12th Grade

CP English 12:

Students enrolled in CP English 12 will read The World Is Waiting for You by Tara Grove and Isabel Ostrer. The Bookmatters in Milford will have copies of this book for purchase. You can also see this ordering information from Amazon (link).

Eight out of the 18 speeches from The World Is Waiting for You are also available here (Adiche, Kingsolver, Le Guin, Marsalis, Morrison, Nussbaum, Quindlen, and Steinem).

AP Language Students:

Students enrolled in AP Language will read The World Is Waiting for You by Tara Grove and Isabel Ostrer (linked above) AND The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. The Bookmatters in Milford will have copies of this book for purchase. You can also see this ordering information from Amazon (link).

Optional Reading Suggestions:

For your reading pleasure, the 12th grade teachers recommend the following works for OPTIONAL summer reading:

So You've Been Publicly Shamed--Jon Ronson
My Own Words--Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Address Book--Deirdre Mask
The Daughters of Yalta--Catherine Grace Katz
Grandma Gatewood's Walk--Ben Montgomery
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir--Natasha Trethewey
The Splendid and the Vile--Erik Larson
To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard--Tamar Haspel
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty--Anderson Cooper
The Nineties--Chuck Klosterman
We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year--Charles Wheelan
Uncertain Harvest: The Future of Food on a Warming Planet--Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, and Evan D.G. Fraser
It.Goes.So.Fast: The Year of No Do-Overs-Mary Louise Kelly
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness--Susannah Cahalan
Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks--Tom Chesshyre