<p>i have a *****load of summer work for ap spanish and ap lang. it's only the 3rd day of summer but i'm so overwhelmed. i dont want to spend the entire summer doing homework and being stressed out....how do i get the work done and still enjoy my summer??</p>
<p>ughh is this going to be like summer school? i thought summer work would be like a small aspect of my summer but now it's going to be like everything</p>
<p>Two summers ago I started my hw on the second to last day. This included reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin, writing an essay about it, reading the 1st chapter of American pageant and taking notes on it (which were to be collected). I also had to be on a 11 hour flight from London to LA. So I did enjoy the first couple months of summer.</p>
<p>This past summer I had to read two books and write essays on them for English. I waited until the last week, which coincided with a family reunion. The latter took precedent.</p>
<p>weren’t you like, dying of stress? i waited until the last week for ap euro summer work last year and i was freaking out</p>
<p>Like ^ said, if you’re going to procrastinate, this is the time to do it. Last summer I had AP Lit and APUSH, and I remember being at camp doing “A Tale of Two Cities” study questions while my friends went to get ice cream. From that night forward, I forgot about TOTC and decided to do it the night before. It worked out well.</p>
<p>I figured I would get it done eventually, so I wasn’t particularly stressed. One week is plenty of time to do a lot. I was a little worried the last couple days, but apart from that it was fine.</p>
<p>For the record, I didn’t really finish the assignments either time (though I did get an A in every class) so I wouldn’t exactly suggest that degree of procrastination. The last week is fine.</p>
<p>(I should also add that I didn’t know school started on Wednesday, so I thought I had one day less. I went to see a UCLA football game the Monday before school began even though I had all that work assigned).</p>
<p>Also, I would have thought spreading it out over the course of a month would ruin a larger chunk of your summer.</p>
<p>I just fit it in when I’m bored. I have nothing to do for a half hour? I read a chapter and do my study questions for it. Then I toss my book down, and do something else.</p>
<p>I just have to read The Invisible Man for English, define some words and write an essay but what’s really killing me is the work for Cross Cultural Communications, an ELECTIVE… there are ten books on the reading list. x_x</p>
<p>Well anyway, as for advice, last year what I did was took an entire week for each subject. So for English, I spread out the chapters of the book so that I finished about four a day and then on Sat or Sun I did whatever the writing assignment was. It worked because I only had to read three books and write three essays and it was non stressful. For Biology, I just the chapter one day and wrote the essay the next so the entire assignment (5 essay questions) took about two weeks. I did all of this in August after my summer job ended & after I came back from vacation.</p>
<p>The reason summer work kills so hard is that MOST people just don’t work as well or as efficiently unless they have an imminent deadline. You could potentially begin working on it right now, but you’d be horribly unproductive and take ice cream breaks every five minutes and decide to take a nap instead only to find at the end of the day that you have completed five pages of reading.</p>
<p>^ I’m assuming that you’re not one of those super-organized, crazy motivated go-getter types since you’re asking about this in the first place haha.</p>
<p>Honestly? Just don’t even bother with it until one or two weeks before school starts. You’d be shocked how much you can accomplish if you HAVE to get it done. Procrastination is a virtue! One week of stress is totally worth a summer spent actually having FUN.</p>
<p>I always wait until the last week to start my homework. Last year since I waited, because of a totally unexpected tragedy, I had to have some exceptions made for me on a project. But other than that, which is an event that probably (and hopefully) won’t happen to you, waiting has worked out. I’d rather not ruin my whole summer with work.
I am however, doing some of my reading way early this year. I’m actually worried that I’ll forget what happened. But it’s a book I’ve wanted to read for a while, which was actually a present from a friend, so I’m more reading it for pleasure. And I read almost all of another book I have to read for AP Eng Lit. years ago, so I;m not too worried about it.</p>
<p>It’s best if you get things done early and force yourself to do it… But like that’s gonna happen. Most people don’t ever learn until that see that big red 0 on their paper, and sometimes, not even then.</p>
<p>I don’t know how your teachers do it, but last year when I had AP summer work, I would have turned in the worst incomplete essay you ever seen, but it was turned in. An F is waaaay better than a 0. (I always do very well, or at least decent enough in English that summer homework would not affect my grade, but I can’t say the same for everyone else.) </p>
<p>Oh! I knew some people who ditched school all the way until the period (or the day before) it was due. hahaha.</p>
<p>[ For AP Lit last year, we had to read 3 books, do reading logs for every 2 or 3 chapters for one novel, do reading questions for another, do English related “activities” -_- for all, and then write a 3 page essay. — This was the first year I read all the books, but did not do all of the work. lol. My essay was 2/3rds of a page and was nearly 2 paragraphs. Funny enough, it got a D-. I guess my teacher only gives F’s when you just have the heading or something. </p>
<p>I also had AP homework for 3 other AP classes… but I finished those just by reminding myself by leaving the work on my pillow and having stickys all over my computer screen saying “Work!!! Do it for the U in UCs” 
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<p>okay i’m trying to get like 25% of it done this week…that’s gonna be hard</p>
<p>I have so much. I’m glad that I dropped ap bio for ap physics (right now) one less class that requires summer work. The only two classes that assigned me hw were english and photo (2d studio art). I have to read 3 books and do 3 journal entries and I have 11 photo assignments (1 for each week of summer and 1 that is supposed to be worked on through out summer).</p>
<p>I made a calendar for when everything should be done. I set mini-deadlines. This means that I will not meet them but somehow I will at the end of the summer. Oh well, I feel better.</p>
<p>i have tons of work to do too…in addition to that, i’m studying for the SAT.</p>
<p>i have 8 summer assignments and each of them require 15 hours :(</p>
<p>what i do is that i would do a small portion of them everyday and take a break in between. like, after studying calculus, i would run for an hour and then move on to chem. at night i do easy stuffs such as history, english, etc. the hardcore ones i get them done in the evening.</p>