2025 Summer Info

Below students will find summer assignments for select courses and information about New Student Orientation, Parent Orientation and joining a carpool.

New Student Orientation

Orientation for Newly Enrolled Students:
Save the Date for your 2-Day Orientation, August 7 & 8, 2025! 

Day 1 will allow newly-enrolled students to meet their Peer Leaders and fellow classmates, engage in team building activities, and enjoy a guided tour of our campus. On Day 2, students will hear from their Grade Level Deans, set up their devices, get to know their peer groups, and learn some general information about what is to come in their first year at Weber! We can’t wait to see you!

*Students transferring into 10th, 11th, or 12th grade are only needed on Thursday, August 7, NOT Friday, August 8.

Dates & Times: 
Thursday, August 7, 2025: 09:00am - 12:30pm (Lunch will be provided)
Friday, August 8, 2025: 09:00am - 12:30pm (Lunch will be provided); incoming 9th grade students ONLY, NO TRANSFER STUDENTS
Orientation for Parents of Newly Enrolled Students:
We welcome you to attend New Parent Orientation!
Date & Time: Thursday, August 7: 09:00 - 10:00am

For additional information, please contact our Associate Director of Student Social and Emotional Support, Mrs. Rosie Grinzaid.

Carpool Information

If you need help forming or joining a carpool to Weber, please contact Ms. Rise Arkin, Director of Admissions, at (404) 917-2500, extension 131 or risearkin@weberschool.org. She will happily email you a contact list of families that live in or near your zip code.

Van Service Information

Weber's morning van service picks up from two locations: Oakhurst Market in Decatur and Ansley Mall in Midtown.

Oakhurst Market: Decatur
Address: 650 Oakhurst Drive, Decatur, GA, 30030
Pickup and Departure Times: The van will arrive at 07:20am and depart promptly at 07:25am.
 
Ansley Mall: Midtown
Address: 1544 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta, GA, 30324 
Pickup and Departure Times: The van will arrive at 07:45am and depart promptly at 07:50am.
 
The van is scheduled to arrive at The Weber School by approximately 08:15am, ensuring students arrive well in advance of the school's start time at 08:30am.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Rise Arkin, Director of Admissions, at (404) 917-2500, extension 131 or risearkin@weberschool.org. 

Summer Reading

Weber's goal with summer reading is to encourage students to become life-long readers who read critically, insightfully, and enjoyably.  During the first weeks of school, English teachers will assess students on the summer reading assignments through in-class writing assignments. In order to prepare for summer reading assessments, students should plan their time wisely and read carefully.  

Summer Reading by Grade

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  • 9th Grade

    9th Grade CP
    Marie Lu’s Legend ISBN#: 978-0142422076 

    9th Grade Honors
    John Knowles’ A Separate Peace ISBN#: 978 0743253970 

    9th Grade CP: Students will read Marie Lu’s dystopian novel Legend. In this fast-paced thriller, Lu invites readers to question authority, challenge preconceptions, and explore the complex dynamics of power and privilege. As fifteen-year-old June and Day navigate their respective worlds, they confront moral dilemmas, uncover hidden truths, and forge unlikely alliances in the face of injustice. What drives individuals to rebel against oppressive regimes? Can one person make a difference in the face of overwhelming odds? How do loyalty and betrayal shape the course of history? 

    9th Grade Honors: Students will read A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a coming-of-age novel set in a New England boarding school during the early years of World War II. The story follows the complex friendship between Gene and Phineas as they navigate the pressures of adolescence, competition, and identity against the backdrop of a world at war. Through moments of joy, betrayal, and self-discovery, the novel explores the fragile line between innocence and experience. What does it mean to grow up during uncertain times? How do friendship and rivalry shape who we become? In what ways does conflict—internal and external—reveal our true nature? 

  • 10th Grade

    10th Grade CP
    Choice of either: 
    1. Alan Gratz’s Refugee ISBN# 978-0545880831
    2. Ruta Sepetys’ The Fountains of Silence ISBN# 978-0142423639

    10th Grade Honors
    Choice of either: 
    1. Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit ISBN#978-0060822187
    2. Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala ISBN# 978-0316322423 

    10th Grade CP    : Students will choose between two powerful novels that explore what it means to resist authority, seek justice, and hold on to hope in the face of repression. In Refugee by Alan Gratz, three young people—Josef in 1930s Nazi Germany, Isabel in 1990s Cuba, and Mahmoud in war-torn Syria—flee their homes in search of safety and freedom. As their stories unfold across continents and decades, each must confront danger, loss, and moral choice in a world shaped by political violence and indifference. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys transports readers to 1950s Spain under Franco’s dictatorship, where the lives of a visiting American teen and a Spanish girl intertwine. As Daniel uncovers hidden truths about the regime’s brutality, the novel explores silence, complicity, and the quiet courage of those who risk everything to speak out. Both novels raise urgent questions about the human cost of authoritarianism, the moral complexity of resistance, and the role of young people in shaping a more just world. What does it mean to take a stand? How do ordinary people push back against powerful systems? What gives us the strength to keep going when the future is uncertain?

    10th Grade Honors    : Students will choose between two powerful memoirs that explore what it means to resist authority, preserve identity, and speak out in times of upheaval. The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado tells the story of her family’s forced departure from cosmopolitan Cairo after a political revolution transforms their lives. Through the eyes of her father—a once-prominent figure who refuses to relinquish dignity in exile—Lagnado explores how individuals resist erasure and displacement under authoritarian regimes. In I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai recounts her courageous stand for girls’ education in Pakistan under Taliban rule. After surviving a targeted attack at the age of fifteen, Malala’s voice became a rallying cry for change across the globe. Both memoirs raise urgent questions about personal conviction, the cost of dissent, and the quiet and public ways people challenge injustice. What makes a voice powerful? How do we resist when resistance carries risk? Where does the fight for identity and education begin—and how far can it reach?

  • 11th Grade

    11th Grade CP & Honors:
    George Takei They Called Us Enemy ISBN# 978-1603094504 

    11th Grade AP Language:
    1. Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption ISBN#: 978-0-8129-8496-5
    2. Jason Hardy’s The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison ISBN#: 978-1982128609

    11th Grade     CP and Honors: Students will read They Called Us Enemy, a graphic memoir by George Takei that recounts his childhood experiences as a Japanese American interned during World War II. Through vivid illustrations and honest narration, Takei reflects on the injustice his family endured, the resilience of a community targeted by fear and prejudice, and the lasting impact of government policy on individual lives. The memoir invites readers to examine questions of citizenship, loyalty, and the meaning of patriotism in a democracy tested by war. How do we confront injustice when it comes from within our own nation? What does it mean to belong in a country that doubts your identity? How do memory and storytelling preserve truth in the face of erasure?

    11th Grade AP Language: 
    Students will read Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, a powerful memoir that documents his career as an attorney representing disadvantaged clients. This text serves as an important complement to the class trip to Montgomery, Alabama where we will visit The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, often called The Lynching Memorial, two remembrance and educational sites created by the Equal Justice Initiative, the non-profit organization that Stevenson founded.  

    The second book 11th AP Lang will read is Jason Hardy’s The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison, which tells the story of the author’s experience becoming a parole officer in New Orleans. This text will further the class’ exploration of the judicial system in the United States.  

  • 12th Grade

    12th Grade Lit Journeys CP:
    John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed ISBN#978-0525555247

    12th Grade Lit Journeys H:
    John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed ISBN#978-0525555247

    12th Grade AP Language:
    Tara Westover’s Educated ISBN#978-0399590528

    12th Grade AP Literature:
    1. Shakespeare’s Othello
      ISBN#978-1586638528
    2. Aristotle’s Poetics
    Annotation Assignment Instructions 

      12 Grade Lit Journeys CP & Honors      : 
      Honors students will engage with John Green’s The Anthropocene Reviewed, a genre-defying collection of essays that offers a nuanced meditation on what it means to be human in a world shaped by human activity. Through a series of seemingly ordinary subjects—like scratch-and-sniff stickers, the internet, and sunsets—Green crafts intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant reflections that blur the boundaries between memoir, cultural analysis, and scientific inquiry. With wit and vulnerability, he invites readers to interrogate the assumptions that the personal is trivial and the universal is abstract. In doing so, the text becomes a powerful study in how meaning is constructed through narrative, and how close reading—of both texts and lived experience—can yield deeper understanding. What makes a story worth telling? How do individual insights inform collective knowledge? And how might we locate purpose, beauty, and truth in the small details of a vast, uncertain world? This text challenges honors students to consider not just how we live in the Anthropocene, but how we narrate it.

      12th Grade AP Language: Students will read Tara Westover’s Educated, which tells the story of the author’s struggle to receive an education while living in isolation. This text will further the class’ exploration of the educational system in the United States, along with discussions about the transformative powers of knowledge. 

      12th Grade AP Literature: 
      Students in our most advanced literature course will begin the year with two foundational texts: Othello by William Shakespeare and Aristotle’s Poetics. This pairing demands both close reading and philosophical inquiry into the nature of tragedy, character, and dramatic form. In Othello, students will explore themes of race, jealousy, and honor through Shakespeare’s rich language and structure. At the same time, they’ll examine Poetics to understand Aristotle’s ideas of plot, catharsis, and the tragic hero. This summer assignment positions both works in conversation across centuries. What defines an effective tragedy? How does Othello align with or challenge Aristotle’s vision? Through focused annotation and analysis, students will develop original insights and prepare for an in-class writing task that requires synthesis, interpretation, and argument. The assignment serves as both a rigorous academic foundation and an invitation to join a broader literary dialogue. Annotation Instructions 

    2. AP Seminar | AP Research

      AP Seminar:
      Steven Levitt and Stephen Daubner’s Think Like a Freak ISBN# 978-0062218346

      AP Research      :

      AP Seminar: Students in AP Seminar will read Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, a lively and thought-provoking guide to approaching problems with curiosity, creativity, and unconventional thinking. Building on their work in Freakonomics, the authors challenge readers to let go of assumptions, ask better questions, and embrace data-driven inquiry. From small everyday dilemmas to complex global issues, Think Like a Freak encourages a mindset that values open-mindedness, intellectual humility, and innovative problem-solving. How can rethinking a question lead to better answers? What role do incentives, bias, and unexpected data play in decision-making? This book sets the stage for a year of critical thinking, effective argumentation, and meaningful research.

      12 AP Research: Students will begin their AP Research journey by studying high-quality student work and the official College Board rubric that will guide their own projects. Through the annotation of strong and developing research papers, they will examine key elements of successful inquiry, such as clear questions, purposeful methods, and effective academic voice. Annotating the rubric itself will deepen their understanding of course expectations and help them evaluate their own progress. This work lays the foundation for research that is thoughtful and confident. What makes a question worth asking? How do evidence, method, and meaning connect? How does critical reading lead to stronger writing? This assignment is the first step toward becoming an independent scholar. Assignment Instructions and Sample Papers.

    9th Grade CP Physics Summer Work

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    • Print and complete these worksheets by the first day of class. You should be able to fit your work on these pages; if not, attach your scratch work to the back of the packet.
    • Mysterious or unsupported answers may not receive credit.
    • This will be your first graded assignment in AP Calculus AB and BC. The work you provide is expected to be your own.

    AP Biology Summer Work

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    AP Calculus AB and BC Summer Work

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    AP Statistics Summer Work

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    AP Music Theory

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    • AP Music Theory Summer Work

      To prepare for the start of the course, all students are required to complete Chapter 4 in the AP Music Theory Workbook by the first day of class. Textbooks and workbooks are available for pickup at Weber now. 

      Summer Business Hours:
      Monday - Thursday, 9:00am - 3:00pm
      Friday, 9:00am - 2:00pm

      Summer Closures:
      June 2nd & 3rd - Shavuot
      June 19th - Juneteenth
      July 4th - Independence Day

      We recognize that students taking this class have varying levels of musical experience. If you find that you need to review earlier material in order to successfully complete Chapter 4, you are encouraged to work through Chapters 1–3 over the summer. These review chapters will not be collected or graded, but they are strongly recommended for anyone needing a refresher on foundational concepts.

    Summer Business Hours & Closures

    Business Hours:
    Monday - Thursday, 9:00am - 3:00pm
    Friday, 9:00am - 2:00pm

    Closures:
    June 2nd & 3rd - Shavuot
    June 19th - Juneteenth
    July 3rd and 4th - Independence Day

    Summer Weight Room Hours

    Starting June 9, 2025
    Open Monday through Thursday from 12:00-2:00 PM
    Closed June 19 and June 30 - July 4, 2025

    Students must have an updated physical on file with our Athletic Trainer, Maggie Sherlock. Please reach out to Ms. Sherlock at msherlock@weberschool.org for any questions regarding medical paperwork.

    Questions about Summer Work?

    List of 6 members.

    • Charlie McQuade 

      Dean of Student Affairs (9th-12th)

    • Carrie Runnels 

      Grade Level Dean for 11th and 12th Grades / Math Teacher

    • Hannah Chapple 

      Dean of Faculty Mentoring, English Teacher

    • Herschel Revzin 

      Dean of Mathematics/Math Teacher

    • Rosie Grinzaid 

      Associate Director of Student Social and Emotional Support

    • Rise Arkin 

      Director of Admissions
      404-917-2500, ext. 131

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