<p>I'm taking AP Euro next year. Our summer assignment isn't horrible, but I haven't started it and I'm not looking forward to doing it (it's summer, after all). We have to read a couple chapters in the textbook, memorize the locations of about a hundred places on the map, and do a lot of IDs (over a hundred). I've heard of summer assignments that are worse, and I know some people don't have summer assignments at all. What's yours?</p>
<p>I’m taking 5 AP’s next year and none of them have summer assignments.</p>
<p>I’m just getting ahead by reading textbooks/prep books…</p>
<p>For AP Spanish we have to read 2 long books in spanish and answer questions, and we have to sign up for this spanish word of the day and write down what the word is everyday and use it in a sentence. I want to kill myself. lol</p>
<p>reading 8 novels and plays and writing an essay for each. that’s for ap lit</p>
<p>4 books for ap english
and 6 chapters of US history</p>
<p>AP US History - read and outline the first six chapters of Pageant. Answer about 75 open-response questions and do about 150 vocab IDs. Write four AP-style essays. This is all handwritten.</p>
<p>AP Psychology - read 40 Studies That Changed Psychology. Summarize each study in a paragraph.</p>
<p>AP English Language - read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Write 20 dialectical journals on it. Read How To Read Literature Like A Professor. Use the techniques given to write an analytical essay on a movie of your choice.</p>
<p>AP Biology and AP Calculus: None</p>
<p>AP Language: Read and annotate 2 books from our required reading list (I will be reading Reading Lolita In Tehran and Freakonomics) and follow a journalist and annotate at least 5 of their articles.</p>
<p>I have it easy this year!</p>
<p>For AP English Lit: Read and annotate a required book and one other from a list of three.</p>
<p>IB Euro Year 2: Read “The long fuse” and prepare for a seminar the 1st week of school
IB English Year 2: Read Madame Bovary and Death in Venice, questions for both
AP Stat: Packet
Write IB Extended Essay</p>
<p>shs1992: Reading Lolita in Tehran is an AMAZING book!!</p>
<p>I know! I started reading it and it doesn’t even feel like an assignment (apart from the notes). This is probably the first summer reading book I’ve actually enjoyed.</p>
<p>Have to read like 2 books from a list of 10…probably will read Catch 22 or something like that and idk about the other one.</p>
<p>I have some precalc review (like 5-7 hours worth) for AB Calc, but that’s it. Also, this is my first (and last!) ever AP summer assignment…</p>
<p>for literature: 4 novels</p>
<p>stat: read and outline the book “how to lie with statistics” and answer questions on it, and then do the first three chapters of our book (read, outline, do the math)</p>
<p>chemistry: 4 chapters of questions, and outline another one</p>
<p>psych: 100 vocab cards, read and outline three chapters</p>
<p>calc BC: 11 assignments from calc AB</p>
<p>I get to read both the Illiad and the Odyssey (in English) for AP Latin Vergil. </p>
<p>Nothing for AP Calc though. </p>
<p>This is the first summer in years I haven’t had a ton of AP whatever history stuff, so it feels kind of strange.</p>
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from Post #6.</p>
<p>Hey! Me too haha =]. I did not start yet, but it looks somewhat interesting. Did you start it?</p>
<p>AP Lit: Iliad and Mythology by Edith Hamilton with writing assignments on each
and 3 more novels for an enormous research project
which are: slaughterhouse 5, cat’s cradle, and catch 22</p>
<p>AP Gov: read
Common Sense [Thomas Paine]
Thoughts on Government [John Adams]
Remember the Ladies [Abigail Adams]
Declaration of Independence [Thomas Jefferson]</p>
<p>and write a giant comparative essay</p>
<p>AP Eng. Lit- Read Mythology by Edith Hamilton, memorize Greco-Roman myths, Read and Annotate Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (not the sci-fi invisible man), Read and Annotate 1 of 4 plays: Pygmalion, King Lear, Waiting for Godot, or Doll’s House (I picked Pygmalion)</p>
<p>AP Gov- Read and annotate Hardball by Chris Matthews, answer large packet of questions regarding politics</p>
<p>AP Psych- Read and take notes on first 3 chapters of text, find 9 articles covering key topics in psych, two page write-up on each.</p>
<p>AP Stats- Read first 55 pages of book, do section reviews</p>
<p>You people have summer assignments? </p>
<p>I could understand for some classes, but it sounds incredibly unnecessary for most of the classes cited here.</p>
<p>usually, the purpose is to get a head start on the AP schedule, (since my school starts in Sept and AP tests are in May, but some schools start in August)</p>
<p>and to also weed out students who sign up for the class but don’t do the summer assignment, because the assignment is a prerequisite to get into the class–at my school.</p>