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<p>Good god, that's cruel. It's possible; I read the thing during spring break last year (yes, for pleasure), but reading things for school makes them seem so much more evil. Have fun with the huge part about Waterloo. I was considering ripping out that section and burning it.</p>
<p>But overall, the book is actually really good. Enjoy it! (And then see the musical: it's amazing!)</p>
<p>AP Lang: Read two books off a list (I'm reading "The Secret Life of Sororities" and one about a woman who pretended to be a man for a year) and keep a "writer's notebook" thing.
Also follow an Op/Ed columnist and do the same notebook sort of thing for 6 articles that they write over the summer.</p>
<p>AP Calc AB and AP Bio: Nada.</p>
<p>We actually get to read cool, interesting books this year instead of crap like Jane Eyre and Mythology (WORST BOOK EVER.).</p>
<p>AP US Gov - nada
AP Spanish - nada
AP Spanish Lit - nada
AP English Lit - Good Ol' Fashioned Summer Reading (2 books and analysis)
AP Calc BC - a review packet of random things from pre-calc
AP Psych - nada</p>
<p>It seems so weird that other schools have summer homework for math and science classes. It's only ever English and History for us--read and take notes on books for English and make a DBQ for History.</p>
<p>AP English Lit: read one of five books and write 4 pg journal thing
AP Calc: thick packet
AP Psych: none, I hope
AP Macro-econ: none (independent)
AP Music theory: none (independent)
AP Spanish: none</p>
<p>AP English Lang:
Watch the movie The English Patient
Read/annotate the book The English Patient
Do a study guide on The English Patient
Read/annotate two of three reccomended autobiographies</p>
<p>AP Physics-none
AP Macro/Micro-none
AP Gov't-none
AP Stats-none</p>
<p>we only get it for English, haha. but I want to choose 2 other subjects and start reading up on them, to lighten the workload in the beginning of the year</p>
<p>"Way to step up to the challenge of AP work by using Sparknotes."</p>
<p>Um, the only reason to actually read books for AP English is if you enjoy reading. I've read a total of one book from sophomore to senior year (just graduated), and I got a 5 on the Language test last year, and am 99% sure I got at least a 4 on the Lit test this year. The tests themselves certainly provide no motivation to read. Only one sixth of the lit test is actually about outside reading, and you only really need to know one book really well to do a good job on that.</p>
<p>APUSH:
Read and write papers on Founding Brothers and The Killer Angels</p>
<p>anyone else have summer assignments? I'm curious to see how much work I have compared to you!</p>
<p>AP Physics: Packet with about 25 questions reguarding and article and a lesson from a textbook</p>
<p>AP Chemistry: 77 pages of the Zumdhal chemistry book with all practice questions and unit questions answered with notes taken</p>
<p>APUSH: Read a book about history and write a report about it, Not sure which one I will choose. Gotta study ahead though since im ****ed about my WHAP grade of 3.</p>
<p>AP English Language - 2 books and 2 essays on those books.
AP Calculus BC - Read and do assigned problems for the first chapter of the book.
AP US History - None
AP Microeconomics - None
AP Stats - None</p>
<p>God I have so much... I've been doing APUSH all this week from the time I get back from work (7pm) to sleep, and I still have a poster to maker...</p>
<p>APUSH: Total of 7 chapters from 2 different text and answer questions, Read half of Mayflower and the worst part? All of this has to be HANDWRITTEN! So far I have 10+ pages, (single spaced size 11) typed!! Then a project on a historical site...
Stat: Some 30 pg packet, easy except that it's due in like 2 weeks.
Calculus BC: Some 100 problems, not bad
Bio: 5 chapters of reading, tons of thought question, 3 long articles to read and a book. </p>
<p>I really don't like my school here compared to people who have no hw!</p>
<p>AP Lit:</p>
<p>Read 3 books:</p>
<p>The Sweet Hereafter(250 pgs)
The Things They Carried(250 pgs)
Song of Solomon(300 pgs)</p>
<p>Write 5 journals and 1 novel report for each book.</p>
<p>Essay test on 1 book around the 1st week of school.</p>
<p>lol all my summer assignments are for IB classes >_></p>
<p>^^^ Ok, fine, post those!</p>
<p>hahaha, i feel so bad for you all. i'm colleging in the fall, but i had 7 aps the past 2 years and the only one i had anything to do for was english lit summer reading obviously. that was 2 books of short stories by carver and i forget her name. plus "the art of fiction" i didnt even finish the carver stories and all we had to do when we got back was an essay comparing 1 story from each book (we picked the story), comparing the techniques used in each book, techniques that the art of fiction talked about.</p>
<p>for IB:</p>
<p>History of Americas - Outline 3 chapters and answer all questions</p>
<p>Psychology - Read, outline, and prepare for a quiz on the Introduction chapter, read novel Blink and write a 5 page reflection paper, read psycholgy in perspective (a huge @$$) book, and read and prepare for a quiz on three psychologies</p>
<p>English - read pygmalion, do packet of WS's, and write world literature paper comparing pygmalion and another novel of choice</p>
<p>Also, i have to begin my extended essays and catch up on CAS.</p>
<p>sad life..</p>
<p>no hw for english lit AP, art history AP, chemistry AP, stats AP...</p>
<p>enjoy summer guys!!</p>
<p>i'm not taking all of these this coming year, but here's all the classes at our school that give summer hw:</p>
<p>APUSH (took this past year, 5 on AP) - read 1 of 3 books long ass books and take notes. quiz that's worth 2 quiz grades on first day of school</p>
<p>Euro (taking this coming year, i till need to read)- read 1 of many long books (i'm reading Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond) and prepare a report over it, to be given on 1st day. we're also given a 54 page packet (36 pages of readings and guides) that we have to do, and a quiz that counts as 2 quiz grades over that packet on the 1st day.</p>
<p>Chem (took it this past year, 5 on AP) - ~45 page packet over stoichiometry, gravimetrics, net ionic equations, various other stupid things from Pre-AP.</p>
<p>English Lang (started this summer, i didn't have to do it last year, yays, 5 on AP) - read a long book over how to analyze various writings</p>
<p>English Lit (started this summer, i have to do it) - read a long book over charecterics of good writers, quiz of some sort on 1st day</p>
<p>Calc BC (took this past year, 5 on AP) - no actual summer hw, but there's a test on the first day covering all of pre-cal</p>
<p>TAG (Talented and Gifted) English (junior and senior years) - read a long book, quiz on 1st day</p>
<p>IB World Area Studies II - read a book and prepare a report of some form over it. also, IB kids have to start working on their extended essays.</p>
<p>AP Chem - a few pages of stoichiometry problems and some memorization
AP Art History - Museum visit and short write up
AP Gov - nothing
AP Calc BC - nothing
AP Lit - nothing</p>
<p>I feel pretty lucky</p>
<p>haha, you should feel lucky . . . all APs at my school have summer work (as do non-AP PreCalculus, Trig, and Honors Alg. 2 - tell me how that makes sense).</p>
<p>I have (senior year). . .</p>
<p>AP English Lit - read and (extensively) annotate "Beowulf," "Jude the Obscure," "Things Fall Apart," and the Prologue to "Canterbury Tales;" write three essays (the AP Lit exam questions from this year), read "Sound and Sense;" read the AP Lit. Acorn Book (the course summary thing that's kinda long); and take a MC practice test from the Cliffs practice book</p>
<p>AP MacroEcon - read one Marshall Jevons novel, either "Murder at the Margin" or "A Fatal Equilibrium;" read the Econ Acorn Book and answer the practice MC questions in it; read "Freakonomics" (<3) and answer like 100 questions on it</p>
<p>AP US Gov - keep a "gov journal" each week about news that happens and could affect govmt policy or deals with govmt, answer worksheet questions about the Constitution and government stuff</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB - about 5-7 pgs (front and back) of factoring problems (and some others, haven't gotten there yet)</p>
<p>AP MicroEcon - taking it online, start in August so NO SUMMER WORK! YAY!</p>
<p>AP Comp. Gov - self-study so NO SUMMER WORK! YAY!</p>
<p>I'm not very excited (and not very done) with all this work, which is why I'm obviously on here posting instead of working :-) Good luck to everyone else! I know I'll need it.</p>