1. Get your passport
2. Get FNB Bank card(s)
3. Get an ID card at DMV (if you have no license or permit)
4. Work on possible summer events for fundraisers (Alumni President will call you)
5. Start reading from Summer Reading List below: (click on link for e-books)
6. Keep a Reading Journal with assignments listed (see dates for assignments due!)
7. If you do not have Microsoft Office, download free OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org
8. Listen to Italian CD --  download here as zip file
9. If you have an Ipod download the Italian Language Apps, (Free Italian Essentials; World Nomad Italian), European Union Factbook and European Countries LE to study (they are free)
10. Check out podcasts for Italian Language Studies
11. Sell raffle tickets! More are available for extra funds towards your own accounts. All tickets must be sold or matched. Good luck!

For assignments for the individual reading journal topics, please read below

Do not forget to answer the questions about the Stanford Experiment
   Watch http:// www.personalgrowthcourses.net/ video/ stanford_prison_experiment

and respond with a few sentences to the following questions:
http://prisonexp.org/ discussion.htm

Famous Italian Artists, Sculptors, Architects

• Giotto di Bondone
• Caravaggio
• Giorgione
• Fra Angelico
• Alessio Baldovinetti
• Donato Bramante
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Sandro Botticelli
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Tommaso Masaccio
• Andrea Mantegna
• Simone Martini
• Amedeo Modigliani
• Raffaello Santi
• Leone Battista Alberti
• Andrea del Verrocchio
• Ghirlandaio, Domenico
• Filippo Lippi
• Cellini, Benventuo

SUMMER READING LIST 
(keep a reading Journal) 

TBD

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

WHAT IS A READING JOURNAL (click here)

TBD

ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY

TEST YOURSELF ON EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY
(click to download Power Point Show)

Practice European Geography. Find the capitals of each country on map and study. There will be a quiz on geography durign first semester.

Clickable Map of Italy

Interactive Map of Italy

Arcaini's Italy Map

Italy Geography

Practice Italian Geography and find the capitals of each region.

Famous Italian/Roman Writers

• Alessandro Manzoni
• Carlo Collodi
• Titus Livius (Livy)
• Ludovico Ariosto
• Cicero
• Dante Alighieri
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Tacitus, Cornelius
• Ovid
• Pliny the Younger
• Virgil

Especial Bruno Bozzetto

Science Museum

Innovation History - The Great Idea Finder

Inventor Alessandro Volta Biography

Category:Italian scientists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Biographies,

The Scientists: A List.

Italian Inventors

Inventors

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology - browse History of Science

Famous Italians

Italy

• http://www.arcaini.com/ITALY/ItalyHomePage.html  (factual, hostorical--excellent introduction site)

Italian Culture and Heritage:

• Who Wants to be an Expert on Italian Culture?  - Italiansrus.com

• Immigration: The Italians

• Number of Italians in the United States

• Immigration: The Italians