<p>^ Seriously. You guys are freaks. ;]</p>
<p>Had to bump this up, it was all the way on the bottom of page seven!!!</p>
<p>I have yet to really start my summer reading… and I have no desire to.</p>
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<p>same here. my procrastination is taking over my body D: i have yet to read The Crucible and The Jungle</p>
<p>I finished my summer reading today. The Scarlet Letter was utter bullsh_t. I fell asleep so many times trying to read it over the past 3 weeks, and finally forced myself through it yesterday and today. Fricken crappy, long book that can be summarized in less than 2 sentences but is dragged on.</p>
<p>We have to read Gulliver’s Travels and The Things They Carried for AP Literature, plus a book of choice. Does anyone have any experience with these books? I WILL start TOMORROW :p…</p>
<p>Haha, we read the Scarlet Letter during the year. WAY too many symbols and themes. I still have yet to read Grapes of Wrath and Time Traveller’s Wife, I’m going to do it in August so I can remember what actually happened for the test on them when we get back.</p>
<p>class of 2011 is the shiz</p>
<p>AP Chem
AP Lang
AP Calc AB
APUSH
Yearbook 2 (have to take it because I am on yearbook staff)
Spanish 4 Honors
Physics Honors
I am looking at Brown, Northwestern, and College of William and Mary as top choices</p>
<p>Oh does anyone have to read 4 books for AP Lang</p>
<p>I have to read: The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Bird by Bird, and Reading like a Writer</p>
<p>^We have to read two of those and The Scarlett Letter, which I hear is boring.</p>
<p>We don’t have to read anything, and if we do, I sure didn’t hear about it… lol. I do have a personal reading list that I should be getting around to any day now…</p>
<p>lol the Scarlett Letter was really horrible. I didn’t mind the symbols as much as the unnecessarily lengthy sentences. I mean seriously, since we read it in class occasionally we would read it out loud. This was completely torturous. And apparently he wasn’t even payed by the word…why would Hawthorne do that.
I mean, I really did enjoy the book for it’s content. It’s just his writing style, that I wasn’t too big a fan of.</p>
<p>Wow, it seems as if many of your summer reading books were our in-school novels like, the Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher in the Rye…weird.</p>
<p>Anyways, the books we have to read are kind of strange…An American Childhood, All Over But Shoutin’, and The Art of the Personal Essay.</p>
<p>With that we’re supposed to write one 750-word essay. Along with 5 other 100-pieces of writing. Using my pro-math skills that adds up to 1250 words. I hate this class.</p>
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<p>That’s not bad. I wrote a 1000-word essay for my English III class today as one of the like 4 assignments that were due. That was just a regular assignment, we have 2 research paper to do in a few weeks. -_- I feel kind of Asian taking summer classes.</p>
<p>JSpencer: I read both the Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye this past school year. Loved the Catcher in the Rye, didn’t love the Great Gatsby so much.</p>
<p>Oh, and I have to read: Nickel and Dimed, and The Namesake</p>
<p>I hate the heat. It’s supposed to get to 95 today. Blehh. How hot is it where you guys are?</p>
<p>95 actual, 100 RealFeel according to accuweather.</p>
<p>It’s 78 actual, but it just rained. It feels like 65 though.</p>
<p>it sucks because you guys have to do junior year. and i don’t.</p>
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I don’t have to, I choose to. Oh, in addition to getting 2 years of college tuition-free.</p>
<p>it hasn’t been too bad hereeeee</p>
<p>anybody who does sports: Do you guys have preseason/when does it start?</p>
<p>Mine starts like August 17th, and it’s going to be HELL</p>