Social Studies Summer Reading Assignment 2010

                  Lynn Vocational Technical Institute

              History and Social Studies

              Summer Reading List 2010

World History II (entering 10^th Grade) – Select One

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian

Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski

Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

United States History II (entering 11^th Grade) – Select One

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

Hiroshima by John Hersey

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World Told by Ken W. Alibek

Contemporary Affairs (entering 11^th/ 12^th Grade) – Select One

Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan by Gary C. Schroen

Spy: The Inside Story of How The FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America by David Wise

Street Law (entering 11^th/12^th Grade – Select One

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'neill

Financial Literacy (entering 11^th/12^th Grade) – Select One

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan

STUDENTS WILL BE TESTED ON THE BOOKS THEY HAVE READ DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL.