Summer Preparation

[IceQube]

<p>This is my course schedule for next year:</p>

<p>AP Bio
APUSH
AP Lang
AP Calc AB
TOK (IB)
IB Philosophy
IB Chinese</p>

<p>My question are - what can I do to prepare over the summer? Any recommended books to read, for ... AP Lang? What about review books - which ones for which courses? Money is no object. </p>

<p>I already have (feel free to suggest more books):</p>

<p>REA APUSH (not Crash Course)
The American Pageant (12th edition)
Barron's AP English (Lang and Lit)
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne (going to read for AP Lang) </p>

<p>A little background: </p>

<p>I now fully appreciate the value of prepping for a course over the summer. </p>

<p>Last summer, I woke up every morning at 8 AM and worked until 6 PM on pre-calculus for a month. </p>

<p>That was amazing. I have all As in pre-calculus and I haven't put more than 3 hours of studying into it all year. Needless to say, I wish to prepare for all my courses this way now :P.</p>

[smarts1]

<p>… That really isn’t necessary…</p>

[wcs381]

<p>I suggest work out or devote in sport.</p>

[Urc]

<p>go do like research with a professor or something. and as wcs suggests, work out or train for a sport.</p>

[yosouf]

<p>you can start teaching yourself calculus</p>

<p>[Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org/]Khan”>http://www.khanacademy.org/)</p>

<p>scroll down for the calculus videos</p>

[Batllo]

<p>Have you finished your SAT/ACT testing?</p>

[IceQube]

<p>I plan on doing that too. </p>

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@wcs381

I suggest work out or devote in sport.

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<p>No, and thanks for bringing that up. Any SAT book recommendations? What about the Kaplan Vocab-Building Classics series? </p>

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@Batllo

Have you finished your SAT/ACT testing?

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[risubu]

<p>seriously, do some push ups everyday and dont forget. if you’re body is not in shape, you get sick. take it from the girl who got a massive cold the day before the ap bio because she was studying for two weeks straight at home.</p>

[afdamron]

<p>For AP Lang, or any reading/english course, Anna Karenina is a wonderful book. I’m doing a lot of summer reading for AP Lit and I really enjoy it. It is lengthy but a classic and very well written.</p>

[IceQube]

<p>Ok.</p>

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@risubu

seriously, do some push ups everyday and dont forget. if you’re body is not in shape, you get sick. take it from the girl who got a massive cold the day before the ap bio because she was studying for two weeks straight at home.

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<p>Another Russian novel - thanks ;)! I think I’m also going to read Crime and Punishment this summer. </p>

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@afdamron

For AP Lang, or any reading/english course, Anna Karenina is a wonderful book. I’m doing a lot of summer reading for AP Lit and I really enjoy it. It is lengthy but a classic and very well written.

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