Favorite Books and Current Reads

[Rain]

lol my immortal

Reading: Jane Eyre

I'M HALFWAY DONE WITH THIS and I actually love it. Then, I have to read Beloved, A Passage to India, Othello, and a play with ducks or something.

Yeah, Lit AP's simply grand.

[noodles]

I told you Jane Eyre would be great

AND YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME

but I am confused I thought you were out of class

[Rain]

shut up

mandatory summer reading for lit ap

[noodles]

wow

no AP class here...

wow

your high school is ridiculous

[Rain]

My hs is ridiculous? It's a normal high school. D:

Geez, I wonder what you'd think of magnet schools, considering they're at least 3x more rigorous than what we have to go through.

[noodles]

there is no class in any normal high school I can think of (around here) that would make you do something over summer

[scy]

"Mandatory" reading doesn't mean shit~

[spoiler]But I'm a slacker who never does anything.[/spoiler]

[Rain]

D:

I have AP work for Lit, Chem, and Bio.

Last year, I had work for AP USH. That was a bitch. Then I had to read a British novel for my British Literature class and make a reading log for it.

The year before that, I had to read a book + make discussion posts for my "American Studies" class, which was a combination of US History + American Literature. That was a pain in the ass too. My school splits US History into two years, since it's required by the law. US History 1 covers Columbus's discovery up until Reconstruction; AP USH covers the late 1800s up until the late 1970s.

Freshman year, I had to do something similar to my Junior year. Read a book and make a journal out of it.

The only way you could get out of summer work was to take regular classes, where reading was extra credit.

Still, some of my favorite classes happened to be the ones where I worked my ass off (like "American Studies" and AP USH). I'm betting it'll be the same for this year, too.

I find it weird that your school doesn't have students do summer work at all, at least for the AP courses. Summer work for advanced courses that aren't AP are kind of retarded, though. Mostly. >_>

[scy]

*shrugs* My AP classes were fairly simple stuff to be honest. We finished our curriculum in the year and didn't really have anything to cover for the next term.

That was like ... oh god, 6+ years ago.

God damn it.

[spoiler]Or maybe we did but ... I never do anything laziness etc.[/spoiler]

[Onigiri]

Currently reading Watership Down. Love the story... Now I'm waiting for The Plague Dogs to arrive so I can read that after finishing WD.

[Kinokokao]

[Maxine MagicFox]

Aww, the Illiad. Gotta love it. <3

:\ Don't even wanna try looking at the historical specifics of it, but it shouldn't be too hard, right? There was battle which you can draw war-tech from and then there were the many, many, many mindless, lull-enducing periods of rest Homer liked to throw in that talked about nothing more than what the people were eating and doing.

[noodles]

the iliad was a story about men doing manly things with lots of symbolism for bright things (the sun, shining armor, fires at night)

the odyssey was a story about a man casting away his identity and exploring the feminine aspects of life and himself so he can return to his lover a complete organism, with symbolism rolling through light and darkness

or something, that's how I remember it

[scy]

Reading the Illiad and finding "history" is pretty damn easy >>

[spoiler]Personally, all I remember of the Illiad was it made a terrible pillow for sleeping in-class.[/spoiler]

[Kinokokao]

Actually, I was going to approach it as an example of religion - that is to say, the Greeks imagined their gods with human traits (jealousy, petty rivalries, etc) and fully involved within the human realm. That is to say, personages of esteem traced their lineage to the gods and could appeal to them for interference. Also, drawing in some references to the early warrior-kings, blah blah. Oh, and maybe some analysis of storyteller and the importance of such. Easy to show the god/interference thing with the Odyssey, but I've also studied and read the Odyssey a fuck of a lot more than the Illiad.

Also would love to just totally hijack the paper into a big homosexual manifesto about Patroclus and Achilles... >____> but won't as I'm not sure the professor would appreciate that.