<p>Now do you have to write an essay along with the summer assigment? Or are you just reading them? Because im seeing people have to read 4-5 books, and I was curious if they just need to read them, or have something to go along with it.</p>
<p>A Hero of Our Time is so good, strelca17</p>
<p>I have assignments on the books. We have to write interview questions then write long answers for each of the main characters in the books like they would answer them.</p>
<p>Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
A Gesture Life - Chang-rae lee</p>
<p>On the whole, I'd say that Russian literature is pretty good. I like that there is so much social criticism (especially in Crime and Punishment).</p>
<p>I totally share your opinion, ExRunner....A Hero of Our Time is quite good. The title is just great...so ironical and sarcastic:)</p>
<p>IB English:</p>
<p>The Razor's Edge</p>
<p>"Now do you have to write an essay along with the summer assigment? Or are you just reading them? "
We just have to write 3 page essays for each book. Nothing special. But then we get to have a lovely test on each book when we return to school. joy.</p>
<p>I don't have to write an essay. I have to highlight and comment in the book so that we can begin the essay as school begins.</p>
<p>For next year senior IB2, i have to read all of these over the summer:</p>
<ul>
<li>King Lear, William Shakespeare</li>
<li>The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne </li>
<li>Dust Tracks On A Road, Zora Neale Hurston</li>
<li>Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad</li>
<li>The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence</li>
<li>Beloved, Toni Morrison</li>
<li>...and "Selected poetry of Robert Frost and Derek Walcott"</li>
</ul>
<p>and i will have colormark 2 passages from Dust Tracks and prepare an oral commentary for each one as well.</p>
<p>However, last year for junior IB1/AP Literature, I had to read all of the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ibsen, Four Major Plays, Volume 2, Henrik Ibsen</li>
<li>All The King's Men, Robert Penn Warren</li>
<li>The Awakening, Kate Chopin</li>
<li>"Master Harold " ... and the boys, Athol Fugard</li>
<li>Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo</li>
<li>The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende</li>
<li>Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel</li>
<li>Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez</li>
</ul>
<p>I really enjoyed each and every one of those (except The Awakening...that was brutal)</p>
<p>my school's IB program is harsh on the reading lists...</p>
<p>grape of wrath...
though both the prince-machiavelli, and streetcar are hellllllla good books...
lets get russian....
la bramina karamozov...pretty good..if you are ip for senual old men, adultry, and parracide</p>
<p>lol damn you guys have so many AP courses sucks for you lol....my school is suppsoedly really good (magnet school - public) but lacks AP initiative so as long as I take all the courses offered...I'm not doing anything wrong by not taking APs like you guys...but I have read most of the books mentioned on this thread....some boring some useful... some ehh kinda suck. streetcar I thought was pretty bad but machiavelli and grapes of wrath pretty good...</p>
<p>forgot to mention my school offers one AP that you don't take until second semester of senior year and it doesn't go on your transcript</p>
<p>For IB English 2 I have to read Native Son and Black Boy
eeepiyk i guess IB must vary because in my class we only read Ibsen plays out of your list</p>
<p>yes, i believe the IB schools are given a "master list" from which they may choose books to teach to the candidates...i'm not sure if there are any minimum, maximum, or suggested or required books to be read.</p>
<p>I just received my list today. I'll be in AP English Lit.</p>
<p>We have to read <em>A Tale of Two Cities</em> and <em>Jane Eyre</em>, then choose one from an optional list that contains a pretty extensive variety of stuff (<em>A Doll's House</em>, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, some others).</p>
<p>Apparently, we're also supposed to keep a vocabulary notebook and write some essays or something. I'm not looking forward to this.</p>
<p>i thought A Tale of Two Cities was excellent, even though my english teacher ruined it for me by spoiling a bunch of stuff and we went waaaaaay too in depth. A doll's house is also really good, too. </p>
<p>For AP english Summer Reading:
Catcher in the Rye (favorite book of all time)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Crucible</p>
<p>We read a lot of classical stuff during soph H English, excerpts from Machiavelli's The Prince, Dante's Inferno, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and read the plays A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, A Doll's House, and Cyrano de Bergerac (awesome play!!) and the novels A Seperate Peace (which was really good!!) and a Tale of Two Cities. </p>
<p>Are we also posting stuff that we have to read during the year?</p>