Social Studies Summer Reading

Pre-AP/AP courses are college preparatory/level courses and require college level reading skills. The textbooks in AP courses are college level textbooks that require above average comprehension and vocabulary skills.

Summer reading is required. 

• Pre-AP World Geography:Into the Wildby Jon Krakaver
• AP World History: A History of the World in 6 Glassesby Tom Standage
• AP United States History: Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln by John Stauffer OR America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T and the Making of a Modern Nation by Jim Rasenberger
• AP US Government and Macroeconomics:Hardball: How Politics is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game by Christopher Matthews