Is it Connecticut only or the whole US asks kids to read books and list them during summer vacation?

Question

I'm getting really angry because our teachers will make us write about one book that we read this summer! I also think this is unfair because it's our vacation and the school can't do anything to make it bad. In the Philippine Islands where I used to lived, when we get out of school for summer, teachers won't even ask us to read something only parents do that! Somehow, summer vacation in the Philippine Islands is better than summer vacation here!

Answer 1

Studies have shown that children who do not read over the summer take until December to regain reading skills just from the end of the previous school year. In other words, if you don't read over the summer, you will spend all of August, September, October, November, and December catching up on your reading skills.....that's gaining only half a school year of learning each year. It is very wise to have children read over the summer.

I am a media specialist at an elementary school. I ask kids to read books over the summer and they get prizes for it. I do not require a specific book because it is so much better if kids pick their own books to read rather than being forced to read something they won't like. There's so many great books out there! It doesn't have to be a long book or an old boring book. Go to your public library or to a book store. Ask someone for some suggestions and then make your own choices of what to read. Or post another question here with your age/grade and ask for suggestions. I'm listing a website that tells about great books.

Try reading to your cat or dog (dogs are the best pet to read to) or a young sibling. Write your own stories and share with other friends to read .....and read their stories. Get some books on cd from the public library (you do have a library card???) and listen to books.

Answer 2

WEBSITE BELOW HAS OTHER LISTS. John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968; American): The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961; American): The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell To Arms (1929) Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892; American): Leaves of Grass - A Collection of Poetry George Eliot (1819 - 1880; English): Silas Marner (1861) The Mill on the Floss (1860) Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951; American): Main Street (1920) Babbitt (1922) Arrowsmith (1925) Elmer Gantry (1927) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940; American): The Great Gatsby (1925) William Faulkner (1897 - 1962; American): Light in August (1932) Absalom, Absalom (1936) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968; American): The Jungle (1906) John Updike (1932 - ; American): Rabbit, Run (1960) Rabbit Redux (1971) Rabbit is Rich (1981) Rabbit at Rest (1990) Rabbit Remembered (2001) Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Mrs. Dalloway The Voyage Out Jacob's Room The Waves Orlando A Room of One's Own Three Guineas Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832; Scot): Rob Roy (1818) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832; German): Faust (2 Parts; 1808 and 1832) Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906; Norwegian): A Doll's House (1879) Albert Camus (1913 - 1960; French-Algerian): The Stranger (1942) The Plague (1947) Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885; French): Les Miserables (1862) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) Moliere (1622 - 1673; French): Tartuffe or The Imposter (1664) The Misanthrope (1666) The Miser (1668) The Imaginary Invalid (1673) The Bourgeois Gentlemen (1670) Leon Uris (1924 - 2003; Jewish-American): Exodus (1958) Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960; Russian): Doctor Zhivago (1957) Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904; Russian): The Seagull (1896) Uncle Vanya (1899-1900) The Three Sisters (1901) The Cherry Tree (1904) Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910; Russian): Anna Karenina (1877) War and Peace (1869) Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ; Russian): One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) The First Circle (1968) The Cancer Ward (1968) The Gulag Archipelago (3 Volumes; 1973 - 1978) Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881; Russian): The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Crime and Punishment (1866) The Idiot (1869)

Answer 3

When I was growing up in Wisconsin (not too long ago) we didn't have any summer assignments, but here in Alabama all the schools require 2-5 books over the summer for everyone in middle and high school. Usually the kids have to read one particular book, then get their choice from a list for the rest.

So you're not the only person who has summer reading - but compared to how much homework you have during the year, it's not bad at all!

Answer 4

Thank goodness the teachers where you live want you to read over the summer time. Reading is a great way to pass the time away. Here where I live in Canada which is the west coast the teachers don't give out reading list for the summer time to students. As for where I was born and raised in the part of Canada called the Middle West none of my teachers gave me reading list. One things for sure if you do read your English will improve and English people speaking people will understand what you are saying. I wish the teachers here in many of the schools here in Canada would do the same as your teachers are doing in Connecticut and have these kids read books over the summer time. Also one other thing books are link to different cultures the more you read about the country you live in may it be fiction and non-fiction books the more you learn about that country. As you know schools also teach history so this will go hand in hand, this reading of books over the summer and you learning about the history of the U.S.

Answer 5

Wewrite about 2 books every month during a schoolyear and 10 books during summer, although im having my last year of school. Let me introduce you Lithuania, Vilnius lyceum, international baccalaureate class.

Answer 6

the only time I had to read books for school during summer is for my honors english class in 9th grade. It was your own choice to take the class, so people didn't complain about having to read the books. You might want to get used to it though...reading's fun!!

Answer 7

And that is why people are getting so stupid... whining about having to read one book in 3 months.

Answer 8

Arizona does it too and honestly it isn't that hard. When you are in college they give you assignments to have done before your first day of class, get over it.

Answer 9

whole. also in nyc. i think....................
if it's not, SO TOTALLY NOT FAIR!!