In Cold Blood by
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
AP Art History Summer Work
DUE: First week of school
READ:
CREATE:
Try out several tutorials on Scratch
I recommend: Make a Chase Game & Make a Pong Game
If you do this, I’d love to see something impressive that you make over the summer!
If you are signed up for AP Computer Science A for next year, and you have not taken Computer Programming or AP Computer Science Principles at Perkiomen, please email Ms. Rodgers (arodgers@perkiomen.org) to explain what other experience you have to skip the prerequisites. Otherwise, email Mr. Moser to switch into one of those classes!
Learn Java from Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-java
[Option 1: non-pro version, going to just review a few concepts]
[Option 2: sign up for a 7 day free trial for Pro, get access to quizzes and projects]
OR
Learn the Basics from Learn Java Online
College Physics (4th ed.) by 
Susan You Mafan! by
Susan is tired of the boring life in her small community in the US...until one day a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with fame, fortune, and...dogsleds? A chapter book all in Chinese for beginning students, with a quirky and engaging story told using only 212 headwords and 207 unique Chinese characters. Chapter 1 has only 23 headwords and could easily be read by students in their first month of Chinese study. "Accessible Pinyin" is conveniently located on the back side of each printed page of characters, to give support that is always available but out of sight. Full glossary of meanings as the words and phrases are used in the context of the story.
My Teacher Is a Martian by
Two students can tell their new teacher is weird, very weird. His odd behavior is only surpassed by his knowledge of Mars and he seems to know details that even the top experts could know. As they start to suspect that maybe he really is from Mars, they encounter unexplainable events that only deepen their suspicions. How can they know for sure and who would even believe them? Maybe only they can find the truth!
In Search of Hua Ma by
As a young boy is walking through the mountains in search of a gift for his mother's birthday, he comes across an ancient looking home. An old lady beckons him inside and asks him to find "Hua Ma". As he leaves, he finds himself inexplicably transported to the distant island of Hainan while the old lady and the house have disappeared. Unsure of who or what Hua Ma is, he sets out on a quest to find him, realizing this mysterious Hua Ma may be his only chance to find his way back home Mandarin Companion is a series of easy-to-read novels in Chinese that are fun to read and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. The Breakthrough Level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese. Most learners will be able to approach this book after one year of traditional formal study, depending on the learner and program. This level is designed to help learners begin to read full-length texts in Chinese and combines simplicity of characters with an easy-to-understand storyline that helps beginners grow their vocabulary and language comprehension abilities.
