AP Environmental Science - Required Summer Reading

Any student signed up to take AP Environmental Science next school year must pick up the summer assignment from Ms. Branton in room 45G. This assignment is mandatory and is worth four homework grades.

AP Chemistry - Required Summer Reading

All AP Chemistry students must stop by Mr. Zawodny's room 36 to pick up their summer reading assignment and their texts.

English, AP American History/AP Spanish - Required Summer Reading

The following required reading needs to be completed BEFORE the first day of class. Students will be quizzed during the first weeks of class.

ENGLISH

9th Honors

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

10th Honors

Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

James McBride, The Color of Water

11th Honors

Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of Butterflies

11th AP

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

12th Honors

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Ian McEwen, Atonement

12th AP

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Michael Frayn, Spies

AP AMERICAN HISTORY

David McCullough, John Adams

AP SPANISH

Rudolfo Anaya, Bendiceme, Ultima

Graduation Videos

The PTSA will be selling senior graduation videos for $35.00
To order go to: http://www.rodolfomatamoros.com/ta

Make checks payable to MAST PTSA and mail to:
MAST PTSA
P.O. Box 557195
Miami, FL 33255

Solar Celebration - Wednesday, May 19th

You are cordially invited to MAST Academy's 14th Annual Solar Celebration... The Sky is the Limit!
Solar Energy applications and demonstrations, energy for career, alternative fuel presentations, and creative students projects and exhibits:

Place: MAST Academy
3979 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, Florida, 33149

Date: Wednesday May 19, 2010

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

R.S.V.P. Receptionist (305) 365-6278 or e-mail Dr. Wafa Khalil, Program Director, at khalil@dadeschools.net

Summer Job Opportunity

Junior Naturalist Summer Camp runs from June 14-25. Students must be 16 or older, and preference will be given to Fairchild Challenge participants. A stipend is available. Interested applicants should send a cover letter and brief resume to Alison Walker at awalker@fairchildgarden.org by Friday May 21.

Senior T-Shirt Designs

We are beginning our design contest for our senior t-shirts. They will be sold at the beginning of next year but we want to get everything finalized by the end of this year. Please submit designs to the folder on the class board by Friday, May 28th!