<p>I have to read the scarlet letter, the grapes of wrath, and the crucible (all annotated) and three essays for ap English language. I have a ton of projects for ap studio art and a lot of work for calc bc. I'm sure ap bio will have work too. </p>
<p>At my school all the ap classes will have summer work and the honors math and English usually has work too. </p>
<p>I'll enjoy summer for a few weeks, then I'll have to tackle all this ��</p>
<p>None >:D it’s going to be one chill summer…</p>
<p>have to read parts of bio ugh, and parts of halliday/resnick for physics c (but of course im gonna try to read my tipler physics for engineers…), and a couple novels for literature</p>
<p>also working on chemical principles/organic chem, maybe astronomy today…</p>
<p>and probably gonna have to read intro to plasma physics and controlled fusion for work…</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB: Just a packet that’s a review of everything from Algebra 1 to Pre-Calculus. Only about a hundred questions, can probably complete it in an two or three hours. Due first day of school for an easy completion grade only.</p>
<p>AP English Language: No homework. :)</p>
<p>AP Biology: Read 4 chapters and complete a study guide (around 25 short answer questions; shouldn’t take more than 2 hours for each) for each one. Only catch is that we have due dates for each chapter throughout the summer - first one is due some time in June.</p>
<p>AP US History: Read 3 chapters out of our textbook that we got early. We must write a one sentence summary for every heading (roughly 15 headings per chapter). We must complete a study guide for each chapter (70 to 90 questions, all short answer, no multiple choice). For each chapter we need to complete a take-home quiz for each one (40 to 60 questions, all short answer with a couple of essay questions). Guesstimating this will take around 15 to 30 hours total, We must also write a DBQ. All due first day of school.</p>
<p>I’m going to college and I have summer reading (I thought I had escaped it!)</p>
<p>It’s called Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. It’s a nonfiction book about a family that tries to live off the land in the fringes of an urban ghetto. All incoming freshmen are supposed to read it and then the author speaks at the opening Convocation, it’s also going to be discussed in the required Freshman Writing class.</p>
<p>AP English: Actually a VERY laid back assignment. Read the first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, read The Lightning Thief and The Devil in The White City. I know the first two seem childish but it’s what the teacher assigned 
. With The Devil in the White City we have to pick 16 significant quotes from the text and explain them in no less than a page each. </p>
<p>AP Chemistry: Look over the first 3 chapters and refresh ourselves on how to do a proper lab report.</p>
<p>AP Biology: Nada :)</p>
<p>Rob1996, that is the most painful list of summer assignments I have ever seen. Especially the part about “due dates throughout the summer”.</p>
<p>Nate42, wow, I wish we got to read books like that! I wouldn’t call then childish. I am/have been huge fans of both series at one point or another. I think if a teacher suggested any reading like that, or Harry potter, or even just some grimm’s fairy tales, there would be a huge dispute among parents on church vs school.</p>
<p>I have to read. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay for AP Lit.</p>
<p>@bookworm: Yeah, it’s pretty great. The teacher doesn’t want to stress us out right off the bat. Can’t say that I disagree ;). My elementary school was like that, controlling parents trying to shelter their kids as much as possible. Then I got to high school and everyone was like, “Who cares.”</p>
<p>@bookworm934: It’s not really that bad, in my opinion, except for the AP US History (which has a ridiculous work load throughout the year too). </p>
<p>If I really wanted to, I could probably knock out both the Calc and all of the Bio in just one Saturday afternoon. I’m going to spread it out, though. I actually don’t mind summer assignments given in moderation like these classes - that way I don’t forget everything over the summer. After all, I haven’t taken Biology since my freshman year (I’m an incoming junior), so I need the review lol.</p>
<p>I have no clue what my summer assignments are yet. I think we’re supposed to find out in a few weeks… I’m going to have AP Chem, Lang, US History, and Calc AB, though, and I think each one has summer work. I also have to do work for pre-AP studio art.</p>
<p>So far, only the AP Lang and AP Gov assignments have been announced (still waiting on three other classes). For AP Lang, I’ll be reading both Babel-17 and Memoirs (by Rockefeller) and writing analysis journals on them, while for AP Gov I’ll most likely be reading “The Nine” and writing a 3-4 page analysis on the book.</p>
<p>For my other classes, all I know is that I have readings for AP Psych and AP Micro that are yet TBA. The possibility of AP Bio summer work is still murky.</p>
<p>Street Car Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
… and something else I forgot</p>
<p>If you’re a fellow IB student, read on (otherwise it’s hard to get)…
I have to write a second draft for my World Literature essay and prepare for my IOP. I have a history extended essay to finish… and those are probably the main things for now.</p>
<p>It’s funny how some of the summer work I actually look foward too while some of it I dread. </p>
<p>Examples: I can’t wait for the ap studio art assignment. Usually I spend my summer doing lots of drawings and paintings that have no direction to them, and with a structured goal I might actually be able to put out some decent work. </p>
<p>I’m dreading the English assignment because the books must be annotated (aka every part of the page must be covered with the text or your writing) and everyone over on the “miserable books read in hs” thread agrees that the scarlet letter sucks 
</p>
<p>@rob1995, even so, the sheer amount of work would be a put off for me.</p>
<p>So far, for AP Lang, we have to read Huck Finn and Silent Spring. For Silent Spring we have to write a 2 page paper on the literary techniques used in it and make a note card binder including notecards on Each type of literary technique, each theme, etc. </p>
<p>Still waiting on AP Chem, APUSH, and AP Euro.</p>
<p>Summer projects = 100% busywork thats 100% unnecessary if you ask me. I do them, but grudgingly. It has no bearing on the supposedly higher level of education you’re getting. More busywork does not equal a better education.</p>
<p>AP Language and Composition - Read a nonfiction book of your choice. Cannot be a biography or about history. Monthly blog posts as well.</p>
<p>AP Psychology - Read a 13 page packet and answer some questions.</p>
<p>AP Biology - Read a packet (I’m assuming it’s a couple chapters out of our textbook) and answer questions. It’s about ecology.</p>
<p>AP US History - Read the first chapter in our textbook, a take-home test, write an essay, and perhaps something else I’m forgetting.</p>
<p>Overall, this summer work seems a lot better than last year’s sole World History homework, which was tedious and pointlessly long. I don’t even think they’re doing World History homework this year -_-</p>
<p>Not much. I’ll probably try to review Chemistry before Organic Chem, and I’ll start reading Joyce’s Ulysses, but other than a possible review packet for AB Calc I don’t think I’ll have anything…?</p>