<p>Well, this is my only AP that has started because, of the two that has summer work, this one has it do at intervals throughout and the other one isn't due until the class starts (phys is only a semester course).</p>
<p>So, just wondering if anyone else has/had summer work and what was it? Also, this is my schools second year running ap english lit and I am worried about how good it is. Could any students that have taken this class and had the whole class do very well share the techniques the teacher used?</p>
<p>Hm. My school isn't the one that doles out summer homework for AP lit (hm!) but another school about two hours away does (I have friends there who usually spend a good deal of our phone conversations complaining about it :P). I believe they had to read three novels written by British authors (my friend, a boy, was complaining about how estrogen-filled Jane Austen was, haha), write an analysis essay on one (more than two pages, I'm guessing), and then summarize the other two. The books had to be over x no. of pages long (can't remember what it was... probably 150?).</p>
<p>I've started school already but we had to read five books over the summer. We didn't have to do any written work (yay!).</p>
<p>Our teacher is basically teaching us literature. He wants us to be able to go through books with a fine tooth comb and figure out why the things are there and why the author put them there. We're also going to focus on the heroic journey and the aspects of it. Those are the two biggies I can think of off the top of my head but I know there are other really big things too.</p>
<p>I had to read Frankenstein, Crime and Punishment, Heart of Darkness, and Things Fall Apart and answer 10-14 questions on each, due at intervals throughout the summer.</p>
<p>My assignments are/were to read Richard III (shakespeare), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), and some book of poems by William Blake. Also, she gave a packet with two essay prompts per work and we had to pick one for each book and write a 3 page essay. At least it was a short essay...
Can anyone explain to me why she picked Richard III?</p>
<p>-read a book of Greek mythology and summarize each story.
-read "How to Read Literature like a Professor" and we had an assignment for each chapter
-Read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and write an essay.</p>
<p>We had to read:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1500 pages)
Brave New World (200 pages)
Hard Times (300 pages)
Dantes Inferno (100)
Tuesdays With Morrie (220)
That is 2300 pages in 10 weeks. Basically readin 230ish pages a week. Of course, most people didn't start till 2 weeks before school. That was a hell of a 2 weeks</p>
<p>Wow...you guys all have a lot more work than I did.</p>
<p>I am taking AP Lit this year, and we had to read two novels: one required and one of your own choice. The required novel was Jane Eyre, and my personal choice novel was Crime and Punishment. No written assignments during the summer, but in-class essays on Jane Eyre and a discussion on the personal choice novel.</p>
<p>Wow, my summer workload was really light compared to some of the ones posted.</p>
<p>I had to read three novels:</p>
<p>The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (school-wide required reading)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
"Crusoe in England" by Elizabeth Bishop</p>
<p>We had no writing assignments, but I think we spent a good several weeks on the summer reading at the beginning of the school year.</p>