AP Environmental Science Summer Assignment
Mr. Krekorian
Directions: This packet contains several parts. Each part must be completed and turned in on the first day of school. Please be neat and type your work/responses when possible. All responses should be in paragraph form. The summer assignment will count as your first test grade.
http://teacherweb.com/VA/KempsvilleHighSchool/MrPKrekorian/index.html
Assignment 1
Go to the above web site and explore the different headings and links. Make sure you check out the required service hours page. E-mail me by either from the home page "mailbox" or at: pkrekorian@cox.net
tell me who you are, why you want to take, and what you want to get out of AP Environmental Science.
Get this completed by July 31th and receive 5 extra credit point on your summer assignment.
Assignment 2
Read the article “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin. http://dieoff.com/page95.htm
Type a two or three page, double-spaced, summary/response to the article. Try reading and summarizing each section. The article may be obtained from one of the links at the above web site.
Assignment 3
Answer “The Tragedy of the Commons” questions on the T of the C. link.
Assignment 4 NEW for 2011 - 2012
Read a book from the following listed below or from your own choosing with my approval. (Just e-mail me the title of the book and I will reply ASAP) Write a book report. (Summary and response)
“A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)” by Bill Bryson
The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature by David Baron
“My Side of the Mountain” By Jean Craighead George Jean Craighead George (Author)
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Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Maiden Voyage, by Tania Aebi
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman
Field Notes From a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert,
Our Ecological Footprint by Wackernagel and Rees
Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Other books to choose from:
The Burning Season – Andrew Revkin
A Sand County – Aldo Leopold
Desert Solitaire – Edward Abbey
Walden Pond – Henry David Thoreau
The song of the Dodo – David Quammen
Of Wolves and Men – Barry Lopez
Deep Ecology – Artie Kness
Tracing the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery – Kathryn Phillips
The Naturalist – E. O. Wilson
Cadillac Desert – Mark Reisner
Wolves of Isle Royale – Rolf Peterson
Night of the Grizzlies – Jack Olsen
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Encounters with the Archdruid – John McPhee
The control of Nature – John McPhee
The heat is on – Ross Gelbspan
Our Stolen Future – Theo Colburn
Riddle of the Ice – Myron Arms
Witness the Nature – Linda Lear
Living Downstream – Susan Steingraber
The Orchid Thief – Susan Orlean
The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey
The Earth in Balance – Al Gore
Ocean Warrior – Paul Watson
Desert Year – Joseph Krutch
Wolves of Denali – Adolph Marie
Never Cry Wolf – Farley Mowat
And the Rivers Turn to Blood – Rodney Barker
Confessions of an Eco Warrior – Dave Foreman
Looking for Longleaf: the fall and rise of an American forest – Lawrence Earley
Important: Make sure you look at the website because it contains information such as the Ten, (10)per semester, Service Hour requirements.