<p>Hey CCers as I was doing some summer homework for my AP classes, I began to wonder what other schools had for summer assignments, if they did get get work. So heres what I have to complete for my AP courses i will be taking next year (senior year).</p>
<p>AP Psychology (most interesting)- read "Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria" and answer discussion questions + outline the first chapter of the textbook</p>
<p>AP Calc- Various pre-calc and calc problems</p>
<p>AP Gov/Pol Comparative- Charts comparing the six main countries of focus, (USA, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, Britian, Mexico)
An essay about how oil have affected diplomatic relations
Collect news articles on current events</p>
<p>AP Enviormental- Read 2 books (-_-) and do a packet on statistics</p>
<p>I don’t have any assigned summer homework, but my AP bio teacher gave me the class fish to care for. He didn’t want to keep it in the classroom or take it home, so he gave it to me. Caring for the fish and observing its behavior are my unofficial summer assignments. I’ll read about current events for US Government and Human Geography.</p>
<p>Lol you listed USA as one of the countries studied in Comparative Government. You have some sort of hatred towards China? jk</p>
<p>I think I have one of the worst AP summer workload on here.</p>
<p>6 books:
Crime & Punishment and Grapes of Wrath, both gargantuan sized time-consumers, for AP Lit. And I have to do quote analysis.
3 medium-sized book for HONORS Government (it’s not even AP, why the heck is he making us do this?)
1 book for AP Microeconomics</p>
<p>UC Personal Statements along with 25 literary terms that I have to find examples for in literature or media, also for AP Lit.</p>
<p>A section of a chapter for AP Stats.</p>
<p>3 chapters for AP Physics B.</p>
<p>And I recently received my APES work- a few chapters.</p>
<p>^ wow you have a lot!
Luckily I only have hw for 3 of my AP classes.
I have to read 3 books for lit and write 2 spanish essays, which isn’t bad.
but for comparative, i have to read 1/3 of the textbook…fun!</p>
<p>I’m surprised I don’t have that much of summer homework, to tell you the truth. Last year, I had to read the first eight chapters of The American Pageant and read Cannery Row and East of Eden for Lang/Comp. I had to do a five-page rhetorical analysis of the texts, as well.</p>
<p>If I have time, I’ll read ahead for my writing class. We’re reading The Kite Runner, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and several other texts.</p>
<p>for my junior year:
APUSH - 3 chapter packet and coloring a map</p>
<p>AP Art History - Visit a museum and “define” (some sort of format) 30 pieces of art. Read The Annotated Mona Lisa.</p>
<p>AP Bio - ugh… Do a “collection” project, where we have to find like 30 terms on a list in nature and describe where they can be found in organisms. Read a chapter and do key terms or something. I do NOT like biology at all.</p>
<p>I guess I have it half as bad as the people here though :(</p>
<p>@Action52: The Kite Runner is amazing! I absolutely love that book :)</p>
<p>^^^“coloring a map” for APUSH lol
My sophomore year I had outline the first 3 chapters of Howard Zinn and the textbook
then write 12 essays and do a packet</p>
<p>^ haha seriously, idk, they want us to color a map… Out of all the summer assignments, my friends have completed the map. -_-</p>
<p>Yeah, I have to say though, my school isn’t one of those top-notch schools where students are academically inclined. It’s a humongous public school in SoCal (as far south as you can get) haha</p>
<p>Geez, 12 essays?! What’s the point in that?
And I absolutely love that all these summer assignments came with, “Enjoy your summer break! :)”</p>
<p>AP Lit-
*Read The Things They Carried, The Road, and The Joy Luck Club
*Write 2 reading logs for each story of The Things They Carried about the summary, significance, reactions, development, questions, theme. Also write reading logs for each chapter of the Road and the Joy Luck Club.
*Write a 5 paragraph essay about Vietnam
*Write 2 character analysis of the Joy Luck Club
*Draw a landscape of the route where the characters of the Road went.</p>
I had to do that too. Except, we did not have to write 12 essays. But we did have to do the first 5 chapters and the packets and do a Dec of Indep. analysis.</p>
<p>I have six APs, but all I have to do over the summer is read Crime and Punishment and do six journal entries / six online postings (one per part). So easy.</p>
<p>Though I did read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, partially for enjoyment (a real eye-opener if one can recognize and move past the obvious bias) and partially to get back in the U.S. History mindset for APUSH.</p>