High School Summer Reading=stupid?
I believe that it is; I am required to read two novels every summer, in my high school and then do multiple reports and projects on them. The work is due the first day of school and we, the class, are then later tested on the material. I feel that this obstructs the summer of High School students, what do you think? Also, if I were to have chosen more AP courses (which suck at my high school), I would have been given summer work for Calculus and History, on top of English. That includes, reading textbooks and doing pages of work, all due on the first day of school...this is ridiculous. How are we supposed to perform well if we are never given a break?
Help with summer reading project- The Color of Water?
Being completely ostracize by an entire community is the basis of your answer = society was not going to except inte-race marriage, to say nothing of a religious inter-marriage - she wasn't going to be accepted in the community at all. Below is the character description of Ruth Hope this helps Ruth McBride: Born Ruchel Dwajra Zylska on April 1, 1921, in Poland, Ruth McBride Jordan (or "Mommy"), the mother of twelve children, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family and raised in a violent Southern town. At nineteen, she moved into a new life in New York City, where she fell in love with a black Baptist minister named Andrew McBride. When she married McBride, she was pronounced "dead" by her Jewish relations. Here is a little something else I found - Synopsis: Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan (Rachel Deborah Shilsky), the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South. Her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother.
High School Summer Reading=unnecessary?
I believe that it is; I am required to read two novels every summer, in my high school and then do multiple reports and projects on them. The work is due the first day of school and we, the class, are then later tested on the material. I feel that this obstructs the summer of High School students, what do you think? Also, if I were to have chosen more AP courses (which suck at my high school), I would have been given summer work for Calculus and History, on top of English. That includes, reading textbooks and doing pages of work, all due on the first day of school...this is ridiculous. How are we supposed to perform well if we are never given a break? If I were able to choose the material to be read, I would enjoy the work more. Thank Goodness I am going into my Senior year.
I didn't do my summer reading. Help?
Wintergirls is a young adult novel about Lia, an anorexic high school senior, and how she copes with the death of her best friend, who was bulimic, and haunts Lia There's a new young adult novel that's causing a flap amongst adults. Winter Girls is the of Lia who slowly becomes anorexic after watching her best friend die of bulimia. Some parts of the book graphically describe the thinking associated with eating disorders- you know, obsessive calorie counting, hiding things, ect. Anyway, many concerned adults (or calorie hogs, as the book calls them...JK!) think this novel encourages young women to develop eating disorders. However, others think it's a conversation starter.
Summer reading/writing project., Please help! Figurative language!?
I have a summer project for my honors english class and i really need help! I read the Old Man And The Sea and i have to write down 10 sentences that use figurative language, i found some sentences but i don't know what type of figurative language is used or even if it uses figurative language, so if you know please help me!: 1. "He was so big it was like lashing a much bigger skiff alongside" 2 "The old man looked at him with his sun - burned,confident loving eyes" 3. "During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing" 4. "Then the fish came alive, with his death in him and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty" 5. "Just then he saw a man - of - war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him" 6. "The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it" 7. "The old man withdrew the blade and punched the shark exactly in the same spot again" 8."You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish" 9. "The iridescent bubbles were beautiful" 10. "He could not even see a bird" 11."One bait was down forty fathoms" 12. "He was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of his body hurt with the cold of te night" 13."Imagine if each day a mn must try to kill the moon, he thought" 14"But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped into the water.' 15. "The tuna shone silver in the sun and after ha had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps over the bait" please help!.. thank you(:
The Blind Side, Summer Reading help!?
Those sound like good questions! Very thorough and informative.
Summer reading.?
I always hated summer reading when I was in school, but it really is better to just do it. However, I personally really didn't like the Hobbit, so I understand not wanting to read it. Many other people love it, but I found Bilbo's character really annoying. I did like The Epic of Gilgamesh though. I've read it for school many many times. You might be able to find on online copy of that one to read besides the summaries, even though you really are out of time. For the book of choice, you can always talk about something you've already read. But really, summer reading is a pain. And when I was taking AP classes, there wasn't just summer reading, there was winter break reading and spring break reading as well, and lots of assignments as well. I don't think the teachers really wanted us to have I break, I think they wanted us to suffer as much as possible. We even had to come in to school over winter break for my AP European history class and do an oral presentation. I definitely understand the hatred of summer reading.
What is your opinion on forced summer reading in schools?
When I was younger, our summer reading didn’t entail reading a specific book. You could read whatever you wanted, so long as you met the time quota. Since I often read a couple books per week, I enjoyed being able to complete schoolwork by simply pursuing my favorite hobby.When I began middle school, we were assigned specific books to read. Half of the time, I enjoyed the books. However, reading things that I hated took away much of the fun I get from books.I think reading during the summer is important. To me, reading is like anything else you do. If you take a long break, you might find that your skills aren’t what they used to be when you need to use them again, especially if you struggled with it in the first place.Do I agree with forcing students to read classics like Romeo and Juliet, Moby Dick, or A Tale of Two Cities for their summer reading? No. A lot of the language in classics can be difficult to understand. More so if you have nobody there to explain it to you. I’d say giving students a number of hours to read during the break is a better option. They can choose to read something that interests them, whether that’s a magazine or a classic or a textbook. I think that could make the whole thing slightly less painful for those who don’t enjoy reading and more pleasant for those of us who do.
What is the point of summer reading??
I'm going into the 10th grade and honestly it pisses me of that we still have summer reading. All throughout lower school it was optional, I don't remember having to do it in middle school, but now we have it. The whole point of summer is to get a break from school work, not have required reading and a project. It's bs. I have to read two books about 300 pages each, and do a really complicated assignment on one of the books. It's ridiculous. Can they not lay off??!!
I haven't read a single page of my summer reading and school starts tomorrow, what should I do?
Don't sweat it. You are not going to be tested on every book the same day. Some of them you probably won't be tested on at all. As a teacher said in another answer, read the intro, 1st and last chapters take notes on each. If you have time read a cliffs notes or something. Don't forget, there will also be class discussions devoted to each book before the test. LISTEN to what is said about the book by the teacher this will be a huge clue as to what is on any test given about it.But DON'T SWEAT IT. This reading list will not determine your final grade in the course.Your job in school is not necessarily to learn the things they are cramming into your head. Your job in school is to LEARN THAT YOU CAN LEARN ANYTHING AND HOW TO DO IT.Sadly most public schools are no longer teaching this vital skill. They haven't been for a very long time.I learned that very important lesson at home from my father. My father was in the US Navy and was subject to endless training and study. He was a an E.T. and a Nuke. He always kept any non classified study material he was allowed to at home for his own reference. If I was interested in something he hauled out the books he had on it and told me “read this and come to me with any questions you have. If there is something in there you want do/build show me and we will do it.” I learned about basic and advanced electronics this way. I also completed about a half dozen other courses on random things that interested me by the end of middle school.That education has served me far more than anything I learned in the public school system.As left handed dyslexic, I sometimes think that I would have done better in a home school environment.Sorry for rambling…