaire

The Long Night of the White Chickens by Francisco Goldman. Historical fiction about Guatemala

The Kite Runner Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official.

The Pillow Book: A collection of anecdotes, memories of court and religious ceremonies, character sketches, diary entries, and poetry excerpts that help describe what daily life was like in the upper classes in Japan during the Heian period.

The Wisdom of Mao: A collection of writings by Mao Tse-tung which outline the utopian future he dreamed of for China and reflects his attempts to suit Marxist and Leninist principles to the realities of the Chinese feudal society.

Memories of Silk and Straw: Contains a collection of over fifty personal stories and interviews of pre-modern Japan from those who had seen it and lived through the changes brought on by modernization.

Zabelle: about the Armenian genocide

Model UN/Global Issues

· Madam Secretary.	Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
· Madeleine Albright.	Burgan, Michael.
· Madeline Albright and the new American diplomacy.	Lippman, Thomas W.
· Dag Hammarskjold.	Simon, Charlie.
· Pilgrimage for peace : a secretary-general's memoir.	Pérez de Cuéllar, Javier, 1920-
· A world made new : Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.	Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-
· Why peacekeeping fails.	Jett, Dennis C., 1945-
· Conditional partners : Eisenhower, the United Nations, and the search for a permanent peace.	Pruden, Caroline, 1962-
· U.S. foreign policy and the United Nations system.
· The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time.	Sachs, Jeffrey D.
· A Global Agenda Isssues Before the 56th General Assembly of the United Nations.	Ayton-Shenker, Diana
· Arrow book of the United Nations.	Dobler, Lavinia.
· Great debates at the United Nations : an encyclopedia of fifty key issues 1945-2000.	Gorman, Robert F.
· FDR and the creation of the U.N.	Hoopes, Townsend, 1922-
· United Nations : the first fifty years.	Meisler, Stanley.
· The Oxford 50th anniversary book of the United Nations.	Patterson, Charles.
· United Nations, Divided World The UN's Role in International Relations.	Roberts, Adam
· Act of creation : the founding of the United Nations : a story of superpowers, secret agents, wartime allies and enemies, and their quest for a peaceful world.	Schlesinger, Stephen C.
· U.N. peacekeeping America's role?.
· Legends of the United Nations.	Frost, Frances.
· Dubious Mandate : a memoir of the UN in Bosnia, summer 1995.	Corwin, Phillip.
· Eyewitness to a genocide : the United Nations and Rwanda.	Barnett, Michael N., 1960-
· My day : the best of Eleanor Roosevelt's acclaimed newspaper columns, 1936-1962.	Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
· Courage in a dangerous world : the political writings of Eleanor Roosevelt.

SPANISH CLASSES

6-8 Grades

for levels I & II

Aprovecha tu tiempo libre para escuchar español, hablar en español, leer español y escribir en español.

Recomendaciones para estas vacaciones: Aprende una nueva palabra cada día y haz oraciones con estas palabras. Practica las conjugaciones de los verbos todos los días. Escribe en “Mi Diario” contando lo que hiciste, cómo te sientes, tus ideas, opiniones y recomendaciones y cualquier otra idea que te animes a escribir.

6^th Grade Level IV:

· Cualquier adaptación del Quijote para jóvenes.

· Selección de novelas para jóvenes de la colección: Torre de papel

· El Canasto del Sastre, de José Milla

· La Mansión del Pájaro serpiente de Rodríguez Macal.

Books for levels III & IV

· Colección Torre de Papel a partir de los 11 años

· Colección Barcos de Vapor a partir de los 11 años

· Revistas en español de acuerdo al interés y la edad

9-12 Grades

for levels I & II

Aprovecha tu tiempo libre para escuchar español, hablar en español, leer español y escribir en español.

Recomendaciones para estas vacaciones:

Aprende una nueva palabra cada día y haz oraciones con estas palabras. Practica las conjugaciones de los verbos todos los días. Escribe en “Mi Diario” contando lo que hiciste, cómo te sientes, tus ideas, opiniones y recomendaciones y cualquier otra idea que te animes a escribir.

Books for levels III & IV

· Newspapers in Spanish

· Magazines in Spanish

· Writers from Guatemala, El Salvador, Hondruras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panamá

9TH LEVEL IV / CENTRAL AMERICAN LIT.

Guatemala:

· "Tradiciones de Guatemala." José Bátres Montúfar.

· "Leyendas de Guatemala". Miguel Ángel Asturias.

· "Llegaron del Mar" Mario Monterforte Toledo

· "Los buscadores de Oro" (novela) Augusto Monterroso.

El Salvador:

· "El Minimum Vittal" Alberto Masferrer

· " Cuentos de Cipotes" Salarrue

· “La ventana en el rostro". Roque Dalton

· "Un dia en la vida", Manlio Argueta.

· “Justicia Señor Gobernador" Hugo Lindo.

Honduras:

· "Un mundo para todos dividido" Roberto Sosa

· “La balada del herido pájaro y otros cuentos" Julio Escoto

· "Traficante de Ángeles" Roberto Castillo.

Nicaragua:

· "Cuentos y Crónicas",Azul. Rubén Darío

· "El soldado desconocido" Salomón de la Selva

· " El Mundo es Malo". Jose Coronel Urtecho

· "Salmos", Ernesto Cardenal

· " ¿Te dio miedo la Sangre? por Sergio Ramirez

· " La Mujer Habitada" y "El Taller de las mariposas" Gioconga Belli.

Costa Rica:

· " La aventura de los dibujados" Carmen Naranjo"

· "El hombre que se quedó dentro del sueño" y "Fábula de Fábulas";Alfonso Chase

· "El Grito mas Humano". Jorge Debravo.

10 Grade, Level IV, (Literatura española and Language Arts ):

· El Buscón de Pablos, de Francisco de Quevedo

· Rimas, de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

· Adaptaciones para jóvenes de: El Cid y Don Quijote de la Mancha

· Poesía, de Antonio Machado

· Platero y yo; de Juan Ramón Jiménez

· La Familia de Pacual Duarte de Camilo José Cela

· Biografías de: Pablo Picasso, Diego Velásquez, Salvador Dalí o Andrés Segovia.

11 , 12 Grade, AP Spanish Language:

· A book of your selection of the colection: “Travesías”, available at school with Luzma.

· El Conde Lucanor, adapted for Intermediate Students, available at school with Luzma.

11^th Level IV

Barroco Americano:

· Comedia "Amor en mas laberinto" y " Los empeños de una casa" Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Neoclasicismo:

· " La oración por Todos" Andrés Bello.

· " Profetica" Carta a Jamaica .Simón Bolivar.

Romanticismo:

· " El Buen Ejemplo" Vicente Rivas Palacios

· Poemas " Nocturno y Hojas Secas" Manuel Acuña

· "Facundo". Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

· " María" por Jorge Isac.

Realismo:

· "Ariel", José Enrique Rodó

· "El Mundo es Ancho y Ajeno". Ciro Alegría

Modernismo:

· ""Versos Sencillos " José Martí

· "Cantos de Vida y Esperanza" Rubén Darío

· "Plenitud" Amado Nervo.

Vanguardia:

· " Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada."Pablo Neruda