Senior High Supply Lists

We are currently updating this list for the 2024/2025 school year. Please note that changes will be made over the coming weeks, so you may wish to wait to buy school supplies until July. This list was updated July 8, 2024.

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Community Supplies
Personal Supplies

Community Supplies

These items should be dropped off on Registration Day or the first day of school.

4 pack of dry erase markers (various colors; for teacher use)
3 reams of computer paper (1500 total sheets)

Personal Supplies

Please note that other than the items listed under community supplies, all students are expected to have their own supplies of the following items. Supplies for specific classes may be needed in addition to these general supplies; those classes are listed in individual tabs below.

A personal computing device for use at school and home (Chromebook, PC, or MacBook recommended; tablets may also be used, though phones may not)
A journaling Bible (either NIV or NASB); returning students may continue to use their journaling Bible from previous years
Backpack or book bag (rolling backpacks are not allowed)
College ruled, loose leaf paper (not spiral)
Magnetic tape for locker décor (scotch tape is not allowed)
Book covers for textbooks (teachers will let students know which books must be covered)
¼″ graph paper (for all math classes, chemistry, and physics; no spiral bound paper)
Notebook (for all math classes; to take notes)
TI-30 (for students Algebra I through Geometry) or TI 84 Plus (this more expensive model works for all math classes and is required for classes higher than Geometry); NO Casios, please
12-inch ruler with metric measurements
Colored pencils
Markers
Highlighters (required for several classes, including social sciences; students may benefit from having more than one color)
Scissors
Glue
Thin-tip dry erase markers (various colors)
#2 pencils (and a pencil sharpener) or mechanical pencils with lead
Students may wish to have a pencil bag to carry items from class to class

For language arts classes, please purchase exact copies of the books listed. No digital copies.

Note: Amazon links are provided purely for your convenience. They are not affiliate links, so FRCS makes no money if you purchase the books using them. You are welcome to purchase the books wherever you like.

American History / Government and Civics

Spiral notebook with lined paper
Pocket folder

American Literature

Summer reading: Into the Wild by Jon Krakaeur

Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor Books; 1st edition (February 1, 1997)
ISBN-10: 0385486804
ISBN-13: 978-0385486804
Link to buy on Amazon

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Unabridged edition (April 13, 1995)
ISBN-10: 0486284999
ISBN-13: 978-0486284996
Link to buy on Amazon

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (May 2, 1994)
ISBN-10: 0486280489
ISBN-13: 978-0486280486
Link to buy on Amazon

Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; reprint edition (January 1, 1965)
ISBN-10: 0374504644
ISBN-13: 978-0374504649
Link to buy on Amazon

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

Paperback: 233 pages
Publisher: Mariner Books (2009)
ISBN-10: 0544309766
ISBN-13: 978-0544309760
ASIN: 0618706410
Link to buy on Amazon

Anatomy

1″ 3-ring binder with dividers
Ink pens in several colors (more than just black, blue, and red)
Disposable gloves (sizes M, L, and XL — even students who wear a S should bring a box of M, L, or XL — we have plenty of S gloves already, but all students need to bring a box of gloves for the community supply)

AP Biology

3-ring binder with eight dividers
Ink pens in several colors (more than just black, blue, and red)

AP Chemistry

AP Textbook: Chemistry: The Central Science, AP Edition (Teacher will be using 12th edition, but any edition will work; buying a used edition may save money); ISBN-13: 978-0132175081; ISBN-10: 0132175088; available on Amazon

AP European History

1″ binder with dividers
Textbook: Jackson J. Spielvogel’s Western Civilization since 1300, 9th Edition (ISBN: 1285436695; ISBN-13: 978-1285436692; Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; available on Amazon)

AP Language and Composition

2″ binder with 5 dividers

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Paperback: 143 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (March 25, 2003)
ISBN-10: 9780142437339
ISBN-13: 978-0142437339
Link to buy on Amazon

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: One World; Reprint edition (August 18, 2015)
ISBN-10: 0812984965
ISBN-13: 978-0812984965
Link to buy on Amazon

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Scribner (November 17, 2020)
ISBN-10: 1982149485
ISBN-13: 978-1982149482
Link to buy on Amazon

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated; First edition (August 1, 2016)
ISBN-10: 9780486284996
ISBN-13: 978-0486284996
Link to buy on Amazon

AP Literature and Composition

2″ binder with 5 dividers

Summer reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications; Reprint edition (October 13, 1993)
ISBN-10: 9780486278070
ISBN-13: 978-0486278070
Link to buy on Amazon

Beowulf (Seamus Heaney, translator)

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; Later Printing edition (February 28, 2001)
ISBN-10: 0393320979
Link to buy on Amazon

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; Reprint edition (August 12, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0812969103
ISBN-13: 978-0812969108
Link to buy on Amazon

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (October 17, 2006)
ISBN-10: 0060850523
ISBN-13: 978-0060850524
Link to buy on Amazon

The Sea and the Mirror by W.H. Auden

Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press (October 2, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0691123845
ISBN-13: 978-0691123844
Link to buy on Amazon

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (August 31, 2004)
ISBN-10: 014044792X
ISBN-13: 978-0140447927
Link to buy on Amazon

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (January 16, 2018)
ISBN-10: 0143131842
ISBN-13: 978-0143131847
Link to buy on Amazon

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Grove Press; 1st edition (May 17, 2011)
ISBN-10: 080214442X
ISBN-13: 978-0802144423
Link to buy on Amazon

AP US History

1 spiral notebook
1 pocket folder
1 highlighter
Textbook: The American Pageant: A History of the American People, 17th edition, by David M. Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen (ISBN: 1337616222; ISBN-13: 978-1337616225; available on Amazon)

Art

Drawing pencil set
9 x 12 sketchbook
Kneaded eraser OR a white vinyl eraser
12 or more various sized paint brushes (big and small)
1 glass jar (for water/cleaning brushes)
Empty plastic paint palette
Sponge (Sculpture & Ceramics class only)

Bible

Grades 9-11: Personal journal — in addition to the required journaling Bible listed under Personal Supplies (seniors are given a journal as part of Senior Seminar)
Freshmen: The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith by Tim Keller (any PHYSICAL edition; no digital versions)
Juniors: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (any PHYSICAL edition; no digital versions)