Is summer reading required at your school like where they give you a list books you have to read before school starts?

Well Im in Pre AP English And We have to read 2 books this summer.

Yes, we get that.
We also get tested on the books when we return back to school so... no escaping it!

^My friend's school is like that. I'm glad my school doesn't do that.

^Do you guys get reading lists w/o tests?

I honestly wouldn't mind reading the books if we weren't FORCED to read them... you know?

nope...Our school doesn't do that....thankfully...I like to read what I want, not read something thats required

Not yet for us

We don't have a summer reading list at all.

Yeah, we get a list of like eight books and you choose one, along with another required book.

I haven't gotten my list yet because the teachers haven't talked to my English class yet.

I'll post the books up when I do get it, if you want..

yup. we have 2 requred books.

^What are the names of the books?

slaughterhouse-five.
the hot zone.

Last summer I had a reading list for my honors enligsh class. We also had to post a minimum of 2 questions online and respond to a minimum of 5 people's questions and write an essay on each book (there were only 2 books though).

We had to read...

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
and
Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

I liked both books to be honest... Whale Rider was an easy read, and Angela's Ashes wasn't bad either.. but it was a painful read since it is slightly lengthy and I didn't want to spend my summer reading a book that I was forced to read. Haha.

I think there's 2 required this summer. You can choose from a couple but I forgot what they're called. One of them you have to do a dialectical journal....

My School does. This year I have to read When the elephants dance. We have to read and annotate the book it counts as a homework grade and the first day // second day of school we have to write a timed write on the book. And this year we can't choose waht book we want to read.

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For junior English honors, we are going to have Jane Eyre for summer reading and expecting a big test and oral commentary in the first week of school. Duh. I bombed out those stuff every year.

cant remember most of them..i only know one i have to read "catcher in the rye"

yeah, if you are in upperlevel english classes and i think some history classes too. i am in ap english 4 (senior english) and this summer we are reading crime and punishment.

For Honors English 10, we have to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Warriors Don't Cry. Plus, there's this FAT packet of work to go along with it.

i have to read :

the jungle by upton sinclair
fahrenheit 451

and another book by an author of my choice...

yeah, what is with the huge workload? i got a huge one sophomore year, and a monster of one for junior year. thank god all i have is one book this year.

yeah, since middle school we have done these stupid things!

every year you get about five different selections where you have to choose one book from the list, answer questions, and you can use those questions on a scantron test in the beginning of the year

i only remember 3 selections: catch me if you can, maus, and secret life of bees. i already have catch me if you can at my house so i'm probably doing that one. though, maus seems pretty cool. it's this comic book-like thing about this mouse and cat where the mice are the jewish people and the cat(s?) are germans.

and the other book is of your choice where you have to do more of a critical thinking prompt and you hand that in.

and plus i have to read sundown tows or something for ap us summer work

not required really, but they give us a list and its stupid. im i high leveled reader (compared to other people my age) and my school doesnt give us good titles. i never follow them.

Like other people on here I'm taking AP English.
So they're making me read:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Lesson Before Dying
Catcher in the Rye
The Glass Menagerie
A Farewell to Arms

...and yeah I get tested on these books. Joy of joys.

and then two other books that I've already read so I'm skipping.
Yeah. They're all American writers. I'm not too excited.

I'm reading Huck Finn right now and honestly I kind of find it...boring.

i LOVE slaughterhouse-five

i adore kurt vonnegut.

though cat's cradle is better (in my opinion)


i want to go to your school
where vonnegut is required.

I just have to read Jane Eyre.

Dang, we had to read To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher in The Rye for regular sophomore English -- not during the summer, during the class. Personally, I didn't like To Kill A Mockingbird, but then again I only read about half of it... As for Catcher in The Rye... Most people love it or hate it, personally, I thought it was good for a school read.

QUOTE(jennyjenny @ Jun 17 2007, 04:59 PM)

only remember 3 selections: catch me if you can, maus, and secret life of bees. i already have catch me if you can at my house so i'm probably doing that one. though, maus seems pretty cool.

I would suggest Secret Life of Bees. I just read that last month for my Contemporary American Lit class; it was such an easy read, and the book was pretty good. It has so much symbolism, it's ridiculous. If you need any help with some of it, you can google my school's site, they had a weblog for that book. Just google HCRHS Secret Life of Bees weblog.

I just took it from the Summer Reading thread in School.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (heard it was creepy)
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Not all too excited but at least I'll have some more classics under my belt.

Thankfully there's no real work. We just have to keep a journal of our reflections.

Well right now I have to read 3, 2 fromthe list and one on my own.
At the moment I am reading:
The French Luitenents woman [sp] I know.
and another one but it wasn't at the library

Honors English 11 for Junior year list:

Two books for the class curriculum itself
- Othello by Shakespeare
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolfe

Two books for the entire Junior class to read
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

And one book for the entire school
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Finished the Little Prince, I enjoyed it . I'm reading Things Fall Apart right now.

Senior AP English:

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

I've finished the first one... it was good, but wasn't one of my favorites.