Is it really that hard to read a book (maybe books depending on where you live) and take a test/do a project on it?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Is it hard? No. But it //is// annoying that you have to do work while you're supposed to be on vacation. It's also very easy to get distracted when you can be doing a ton of other stuff and you can tell yourself that it isn't due for a while.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Last summer we had to read two books for our project. One book, The Secret Life of Bees, scared me to death. I have a phobia of bees, and at some parts the author describes bees. It's hard to read a book when your constantly checking for bees.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I have to read three books for English 3 and 1 book for World Geography. My sister doesn't have to do anything because they apparently only give summer reading to AP students. Luckily, I'm a master of not actually doing work and I found a way to write a journal on The Scarlet Letter while actually reading less than half of the book. Next I have to write a paper on A Farewell to Arms based around a theme.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Last summer I had six books; this time around I only have four. It sucks, sure, but I figure I can only blame myself for taking APs.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People who aren't taking AP classes still have to do summer reading a lot of the times. How is that their fault?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Do they also have to write essays and take a test for each book? The people who I know in regular English only have to read one book, and they have no essays or tests connected to it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes. I actually had more summer work for my regular English classes than I did for my AP English class.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's strange. Well I guess in my case specifically I chose the work, so I can't really complain.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes, in your case, but a lot of basic English classes that everyone has to take still require summer work.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm not taking AP's so I don't have summer reading. I got tired of AP classes and decided what I want to do (welder and/or carpenter) didn't really constitute the need for advanced classes. So what if I can't write a perfect short answer? I can fix your house and build you a nice coffee table.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I get that. The only reason I take AP English is because I'm looking into becoming an English major. If I didn't need it, I wouldn't take it either.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah I can see it being useful there. I think advanced geometry would help when I become a carpenter, ya know, for measurements and shit.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Haha, the only advanced class my dad ever took was math (don't remember which) because he became a carpenter. He always says he sucked at school except for math

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm okay at math, the only issue I have is trigonometry.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Eh, I used to hate Trig but then it got better in comparison to limits. I reeeeaaally suck at limits...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Since when is reading work? I mean you're doing it right now, this very moment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

One book I had to read was so fucking boring I said fuck it and half assed the assignment for it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sometimes (only sometimes) they are interesting though, and people don't take the time to appreciate them 1) because they don't want any work or 2) because they just hate reading and they won't be open to it

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I enjoy reading, but sadly my type of literature is never a reading assignment.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At least people do enjoy reading - I can't really argue that assigned reading isn't always the most interesting. I once had to read a book about the number zero. Literally, it was about the importance of zero.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I bet you had zero interest in that book.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

For the first time since elementary school, I don't have any summer work because I'm taking college classes instead of normal ones.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Actually, I love summer reading.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The thing I hate about having to write an essay over summer reading is The fact that we don't get to have class discussions over it. Every idea for an essay I've written came to me through class discussions.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

At least it gives you something to do. I get so bored during the summer I literally just sit around eating Cape Cod chips and watching reruns of Saved by the Bell. Summer reading is the the only thing that prevents my brain from going to mush.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not really the reading I hate, it's the rest of the projects that go along with it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What bothers me is every teacher swears up and down that it will be due the first day, and then it isn't. They also say that we'll be talking about the books through the year That's happened once. It also takes FOREVER for them to even grade it! I feel like it doesn't matter at all, but of course I still have to do it just in case. Them saying "You have the whole summer to do it" doesn't help either. So far this summer I've been in a play (Four weeks, five days a week, eight hours a day), then I'm going to a friends birthday party (She wanted to go on vacation for three days), and then I'm going to have a week off before volenteering for three weeks. Then next summer I want to get a job. It sucks.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Thank god I live in Canada and no summer reading there!

by Anonymous 11 years ago