Harwich High School History Department

 SUMMER ACTIVITIES

Advanced Placement Classes should contact individual teachers to get the required readings and assignments.

AP US History with Mr. Houston:   Read the first 4 chapters of the text(Blum's National Experience). Do the homework sheets posted on the class website:  http://www.harwich.edu/depts/history/aphw.html.  Be prepared for reading quizzes the first week of school.  Doing the optional reading would also be helpful. 

Suggested Summer Reading and Film  List:

Government:

Man of the House, Tip O’Neill with William Novak

All Politics is Local, Tip O’Neill

Thirteen Days, Robert Kennedy

All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong

Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation, Ken Gormley

US History:

 Books:

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor

American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter

Profiles in Courage by John Kennedy.

 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Films:

BE SURE TO CHECK RATINGS AND GET PARENTAL PERMISSION WHEN APPROPRIATE

Saving Private Ryan

Glory

Madness of King George III

Casablanca

Thin Red Line

Platoon

The Patriot

Sergeant York

PBS Not For Ourselves Alone

PBS Eyes on the Prize

Burns' PBS Civil War

The World History II:
 
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Bridge at Andau by James Michener
Night by Elie Wiesel
Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell

World History I:

I, Claudius by Richard Graves
Cladius the God by Richard Graves
Siddhartha by Hemann Hesse
The Mahabharata (the play) by Jean-Claude Carriere

Extra credit projects related to the readings for all four grade levels is at the discretion of the individual teachers.