<p>Wuthering Heights
Brave New World
In The Time of the Butterflies
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</p>
<p>I am quite pleased about three, but I've never heard of "In The Time of the Butterflies".</p>
<p>got mine today...
Siddhartha
Life of Pi
Native Son</p>
<p>we always have impromptus the first few days of class about the books. but my teacher pointed out today that reading the books is not "homework" or required persay...just what is suggested if you'd like to do well on those essays. haha.</p>
<p>ironically, from the three books we were supposed to read last summer...the one i sparknoted was the one i got the highest essay score on =)</p>
<p>We just got ours (AP lit). We only have to read 3 but we have to track our progress with them online with diary entry- type things.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Brave New World
The Color Purple
White Noise
The Road</p>
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<p>I recommend either one of these for you rhetorical analysis. I prefer There Eyes, but Catcher in the Rye was really good too.</p>
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<p>Pick this as one of your three. Easy read.</p>
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<p>Really loved this book. Another easy read.</p>
<p>ASMAJ, I've already read that so I'm just going read it again. =]. I liked it.</p>
<p>This thread is a beautiful example of why sparknotes exists.</p>
<p>For AP Lit we have to read and answer questions on The Secret Life of Bees (anyone read this? if so, is it any good?)
Pick and respond to six quotes fom Grapes of Wrath and annotate and highlight it. Also have to read the first two chapters of Five Steps to a 5: AP Lit and Comp</p>
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<p>I have never actually used sparknotes. Anybody else here? It just kind of cheapens the book for me.</p>
<p>^^ Same. I love reading especially in groups even if I don't like the book necessarily. The only thing I would ever sparknote would be any poetry I didn't like (i.e. Romantic poetry---vomit...).</p>
<p>koolmaria139: I liked The Secret Life of Bees and I know a lot of people who do.</p>
<p>I've used it...It doesn't cheapen the book helps you to further understand that book. Plus, who can actually read Great Expectations as a 9th grader and understand it completely? (Sh!! OA go away)</p>
<p>We had to pick 2 from: </p>
<p>Color of Water
Black Boy
Frederick Douglas's memoir
Angela's Ashes</p>
<p>I went with Color of Water and Douglas's book. Then we have to write our own memoir (a little one).</p>
<p>^Color of Water is good.</p>
<p>We got three-</p>
<p>How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Catch-22
My Antonia</p>
<p>We need to "blog" (ugh) about the first book, and take heavy annotations and notes about the other two!</p>
<p>I'm kind of excited!</p>
<p>AP Lit-
The Poisonwood Bible
How to read Literature like a Professor</p>
<p>Sorry- I didn't realizethere was an AP Lit thread too.</p>
<p>So far, we have none. In fact, I don't think our AP Lang summer reading is any different from that for honors- or comprehensive (stupid kids).</p>
<p>Shudder!</p>
<p>my antonia, that was not a good bok for me.</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
book of our choice from a list (Freakonomics, The World is Flat..etc.)
There is a book about college admissions called the Gatekeeper something..I am thinking about reading that.</p>
<p>Just got mine...
Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier,
Howard's End-E. M. Forster
Lord of the Flies-William Golding,
End of the Affair-Graham Greene</p>
<p>summer reading test the 2nd day of school on ALL of them...yeah. I had 1000 pages 8-9, 1200 9-10, and let's just say I haven't counted up the pages for those 10-11</p>
<p>at least all these books sound good!</p>