Supplemental Essay #6 Book List

gibby
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:05:02 +0000

^^ @JHS. My daughter started Stuyvesant 10 years ago, so the reading lists have changed since then, but between both my son and daughter, I believe they took

Freshman Composition

AP English Language

Modern European Literature

AP English Literature & Composition: Great Books

AP English Literature & Composition: Society & Self

AP English Language and Composition: American Places and Perspectives

Defining American Voices: AP English Language and Composition

See: http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=128041&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=253629

Look at the reading lists for each course – Moby Dick is still there, so is Crime and Punishment. My daughter also read Anna Karenina because I remember her complaining how depressing it was. My point: many books on the OP’s list look pretty similar to courses at a rigorous high school like Stuyvesant, which doesn’t serve the OP well IMHO, because they are seem like assigned reading.