<p>My child’s new school did not give her any summertime prep work for her junior year fall courses. What would be typical for a kid to do over the summer? How many hours a week might be spent? Or, maybe rising juniors just study/cram at the start or end of the summer? Anyone with experience with this? Please share. Thanks so much. </p>
<p>My D got summer work for every AP class she signed up for. She did not receive next year schedule yet so she is waiting to see if she got classes she requested.</p>
<p>Our school typically only has summer reading for English - usually 1 or 2 books. And also a bunch of work for AP US History but that’s it.</p>
<p>I know my DS has 4 books to read for AP English (2 are rather short). Not sure about APUSH but maybe he has not yet checked on-line to find out. He also has the on-line version of Driver’s ed to finish by end of June so hopefully he will focus on that first. Anybody have summer work for AP calculus? That seems much less likely. </p>
<p>I made my daughter ('11) write out, define, and use in an appropriate sentence about 100 words during the summer after 10th grade to help study for the ACT. I have lost the list she did but these two lists are similar. I gave her the words without giving her the definitions, so she had to look them up.</p>
<p><a href=“http://quizlet.com/1022309/college-board-top-100-common-satact-vocabulary-words-flash-cards/”>http://quizlet.com/1022309/college-board-top-100-common-satact-vocabulary-words-flash-cards/</a></p>
<p><a href=“Top 250 most difficult SAT/ACT words Flashcards - Easy Notecards”>http://www.easynotecards.com/notecard_set/307</a></p>
<p>For AP English my son has to write a paragraph each day, for AP Physics and AP Calculus BC he has problems he has to solve I just found out for AP History he doesn’t know what the assignment is.</p>
<p>dylu 13, here is a list of summer assignments from Whitney High School in Cerritos. It is one of the top schools in the country. Just click on the class and it will give you an idea of the assignments. <a href=“School Website, CMS & Communications Platform | Finalsite”>School Website, CMS & Communications Platform | Finalsite;
What AP classes is your daughter taking?</p>
<p>Here is one that is more comprehensive. It is from Chino Hills High
<a href=“http://chinohills.chino.k12.ca.us”>http://chinohills.chino.k12.ca.us</a></p>
<p>If you just search high schools it will give you the assignments. Sometimes you have to click on the “students” link on the page.</p>
<p>My daughter has to read five assigned essays and write a 250 word commentary on each one with specific points for AP English 3 and has a about 50 problems to do for AP CAL BC. No assignment for AP Chem, AP Physics or APUSH.</p>
<p>Here are some more
<a href=“http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Page/10339”>http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Page/10339</a></p>
<p>My son has APUSH and AP Physics summer work, none for BC Calc or AP Stats though I might advise him to do a bit of work on those in advance from the textbook.</p>
<p>3scoutsmom, how is you daughter in Calc BC going into 11th grade? Did she skip PreCalc (Trig)? Or is she ahead in math?</p>
<p>@mysonsdad - do you mean me? My son is going into Calc BC next year because he took Honors PreCalc this year concurrently with Honors Alg II. (I think he could probably have skipped HA2 but they don’t allow it because then “everyone” would ask to do so; they make the kids do both. He loved the class, anyway.) He took Hon Geom freshman year along with some independent study. At any rate - DS16 needs to take Calc BC this coming year, because it’s a co-req for AP Physics, which he needs for the SAT II which he needs to apply to engineering schools. I’m not sure how most kids do it otherwise - my understanding is that a non-AP science does not adequately prepare you for the SAT II.</p>
<p>@mysonsdad - she started 9th grade in pre-AP Algebra II, 10th grade she had pre-AP Pre-Cal. We homeschool until 9th grade so my kids work at their own pace for math. The school was very skeptical but I fought and won. She’s gotten all A’s so they did not question me when her brother S18 enrolled for ninth grade:-) She plans to take advanced CAL classes dual enrollment in 12th grade. </p>
<p>The school insisted on proof of "accredited’ classes for Algebra I and Geometry. I had D take the credit by exam Geometry test but based on their rules for proof, I found that Beginning College Algebra from Aleks was accredited by ACE and acceptable (If UT Austin will accept it, a high school should!). Since we were already using Aleks for homeschool math I just had her do the college course (basically testing out of it) and applied for the ACE transcripts. This really perplexed the registrar but she figured out how to deal with it. I did same thing with s18 and she was so excited to tell be that she had received his ACE transcript for the ALEKS course and already entered it:-)</p>
<p>My son’s in BC this year as well-- that makes three of them, at least. </p>
<p>@ Mysonsdad - None. Her school calls them “packaged” education and does not offer them. They do offer “honors” level courses, however. She’ll be placed in fall. </p>
<p>Oh, and thanks for the link! It looks like “homeschool” for the summer. </p>
<p>@mysonsdad, what about Calc AB? The progression here is H algebra, H geometry, H algebra 2, H Precalc, AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC (semester), and then H multivariable Calc (semester). Trig is covered in there but it not a separately named class. AP Stats is also offered. </p>
<p>Ours is the same progression as yours, Cheeringsection, except the school stops offering math after AB (unless you include AP stats). So S is taking his BC online; next year (or possibly second semester, depending on how long it takes him to complete BC) he’ll have to take math at the junior college. Kind of hoping to put the junior college off as long as possible. There’s no transportation really, except me, and class availability is limited so he’d either have to miss regular school classes or do evenings. Either way it would conflict with band. Everything conflicts with band.</p>
<p>Marching band: it’s not just an EC, it’s a cult.</p>
<p>The progression at my school is Algebra, (Honors) Geometry, (Honors) Algebra 2, and then students can take a test to bypass Trig (PreCalc) and if they score high enough they can go into AP Calc AB in their 10th grade year. They can then take AP Calc BC in their Junior year and then AP Stats Senior year. This is just one possibility. Some students decide not to take Calc and go to Stats. The bad thing about my school is that if a kid wants to be Valedictorian, he/she has to skip Trig but then the SAT Math 2 has mainly trig on it so they get hurt there. My school goes 7-12 and students can take a test to skip Pre-Algebra also, so the progression I listed actually starts in grade 7 and requires testing out of 2 math classes (PreAlgebra & Trig).</p>