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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP. It's 49 pages. I went back and counted. It coincided with the other AP class assigning 15 problems each of which had 3-5 sub problems, and the other other AP class assigning 6 pages of problems, and the English class having something due, and the science class having a quiz. So yeah, it's a lot to cover in two days.

[b]For those of you saying it's a college level course - it is. If you think back to college though, you weren't in class from 8:10 to 3:00 5 days a week, and then doing ECs after that was over. [/b]

Anyway, my child wasn't complaining about the amount of reading and note taking, she wanted to know what the point of it is, when the teacher is not teaching anything, they are not going over the material in any way, and they are already weeks behind in a class where there is a test that covers a certain amount of material that they will likely not get to. If past is prologue, they will end up 8 weeks behind, which is pretty much an entire quarter's worth of material (16-20% of the test, per AP). [/quote]

This exactly. There is a lot more fee time in college during the day to complete 30-60 pages of reading. And generally you have an entire week to do it and notes weren’t required. Professor would lecture on the material you read at the next class.[/quote]

And, you remember it quite differently from me.  I remember a lot more than you describe.  Term papers, for example, which required hours of research--in the library, before the internet.  
Interpreting literature.
Reading novels in a foreign language.
Memorizing terms.

And, in a public high school in the South:
I read Madame Bovary in French and had to take a test on it which required responses in French
Junior year: Moby Dick; Red Badge of Courage; and other novels and American poets (junior year)
Senior year: Shakespeare, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales and others
Term paper in History in addition to tests with multiple choice and essay questions
Economics

In those days, we did not have block scheduling.  Every class, every day.  It worked.

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So far, as a sophomore, DC has read Donne's Meditations XVII, and The Pardoner's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. Next up is Macbeth. Other works are expected to be excerpts from The Rubaiyat, The Prince and Paradise Lost (plus short stories, nonfiction and poetry), and complete works such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner, A Tale of Two Cities, The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, etc.

I also went through school without block scheduling. I frankly prefer it, because the quantity of work in any one subject on any given day is not massive, as opposed to having 50 pages of reading assigned at the same time as 75 problems each for two other subjects. 
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