<p>So what books are on everybody's mandatory summer reading list for AP Language and Composition?</p>
<p>The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
There are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz</p>
<p>None :D...I'm probably going to find out what books we read next year and either read the books or just go on sparknotes and read the concepts. Then, if I'm a little step ahead of most people.</p>
<p>The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston</p>
<p>We take a test on all of them on the second day of school. A rhetorical analysis of one of them is due on the first day of school. :D</p>
<p>The Sounds and the Fury-William Faulkner
The Innocents Abroad-Twain
and we get to pick one out of four others, so i'm doing
Dave Barry Slept Here-Fave Barry</p>
<p>we have all these required things to do with them, and the first one (to do for the sound and the fury and the one of our choice) says...</p>
<p>Biography-1. Provide one concise paragraph on biographical detail, omitting specific birth or death dates.</p>
<p>WHAT DOES THAT MEAN????
are we supposed to do a biography of the authors?
or something else?</p>
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
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Woah, we read all of those this year. We just finished The Catcher in the Rye, in fact, and I need to take a test on it tomorrow.</p>
<p>As for what the required reading is, I'll find out on Wednesday. I am sooo excited to find out. I hope I get something good! :)</p>
<p>you lucky duckies. our assignment suckkks, and you know there is gonna be some huge amount of work on it when we get back. knowing her we'll probably have a pop quiz the first day:</p>
<p>Students are to read The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. They are to view the film The English Patient, and they are to read selections from Herodotus that they must pick up from Mrs. Gazzola before they leave for summer break. In addition, they are to read one of the following: </p>
<p>One Writer's Beginning by Eudora Welty</p>
<p>This Boy's Life, A Memoir by Tobias Wolff</p>
<p>Dust Track on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston</p>
<p>I'm so scared...our Lang teacher is the best and most respected teacher in the district, but she is also the hardest teacher ever and is really demoralizing. If she doesn't like you, you're screwed big time. But everyone who has had her and gone on to college has said that they do so much better than their friends when it comes to English because of her.</p>
<p>our school doesn't give out a reading list. the idea of it seems very strange...how do they know that kids actually read them?</p>
<p>I loved "the devil in the white city" by the way. It was creepy...</p>
<p>Terrapin7: They know because you have assignments that go along with them.</p>
<p>Our school assigned</p>
<p>The Kite Runner and * The Tortilla Curtain*</p>
<p>Huckleberry Finn and Once and Future King</p>
<p>We were supposed to get ours already... but we haven't =[ (for AP Lit). </p>
<p>We have to blog summaries or something over summer. Does anybody else have to do that?</p>
<p>For AP Lit, we don't have a list...yet. But school doesn't end for 2 1/2 weeks. </p>
<p>I'd kind of like a list of books to read, but I kind of don't, especially if it requires more than jut reading the books, because I only have two weeks of vacation before I go study abroad in England for a month, so I'm not sure when I'd have the time. lol And I'd rather that spend my two weeks doing a bunch of homework.</p>
<p>terrapin7--
usually they make sure you read it by giving you some sort of project or assignment that has to do with it.</p>
<p>Jarn: Oh really now. That's a shocker. Despite the assignments, there will inevitably be the kids who will cling to their sparknotes guides.</p>
<p>but if i were them...I would just read the book. less trouble, anyway. </p>
<p>btw-these book lists look interesting! i wish our school would actually assign something...at least it would be easy homework credit.</p>
<p>We have an interesting list, in my opinion. The first three we just go online to read. :D </p>
<p>"The Declaration of Independence"
"Speech to the Virginia Convention"
"The Crisis Number 1"
The Omnivore's Dilemna - Michael Pollan (it's a bestseller right now?)</p>
<p>And we have to read The Scarlet Letter by the third week of school.</p>
<p>The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, Brave New World, and other books that I forget</p>
<p>Gulag Archipelago, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (this book is awkward) 10 page essay on portrait... 14 page essay on gulag</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography or something like that</p>
<p>East of Eden + write an essay about it. Then a collection of "Twenty-Five Great Essays" edited by Robert Diyanni, of which we have to write a brief response to each essay. So that's 1 essay plus 25 mini ones. Mehh.</p>