<p>What's your guys' opinions on summer homework? Do you think it's right for teachers to still have jurisdiction on us during the summer? And do you think it really even accomplishes what teachers want it to? Or do you like it for some.......odd.....reason?</p>
<p>Dude, I have summer reading for my school that I have been procrastinating on. It's just so freakin' hard to concentrate in the summer!!!</p>
<p>Summer work is good... For AP classes anyway... There is a lot to cover in not so little time, so I would rather have some work over the summer instead of having to do it during school... Its the difference between almost dying, and actually dying...</p>
<p>I'm kind of grateful for summer work. When I spend all my time frying my brain, it loses its appeal. Then I can go back to that little piece of paper that says "Read 3 books of the King James New Testament and create a complimentary dialectical journal detailing important people, places, quotes and philsophies. Write an essay analyzing the Biblical allusions Harriet Beecher Stowe uses in Uncle Tom's Cabin to transform the story from an exploitive abolitionist novel into an allegory of Christian salvation."</p>
<p>Then I remember why I like frying my brain so much and can go back to doing it in peace.</p>
<p>My opinion is that I should have thought ahead so I wouldn't be stuck with three novels to read, a paper to write, and three chapters of physics to teach myself in the three weeks before school starts. ;)</p>
<p>A little summer work is good to make sure your mind doesn't completely lose its ability to function at school. It makes the readjustment easier. At least it does for me.</p>
<p>I like having something to do during the summer; it makes me feel productive. So I'm grateful for summer homework. I mean, when I look at the stack of books I have to read and all the chapters I have to outline, I groan and complain, but it's good for my brain in the long run. I don't feel quite so dumb when I go back to school. (:</p>
<p>On the other hand, the bad thing about summer homework (aside from the fact that it's homework) is that it's hard for me to retain most of the stuff I read. So it loses its purpose.</p>
<p>I have so many assignments...Uggg...For AP Language & Comp., I had to use prior knowledge to argue that it is possible for one to define him or herself in a society in which he or she was not treated as an equal...That was easy. It was due on July 11th. The second assignment for that class involves me reading "Invisible Man", "The Tempest", "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven", "Resistance to Civil Gvernment", and "The Souls of Black Folk"...I read all of these, and now I'm supposed to write a research paper defending how nonviolent protest is the best way for an individual or group to obtain rights previously withheld by society. I can see it in some ways in the works, but it really isn't the central theme of each work. That one's going to be a nightmare to write.
For AP U.S. History II, I must read "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (over 900 pages), answering questions in essay form for each chapter, do other essays, alluding to current nonfiction articles from magazines...It's just plain crazy...I've started reading it, but most of the book is merely biographical; it's incredibly simple to read, but so much is just filler, describing minute events in his life...
I have so many other books I'd like to read, but with all of this...It's hard...
For trigonometry, I need to finish up an assignment...
There should be a limit on summer reading assignments...And some schools don't give any! It's incredibly unjust...</p>
<p>Okay - try optional summer homework. In June I paid $170 to buy a Psych textbook, handbook, and discussion book. It's a home study/independent study program through my school. I get credit and a grade for it... but I just started today! And school starts in two weeks! Ughhh. I'm going to have to do a chapter a day, and I don't even know if that'll work. </p>
<p>Well, I can finish it whenever I want, but I don't want it to interfer with my classes. I'm giving myself until September 7 to have this over and done with.</p>
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For AP U.S. History II, I must read "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (over 900 pages), answering questions in essay form for each chapter, do other essays, alluding to current nonfiction articles from magazines...It's just plain crazy...I've started reading it, but most of the book is merely biographical; it's incredibly simple to read, but so much is just filler, describing minute events in his life...
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When I took AP US last year, I had to read a bio of Theodore Roosevelt over the summer too. it was PAINFUL! My teacher thought the Progressive era would be the DBQ - which it wasn't. In fact, none of the essays were specifically on the Progressive era either. So I had to get my way through quite possibly the most boring book I have read in my life and then get a bad grade on the test we had at the beginning of the year FOR NOTHING! haha...I think I'm still bitter...</p>
<p>Anyway, the point was, I feel your pain.</p>
<p>Thanks...I have 318 dull pages left...</p>
<p>NO. It wastes my summer. And I have a lot. A LOT. It's the one time when I don't have to know or care about academics, but there it comes. Maybe at uber competetive schools you're used to caring about school during the summer, but I go to an average school and we all dread the summer becuase of it</p>
<p>My school gives those of us in AP/honors classes assignments from hell, while the CP classes just have to read a book or two (that they choose from the list)...We're told what we have to read...Summer reading should be abolished. What is the point of summer?...They give us these assignments, basically implying that we're still in school, but we just don't come because it's too hot...I've already had one assignment due...I HATE summer reading...I've had books waiting for over a year that I want to read, but there's so little time when I have to read these awful books...</p>
<p>me too mcz. I have 5 books for ap english. They're okay, but I don't want to be spending my day reading william shakespeare when I could be out hanging with my friends. Besides summer is the only time I have time for enjoyment reading...but not so with summer reading</p>
<p>I don't mind doing summer reading at all, but it looks like I have it easy compared to a bunch of you guys...I only have to read 1 book and do an essay on it the 2nd day of school. </p>
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I can't imagine "dreading the summer" because of piles of summer homework... :(</p>
<p>August is when we're all practically dating our computers we spend so much time typing on them. I personally have 5 books, 5-6 journal entries (like a page at least on the symbolism, etc) for each book, an ap chem review sheet, and an ap government essay on how involved different people are in the community</p>
<p>JTC007, I wouldn't mind doing it so much if I had more of a choice and if there was less to do...Last year, I was mentally exhausted from all of my summer assignments on the first day, even though I'd finished them early in August...</p>
<p>i wouldn't mind either if they cut back. It's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to college...bringing back the summers</p>
<p>I know what you mean...Our summers are just as stressful as the school year.</p>
<p>i'm typing up some symbolism crap, but it's even harder than during the school year because I haven't though about that stuff in such a while</p>