<p>Is there a list of books most often tested or that i need to have read before the exam in may?</p>
<p>Lang doesn’t test on books. Do you mean Lit? </p>
<p>If so, then yes. Google it - it’s easy to find.</p>
<p>I meant lang but my school makes them read like Gatsby and the scarlett letter etc so i assumed there was something on there for books. I guess thats just english 3 requirements or some kind of prep for lit</p>
<p>You can reference the novels in any of the essays if you so choose in either the Language or Literature tests. The Literature exam just has a free response questions pertaining to one of the books specifically.</p>
<p>The books read in Language (typically English III), as well as in other high school english classes (typically English I and II), are books that show up in the Literature exams’s FRQ#3. So really, all the books you read in your high school english classes can be view as preparing you for that one question on the AP Literature exam! (Although there are obviously much better reasons for the reading done).</p>
<p>The list of books that has shown up on the Literature exam (English IV) in the past can be found [url=<a href=“http://mseffie.com/AP/APtitles.html]here[/url”>http://mseffie.com/AP/APtitles.html]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Note, however, that you don’t have to write about any of those books if you don’t want to. So long as the work can arguably be viewed as a work suitible for AP, then you can write about any book. It is typically much better and safer to write about a book that has been on past exams before.</p>
<p>The AP Eng Language exam does not test you on particular books; however, you may reference any book you want in the argument essay as long as it’s relevant to the topic.
The exam consists of two parts: a multiple choice section and an FRQ section. The essay section is broken up into three parts: a synthesis essay (which requires you to synthesize a few sources to illustrate your argument), a rhetorical essay, and an argument essay. For the argument essay, you can chose to reference any kind of book you want. For example, the argument question for this year’s AP exam asked us to analyze the relationship between between the ownership of goods and self-esteem. I wrote about The Great Gatsby for this one.
Anyways, if you want a list of recommended books for AP English, these are some of the books I read for my class (I can’t remember all of them):
- Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Self Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- The Norton Anthology
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger</p>
<p>Here’s what we read in AP Lang last year, both independently as well as in-class, that I can remember.</p>
<p>INDEPENDENT NOVELS
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (My period anyway. The other period read Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe)
Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck</p>
<p>IN-CLASS
Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Trifles - Susan Glaspell
Roman Fever - Edith Wharton
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
A few poems by Robert Frost (I can only recall Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening)
Everyday Use - Alice Walker</p>
<p>There might be other short stories, but I can’t recall. We read a lot of…interesting…things during our unit on identity that I cannot quite remember.
I guess that may seem like a lot, but it was throughout the whole year.</p>