so, what are your summer reading books for this summer?

ill be a senior and we're reading:
slaughterhouse five- kurt vonnegurt
hot zone- richard preston


im actually extrememly excited about hot zone. AHHH, the summary our teacher gave us was wonderful.

I haven't heard of Hot Zone; I'll look it up.

I don't have any assigned for school. Actually, I have my Organic Chemistry and Economics textbooks (BOO) but I did go to the local library after 8 months to pick up something to read while commuting. I finished Imaginary Men today and started Wuthering Heights but it's extremely boring for my taste. :(

Huck Finn and Time editorials from 2006 with mass annotations and complementary thingies.

uhhm.

Lordy, I'm so glad I'm done and over with summer reading lists.. College :)

p.s. Slaughterhouse-Five is an amazing novel.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

What I hate that I would have a big test on it on the first day of school. I guess I would totally bomb out on this test, just like the summer reading tests for the past 2 years of high school.

QUOTE(Monokuro-Boo @ May 27 2007, 12:00 PM)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.

What I hate that I would have a big test on it on the first day of school. I guess I would totally bomb out on this test, just like the summer reading tests for the past 2 years of high school.

some of the other senior classes are reading that book. i heard that it was really weird..with some girl setting things on fire or something.
yea, we have a huge test on the first day, too. usually, everyone has an f or a d at the beginning of the school year.

Jane Eyre is a great book! And it's not as weird as Bronte's Villette. Villette... wasn't my cup of tea, but it's interesting, to say the least.

It took me months to raise my F to a B as my final grade. Screw the first test!

We don't get them till like last day of school[3 weeks], jeebus you guys get them early.

QUOTE(Jeng @ May 28 2007, 11:04 AM)

We don't get them till like last day of school[3 weeks], jeebus you guys get them early.

we get out wed.

i'm taking ENC1102! no summer reading for me! *high five! haha. but i will read something over the summer. hmm. what to read what to read. :)

Farenheit 451 & To Kill a Mockingbird are required. [I'm going to be a freshman]

It's not too bad.

The seniors at my school don't have summer reading.

& even if we did, they tell the teachers not to collect it.

For my AP 11 class

The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises and How to Read Literature Like A Professor

QUOTE(Caitlinnn @ May 29 2007, 07:32 PM)

For my AP 11 class

The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises and How to Read Literature Like A Professor

the great gatsby was pretty good. we read it for our ap english 3 class, too. but it was during the school year.

^ I heard The Great Gatsby is good. What's it about? Maybe I'll read it before it gets assigned, haha.



I love those two books! They're both fantastic. I love this one quote from Fahrenheit 451. I hope you enjoy them!

I read The Great Gatsby this school year and How to Read Literature like a Professor last summer. The Great Gatsby was pretty good, but damn, How to Read was a bitch to read, and especially to annotate. Though, it gave you great insight on symbols & such in literature. Good stuff. :) The chapter about sex is pretty amusing.

Ima be a senior and we have to read When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe. It's pretty good expect we have to annotate. I hate annotating.

I don't think any of the schools here do summer reading.
Or at least, my high school doesn't.

I have five books.
I'm going to be a sophomore.

Honors English:

• Portrait of Dorian Gray
• Jane Eyre
• Silas Marner
• The Scarlet Pimpernel

and

AP Euro:
Either A History of the World in Six Glasses, A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century, or A World Lit Only by Fire.

^ I'm gonna be a sophomore, too. I only have to read two books, though. To Kill A Mockingbird and Warriors Don't Cry for Honors English.

Here, here they are:
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I'm required to read Slaughterhouse-Five and two other books of my choice.
I was thinking about buying Middlesex, Life of Pi or The Catcher in the Rye.
Has anyone read any of those novels?

QUOTE(Motivity @ Jun 9 2007, 03:20 PM)

I'm required to read Slaughterhouse-Five and two other books of my choice.
I was thinking about buying Middlesex, Life of Pi or The Catcher in the Rye.
Has anyone read any of those novels?

CATCHER IN THE RYE. my favorite book of al time. and im reading slaughterhouse five right now! im only on page 30 or something..but its pretty good. =]

^I The Catcher in the Rye too! The themes and symbols are really blatant (so that way my in-class essay is much easier).

For my school I have to read 2 books,view a piece of art,watch a movie, and listen a musical selection.

Senior year
Read:
The Color of water by James McBride
Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Flim:
An Inconvenient Truth [2006]

Visual Art:
"Pieta" by Michelangelo

Musical:
Santana,Abraxas [1970]

OMG, I liked An Inconvenient Truth. But I am still not sure about its validity.

sophomore year:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
and a free choice book off of my school's list

Well this year,Its 2.
But I only remember the name of one.
House On Mango Street.
Last year in 8th grade,We had to read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry,
I thinks thats how to spell her name,And " A Child Called It",Now that book I would recommend to anyone.
Its a very good book I mean its so sad how she did her own son,I finished it in like 1 day.
I couldn't put it down.

Yay, summer school is over! Now to start summer reading!

...anyway,
My assignment is to read Nectar In A Sieve (the author's name is long and unusual) and do a dialectical journal. Then read either Thousand Pieces Of Gold or Montana 1948.

I've finished my books.

I'm going to be a Sophomore, so I had to read:

-Farewell To Manzanar
-When The Legends Die

Now...I have to do the essay...
:(

for honor's english:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Not all that excited about them

at my school, you read hot zone the summer before 10th grade only if you're taking bio, which i took in 9th grade so i escaped that book.

anyways, going into 11th grade i have to read 3 books.
everyone has to read "Fallen Angels"
for honors enligsh i have to read "The Grapes of Wrath"
and for AP Spanish 5 i have to read "Marielena"

QUOTE(angelrevelation @ Jul 27 2007, 08:13 PM)

for honor's english:
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Not all that excited about them

aw..you should at least be excited about the catcher in the rye.
its my all time favorite book.

QUOTE(lilliannnn @ Jul 29 2007, 08:59 AM)

at my school, you read hot zone the summer before 10th grade only if you're taking bio, which i took in 9th grade so i escaped that book.

i actually thought that the hot zone was a very well written book. one of the best ive read and one of my favorites, too. its easy to understand, yet educates the reader.


im finished with my first book. the hot zone. it was 411 page and i finished it in 5 days.
now im on slaughterhouse five. and im only on page 64. hahaha.

AP English IV... only two books this year

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (finished)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (not started yet)

I read Invisible Man for junior year summer reading and Huck Finn during that school year.

I liked The Catcher in the Rye... I read it freshman year. It's one of my favorites.

Walden and Civil Disobedience. I still havent started and school starts in 3 weeks.

I read Civil Disobedience last school year. It was supposed to be a supplement read to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

CD sucked... The Night Thoreau etc. was better

i really dont know

I was supposed to read The Prince. But...I haven't started on that and I need to write two essays.