Book reports on science subjects?

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<p>This fall I'll be taking AP Biology and AP Environmental science. The teacher requires us to do book reports on two books:
1) Cradle to cradle
2) Your inner fish</p>

<p>The thing is, I've never done a book report before, not to mention a science book report, which seems kinda wack. I've tried to email the teacher since mid June, but now there has been no reply back. So if any of you have experience in this, please help me out.
Thank you</p>

<p>P/s: I'm in high school tho. And I've been asking in the highschool forum, but to no avail.
collegr student, please gimme a hand or I'll die</p>

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<p>Did you get any instructions? A page suggestion at least?</p>

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<p>You’ve never done a book report before? Are you serious? I remember doing them in 2nd grade.</p>

<p><em>sigh</em></p>

<p>The teacher will give instructions, just follow them.</p>

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<p>No she did not
just tell us to do a book report
and thats it
I’m a recent immigrant, mind you, this is my 2nd year here in the states</p>

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<p>How many pages would you think are appropriate?</p>

<p>For a short report, just write a summary. If you want to write several pages, write a summary followed by a discussion of a few interesting points. </p>

<p>It probably doesn’t matter what you write, as long as it is evident that you have actually read the books.</p>

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<p>I don’t know, but I’m going to a magnet school that ranks in the top 30 of Newsweeks and the teacher doesn’t give me any guideline.
How long do you guys think would be appropriate?
and what should I write about? Just summary?</p>

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<p>and it said right here BOOK REPORTS</p>

<p>Summer Reading (for Fall semester, choose one)
Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition. 2006.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited. 2005.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. 2007.
Shubin, Neil. Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. 2008.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us. 2008.</p>

<p>IDk if I should do a book report in the summer or will they do it in the year?</p>

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<p>Why don’t you just contact the teacher? It looks like it’s a summer assignment.</p>

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<p>Its a summer assignment.</p>

<p>Basically you give the over view of the books, important topics discussed etc.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t do it. Its very unprofessional to not provide a guideline. Everything in college I was given a guideline as to what the professor expected from my paper.</p>

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<p>I tried to,
email
but she doesn’t reply</p>

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<p>Writing in the hope that you haven’t died yet … :)</p>

<p>Your problem here is that book reports are not a common assignment in college. I don’t know what your problem is on the high school board. But I suspect that the teacher didn’t bother explaining to you what it was you were being asked to do because book reports are very common in the K-12 system and he or she probably assumes everyone already knows. It was a mistake on the teacher’s part, but an understandable mistake.</p>

<p>Google “how to write a book report”. When I tried it, the first hit was a page directed specifically at middle and high school students, and it looked pretty good to me.</p>

<p>Once you’ve got the book report out of the way you may want to take a look at critical book <em>reviews</em> written by academics for academics. That’s closer to what you’ll be asked to write in college.</p>

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<p>Yes, this does look like a summer reading assignment. Pick one book. Read it. Use the info in the links to guide you through the process.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>