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The Jungle Book of Love
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"Cicadas," explains Doni, "live in the ground for seventeen years. When they dig themselves out to find a mate, the males make that sound you hear."
Around us the Sumatran jungle is alive with the whirs and chirps of male cicadas playing their musical organs, each song subtly distinct as they serenade the females hidden in the foliage.
"When the males are successful," Doni continues in English honed by years as a jungle guide in Bukit Lawang, "they can do it up to sixty times a day."
Jasmine's big blue eyes grow round under her bandana.
"Sixty," he affirms. An impressive number indeed compared to us mere mortals, and this factoid on the virility of the male cicada sets the tone for our journey, an overnight trek to one of Doni's favourite campsites, on the banks of a tributary to the Bohorok River. It helps that we're traveling as couples—Darma and I, married just over a year, and Doni and Jasmine, in the throes of a burgeoning new romance. The jungle is a perfect place for a romantic getaway. Fecund and diverse, it's layered with so many shades and textures of green it's like a perpetual waterfall of foliage cascading from the sky.
We pass through groves of rubber trees, "condom trees," as they're known locally, growing around the jungle perimeter. The bark of their slender trunks is scored to allow the thick white sap to drip into coconut shells, to be collected and sold around the world for the manufacture of rubber products, including, naturally, condoms.
But no close encounter would be complete without a little danger. Suddenly Doni, walking ahead with a machete in his hand, orders us to a halt. Eyes ever on the lookout, he has sighted a tree snake caught by surprise in our path, head up high in attack position, the rest of him coiled like rope on the ground. My first instinct is to turn and run back down the path, though I've encountered snakes in the jungle before. On my last trek I saw a black cobra flee into the undergrowth and a moonsnake, white and iridescent as an opal, sleeping wrapped around a tree branch.
My curiosity about this one gets the better of me and I turn to take another look. Slick and black, perhaps three feet long, the snake slips across the path, not once taking his eyes off us. As he makes his escape, I wonder who is more frightened: the snake, who may well intuit the danger we pose to him is far worse than any damage he could inflict, or we who are more used to the pedestrian dangers of city life.
Certainly Doni must be the most fearless. He shows us the scar on his forearm where he was bitten by a black mamba and survived due to his jungle skills: If you're ever bitten by a snake, he instructs, tie your limb tight above the wound to slow the tide of poison through your body. Cut two small slices above and below and apply the juice of the talas, a type of philodendron (Doni picks a large heart-shaped leaf and squeezes the stem so the sap oozes out). Then, don't move. Trying to walk will only dispatch the poison to your vitals, and possibly dispatch you as well.
Besides learning about animal lore and jungle survival skills, we're here to see orangutans. Known as "people of the forest" in the Indonesian language (orang means person; hutan, forest), Sumatran orangutans are found nowhere else in the world. Orangutans in Borneo are a distinctly different species, with darker hair and the alpha males having large fleshy cheek pads. Sumatran orangutans have longer, lighter orange fur, and the males grow beards like humans. Sumatran orangutans share 96.4 per cent of our DNA, and are slightly more closely related to us than the Borneans, after chimpanzees, gorillas and bonabos.
Since orangutans are among our closest relatives, to encounter one in the wild is akin to encountering our own selves as we might have been had we not climbed down from the trees so many years ago, to fight our predators on the ground and develop our destructive warrior nature.
Now we pose a serious threat to all living things, including ourselves. Only about five thousand Sumatran orangutans remain due to rainforest destruction, and Sumatran tigers, elephants and rhinos, as well as countless varieties of other animals, trees and medicinal plants, are also greatly endangered. The single greatest threat to their habitat loss is the development of palm oil plantations that produce the world's supply of biofuels, as well as palm oil used in products that line our supermarket shelves, including soap, shampoo, packaged foods and lipstick.
Yet we humans are a complex lot. We love that which we destroy, and some of us are drawn to see our gentler relatives and find a similar peace among the trees, having escaped the chaos and pollution of the city.
The jungle is a city unto itself. Industrious black ants, about an inch long, are carrying their leafy loads across a rotten log, and termite armies march in formation as they compost leaves on the forest floor, turning it to humus for more plants to grow. The cicadas are doing their thing, and the siamans, a swift-moving type of monkey with keen hearing, hoot back in answer to Doni's calls, voices echoing across the valleys of Gunung Leuser National Park.
Though it's rainy season and the day is cool and overcast, the perfect day for a trek, we're covered in sweat from the constant humidity. We circle the small mountain, grabbing onto roots, hanging on to vines, slogging through the orange mud as it sucks off our flip flops (no high-tech trekking gear on this trip), picking the odd leech off our heels or slapping at the good-for-nothing mosquitoes needling our calves.
At the top of the mountain we stop to listen to the sounds drifting up from the valley below, the beat of bongos in Bukit Lawang and the call to prayer from a mosque filtering through the trees as it wends its way to the heavens. Here on the ridge is the smooth musculature of a tualang tree prized for its hard wood in making furniture, and a hoary old cinnamon tree from which we sample small slivers of bark, the familiar phenolic flavor on my tongue reminiscent of my mom's cinnamon coffee cake.
We stop and perch on a fallen tree for a lunch of nasi goreng, Indonesia's favorite meal of spicy fried rice with egg, tempered by cool slices of tomato and cucumber. We're peeling the hairy skins off rambutans and savoring their fruits when Doni stalks silently into the trees, eyes focused upwards. He puts his finger to his lips with one hand and beckons to us with the other.
Above in the waterfall of green flashes a long shaggy arm, almost the same orange color as the earth beneath our feet. Then a face emerges—the calm, placid face of an orangutan. Yet there is a touch of worry in her countenance; perhaps it is the worry that comes to all mothers when they bear their children because this orangutan has a baby on her back. The baby's face appears, eyes blinking, looking about her treetop world with wonder just like a human baby. Then the most incredible thing happens: the baby looks directly at us, completely innocent and unafraid.
I tilt my camera to my eye, focus it beyond the darkness of the trees to the clear space encircling the defenseless pair, at once eager to capture their image but at the same time apologizing to the mother in a whisper, sorry for disturbing her if she happens to see me or hear my camera click, sorry that I am trespassing on her world, and especially sorry that my kind make her and her baby so unsafe.
If orangutans feel disturbed they will often throw branches and sticks down on the interlopers to scare them off. If that doesn't work, they may pull their lips back in a grimace to look as menacing as possible. And if that doesn't work, a semi wild may charge after you, but a wild one will climb higher out of sight, like this mother does.
Orangutans share our emotions of love and fear. Mina, a female orang well known in the area, was abused as a baby when she was sold into Indonesia's notorious pet trade, still thriving despite governmental measures to prevent the trade of endangered species. Mina may have been taken from her mother the standard way orangutan babies are taken in the pet trade. The mothers are shot out of the branches while the poachers wait below to catch the baby. For every baby sold into captivity as a pet, 20 more die in the fall.
When Mina arrived at the Bohorok Rehabilitation Center near Bukit Lawang she was already traumatized, and in the years since her release into the park she has attacked and bitten people on numerous occasions. Now that Mina has a new baby of her own she seems to have calmed somewhat, her anger quelled by her new capacity to love. But like an abused child, the scars of her experience will never completely heal.
On the other hand there's Jaki, the "hugging orangutan" who adores people and will envelope them in bear hugs despite warnings that we are not to make physical contact. This is because if we are carrying any virus or disease, we can easily transmit them to orangutans and further contribute to their demise. I've seen a baby who died in this way, of a mysterious wasting illness, from a mother who regularly came to the feeding platform at the rehabilitation center, touched by the forest rangers there.
If orangutans set their minds on touching us, however, it's difficult to dissuade them. Once, Abdul, a semi wild male who loved to show off for the cameras, reached out and squeezed my bottom as I walked past. Orangutans have the strength of up to six men, and although they're gentle you don't want to tangle with one. That terrifying vice-like grip on my posterior was an experience I'll never forget. Later I was sad to find out that naughty Abdul, who had difficulty keeping his hands to himself, had been shot and killed by a farmer when raiding his crops.
One problem is the lack of food supply in their diminishing habitat. To help remedy this we've brought along some young fruit trees for planting—Jasmine a lychee, Darma a rambutan and me a mango, planting them as we make our way to the campsite. I half wish that Jaki would show up and give me a hug, but she doesn't materialize. Instead, we encounter a roving band of macaques nibbling on low-growing fruits, their tiny children with the faces of wizened old men scampering among the branches. One older macaque comes over and perches on the end of a branch to get a good look at us.
The climb down to the river is steep, filled with slippery mud and slick roots. When we reach the bottom, guided by the sound of the river, we're exhausted and relieved to be welcomed by the two camp cooks who have already pitched the tents and prepared dinner.
The river flowing under the low hanging branches is too inviting for us to resist for long. We dive in to cool our bodies, wash off the orangutan-colored mud. The river is soothing in its unchanging rhythm, like the sound of a seashell when you hold it to your ear. Darma says, "Rivers are the veins of the world. They carry water like blood. Don't you think so?"
And I say: "You know what the rocks are then? The bones."
"And the trees are the lungs."
We breathe deep, the peace of this jungle world gracing us. I could stay here forever, forget about all about my worldly ambitions, trying to keep up with the lightning pace of modern life and negotiating the manic world of traffic jams and arbitrarily drawn political lines that divide people and set them against each other.
Right now his world feels more real, more solid, more constant, more true. Yet it is far more fragile because we are a race of beings who, in our consumptive desire, can easily forget the true value of what we already have. Instead we focus on acquiring the hottest cars, the latest technological wizardry, the most expensive looking house possible, the widest screen TV or the latest fashion that's either supposed to express our individuality or make us look like everyone else.
The jungle tears away all such illusions. It warns us that if we continue to gobbling up the earth, soon nothing of true value will remain.
Let us, just for a while, escape all that and stay here on our mother's back, gazing about with wonder. Let us watch the infinite variety of butterflies in their ephemeral glory, allowing us to share a moment of their brief life span, maybe twelve days at most, ours not much longer in God-time. Let us play with this wonderful praying mantis whose waspy eyes focus directly on my camera before he makes an agile leap onto the lens. Let us brush the feathery leaves of the putri malu, the "shy princesss" plant, which shrink at the touch of a fingertip yet contain a potent medicine for cicada-like virility, earning its reputation as jungle Viagra. Let us watch the miraculous flight of the angel butterfly that takes us by surprise with its sudden appearance, floating upwards on angelic white wings. Let us stay and play in the river like the original lovers did before they poisoned themselves with the fruit of ignorance.
Are we going to evolve beyond this ignorance? Will we allow this world, with all its creatures found nowhere else, to continue to exist?
For now our small band of romantics simply revel in the moment. We enjoy this meal of fresh-caught river fish, do magic tricks by candlelight, scream at the tickle of the giant, harmless ants on our necks (me), and fall asleep to the steady pulse of the river as it flows forward, a constant reminder of all that is real.
"I am the happiest man in the world," Doni says. And we believe him because, at this moment, we feel the same.
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You have such a nice style of writing, and I enjoyed reading your article. As I was reading about palm oil, I was imagining the large can I have in my kitchen which I plan to use for making soap or some cream. Thanks for writing such an educational article!

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mRNA Decay in Stem Cells
In 2006 the Yamanaka group showed that fully differentiated adult cells could be artificially reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of regenerating an entire organism (Takahashi et al, 2007; Figure). The medical applications of this technology are wide ranging but the mechanisms behind reprogramming are poorly understood.
Our lab is interested in characterizing how mRNA stability contributes to the vast differences in gene expression in these genetically identical cell types. In collaboration with Bin Tian's group at New Jersey Medical School we measured global mRNA decay rates in iPS cells and the fibroblasts they were derived from and identified three sets of transcripts that are differentially regulated: Histone mRNAs, Zinc Finger Protein mRNAs and mRNAs bearing C-rich elements (Neff et al, 2012). We believe the coordinated decay of these transcript families may be important for reprogramming and/or pluripotency and are now characterizing the mechanisms behind their differential regulation.
Neff, AT, Lee, JY, Wilusz, J, Tian, B and Wilusz CJ (2012) Global analysis reveals multiple pathways for unique regulation of mRNA decay in induced pluripotent stem cells Genome Res. 22(8):1457-67


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Cherry Blossom Festival comes to Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
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Behind the costumes at the Brooklyn Cosplay Fashion Show
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The welcome return of fat and spirits
Of all the recent developments in the catering industry there are two which I think everyone can welcome without reservation. One is the re-emergence of the cocktail as a drink which is taken seriously; the other is the proliferation of restaurants specialising in high-quality red meat, sausages, pork chops and the like.
Think of Hawksmoor in Spitalfields (and there are many other examples). There you can get "dictionary-thick" steaks from the Ginger Pig's herd of Longhorn cattle, aged for 35 days and grilled over super-hot charcoal. For Sunday brunch they do an enormous plate piled up with smoked bacon chop, pork and pork and mutton sausage, Bury black pudding, short rib, bone marrow, bubble and squeak, baked beans enriched with pig's trotter and unlimited amounts of toast and dripping. Should you find you need something extra, they offer two kinds of chips – triple cooked, which are extra-crispy, and beef dripping, which have a rich, meaty flavour. And you can slather your steak in luscious add-ons like stilton hollandaise. All washed down with never-ending Bloody Mary.
As for booze, well, when I was young you could not buy a proper gin martini anywhere except in the cocktail lounges of the five star hotels, and you'd have been silly to try. If you asked for a martini they'd serve you a glass of warm vermouth. Nowadays most self-respecting London restaurants and de luxe pub/bars are equipped to serve martinis and other much more complex drinks. These might contain half a dozen or more different aromatic ingredients – like the cocktail I read about recently which was based on aged brandy flavoured with a maceration of toasted fruitcake.
Now, I accept that these fashions are confined to the high end of the catering industry, and metropolitan areas, but still they represent a definite improvement on what went before. More than that, both trends reveal a change in attitude. It boils down to this, in each case: there's a dominant ingredient that consumers used to be wary of, but which they've now learned to embrace. On the one hand, spirits that blow your head off, and, on the other, clogging, congealing animal fat.
This affects both men and women – since in my experience sophisticated, pleasure-loving women enjoy booze and steaks nearly as much as men do. The 1970s and 1980s were the age of margarine – Stork SB and Flora – when the public health experts told us to watch our cholesterol and steer well clear of double cream and butter. These days scientists are much less dogmatic, and some seem to think a diet heavy in sunflower oil might not be such a good idea. Plus you got all the worries over those dangerous trans-fats that were produced by the hydrogenation of vegetable fats. So butter is enjoying a renaissance as a cooking medium, on account of its superior flavour and because the fats it contains don't degrade under heat as badly as some vegetable fats do.
All in all I don't feel that we're seeing a new gluttony. It's more of a refinement. Discerning consumers would rather ingest something with a complex, interesting flavour but in moderate amounts. The emphasis is on high quality more than quantity. That's the theory, at any rate. The simple fact is: most of us love booze and fat.
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SOURCE: "An Affair She Seems Not to Have Remembered," in New York Times Book Review, October 22, 1995, p. 12.
In the following review, Theroux responds negatively to Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone.
Sexual postures can look so funny and vulnerable that the very notion of the distinguished author of this inch-from-the-truth novel, Carlos Fuentes—the Mexican Ambassador to France from 1975 to 1977, winner of the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the Romulo Gallegos Prize and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize—engaged in buccal coition with an American actress in a hotel in Mexico City is irresistible to the point where it is almost possible to overlook the book's excesses and delusions. That Diana: The Goddess Who Hunts Alone also seems a seedy form of self-parody is one of the crueler wounds the author inflicts on himself, but this is a risk...
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Robin Sax: On August 4, 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that California's Proposition 8 violates the U.S. Constitution. Prop 8 was passed by Californians in November of 2008 and amended the state constitution to define marriage as being solely between a man and a woman. Walker sided with opponents of the November 2008 decision, which excluded gays from marrying in California. In his ruling, Walker said that Proposition 8 violates the equal-protection clause by denying gays and lesbians the right to marry a member of the same sex.
The legal trajectory of same-sex marriage in California is very complex. In 2000, Proposition 22 (a.k.a. the "California Defense of Marriage Act") was passed; it added the following provision to the Family Code: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." In September of 2005, the California Assembly voted to make same-sex marriage legal, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill. In May of 2008, the California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, but Prop 8 subsequently invalidated that decision. But now, with Judge Walker's ruling, we're back to gay marriage being legal in California. Confused yet?
All of this legal repositioning makes me think we are headed to a U.S. Supreme Court case. Opponents of Prop 8 have vehemently argued (and I agree) that same-sex couples should enjoy the same rights, privileges and responsibilities of heterosexual couples. This is a clear-cut civil rights issue. I say, let same-sex couples suffer the hardships of marriage, too! Come on, people -- it's absolutely ridiculous to say marriage is a "sacred" tradition in America.
More than 55 percent of marriages in our country end in divorce these days (often, ugly and difficult divorce). Opponents of gay marriage say, "California's constitutional marriage amendment exists to strengthen society, encourage monogamous and loving marriages and provide the optimal environment to ensure the well-being of children." But how in the world does discriminating against a specific group make anyone's marriage stronger?!
California and many other U.S. states are so behind the rest of the world on this issue. Our neighbors, the Canadians, legalized same-sex marriage in July of 2005, and the practice is also approved in the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Sweden. Washington, D.C., Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont have legalized marriage for same-sex couples, too. (So far, same-sex marriage is recognized but not performed in Maryland, New York and Rhode Island.)
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Judge Walker is gay himself -- but that should have nothing to do with the ruling. As a lawyer, Walker represented the U.S. Olympic Committee in a suit seeking to prohibit a group from using the term "Gay Olympics."
Pro-gay-marriage activists include Steve Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Levi's CEO John Anderson and many others. Some churches oppose same-sex marriage, yet some, such as the Unitarians and the Metropolitan Community Church, bless gay marriages and perform commitment ceremonies. The Catholic Church forbids it. But it shouldn't matter either way: Separation of church and state is a core tenet of the Constitution, and the issue of gay marriage is a Constitutional, not faith-based, one.
Some anti-gay-marriage activists talk about the effect gay marriage will have on kids. I can't understand their arguments whatsoever. In my view, preventing a loving (same-sex) couple from making a legal commitment to each other can only hurt their children. I have seen firsthand (and statistics also show) that same-sex couples raise wonderful kids who love their two moms or two dads just the same as any kids love their parents. As a prosecutor, I have seen many troubling family situations occur in heterosexual marriages: domestic violence, violent custody battles, abuse in the home and many other terrible circumstances.
I have never seen a situation wherein two loving people (of any gender) wanting to marry and make a life together could possibly hurt their kids. If all of the anti-gay-marriage activists would refocus their energy to help keep our kids truly safe (from sexual assault, abuse, abduction, domestic violence -- across our state and country), then we would truly be serving our children and the next generation. In many ways, same-sex couplehood reminds me of how converts from one religion to another treat the sanctity of their new religion. In my experience, it's usually the people who choose parenthood, overcome obstacles and work for their rights who end up being the most fit, involved and effective parents. Protecting the civil rights of all Americans also strengthens our families. I hope that Judge Walker's ruling has helped to resolve this issue once and for all ... but judging by the history of California, we are probably not quite done with it yet.
Whatever ends up happening in the future, the time has come for us all to accept that gay couples are couples. There are two-mom families, two-dad families and many other combos out there. Let's use this historic moment to embrace our differences and teach our children not to hate, but to accept!
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Book 2 of the Nancy Drew Mysteries. This book is a lot different then the first book. Whereas the first book was more of an adventure, this book was more of a mystery, though it has aspects of adventure. Growing up, this was one of my favorite Nancy Drew books, even more then the first one. Personally, I always liked Helan more then George and Bess. I wonder why they changed Nancy's best friends? Maybe because Helen is so much like Nancy herself, and George and Bess are so different. Anyway, great book, great series.
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Book three of the Nancy Drew Series. Why is it that there always seems to be a completely helpless girl in the Nancy Drew stories? In this one, it was Laura. She was sweet, but kind of annoying. Of course, Nancy was great, as always, and the plot was great. I do wish the characters were a bit more realistic, but what can you expect from a kid's book? Anyway, I remember never liking this one as a kid, but I don't know why.
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Made the recipe exactly as written and it was a disaster. The meat was tough and flavorless. However the next day I let it sit in the slow cooker for 4 hours on low and was able to rescue it. I actuallly loved the flavors and the meet was very tender, I just dont think 2 hours was enough of a braising time for a big chunck of meat like that.
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A quick Google search showed me something that I hadn't thought much about because we haven't reached this stage with Ty, who will be in kindergarten this year.
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At one high school, the advanced placement English class must read "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer and then study essays that other people wrote about those books.
Another high school assigned "Lord of the Flies" to sophomores, "The Scarlet Letter" to juniors and Aristotle's "Poetics" – have they made a movie of that? – to juniors and "King Lear" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to seniors. In addition, the students were expected to write lengthy answers to questions about the books and journal about them, providing "reactions, analysis, and interpretations of your reading."
Another school assigned two books to students in the regular English classes and told the AP students that they must read those two in addition to their other reading.
I've always read a lot, which pleased my mom, who was a teacher, but I probably didn't read anything other than the sports section during my summers in high school. I couldn't have given you a reaction, analysis or interpretation of anything other than reruns of "Hogan's Heroes" or "Gilligan's Island."
Most of my friends tore up their notebooks and left the pieces on the bus on the last day of class.
I didn't take AP classes in high school, but knew plenty of kids who did and don't remember them ever having to read anything on summer break. Theresa, who is several years younger than me, said she had to read books over the summer for her AP world history classes.
I think it's ridiculous to ask kids to assign kids to read over their summer break. What do you think?
Is it limited to AP classes, or do other students have to read all summer?
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July 18th, 2011
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My middle schooler has a summer reading/writing assignment. It counts as her first grade for the upcoming school year. It drives me nuts!!! Last year there was a choice of five books for incoming 6th graders. I believe there is only one choice for 7th grade. If she hadn't dropped her PROBE (i.e. gifted) language arts class, there would be two books and corresponding assignments. Oddly enough the middle schools surrounding our cluster do not have summer assignments, but ours does. That begs the question, why isn't the standard the same across the county system? (Another topic for another day LOL) So yes my child has a summer assignment. She read Hope Was Here (great book), I do not think it's fair. I ready nothing but brain-candy over the summer. It should stay that way. That's my two cents.
July 18th, 2011
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My daughter is an incoming 4th grader at a private school. She has to read three books over the summer and take the AR test for each book before the first day of school. Two down one to go. You definitely can't be carefree over the summer. I have to stay on top of her reading because the summer goes by so fast!
July 18th, 2011
1:35 pm
My kids have always had summer reading. Of course, my kids would have read even if they did not have summer reading as they usually loved to read. They usually were not all that thrilled about the titles on the list but sometimes they were surprised and even enjoyed them. Sometimes, the book was passed to me with a "you might like this."
A friend I have known for years, has just read the summer book her son is assigned to read before his freshman year in college. It was posted on her Facebook account:
Just finished reading ( book title) ….( son's name) has to read it as the summer reading assignment for the ( name of college) Honors College. He's gonna hate it. I figured he would so I read it first so I could help him along.
Do other parents actually read their kid's college assignments to help them out? Maybe I am really out of the loop here?
Both of mine were required only one semester of English in college…they tested out of anything else. My guess is that this will eliminate a lot of class reading assignments for them. Maybe all that reading saves money in the long run during college?
Daughter knew a HS English teacher who put My Sister's Keeper by Jody Picoult on the reading list.
Many kids saw the movie and thought they were set. On the day of the test, the teacher announces:
"Before we take the test, I just want to thank those of you who read the book. There are several questions on this test that you would not know the answer to, if you only saw the movie."
July 18th, 2011
1:42 pm
I had to read 2 or 3 books each summer for Pre-AP and AP English classes 15+ years ago at two different south Georgia high schools, so I think this has been around and fairly common for a while. We read a lot during the year too, though, so I don't remember which ones were summer books. I think To Kill a Mockingbird was a summer assignment.
July 18th, 2011
1:43 pm
I have two boys, one going into 7th and the other into 10th. Both are in advanced courses and the 10th grader will be taking his first AP course in August.
To date they have never received summer reading lists. The oldest did get a list of optional extra credit activities that he could work on over the summer for his AP class. I was very proud of him as he took the initiative to complete 5 assignments the first 5 weeks of summer break. (The max he could complete of that particular activity.)
The youngest has been reading a couple of books over the summer as Mom made reading a requirement.
We have always encouraged reading but I would not be a fan of "required" reading over the summer. I prefer to use this time for the boys to pursue their own reading interests VS feeling like they are still in school.
I never had assigned reading during the summer months while I was in school but I loved to read and spent hours doing so.
July 18th, 2011
1:46 pm
I remember having assigned reading over the summer when I was in high school, but it was for AP English. I didn't like it because the books were boring to me, but it didn't really take me all that long to get through them, so I didn't have a huge problem with it.
My son is going into 2nd grade, so they didn't have assigned reading. However, I have been making him read anyway. I don't think 20 – 30 minutes of reading everyday is going to kill his summer break, and since he's so young and still learning the fundamentals of reading, sounding out words, and comprehension, I felt it necessary to make sure he didn't backslide over the summer. But I wouldn't have had any problems with the teachers assigning a few books for him, in fact I would have welcomed it. I am less knowledgeable about what books at the store are on his reading level, so advice from his teachers would have been fantastic!
July 18th, 2011
1:48 pm
MJG, a girl at my school wrote an essay on light imagery in The Natural citing Roy Hobbs' homerun ball sailing up into lights at the end…oops!
July 18th, 2011
1:50 pm
MJG, your friend needs to get a life. She is a product of an overbearing mother left with an empty nest.
Stop doing your kid's work for God's sake.
July 18th, 2011
2:10 pm
@ Lori – Magic Tree House books are the bomb for 2nd grade boys. (if he's not into Chapter books yet, take turns reading with him). Little kids should definately be expected to read over the summer. My kids read every night. No assignments, just a habit to read before bed.
@ MomsRule I definately agree. Encourage but don't assign. Summer is a great time to let kids read for enjoyment. Most kids don't get a chance to "choose" what to learn about. Unfortunately, most won't read anything if they are not forced.
Too funny about the "My Sister's Keeper". The book and movie are completely different. And that was such a great book. Why wasn't I ever assigned books like that to read? Beats the heck out of Alas Babylon and Wuthering Heights.
I was never assigned summer reading. Seems like it has always been an AP thing that has now moved into mainstream.
Summers are short enough. Let's just not worry about "assignments".
July 18th, 2011
2:18 pm
I had summer reading for AP English in the early '80s. Almost 30 years ago, so yeah…..it's been around for a while.
July 18th, 2011
2:27 pm
I loathe required summer reading. I have to oversee and monitor school work during the year and I would like the break! My son's school requires 1 book for regular English and 2 for Advanced/AP which I don't feel is totally awful except they have to annotate the books and some of them are just not fun reading. The annotation totally takes the fun out of reading even if it is a good book. The books typically result in 3 grades the first week of school (annotation, test, and an essay grade). I would rather see the teachers assign a book that is actually enjoyable and not require the annotation. My opinion is that if the book is enjoyable, it will get read and remembered.
Here is the summer reading list for his school:
9th – Mythology, To Kill a Mockingbird
10th -Peace Like a River, The Sword in the Stone
11th – The Education of Little Tree, The Glass Menagerie, The Scarlet Letter (AP only)
12th – Their Eyes Were Watching God, Wuthering Heights, The Grapes of Wrath (AP only)
5th – 8th graders are allowed to pick from a list of books on the Children's Book Award Nominee List or they can submit a request for another book but it must be pre-approved. Then the students have to do 3 or 4 activities from a list of about 20. They include things like: create a 20-word dictionary, make a book jacket, make a poster advertising your book, etc. Most aren't difficult activities, I just am not a fan of requiring this type of work over the summer.
July 18th, 2011
2:28 pm
@ homeschooler….I have not seen the move but have now read all of her books and enjoyed them as she was a new author to me. I am not big on movies. My sister wants to see The Help with me. I read it when TWG recommended it last fall and that was a BIG hard back book to lug on the airplane.
I think the movie looks good, we saw the previews while on vacation.
July 18th, 2011
2:35 pm
I require summer reading for my students. I do not think it is too much to ask a student to spend a few hours preparing for the next year. I carefully choose the books and make sure they are entertaining and interesting to the students. There are also some choices.
Kids who are serious about sports or any other activity would not dream of taking 2-3 months off without practicing those skills. Academics should be the same way.
As parents you have to teach your children to have a love for reading and learning. If you adopt the attitude that reading a book is a boring chore that should be confined to a classroom, you are almost guaranteed that your child will feel the same way. There are some exceptions to this, of course.
July 18th, 2011
2:35 pm
I require summer reading for my students. I do not think it is too much to ask a student to spend a few hours preparing for the next year. I carefully choose the books and make sure they are entertaining and interesting to the students. There are also some choices.
Kids who are serious about sports or any other activity would not dream of taking 2-3 months off without practicing those skills. Academics should be the same way.
As parents you have to teach your children to have a love for reading and learning. If you adopt the attitude that reading a book is a boring chore that should be confined to a classroom, you are almost guaranteed that your child will feel the same way. There are some exceptions to this, of course.
July 18th, 2011
2:42 pm
@MJG – you need a Kindle!
July 18th, 2011
2:48 pm
April, why reading and not science experiments? Last time I checked, we aren't trailing the world in literacy.
July 18th, 2011
2:53 pm
Also, how exactly is requiring reading going to teach a child that reading isn't a chore?
July 18th, 2011
2:53 pm
@jarvis – if I taught science, I might just assign science experiments for the summer, but I don't. I teacher language arts. I do try to find books that are both entertaining and educate across the curriculum. There are many good fiction books that contain important facts about history, science, math, and foreign languages.
July 18th, 2011
2:59 pm
@jarvis – good points.
July 18th, 2011
3:04 pm
We had summer reading requirements in the 80s and early 90s but we didn't have assignments and we could pick books from a really long list (many were not your traditional school books and were more fun-type reading). I think it's important to keep using your mind during summer but wouldn't want my kids to have to spend hours doing projects (although I do require mine to read every night).
July 18th, 2011
3:06 pm
Summer reading for me is less pressure. There is a longer time frame in which to get it done. I think the attitude of both the teacher and the parent are important. I never approach reading as a chore – "Tomorrow, we GET to read a great story about a boy about your age who is faced with a tough decision." instead of, "OK, you HAVE to read this story whether you like it or not."
I also put a lot of thought into the books I choose. I listen to what my students like and find interesting. I also read a tremendous number of books aimed at middle school students to find ones that bring a different perspective, setting, or conflict to the genre.
With my own children, I talk about their books with them, and we discuss what is entertaining and interesting. We do not spend time griping that the book is boring or taking time away from tv or video games.
July 18th, 2011
3:09 pm
Summers are already short – don't fill them up with required reading……Many libraries have summer reading programs that parents can enroll their kids in if they wish. For some kids, their summer already is full of ball practice, cheer practice, or band practice. Let them have some lazy summer days!!!! Also, how do teacher's treat kids who transfer from one school to another during the summer who did not "benefit" by getting the summer list
July 18th, 2011
3:24 pm
In the 60's in NY I had to read 'Ivanhoe' entering the seventh grade!! Awful, it was. Summer reading has been around forever.
July 18th, 2011
3:29 pm
As much as this may pain some to hear this, reading for enjoyment isn't for everyone. Just like any other activity some people like it, and some people don't. I'm a highly active person (diagnosed with ADD as a child). Sitting still for hours on end looking at the same pile of bound paper is not enjoyable to me. In fact, it is torture.
I took speed reading in preparation for grad school. This has allowed me to swallow up the information in books, but it does not mean I enjoy the time spent looking at the pages.
July 18th, 2011
3:35 pm
Has anyone watched Transcendent Man? Now that's how to spend a summer!
We are doing science experiments this summer. I hate how reading, especially fiction, has the huge emphasis in our school system. Not everyone will be a marketing major. Somebody has to invent the stuff to market.
In the gifted program at our school, my son spent his time writing book reports on Amelia Bedelia. How did that harness his intellect? Now he wants out of the gifted program.
I think the emphasis on reading comes from the school system being run by liberal arts majors who don't like math and science.
This is being reflected in the economy and the huge section of the unemployed who are becoming unemployable because they read Grapes of Wrath (great book) instead of learning the sum of 3 triangle angles = 180.
July 18th, 2011
3:37 pm
My children attend Atlanta Public Schools and they don't know how to read or write but they keep doing so darn well on that CRCT.
July 18th, 2011
3:43 pm
All through high school (I graduated 15 years ago) I had 3 works of summer reading plus summer math sets to complete. We were tested on the books the first week back, and the math was the first major grades we received that year. I went to public school in Savannah, and everyone I knew had the same level of work to do during the summer.
July 18th, 2011
3:49 pm
We read:
The Scarlet Letter
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
There Eyes Were Watching God
Run With The Horsemen
Whisper of the River
Song of Solomon
In the summers between the 10th and 11th and 11th and 12th grades. I don't remember what we read in earlier years though.
July 18th, 2011
3:52 pm
@Andy: You're a writer, and you don't believe in summer reading? You think it's "ridiculous"? Really? There's a disconnect there so wide I can't wrap my head around it!
I don't see where "summer reading" is any different from any other kind of reading, or onerous– our family has always read voraciously. Books are windows to the world — I'm sorry, but this topic is going to be difficult for me to grasp the other side's argument, because I honestly cannot imagine a life without at least a couple of books being devoured at any given time, and a pile of books beside the couch in the den and a different pile beside the bed. Both of my kids are big readers, too, even now. Staying up late in the summer, reading until 1 or 2 am, was one of the delights of summer!
My kids usually had at least three summer reading books going through school — and in high school, there was the required reading that had to be completed by the first day of school (second day of English class was a test on the book). There was also a "teacher's choice" book. In the spring, you signed up for a book sponsored by a high school teacher, and in the fall, they participated in a book discussion about that book with that teacher. The books were as varied as "Atlas Shrugged" to "Freakonomics" and "Gone With The Wind", depending on the teacher's preference. My son enjoyed choosing books by favorite teachers to see what kind of books appealed to them and to get to know them better.
At my son's university, they had to read a book before freshman year — I don't think there was any penalties if they didn't, and there was a discussion group they were required to attend, but it was pretty loose. I read the book, too ("The Death of Innocents" by Sr. Helen Prejean), but only because I had always meant to and we were on a car trip when he finished it, so I picked it up. Not to help him with it — he sure didn't need my help with a book at that point! — but we enjoyed discussing her views on the death penalty. After freshmen year, the kids always preferred to order the books for the next semester as early as possible to get a leg up on the reading — especially my son, with his reading-intensive majors.
July 18th, 2011
3:52 pm
We also read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Once and Future King between 8th and 9th grades.
July 18th, 2011
3:55 pm
When I started 9th grade in 1994 in Gwinnett Co. I had to read 3 books and write essays (literary analysis, not book reports) on 2 of them, and we were tested on the third during the first week of school. This continued for the next 2 years. For AP English (Fall 1997) I had to read 6 books. I don't remember all the assignment we had for that summer, a couple of essays, journal entries, etc. Then we were tested on one of the books during the first week of school. And there was a whole unit on Hamlet when school started (yes, we had to read Hamlet during the summer). For AP European History that year, I also had to read 2 books and write a book report on one of them. The other was the textbook we used and we had to read several chapters and answer questions on the reading. And there was a book for AP Econ (Worldly Philosophers), but I don't think there were any assignment with that one.
I'm a librarian now, and it amazed me when I worked for the county library what books were on the summer reading lists. All the books on the very prescribed lists I had in high school were classics. These kids could read a Nicholas Sparks or a Stephen King book!
July 18th, 2011
3:55 pm
"Also, how do teacher's treat kids who transfer from one school to another during the summer who did not "benefit" by getting the summer list"
In my case, by giving me the first 6 weeks of the school year to finish the two books everyone else read during the summer, while juggling the current books we were reading and all my other homework. Plus, I had already read one of the summer books for my previous school before I knew we were moving. That summer and fall sucked.
July 18th, 2011
4:01 pm
@April at 2:35…Thank you! The parental attitudes regarding doing a bit of reading and maybe even some math review over the summer is why I retired after 33 years. I still loved teaching and loved working with the kids, but I couldn't continue to fight parental apathy regarding their child's academic success. And before I get flamed, yes, I had many wonderful parents and students, but the tendency to ignore nightly reading and math facts help was becoming the norm. I couldn't do it alone for 25 kids with the amount of NCLB paperwork piled on top of my normal teacher's workload.
July 18th, 2011
4:01 pm
@ Jarvis and Rsmom, AMEN! Could not agree with you more.
I personally enjoy recreational reading, but do I believe that it's a mark of intelligence? Absolutely not. It's just a matter of personal preference. There are plenty of other worthwhile things you can use your brain for, and, frankly, finding a hobby which requires more social skills might be a better use of your time.
July 18th, 2011
4:11 pm
Aren't we something like 20th worldwide in overall education now? Nevertheless, my kids have three full months to bring the crops in.
July 18th, 2011
4:24 pm
I always had summer reading (2-4 books, depending on the grade) and was tested on them at the beginning of school. I love to read, but I hated being told what to read. The summer assignments always waited until the last, and sometimes even then I didn't get to them, even though I may have read 3 or 4 other books of my own choice over break.
I went to a large local private school. To this day I don't see the point. I don't think they contributed to my overall level of education (I have college and graduate degrees) and would have done just fine without them. But then again, I read for the enjoyment of it, not to pick a book apart and analyze it.
July 18th, 2011
4:27 pm
I'm not sure why people are surprised about these assignments. Summer reading is not new to me. I had similar summer reading and writing assignments as those listed, including Beowulf in the summer before senior year in high school, while growing up. However, I am almost 60 and went to school in Wisconsin. Perhaps different states had different standards then.
My daughter entiers H.S. next month. Her science/math teachers have assigned "Jurassic Park". I think it's kind of cool that even the science and math teachers have required reading.
July 18th, 2011
4:30 pm
My children have never needed a summer reading list because they love to read and learn all the time! They are quite better than your children, all of you reading this. And do you know why my children are better? Because I deserve it.
July 18th, 2011
4:37 pm
Academic skills are like any other skills – they require practice for mastery.
If a parent commented on this blog that his or her child was allowed to avoid physical activity during the summer because he/she "did not find it enjoyable" that parent would be blasted and bombarded with evidence and stats about the obesity epidemic.
The obesity problem is real, and so is the crisis we face in education. Until parents work with and support educators to make learning important to this generation, we will see no improvement. Maybe summer reading requirements are not the perfect solution, but they are far better than the complete lack of brain stimulation that many children would engage in without them.
July 18th, 2011
4:40 pm
I'm reading "the case against homework" now. And it talks a little bit about all this 'assigned' reading and how horrible it is.
I don't think it is horrible for kids to have a 'work free' summer. My child reads ALL THE TIME. He doesn't need an assignment to do it.
I think the problem is that there are too many kids who would do nothing but watch tv. so these assignments are to get them to read. the problem is that they start to hate reading even more and are even less likely to ever read for pleasure.
as for AP classes, if one chooses to enroll in them, then I think that, yes, they should have the assigned reading for the summer. but from what i recall, they only assigned reading for the classes, not essays and journaling or answering questions or any of the other things that make kids hate reading…
July 18th, 2011
4:42 pm
In a country that's obsessed with American Idol, Jersey Shore, and The Emmy's, kids in this country need a whole lot more than reading assignments during the summer.
July 18th, 2011
4:50 pm
My daughter is entering the 7th grade and has to do reading logs (basically mini-reports of books that she reads over the summer) and a page of math problems. All of this is due the 1st or 2nd week of school.
July 18th, 2011
4:57 pm
Uhg. Never been a reader. Can't focus long enough.
July 18th, 2011
5:11 pm
April, I don't know about where you live, but school year here in the metro ATL (and other parts of GA) is barely 2 months.
July 18th, 2011
5:25 pm
If reading a couple books over the summer is a major burden, maybe your kid should be in summer school period.
July 18th, 2011
5:45 pm
@ Techmom…I just traded in books at BOOKS FOR LESS Mall of Ga. My account has almost $900 in credit…this is half of the retail value of the books. I love to read but I love holding a book. I have entertained having a Kindle but am not sure if I would like it as I am not good with most things electronic.
July 18th, 2011
5:53 pm
I really don't see a problem with it. My son's teacher sent home his homework folder with a small amount of work each day of summer…and he is going into 1st Grade. If the kids would retain more during the summer time off, teacher's wouldn't have to focus so much time at the beginning of a school year re-teaching things from the year before. Maybe this isn't as big of a problem in higher grades? I understand some kids don't enjoy reading, but reading and understanding what was read are important skills for every other subject. Just my thoughts.
July 18th, 2011
5:55 pm
@mothergoose, I felt the same way about the ereader until I actually got one. I thought I would miss the feel of the book in my hand…but after lugging the ereader around vs real books…well, I'm sold! LOL
July 18th, 2011
5:59 pm
April, I'm on your side which makes me the minority here. I was very surprised to see on this blog many summer reading assignments that I read as a kid for pleasure. As for not having any summer, every year my two boys attended summer school and not because they had to, because they actually liked it and I encouraged it (this was in Florida). I didn't want them to lose that discipline of the school year over the summer months and it has paid off with two successful college graduates, one a chemical engineer. And they both still love reading :)
July 18th, 2011
6:00 pm
My daughter's private school used to not only give summer reading beginning in Kindergarten, but they also had work to complete over Christmas and Spring break. Don't know how much it helped, but we enjoyed reading together. She also had to read books prior to World History AP class. I personally don't get the point. Let them rest!


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