This page has information on summer school as well as required reading and assignments for the summer.

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Click here for summer reading and assignments.
Click here for summer athletic opportunities.

Summer School Information
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Students can only attend summer school for the following reasons:

1. To repeat a required course(s) for promotion
2. To repeat a required Stanton course(s) to remain in sequence
3. To raise a GPA below 1.5 for promotion purposes (grade 11 to 12 only)

Where can students attend summer school?

• Private summer programs in and around Jacksonville.
• Duval County Summer School Opportunities.
• Duval County Superintendent's Academies Programs

What about Florida Virtual School?
If a student is failing a course, s/he can register at http://flvs.net. If the student can successfully complete the course(s) failed during the year, on flvs or through a summer program, s/he can return to Stanton for 2010-2011. All courses must be passed before the first day of school in August, 2010.

Summer Preparation For All Students
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There are supplies that will be used in various courses. Click here for a list of these supplies.

There are several opportunities available for students to prepare themselves for the upcoming school year.
(AL) = ADULT LANGUAGE (AS) = ADULT SITUATIONS

All Students:
Printable Summer Reading List

9TH Grade - Required Reading

English I (Honors and Pre-IB)
A Raisin in the Sun (AS) - Hansberry

9th Grade - Recommended Reading
If you are taking Geometry Honors: The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4000-Year History by Eli Maor 
If you are taking Alegra II Honors: An Imaginary Tale: The Story of i by Paul Nahin
Tales - Poe
The Good Earth - Buck
Rebecca - DuMaurier
The Ox-Bow Incident - Clark
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Stone
The Caine Mutiny - Wouk
The Prince and the Pauper - Twain
West Side Story - Laurents
On the Beach - Shute
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

10th Grade - Required Reading

English II (Honors)
Lord of the Flies - Golding
Assignment: English II Honors
English II (Pre - IB)
The Odyssey - Homer
AP European History
A World Lit Only By Fire (AL, AS) - Manchester
Assignment: AP European History

10th Grade - Recommended Readings
1984 (AS) - Orwell
The Once and Future King - White
Wuthering Heights - E. Bronte
Jane Eyre - C. Bronte
The Human Comedy - Saroyan
Ivanhoe - Scott
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hard Times - Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Oliver Twist - Dickens
Utopia - More
Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
Gulliver's Travels - Swift
Mythology - Hamilton
A Passage to India - Forster
War of the Worlds - Wells

11th grade

AP Language (Honors)
Assignment (HONORS): AP English Language
AP Language (IB)
Essays that Worked For College Applications (ed. Curry)
AP US History (Honors and IB)
I Wish I'd Been There - Byron Hollinshead, ed.
Assignment (Honors and IB): AP US History 
IB Philosophy
The Metamophosis, Franz Kafka

11th Grade - Recommended Readings
The Grapes of Wrath (AL, AS) - Steinbeck
Native Son (AL, AS) - Wright
Babbitt - Lewis
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Color Purple (AL, AS) - Walker
The American - James
The American Tragedy (AL, AS) - Dreiser
Delta Wedding - Welty
Seize the Day - Bellow
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (AL, AS) - Kesey
Light in August (AL, AS) - Faulkner
Huckleberry Finn - Twain
The Invisible Man (AL, AS) - Ellison
Meridian (AL, AS) Walker
The Woman Warrior (AL, AS) - Kingston
The Way to Rainy Mountain - Momaday

12th Grade Required Readings

AP Literature (Honors)
Assignment: AP Literature
AP Literature (IB)
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
IB Contemporary History
The First World War Peace Settlements, 1919-1925 - Erik Goldstein 
Assignment: IB ContemporaryHistory
AP Macro Economics
The Armchair Economist: Economics And Everyday Life, Landsburg (see course description for details)
AP US Government & Politics
How Washington Really Works - Peters
AP Physics
Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe - Spielberg .
AP Chemistry - Click here for your assignment NOTE: required (graded) for Honors AP students; strongly recommended for IB/AP students.

12th Grade - Recommended Readings
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Crime & Punishment (AS) - Dostoevsky
Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Return of the Native - Hardy
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Dr. Faustus - Marlowe
The Power and the Glory - Greene
Daisy Miller - James
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Tartuffe - Moliere
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh
The Stranger - Camus
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
No Exit (AS) - Sartre
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Six Characters in Search of an Author (AS) - Pirandello
Catch 22 (AL, AS) - Heller
The Wasteland - T.S. Eliott
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Siddhartha - Hesse
The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov
A Doll's House - Ibsen

Art
IB Higher Level Art
IB Standard Level Art
AP Studio Art

Athletics - Click here for summer athletic information such as sports physicals, soccer camp, summer football conditioning schedule, etc. 

General: All information about Stanton's Athletic program. 

College/Future Planning - suggested readings

College Unranked - Lloyd Thacker
Colleges That Change Lives - Loren Pope
Looking Beyond the Ivy League - Loren Pope
Colleges with a Conscience - Princeton Review
Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond -Ginsberg,Jones
Over Achievers - Alexandra Robbins
Admissions Matters - Springer ,Franck
Harvard Schmarvard - Jay Matthews
Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind
Gatekeepers - Jacques Steinberg
All Loves Excelling - John A. Knight
Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean - Joyce Mitchell
My Freshman Year - Rebekah Nathan
The Naked Roommate - Harlan Cohen
Catalyst - Laurie Anderson