<p>The best way to weed out people is to make the class hard. But it seems most high schools have some innate resistance against that notion. And personally, I never felt like AP gov and AP history were the sort of classes you need extra prep for… summers would be better spent staring at pretty ladies at the beach.</p>
<p>My summer has been ruined:</p>
<p>AP Lit: Read Joy Luck Club (do 5 page essay due aug 5), Blue and Black, A Tale of Two Cities & Grapes of Wrath</p>
<p>AP Bio: Read 105 pages in textbook (5 chapters), submit outline for each online</p>
<p>AP Studio Art: Do 6 solid pieces of work (!!!)</p>
<p>AP English Literature: Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor and the Awakening, complete dialectical journals for each.</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB: Compete about 75 problems covering stuff from Algebra II and Pre-Calc.</p>
<p>AP Government: Read Bias, prepare outline.</p>
<p>AP Microeconomics: Read Naked Economics, prepare outline.</p>
<p>AP Lit: 3 books and a lot of study questions. </p>
<p>AP Psych online: I have to read about the course on college board and other places and then the website’s syllabus for the class, then on my first day of class, I have to answer a bunch of questions about what I think the class will be like and respond to other peoples’ answers (based on what we’ve read). </p>
<p>What’s really funny about this is that I know I’m the only one who bothered to check the website to see if they had any summer work or “Pre-course assignments” to get started on before the class starts. </p>
<p>Guess everyone else has some reading to do the first day. =P</p>
<p>6 APs</p>
<p>ap calculus ab - finish a packet full of a$$load of problems plus additional ones from tb. it is suppose to take me 10 hours at least
ap us history - read lies my teacher told me, answer questions, read the american pageant
ap english - do 3 creative pieces, read god of small things and analyze the author’s style, analyze two articles from ny times and write an analysis essay for each
ap econ - read the first 2 chapts, answer questions, define words
ap gov - same as econ
ap physics - do a lab, read a chpt plus do questions
ap german - finish a book of activities in German…basic grammer etc.</p>
<p>in addition to that i have honors too…
honors chem - memorize the elements, do some questions, research bout elements
advanzed spanish (i took the lang test and before lit, this is a required course) - read a book and write reflections based on it</p>
<p>i havve a lot:(</p>
<p>Nothing for AP Statistics, AP US History, or AP Spanish Language.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry: Read a couple of pages in 5 Steps to a 5 and outline them, along with memorizing some of the elements and their symbols.
AP English Language: Read 1984 along with another non-fiction book, then write essays, journals, and answer some study questions.</p>
<p>Not bad at all!!</p>
<p>AP Bio read and report on three books selected from the list
AP BC Calc a packet
Ap Stats a packet
AP English nothing
AP Psych nothing
not too bad</p>
<p>Wow, you guys make me feel like my teachers are unexperienced or under-preparing me…</p>
<p>AP USH - Outline and read the first two chapters of the American Pageant
AP Bio - Nothing.
AP Lit - Read Emma and answer 5 questions, most of them essays.
AP WH - Nothing.</p>
<p>Guess I’ll have time for my self studies :D</p>
<p>Wow… i feel bad for alot of you guys…</p>
<p>AP Stats: Nothing
AP Calc BC: Nothing
AP Physics B: Nothing
AP Eng Lit: read 4 books
AP Spanish Lang: Watch movies, watch spanish tv, and some vocab work, keep hjournal of spanish tv / movies
AP Psych (self-study): I’m my teacher and thus, i assign myself nothing</p>
<p>AP Calc BC: Review Packet
AP CompSci: An extra credit problem :P</p>
<p>For AP Bio we have to read 250 pages and do “detailed” notes on 5 chapters.
For AP Lang we have to read a book and write an essay (Pretty chill)
Luckily, AP Psych and AP US Hist. don’t have assignments:)</p>
<p>AP Lit is memorizing a packet, bascially, of allusions (Biblical and historical, I think) and reading 2 books. One is Jane Eyre (half read last year, haha. hmm… Need to start reading.)</p>
<p>AP Psych is scary for a summer assignment: Paper on history of psych (can’t remember details), and 20 articles (read/print out) with personal reflections for each.</p>
<p>AP french: Grammar packet (my English/Belgian friend is coming this summer… so I’ll get help, haha!) and lax assignments like listening to podcasts and reading Readers Digest and french books.</p>
<p>I don’t think I had anything for AP Art studio! Maybe just brainstorming.</p>
<p>you guys have it easy!</p>
<p>AP Stats: Nothing</p>
<p>AP Calc BC: First four chapters of the book (245 pages) with roughly 18 problems per SECTION (about 5 sections per chapter). <em>Estimation, ~1.5 months if i work everyday.</em></p>
<p>AP Lit: Read four books and annotate all of them. Write out 50 literature terms and write out a definition for each. Also use each in a sentence. <em>Estimation, ~2 months if i work quickly and efficiently.</em></p>
<p>AP Studio Art: 10 completed pieces done in our sketchbooks. 5 other pieces on concepts that our teacher assigned; so, total 15 completed pieces. <em>Estimation, ~Entire summer if i work periodically and if i can come up with enough ideas XP</em></p>
<p>APUSH - have to read the first four chapters of The American Pageant and answers the questions and define vocabularies in a packet that my teacher gave me. It sounds easy, but the questions are broad and the book has no glossary. So, basically, it takes as much time as outlining for me. </p>
<p>AP Calculus AB - given a packet: a few pages of problems, a poster project (really annoying for me), and book work on the prerequisite/prep chapter. (Looks really boring cuz it’s all precalc)</p>
<p>AP Physics B - given a packet: a few pages of problems, taking notes from the textbook, do end-of-chapter problems.</p>
<p>AP English Language - first assignment: choose a topic from the packet i was given. I chose education. Choose one nonfic and one fic under the topic - Great Expectations and The Autobiography of Malcolm X - and create a dialectial journal - five passages each. After reading it, write an essay responding to the question that accompany the topic. Second assignment: read 5 op-ed essays and respond to them each.</p>
<p>These summer assignments are really time-consuming and annoying. I bet a lot of people would agree with my opinion toward summer assignments. Well, at least, my brain will be fully prepared for the classes next schoolyear.</p>
<p>Ap Physics B - Packet full of problems regarding simplifying expressions, vectors and some other basics. First two chapters of our textbook (College Physics-Serway) and the chapter problems.</p>
<p>Ap English Language - Read two books, write 20-25 journal entries for each book and then a 3 page single spaced reaction to each book.</p>
<p>Ap US - Outline first 6 chapters of American Pageant, Write DBQ essay and read some other articles.</p>
<p>Ap Spanish - Outline all the verb tenses of the Spanish Language (compound tenses too), including irregulars, etc. </p>
<p>Ap Calc AB - nothing!</p>
<p>AP English Language - Read the Scarlet letter.</p>
<p>That’s it for me. :D</p>
<p>AP US Gov- Read the Federalist Papers. Answer 12 questions on it. (Finished Already)</p>
<p>Answer Questions on the hearing of Sonia Sotomayor. </p>
<p>American Government by Wilson- Listen to Chapter Summaries and memorize the vocabulary for the first two chapters. Also apply the vocab to political themes today.</p>
<p>That’s It!(Not Too Bad)</p>
<p>AP US History(Self Study)- Have to start this over the summer also…</p>
<p>Assuming I get my schedule</p>
<p>AP Bio - none</p>
<p>AP Physics C - none</p>
<p>AP Spanish Language - none</p>
<p>AP Stats - none (self study - mwahahaha)</p>
<p>AP Eng Lit - 5 novels, over 1400 pages of text + literary journal on all 5 books</p>
<p>Good times.</p>
<p>Luckily I dont have any for AP, but I have other things that I am doing in the summer.</p>
<p>Absolutely nothing. Never had summer work for APs, never will.</p>