Do you have summer reading?

[AFgirl325]

How's eveyone's summer reading going, if you have any at all? I'm on my 4th book and only have to read 4! Are the books you have to read really bad or just REALLY long? I'm now reading this long book about Pre-Revolutionary China (yes, it does sound fun, doesn't it? lol), and have read this really easy book, Speak and also Girl, Interrupted and The Catcher in the Rye. Only two of those are required though- we have to choose another two off of a list and read those also. I kinda don't like reading, but I had to go to this intro. to high school today at school so now I'm totally set on getting my reading done! Do you have to do reports on the books you're reading? I only have to do a presentation on one- yay!! So I was just wondering what you guys had to do.... Talk to ya later~:D :bounce:

P.S. Do you have summer MATH homework? OMG!! I had that last year but luckily don't have it this year (they're trying to cut down so it's good for me! :D )

[samster]

sure they gave us some list of books that they said to look over and read but i think I *accidentally* lost it:rolleyes:

[Banzai]

Nope...but I have my own list

The Great Gasby
The Giver
To Kill A Mockingbird
Animal Farm


~Brad~

[Lola]

Banzai, I read all 4 of those books...And I loved them lol!
Yea, I have summer reading... I have to read Angela's Ashes and right now I'm like a quarter of the way done, haha, but it's actually very good...I plan on renting the movie as well. I also have to read The Jungle, an article in a magazine for my chem class, and a chapter in a book for my pre-cal class. The only bad thing is I have to have all of this reading done before I go to WDW next month...So I gotta get going!

[ShuisFan584]

Yes I have to read 1 book but that's 1 too many! I hate reading but I have to do it. The English teacher I had last year is a junior and senior english teacher, and she said that for her senior class she's going to give them a test on it as soon as they got back from the break. And of course I just got my schedule and she's my teacher so I have to read it!

As for math, this is the first year I've ever gotten math homework. I'm taking AP (which is kinda like honors) Calculus and the teacher gave us 5 pages front and back of a calculus test. She's only grading the last 2 pages, but we still have to do the rest, and it's a lot of questions!

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Ok ya ready for the list of books i have to read:

Required Books:

Cheasapeake (1001 pages)
East of Eden (602 pages)
The Old Man and the Sea (127 pages)

I need to pick one of the following books to read but i was dared to read all 5 (by my friends and my sohpomore english teacher...i'm going to be a junior..because it's a well known fact that i am the best reader in my grade (i'm not bragging..this is what my teacher told me):

A Prayer For Owen Meany (617 pages)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (219 pages)
Cold Mountain (449 pages)
Angle of Repose (557 pages)
The Age of Innocence (270 pages)

Next My German Work (my whole german class has to do this):

The Book: Erzahlungen (don't ask me what it means cuz i don't know) is 80 pages...all in german

The Journal:
I have to write a german journal that has 10 entries with 150 words in each entry....five can be about anything that happened this summer and 5 MUST be about my german summer reading

MY FUN BOOKS:
These are the books i have chosen to read this summer (the first one i have already read):

Vanity Fair (889 pages)...i just finished this
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (483 pages)
Roots (729 pages)

OK There's my summer reading!

[Disenchanted9k]

Man, you guys have GOOD books to read.....and I read most of those already! Anyway, I have 8 books to read this summer and almost ALL of them are BAD!!! I'm only on my first one, but its really boring. My list consists of:
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Turn of the Screw
The Awakening
Othello
The Glass Menagerie
All But My Life
Only Yesterday (boring book on the 1920s)
and a work book

<sigh> fun fun fun
:rolleyes:

[ShOrTiE2001]

Yeh we have summer reading but we get to choose the books the we want to read.

[socca princess*]

Yeah, we have summer reading. We're supposed to get lists, but my English teacher forgot to give them to us, and nobody reminded her hehehe. So the other 7th grade team has to read this summer, but we've got excuses! Only thing is that we did get this one project where we have to read any book of choice and keep a journal on it. I haven't started it, and I *lost* the paper. None of my friends are doing it anyways LoL and their older siblings say they don't kill you or anything soooo maybe I will, maybe I won't... only if I get really bored I guess I'll do it.

Tha books I read this summer for fun....

The Giver
Making Waves
Deenie
BSC Gradutaion (took to Cali.)
One Fat Summer
n i wanna read "Have A Nice Life," but apparently my mom opened to a page and then didn't let me have it back!!!! And I've heard that it's really good. grrrr parents these days....

[Amgrease]

I have to read Grapes of Wrath and Ethan Frome. I've already read Grapes of Wrath but I bought 1984 at the same time I did Ethan Frome so I've been reading it instead. I have to make notes on the books for essays on the first day of school.

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

Amgrease: I have to do the same thing as you. I have to take notes in the books and i get graded on that and than i have a test on the second day of school along with essays for 3 weeks.

[WDWfanatic288]

yeah a separate peace and the glass menagarie
only bought a separate peace and havent read either of them!! LOL
I love to kill a mocking bird!! its my favorite book!!! :)
we only have 2 to read but i doubt anyone will do it...they most of the time dont take a grade on it or anything but this year might be different.

[Kiki]

I have to read TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, which I've already read a few times, umm.. That's for English, then the CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR ( :mad: ) for social studies. so far it's boring but ssssllllllooooowwwwwlllllyyy getting better (hehehe :) ). and I have to read a chapter from VISIONS by Michio I-forget-what-his-last-name-is. I have to do lots of work for math too. But for pleasure reading, I read a book about Penguins, HOLES, THE SUBLTE KNIFE by Philip Pullman, all four books in the IMMORTALS series by Tamora Pierce, and now I'm re- reading the SONG OF THE LIONESS series also by Tamora Pierce; I'm almost down with the third out of 4 books. I'm waiting to do my school stuff until August. I am such a procrastinator :o hehe :)

TTYL!

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[tink85]

This year I got off easy, no summer reading! Last year I had to read Angela's Ashes and three other books of my choosing though. Angela's Ashes is a really good book, anybody who has to read it, count yourself lucky. The only summer work I had for school this year was French worksheets for French Honor Society