What Are Your Summer Assignments for School?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>This summer has gotten off to a great start, and the next two and a half months I have will be great. Unfortunately, I got a big summer work load for senior year, so I'll need to start that.</p>

<p>Assignments: Read 5 books for my AP English Lit class- The Illiad, The Aeneid, Jude The Obscure, Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov..</p>

<p>Has anyone had experience with reading any of these books?</p>

<p>I also have an assignment for German 3, but the project is easy and will only take me a few days.. </p>

<p>What are your summer assignments for the upcoming year?</p>

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<p>Princeton~ everything about it just seems so right… For me ;)</p>

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<p>Read two books for AP Lang (Nickel and Dimed/Into the Wild…I think those are the names hahaha), and I have an assignment for APUSH (set-up the notebook, webquests, etc.).</p>

<p>Fairly easy stuff…</p>

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<p>Bio: take notes for 5 chapters and a bunch of other stuffs like crosswords, worksheets etc</p>

<p>Chem: take notes on 2 chapters and do exercises</p>

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<p>Uh … read two books for English and watch a movie and do some other stuff with newspaper articles; read and take notes on a gigantic psych packet; read a book for euro, write two essays, and define like 30 terms; read and take notes on six bio chapters and create a full practice AP exam on ecology; do like 20 physics problems. Haven’t gotten the calc assignment yet.</p>

<p>Ugh.</p>

<p>I’ve read Crime and Punishment and it was pretty long, drawn-out, and repetitive. It did have a certain appeal, though…</p>

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<p>read Washington Rules</p>

<p>c’est tout!</p>

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<p>AP Lit: Read The Kite Runner. I’m taking the audiobook route since I’m reading 5 other books…</p>

<p>AP Physics B: Write out equations sheet in words (oh god) and make a binder of released FRQs.</p>

<p>Advanced Anatomy: Read and write letters to the authors on the following books:
Treatment Kind and Fair by Perri Klass (boring)
Burn Unit by Barbara Ravage (even more boring)
Dying Well by Ira Byok (which I heard is repetitive)
Tending Lives by Echo Heron (which is supposedly good)
The Woman with the Worm in Her Head by Pamela Nagami (which is also supposedly good)</p>

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<p>i’ve finished my honors precalc assignment.
i also have a reading assignment for spanish 4/5 next year, which i have been avoiding alot.</p>

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<p>Multicultural English: Read a book that’s won some kind of reward.</p>

<p>AP Spanish: Practice</p>

<p>AP Psych: Read some book and do online discussion boards.</p>

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<p>@karaokemachine Interesting… I read Kite Runner freshman year. One of my favorite books I had to read for school ( read it during the year).</p>

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<p>I’m a bit surprised that my rising-senior-summer load isn’t heavier.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Last Lecture with respective assignments (for Lit)
Two IB Math SL IAs (This will be the worst.)
Historical Investigation
Extended Essay (We have received no due dates for these papers yet. But I do plan on getting most of the research done over the summer.)
Sketchbooks and one major piece (for art)</p>

<p>Dostoyevsky is a genius. I plan on reading Crime and Punishment on my own over the summer…But I guess no matter how great the literature is, being forced to read something for school makes it duller :/</p>

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<p>AP English (Literature): read Great Expectations, Heart of Darkness, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner; write some paragraphs on them (I’m guessing these are essays without intro/conclusion); 11 paragraphs plus one full essay in sum.</p>

<p>AP Modern Euro: read 3 books and write 3-5 page “book reports”… seems kind of silly. Due throughout the summer. I kinda want to pre-read a review book since I’ve heard that the teacher is bad/doesn’t cover the material by the end of the year.</p>

<p>AP Bio: homework for 3 chapters or something. I was hoping to get extra chapters done to loosen the load during the year, but that’s probably my last priority.</p>

<p>I did a 60 hour community service project that was mandatory so I guess that counts as summer work.</p>

<p>So far… I have started Great Expectations. It’s long, but at least it’s interesting.</p>

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<p>wow, you guys have so much more work than our school gives out! all i have is:</p>

<p>AP Euro: Peter the Great (around 850 pages so a good bit of work, but it’s our only assignment, which is nice)</p>

<p>H International Relations: packet of articles, mostly from foreign affairs (my favorite summer reading ever because it’s all stuff that i would read anyways- i’m so excited about the class now!)</p>

<p>and there was going to be homework for AB calc but it got canceled =)</p>

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<p>AP Lit: 3 Books</p>

<p>AP Calc BC: Precal review packet</p>

<p>Not too bad.</p>

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<p>Read The Illiad hahah</p>

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<p>AP Lang- Read a book from a fairly broad reading list (Already finished, plus i’d already read a couple others.)</p>

<p>AP Chem- Fairly comprehensive review sheet, but probably shouldn’t take more than 2 hours or so.</p>

<p>Nothing, as far as I know, for AP Bio, AP Comp Sci, or APUSH.</p>

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<p>Not much in the realm of tangible work, but I do have a good amount of reading to do.
“The Power and the Glory” by Graham Greene
“How to Read a Poem” by Burton Raffel (that just makes our whole school look elementary, way to go English department)
“The Post-American World” by Fareed Zakaria
“The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien
All in all I think it’s a little over 1700 pages. I read “The Hobbit” to know the backstory before getting into LotR, so ~2000 pages of reading for classes, although of course there’s tons more on my personal reading list. Curses.</p>

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<p>Sleep :D.</p>

<p>Actually no, I have to participate in an hour and 1/2 tour of a water agency.</p>

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<p>Wow, I didn’t realize summer work was so common. At my schools, we typically had to read a book or two for English. I’ve never had any summer assignments for any other classes (except an extra-credit assignment to write a letter in French).</p>

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<p>^For us, every AP class has some kind of summer work.</p>