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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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But I've heard of this mysterious "summer reading list" from others from time to time and it has me curious. I'd love to know what age people were when the were given summer reading lists, and potentially what years it happened in. Were they requirements or extra credit? Were they assigned to everyone or just those on some sort of A.P. track? Were all who had summer reading lists expected to do a book report on one of the books on the list? If so, when was such a report to written? During the summer or first thing back? Inquiring minds (who don't remember any sort of summer homework assignments--suggested or required--during their school years want to know.  |
I graduated high school in 1986. No required summer reading (or recommended reading that I recall). Public school, relatively large, a little on the urban side. One level down from AP. I didn't enjoy English as much as the other subjects. I enjoyed the reading, but not the analysis and writing.
My son graduated 3 years ago, a smaller public school. He had required summer reading, he got to pick from a list, some of which were recent. A level below AP.