<p>Ugh, so today was my last day of school and with 2 minutes left in my English class somebody asks if we have required reading over the summer. My teacher says, "Oh I almost forgot, thank you for reminding me so-and-so..." and writes the book titles up on the board. I really think summer reading should be outlawed: the point of summer is not to stay inside and read.</p>
<p>Anyway, the books I have to read are:</p>
<p>-The Great Gatsby
-Atlas Shrugged
-Tuesdays with Morrie</p>
<p>Does anyone else have summer reading? I hope I'm not the only one that has to read terrible books over my vacation...</p>
<p>Yes, my schools has summer reading, and I think most other schools do too. The Great Gatsby was a good book IMO. I don't know what my books are yet. Schools doesn't end for me until June 19th.</p>
<p>Gatsby is pretty standard, and it's short and sweet. Most high schools read it at one point or another.</p>
<p>It's Atlas Shrugged I'm surprised about. I mean, I love the book and all, but it's MASSIVE. I didn't think people would put it as required summer reading. Well, it's a piece definitely worth having an opinion about, one way or the other, and can prompt some pretty deep thoughts.</p>
<p>great gatsby was great, and tuesday with morrie is cute...your reading isn't that bad....i've had over a 1000 pages EACH year going into high school of not-always great books</p>
<p>Great Gatsby isn't that bad; it's really short. We had to read Jane Eyre and Catch -22 the summer before senior year, plus we had to do reports and chapter notes over them for grades.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have to add to the opinion that great gastby's not bad. And hopefully, you'll like Tuesdays with Morrie. I did.</p>
<p>Y'know, I'm starting to wonder if our future AP English teacher remembers if she is teaching an AP course next year. Dunno. It's just that we've only had one meeting, and we don't know our summer reading, and all. Oh well. Here's to next week?</p>
<p>The Once and Future king
A Man for All Seasons
A Tale of Two Cities
+ one "your choice".
Readers response notes due the first week of class in August.</p>
<p>Eight or nine chapters out of Guns, Germs, and Steel for AP World History, and for English, this Harper Lee biography called I Am Scout and we have to choose and annotate one of these five books regarding five issues:</p>
<p>My Sister's Keeper (organ donor)
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (autism)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Down's syndrome)
Never Let Me Go (cloning)
The Glass Castle (homelessness)</p>
<p>Anyone wanna recommend one of those five to me?</p>