I recently signed up for Honors English I (A.K.A Honors English 9). I’m worried about summer reading though. I know that it’s different for each school, but about how many books/work do you get? Does it increase each year? Once again, I know it’s different, but you can speak in the context of your school.
For my school, before honors LA9 we had to read 3 books and write 3 paragraphs based on questions we received for each during the summer. Then on the 2nd day of school we were tested on the books.
Before Honors LA10 we also had to read 3 books and were tested on them, but instead of paragraphs, we had to annotate 1, write 5 paragraphs relating the book to current events for another, and find and explain the significance of 15 quotes for the last.
@17Angel Lol you scared me for a minute with the thought of 3 books and 3 essays…
Anyway, our school read Watership Down, which was a great book, and we did 7 paragraphs on it. We were given a very straight-forward prompt. The 5 paragraph essay was over characters (well there was more specific requirements…), three bodies and intro + conclusion, and we had to write ~1 page long paragraph for 2 themes that we had to find (2 pages total). I’ll go ahead and advice you now not to wait till the last minute, and to take note of quotations. My HE9 class uses 2-3 quotes per body paragraph and this is likely the expectation for the summer assignment, though you might not have been told. We had from May till August 3rd to do it so… It’s a great class and you’ll definitely enjoy it
Don’t stress too much if it comes September and you get back a B or A- on the summer assignment. The class was a real grind at first, but I’ve grown so much as a writer just in three quarters.
For my school, for Hn English 9, you usually have to read 2 books and then be able to take quizzes on them in the fall. Don’t procrastinate until the last couple of weeks because everyone at my school does lol. But also if you know you will be tested on the books, don’t read them the week after school lets out because you’ll just forget what happened in them. But if you want to read them early, then go ahead, but leave time at the end of summer to either reread them or look at summaries online.
Also the summer reading generally increases year to year, but not by that much. In my school, we read Rebecca and Sense and Sensibility freshman year and Great Expectations and the Old Man and the Sea going into sophomore year.
Also summer reading isn’t that bad because you have so much time.
Are the test/quizzes that are given based on summer reading hard? How detailed are they?
Haaaaaaaaaaaa, I had to write TWENTY-SEVEN summer essays for AP Lit. Every other bit of summer work I had was miniscule in comparison.
I generally like summer reading. Gives me something to do.
Even though this was a while back, thanks you guys. I’ve still not received any information, so I hope it’s not too hard and that the books are interesting. We just finished To Kill A Mockingbird and I loved it.