Saturday, June 25, 2011

Below is the booklist for next year. With each reading list is the reading assignment for the summer. You’ll need to complete these assignments before classes begin.

The schedule for the fall is as follows:

Monday, August 15--Registration in the classrooms at Trinity Presbyterian Church from 5:30 until 7:00. You’ll receive a reminder from me in late July regarding this meeting. Fees for the fall semester must be paid in full by August 15. If you are unable to make the meeting, you may send the check in the mail to me. Again, I’ll send a reminder in late July.

Monday, August 22--Classes begin.

Classes will not meet on Labor Day, Monday, September 5.

Thanksgiving break will take place the week of Thanksgiving. Monday classes will meet that week to make up Labor Day.

Christmas break begins on December 15. Classes will resume on Monday, January 2.

This schedule allows for sixteen classes in the fall and eighteen in the spring.

The July note will also contain information regarding the church property, behavior in the classroom, and our goals for the year.

Have a grand and lovely summer.

Best wishes,
Mr. Minick







2011-Book List -2012

Below are the book lists by class for the coming academic year. Nearly all of these books may be ordered from Amazon or from second-hand dealers online for a fraction of their original cost. Others are Dover Books, which generally run under $3 per book.

Books with an ISBN must be ordered by that number. Books without an ISBN beside them may be ordered in any complete edition.

Please be sure to read all the pages below connected with your particular class. This book list will also be posted on ashevillelatinseminars.blogspot.com.

Books for Latin Seminars
Latin I
Henle Latin (0829410260)
Henle Grammar (978-0-8294-0112-7)
Workbook (provided in class: charge of approximately $10)

No summer assignment

Latin II
Same as Latin I

Summer assignment: Know the vocabulary list on pages 91--98 and pages 217--220 in Henle Latin. Review the declensions and conjugations learned in first-year Latin. We are more than three months away from our next class, so be sure to review this summer.

Latin III
Latin for Americans (provided in-class)
Wheelock’s Latin (provided in-class)
Latin Third and Fourth Years (O-87720-558-2; old number; author is Charles Freundlich. You may order either the workbook or the book).

Summer assignments: Memorize the vocabulary lists from Henle Latin: pages 91--98, 217--220, and 217--220. Review declensions and conjugations.

Advanced Placement Latin
Pharr’s Aeneid (9780865165847)
Aeneid Workbook (0865166145)
AP Virgil Workbook (0738607061)
Latin in Three and Four Years (see above)
Aeneid (English translation by Mandelbaum)

Summer assignment: Read Mandelbaum’s Aeneid in its entirety. Memorize the “pull-out” vocabulary list at the back of Pharr’s Aeneid. I’ll be mailing you this sheet as well.

Books for 3Rs I and II
3Rs I (11--13)
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: Tenth Edition (ISBN 978-0-470-22268-3)
The Bible
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Gift of the Magi (0-486-27061-0)
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jameson (author: Lois Lenski)
Dear Mr. Henshaw (author: Beverly Cleary)
True Grit (Portis)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Watership Down
Henry V
Various poems assigned from online sources

Summer reading assignment: Dear Mr. Henshaw

3Rs II (13--15)
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: Tenth Edition (see ISBN above)
The Bible
The Yearling
Henry V (Shakespeare: any complete edition)
Lord of the Flies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Fahrenheit 451 (author: Ray Bradbury)
Till We Have Faces (author: C.S. Lewis)
Jane Eyre
Various poems from online sources

Books for US History and Literature
The American Pageant 0669108103 (Used. See below)*
Young Goodman Brown 0486270602
O Pioneers! 0486277852
Up From Slavery 0486287386
Killer Angels 0345348109
The Chosen (author: Chaim Potok)
Glass Menagerie (playwright: Tennessee Williams)
Poems and songs assigned from online sources (no purchase)
Education of a Wandering Man 0553286528
1776 (author: David McCullough)
With Love and Prayers (in-class: no need to purchase)

Summer reading assignment: Education of a Wandering Man (Louis L’Amour)

Books for AP Seminars
Note to AP students, particularly to those in literature: You must have the correct edition of the book. Several--the Norton Critical Editions--have important essays and notes at the end of the book. We use the books in class and must reference page numbers. You’ll slow the class down by using a different edition.
AP English Literature
Literature 0316488763 (Used. Must have this edition)
The Day I Became an Autodidact (author: Kendall Hailey)
The Four Loves (C.S. Lewis)
The Power and The Glory 0142437301
Wuthering Heights 0393978893 (must have this edition)
Crime and Punishment 9780393956238 (must have this edition)
The Great Gatsby 0743273567
The Sound and the Fury 0393964817 (must have this edition)
Franny and Zooey (author: J.D. Salinger)
Plays and poems (contained in our textbook, Literature)

Summer reading assignment: The Day I Became An Autodidact




AP Composition
Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric (author: Ward Farnsworth)
Strunk and White’s Elements of Style
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (editor: Joseph Epstein)
Lost in the Cosmos (Percy)
My Early Life (Churchill)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard)
An Education for Our Time (Bunting)
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman (Feynman)

Summer reading assignment: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman

AP U.S. History
A History of the American People (Paul Johnson)
Booknotes on American Character (ISBN 1-58648-342-0)
Kaplan AP U.S. History 2011

Summer reading assignment: Part one of Paul Johnson’s History of the American People “Colonial America, 1580--1750”
Seminar Schedule for 2010--2011

Monday
9:00--3Rs II
11:15--Latin II
1:15--U.S. History and Literature

Tuesday
9:00--3Rs I (tentative)
11:15--AP Latin
1:15--AP English Literature

Wednesday
9:00--3Rs I
11:15--Latin I
1:15--U.S. History and Literature
3:15--AP Composition

Thursday
9:00---AP U.S. History
11:15--Latin III
1:15--AP U.S. History