What Else Will You Be Reading This Summer?

If you count up all the pages you have been assigned to read this summer, and then if you were to compare that number to the number of pages assigned to comparable courses in other programs, you would be pleasantly surprised.  (Or perhaps disappointed -- I don't know.)  My point is that I have tried to lessen the burden on you (while still giving you challenging and rewarding material to read).

I have two reasons for this.  The first, and most important, is that I wanted to leave time for you to read some things that you wanted to read.  Because that reading can be very valuable, too -- or even just entertaining, because reading for the sake of reading can be a beautiful thing.

Reason number two -- I think a lot of AP teachers assign more with other teachers in mind rather than students.  ("See what my students are reading.")  Although, as we all know, they aren't.

So, what else will you be reading?  I just finished Landscape Turned Red, all about the battle of Antietam during the American Civil War.  And I'm now working my way through Most Blessed of Patriarchs, a book about Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.  I also have Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season to read -- I always try to read some baseball history over the summer.  It's not all non-fiction, though: I have to start on The Rule of Mirrors, a YA novel by my friend and former colleague Caragh O'Brien.  And then there's Dr. Zhivago, gifted to me by a student last year.  I don't know how many apges in all that is, but it's a lot -- but all of my choosing.  Oh, yes.  And I'll also be reading Embedding Formative Assessment, gifted to me in June by the Tolland Board of Ed.

So what else will you be reading?