<p>Hello all...my school is, well, not up to par with many others and doesn't assign summer reading at all, let alone for AP classes.</p>
<p>I'm curious. My school starts back in 3 weeks and I think I should probably get a head start.</p>
<p>I'm taking AP Psych, AP Bio, and AP Calc (not sure of AB or BC yet)...anyone have their required reading lists they would like to post, along with the best test prep/study guide for each?</p>
<p>Also, kinda off-topic, but does anyone have regular summer reading lists for honors/gifted/advanced, etc 10th grade?</p>
<p>Well, for AP Calc BC, my teacher gave us a summer review assignment to be completed before the first day of class. I’ve done about half of it so far, and it has mostly been reviewing things from precalc as well as being a bit of a preview for the coming year (I actually already know how to differentiate/integrate, so I kind of get a kick out of how the questions secretly make students do calculus without them realizing it). I was told to buy a Princeton Review test prep for it.</p>
<p>The AP Calc AB class doesn’t have a review at our school.</p>
<p>I have not taken AP Bio, and I don’t plan to, but I believe they have to do an assignment over the first 5(?) chapters in the book over the summer.</p>
<p>For AP Psychology, don’t even worry about doing anything over the summer–the material isn’t too difficult at all. Use the Barron’s test prep–it’s very good prep for the actual exam.</p>
<p>In my school the AP Bio kids have to read all the chapters pertaining to ecology and the first unit on biochemistry and do concept maps and/or write notes. Then they have to relate the material learned from the ecology chapters to Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. Despite the class never really focusing on ecology much, you MUST know it. It is very important for the test, especially because it’s a sure thing that an essay will be on ecology.</p>
<p>On general readings, I’d suggest you get ahead and really test out your literary ability. Read books that you’ll know you’ll be reading junior and senior year, so that not only will your proficiency in English improve, but you will be well acquainted with those books by the time you read them. A guess a general list would be (at least from my school’s ap classes, although I have added some I thought would be fun/interesting to read):</p>
<p>The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Emma by Jane Austen
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller </p>
<p>lol that’s just a few literary works. You should really read classics, but I can understand if they might bore you considering you look like a math/science kid…Well anyway, they are all great books in their own respective ways, my favorites being Lolita, Catch-22, The Grapes of Wrath, Death of a Salesman, and A Voyage to Arcturus. Have fun!</p>