<p>I'm a senior!:-D</p>
<p><~~~ no such thing as "reading summer assignment", lol, noone would do it at my school :)</p>
<p>we have no summer assignment for AP literature... or most AP classes for that matter</p>
<p>we don't have assignments...we have to read the books....and we get quizzes on them the first day</p>
<p>the first day of high school we took a quiz before anything in english</p>
<p>how fun:-)</p>
<p>Required reading:
Crime and Punishment
The Stranger
Chronicle of a Death Foretold</p>
<ul>
<li>an essay on each one!</li>
</ul>
<p>
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<p>I'm not sure if this is addressed to me too??...</p>
<p>All required with assignments for each:
King Lear
Hard Times
Jane Eyre
Native Son
+several poems</p>
<p>Jane Eyre is boring as hell i remember i tried reading that book in middle school and i kept falling asleep everytime i picked it up... all my friends tell me that Native Son is a good book though</p>
<p>Are you kidding? Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books of all time. XD Picked it up in 8th grade & couldn't put it down.</p>
<p>Required-
Othello - Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
The Stranger - Camus</p>
<p>With a choice of essay involving all three.</p>
<p>aphoticmelody are you a girl? because i don't think i've ever met a guy (in high school or under) that enjoyed jane eyre... the only people i've met that actually liked the book were girls.</p>
<p>Dang. I just realized how sucky my school is. We've never had summer reading lists... <strong>sigh</strong> I better get to the library soon, I guess...</p>
<p>sons and lovers
great expectations
pygmalion
1984
salome</p>
<p>How to Read Literature like a Professor-Thomas C. Foster
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
Othello-Shakespeare
On Writing-Stephen King</p>
<p>notes+personal response on each book.</p>
<p>i transfered into ap eng lit at the beginning of the yr so i didnt know about the summer reading list...SO i didn't have to read anything lol..which was a bad thing =/</p>
<p>Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
Then a choice of three books written by the same aauthor from a long, extended list, from which I chose Milan Kundera
My books are
An Unbearable Lightness of Being
Immortality
Farewell Waltz</p>
<p>Within the first 2 weeks of school, I'll be assigned a research paper about my author and trends from the books</p>
<p>Required:
The Taming of the Shrew
Frankenstein
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Natural
Brave New World</p>
<p>Optional:
Hero with a Thousand Faces</p>
<p>Is there something wrong with my school? We only have to read A Prayer for Owen Meany and do a bunch of assignments and a project ...</p>
<p>On Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes is very sad when you have a history with the subject of alcohol, but otherwise it was lost on the rest of my class. The people in my class who were close to me knew how much it hurt for me to read that kind of a book so I had a support system but it was pretty horrible. So either way its either a bad book or too painful to read!</p>
<p>I would recommend FLAUBERT (specifically, Madame Bovary) because I used it on my essay. BTW, never covered in my class, but it is a book with so many themes it can fit a lot of essays. I did my 11th grade term paper on Flaubert. =)</p>
<p>Other good summer reads: 1984, Brave New World - you don't really need the themes explained. If you read Great Gatsby make sure to check up the sparknotes for all the color themes which you never noticed until someone points it out to you.</p>
<p>"aphoticmelody are you a girl? because i don't think i've ever met a guy (in high school or under) that enjoyed jane eyre... the only people i've met that actually liked the book were girls."</p>
<p>Yes, I'm a girl. :)</p>