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SUMMER ASSIGNMENTS FOR 2008 - 2009 ACADEMIC YEAR
12TH
GRADE (SENIOR)
Extended Essay
Final Draft (2 copies & one disk) due at Schedule
Pick-up (First week of August)
TOK
What Does It All Mean? - Nagel
English I
Read the following:
· Poisonwood Bible - Kingsolver
· Things Fall Apart - Achebe
· The Bell Jar - Plath
· The Miller's Tale
& The Franklin's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
Spanish 5
You must complete the packet of
activities and be prepared to hand them in upon your return in August. The
packets are available from Señora Suárez
Economics HL
Required Reading: Students will be required to take a series
of multiple choice tests on the following book upon returning to school
in August 2007: Buchholz, Todd G. New Ideas from Dead Economists
View Assignment
H.O.A.
Read the following: "Bitter Fruit::The Story of the
American Coup in Guatemala" by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen
Kinzer
Biology
Read the following and complete the questions State of
Fear
View Assignment
Chemistry
All
assignments are due the first day back for full credit:
Read Chap
6 Energetics: pages 180-194 SL
and do Excercises 6.1 -6.4
HL 180-202,209-214
Excercises 6.6-6.6 and 6.9
Chap 7 Kinetics: SL 216-227 Ex.
7.1-7.3
HL 216-244 Ex. 7.1-7.6
Chap 12 Medicines and Drugs: HL
and SL pages 412-441,
Ques 1-25 page 456-457
NOTE: if you are unsure if you will
be doing HL or SL, it is better to do the HL homework. Then if you decide
on SL you will get extra credit.
Theatre
Rising seniors have a summer internship to complete as their
assignment (Independent Project), which is 3000 words (journal entries,
etc) and due upon returning to school in August.
IB Art Studio II
Checkout teaching website at: http://Teacherweb.com/FL/Riverview/JackieHenson-Dacey
Subscribe to either: (magazine) ArtNews or Art in America
Do the following observational drawing assignments on 14 X
17 inch drawing paper or larger:
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a drawing of a bike
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a corner of a room (using perspective)
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a still life arrangement of objects from your
kitchen
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These assignments will be your first grades. We will
have a group critique the first week back.
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Rubrics for evaluation:
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Creative use of material
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Accurate/technically proficient
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Using 7-10 different values (with charcoal or
pencil)
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Compositional arrangement (not centered in the
middle)
In your RWB:
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Preview one of the virtual galleries on my
teacherweb “links” page. Look at either IBO Virtual Gallery,
MOMA, or www.redraggallery.co.uk.
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Choose two different images to recreate in your RWB
and then write a formal analysis on the art images. (Describe, analyze
composition, interpret meaning and judge the effectiveness of the artists
ability to create the image)
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