Required Summer Reading Lists |
 Jun 2 2007, 03:24 PM
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Is summer reading required at your school like where they give you a list books you have to read before school starts?
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Jun 2 2007, 04:00 PM
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 The more things change,The more they stay the same. Group: Official Member Posts: 1,319 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 442,600 |
Well Im in Pre AP English And We have to read 2 books this summer.
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Jun 2 2007, 11:10 PM
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 What a sick, masochistic lion. Group: Member Posts: 1,853 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 460,535 |
Yes, we get that. We also get tested on the books when we return back to school so...  no escaping it!
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Jun 3 2007, 12:02 AM
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;) Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,573 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,124 |
^My friend's school is like that. I'm glad my school doesn't do that.
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Jun 3 2007, 04:53 AM
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What a sick, masochistic lion. Group: Member Posts: 1,853 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 460,535 |
^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? |
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Jun 3 2007, 08:01 AM
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 Don't touch me you drink! Group: Member Posts: 310 Joined: Apr 2007 Member No: 518,707 |
nope...Our school doesn't do that....thankfully...I like to read what I want, not read something thats required
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Jun 3 2007, 08:49 AM
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 ALLISON Group: Official Designer Posts: 3,372 Joined: Nov 2005 Member No: 310,259 |
Not yet for us
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Jun 3 2007, 11:43 AM
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;) Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,573 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,124 |
QUOTE(alysaphobia @ Jun 3 2007, 04:53 AM)  ^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? We don't have a summer reading list at all.
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Jun 3 2007, 12:53 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,388 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,129 |
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.. |
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Jun 3 2007, 12:56 PM
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 i'm maggie =] Group: Member Posts: 3,607 Joined: Jan 2006 Member No: 361,616 |
yup. we have 2 requred books.
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Jun 3 2007, 04:27 PM
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;) Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,573 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 99,124 |
^What are the names of the books?
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Jun 3 2007, 06:09 PM
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i'm maggie =] Group: Member Posts: 3,607 Joined: Jan 2006 Member No: 361,616 |
slaughterhouse-five.
the hot zone. |
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Jun 3 2007, 06:14 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 493 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 47,340 |
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. |
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Jun 3 2007, 10:05 PM
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 vivacity Group: Official Member Posts: 3,183 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 495,247 |
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....
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Jun 9 2007, 12:06 AM
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 Oh Wow ... Group: Official Designer Posts: 688 Joined: Sep 2006 Member No: 468,522 |
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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Jun 9 2007, 11:11 AM
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I typed you problem in google, and look what I found
Link Removed--Mercy |
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Jun 9 2007, 03:20 PM
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 Peggy. Group: Member Posts: 2,508 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 214,025 |
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.
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Jun 9 2007, 04:08 PM
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 d@niel Group: Member Posts: 1,267 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 91,453 |
cant remember most of them..i only know one i have to read "catcher in the rye"
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Jun 9 2007, 04:24 PM
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 <3 Group: Member Posts: 183 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 390,880 |
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.
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Jun 16 2007, 07:27 PM
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abooga. Group: Member Posts: 928 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 212,116 |
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.
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Jun 16 2007, 07:41 PM
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Newbie Group: Member Posts: 1 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 522,877 |
i have to read :
the jungle by upton sinclair fahrenheit 451 and another book by an author of my choice... |
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Jun 17 2007, 03:46 PM
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<3 Group: Member Posts: 183 Joined: Apr 2006 Member No: 390,880 |
QUOTE(rochelley-o @ Jun 16 2007, 07:27 PM) 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. 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. |
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Jun 17 2007, 03:59 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 4,357 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,115 |
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 |
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Jun 17 2007, 05:52 PM
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 <joke> inside </joke> Group: Official Member Posts: 2,283 Joined: Oct 2006 Member No: 470,590 |
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.
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Jun 19 2007, 09:47 AM
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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. |
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