Stockbridge High School Summer Reading Assignment

Stockbridge High School Summer Reading Assignment

Summer 2016 – AP Environmental Science

Mason. W. Sheffield

The Summer Assignment is due the first day of the 2016-17 school year, counts as two test grades, and is mandatory for all students taking AP Environmental Science. Due the first day of school.

·  Choose a book from the reading list (on the back of this sheet).

·  As you read, create a chart listing the words that are unfamiliar to you and the page number where it can be found. Define each of these terms and note an appropriate synonym. If you are familiar with all of the terms, identify at least 12 vocabulary terms, define them, and list synonyms as described below. We will utilize the vocabulary throughout the school year.

Example:

Terms / Definition / Synonym
Contemporaneous p. 361 / (adj.) Happening in the same period / synchronous

·  Pick 12 chapters and write a brief synopsis/summary for each. Four entries must come from the beginning chapters, four from the middle chapters, and four from the last chapters. Keep this in a formal tone, and use correct grammar and punctuation, as well as citations for anything directly quoted from the book.

·  You must do six double-entry journal responses. To do this, draw a line down the middle of the page or create two columns. On the left side, copy a passage from the book that has meaning, was especially interesting, was especially confusing, or has personal significance to you (note the page, too). On the right side, offer your response to this passage. Why did you choose this? What is its meaning to you? Why did this strike you?

Example of a double-entry journal response:

Quote / Response
“As for postmedieval petroleum distillation, 19th-century chemists found the middle distillate fraction useful as a fuel for oil lamps. The chemists discarded the most volatile fraction (gasoline) as an unfortunate waste product-until it was found to be an ideal fuel for internal-combustion engines.” (page 247) / I had no idea that petroleum was known of and used as a fuel back then. I thought it was interesting how people understood a need for finding a use for the waste from petroleum production, which led to furthering their technologies. It helped me think about how this may have happened with several other inventions and technologies.

Summer Reading List (Choose one)

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond ISBN-10: 0393061310 ISBN-13: 978-0393061314

Climate: The Counter-Consensus - A Palaeoclimatologist Speaks by Robert M. Carter ISBN-10: 1906768293 ISBN-13: 978-1906768294

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen ISBN-10: 0393066800 ISBN-13: 978-0393066807

The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin ISBN-10: 1595587098 ISBN-13: 978-1595587091

Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Russell L. Blaylock ISBN-10: 0929173252 ISBN-13: 978-0929173252

The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson ISBN-10: 1583227008 ISBN-13: 978-1583227008

Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21 by Rosa Koire ISBN-10: 0615494544 ISBN-13: 978-0615494548

Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward T. Haslam ISBN-10: 0977795306 ISBN-13: 978-0977795307

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story by Richard Preston ISBN-10: 0345466632 ISBN-13: 978-0345466631

Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory by Michael Christopher Carroll ISBN-10: 006078184X ISBN-13: 978-0060781842

Killer Germs by Barry Zimmerman and David Zimmerman ISBN-10: 0071409262

ISBN-13: 978-0071409261

Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together by Sylvia Bernstein ISBN-10: 086571701X ISBN-13: 978-0865717015

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?--A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn ISBN-10: 0452274141 ISBN-13: 978-0452274143

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan ISBN-10: 0143038583 ISBN-13: 978-0143038580

How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier (editor) ISBN-10: 0821416472, ISBN-13: 978-0821416471