CASS students are required to read one assigned book over the summer. Study guides are available for download below. Students are expected to carefully read their assigned book before the start of the year. Please bring the book to class on the first day of school. Class discussion and assignments in the first several weeks of the year will utilize the summer reading selections.
Summer Reading
9th and 10th Grade
Mythology
Hamilton, Edith
ISBN 978-0316223331
With the slow fall of Rome that is covered in the sophomore history sequence, the gravitational center of the Christian world shifts northward, and the original Christian themes and ideals of the ancient word are retold against a new Germanic cultural backdrop. Roger Lancelyn Green's retelling of these Norse myths sets the stage for Beowulf, the Song of Roland and the Arthurian legends that are studied in the 10th grade.
11th and 12th Grade
Myths of the Norsemen
Green, Roger Lancelyn
ISBN 978-0141345253
One if the most fundamental works of modern literature, Mary Shelley’s novella is a thoughtful study of the limits of human capacity in a scientific age that was quickly casting away old revealed truths. It is a work that could not have been written in any other moment in history, and the archetype of the creature that is sentient but not created by God in one that endures into our own day. Certainly vampire, werewolves, and even aliens partake of this theme; yet so does mankind when reduced to mere materialism. Note: Please be sure to read the original 1818 version, not the later 1831 text**
