Spanish and French are the standard ones. Some schools do offer German, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

I bought As I Lay Dying tonight :lol:

I can't believe you guys have to actually spend money on books :P

yupp :dozey:

that's horrible :disappointed: at the end of sophomore year we had to read Angela's Ashes and In Cold Blood for Pre Ap English but the school provided them.

So far I've yet to read a book for an english class. EVER. That includes summer reading and normal reading for school. I always just wing it. Got a 100 on a test about some Holocaust book once.

yeah they provide the books we read during the year but we're responsible for getting the books for summer reading

 

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:lol: nice josh!

I'm a great guesser :P

Actually I also got a 40 something on a quiz about the same book. My teacher knew something smelled fishy :dozey:

I actually didn't read a lot of books in english this year, they all sucked :dozey:

Actually I also got a 40 something on a quiz about the same book. My teacher knew something smelled fishy :dozey:

:lol:

 

no one in my class read 1984 and on the first quiz we were all freaking out because we didn't know anything and he knew it and we were all openly admitting it, it was great!!

i actually ended up doing well on that i think!

:lol:

 

no one in my class read 1984 and on the first quiz we were all freaking out because we didn't know anything and he knew it and we were all openly admitting it, it was great!!

i actually ended up doing well on that i think!

 

1984 is a breeze compared to The Old Man And The Sea. That book is 130 pages of some old guy sitting in a boat chilling, then eventually for like 5 pages he has a fight with a shark then he goes home. (That's what the people who actually read it told me at least lol)

WOW... well just so you know, I didn't finish In Cold Blood, i had like 100 pages left and since i saw the movie like a couple of years ago i thought i would do good (uhhh...no) and I didn't read Angela's Ashes, i read Spark Notes on it...and i got like a 40 on it... thus my big fat C on my report card. I am amazing when it comes to writing papers but i went super lazy and didn't do my reading... that's what i get... shame on fucking me i was so pissed...all my other classes i had A's and then this one stupid C because i refused to do my reading...

:lol:

 

Schools always pick the worst and most pointless books to have us read :dozey:

 

 

Personally, I actually read a lot. But I read good books that are actually interesting.

 

In fact reading during class is how I stay awake during school :P

I started reading 1984 on my own but I soon got bored, many people that I know that say have read it think it's great but I don't know...

I did my summer reading already though, I read Bless Me, Ultima and The Joyluck Club. They weren't that bad. I still have to do my A.P. short forms though.

:lol:

 

Schools always pick the worst and most pointless books to have us read :dozey:

 

 

Personally, I actually read a lot. But I read good books that are actually interesting.

 

In fact reading during class is how I stay awake during school :P

 

Exactly. English teachers need to realize it would be far more beneficial if they assigned us interesting books. That way someone might ACTUALLY READ IT. It's pointless to assign us some dumb book that 4 kids in the class are going to read. I gave my teacher a big long rant about that at the end of the year in front of the whole class. She was so embarrassed.

I only read books if i want to... i have a problem actually reading things people tell me too... especially if its for school

1984 is a breeze compared to The Old Man And The Sea. That book is 130 pages of some old guy sitting in a boat chilling, then eventually for like 5 pages he has a fight with a shark then he goes home. (That's what the people who actually read it told me at least lol)

 

I had to read that book last year in 9th grade and it was soo boring, I didn't actually read the whole book, I got thirty pages into it and couldn't take anymore. I went to Sparknotes.com.:P I got 100 percent on my project for it, but for the test i got a C.

I hate knowing you have to read a book for school, it's so much harder, I just rather read it because I want to, not because I'm told

I had to read that book last year in 9th grade and it was soo boring, I didn't actually read the whole book, I got thirty pages into it and couldn't take anymore. I went to Sparknotes.com.:P I got 100 percent on my project for it, but for the test i got a C.

 

Omg lol same I got like 10 pages in and fell asleep in class. I actually used sparknotes to make a children's book out of it (we got to choose from a few assignments). My art is so fucking bad. I should scan it and post it on here sometime lol.

This summer reading wasn't so bad, last summer I had to read Mythology by Edith Hamilton and take a lot of notes on it. That was torture for me.

1984 is my favorite book ever. :(

Exactly. English teachers need to realize it would be far more beneficial if they assigned us interesting books. That way someone might ACTUALLY READ IT. It's pointless to assign us some dumb book that 4 kids in the class are going to read. I gave my teacher a big long rant about that at the end of the year in front of the whole class. She was so embarrassed.

nice!!!

 

and seriously! the only good thing we did in english last year was have independent reading projects, then i actually read good books :D

 

hah, we got to criticize my teacher at the end of the year and we made me him depressed :smug:

I hate knowing you have to read a book for school, it's so much harder, I just rather read it because I want to, not because I'm told

exactly!!

if i'm supposed to think about shit and look for symbolism i can't. but on my own my mind will just do it

Well, at least for AP English Language you get 3 long books during the summer. They just emphasize that you should know the content of the the three books and the thinking behind it.

this whole summer reading is bull!! I have to read "out of captivity" and "the zookeepers wife"...ugh!! damn this sucks. I hate the assignments that go along with the reading:\