<p>So I went to a youth leadership conference at uc riverside. Me and two of my friends convinced the teacher to let the three of us leave early and walk around the campus. I am never going there. IMO the people there seem miserable.</p>
<p>IB English 1
IB History of the Americas
IB Biology
IB Physics
Spanish 2 (I took Japanese 1 Freshman year and Spanish 1 this year, because the Japanese teacher pretty much refuses to let students she doesn’t like progress)
IB Math SL (HL if my school has enough room)</p>
<p>@goodnoodle I guess it depends on the person. They can’t all be miserable, can they…?</p>
<p>So I recently found out that one of our English teachers will be leaving our school next year, so there will be no Honors English option for junior year. So for next year, my only options are regular junior English or AP English Language. I definitely don’t want to take regular, but the problem is, I’m not sure I’m up for taking AP either. I feel like I’ll be pretty overloaded already with 4 (Chem, Physics C Mech, Calc BC, APUSH), and I’m not sure I’ll be able to handle writing an essay every week, which is what my friends who are taking it have told me that they do in that class. I don’t know if they’ll tone it down a bit (I hope they do), since that’s the only option for juniors if they don’t want to take regular English, but keep in mind that I am not a humanities person by any means, and I wasn’t planning on taking any AP humanities class other than US History. </p>
<p>So, basically TL;DR should I take AP English Language next year? Actually, I’m sure I’ll still take it in the end, but right now, I just feel so conflicted, and I really don’t want to kill myself any more than I have to junior year… Thoughts? :)</p>
<p>If you aren’t a humanities person, don’t take it.</p>
<p>In general we didn’t like the vive there. No one seemed that friendly. It came to a point where we started taking pictures with anyone who seemed friendly. (We took like 4 pictures in 2 hours.)</p>
<p>Lol pictures with random people. I’ve never even heard of that UC. I’ve heard of LA, Berkeley, um…Irvine…</p>
<p>@CE I live deep in the mountain. 
We often get snow. Two years ago the snow reached my shoulder! </p>
<p>Who will take AP english lang next year? (I will.)</p>
<p>^aha, lucky, got a lotta snow! </p>
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<p><em>raises hand</em> This student will be.</p>
<p>Also taking AP lang</p>
<p>I’m also taking AP English Lang. Supposedly gonna be 30 hours of homework per week or something like that…oy…</p>
<p>The AP Lang teacher at my school said most of the homework will be reading. Sounds great to me.</p>
<p>@petlover I get less than that amount of total homework a month! Wow…</p>
<p>I wanted to do A level (AP equivalent) language but my school doesn’t offer it :(</p>
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<p>I thought AP Lang was more about writing, and AP Lit was reading/writing analyzation papers. Don’t really care, but just wondered…</p>
<p>LOL I don’t know where I got 30 from…according to my schools catalog it’s only 5 hours/week. </p>
<p>ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION ++ (1 UNIT) Summer reading and writing is required.
Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and text with greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. Course readings feature expository, analytical, personal and argumentative texts from a variety of authors and historical contexts. Students examine and work with letters, essays, speeches, images and imaginative literature. Students prepare for the AP English Language and Composition Exam and may be granted college credit as a result of satisfactory performance.
Course reading and writing activities should help students gain textual power, making them more alert to an authors purpose, the needs of an audience, the demands of the subject, and the resources of language: syntax, word choice and tone. The critical skills that students learn to appreciate through close and continued analysis of a wide variety of texts and writing tasks provide the focus for an energetic study of language, rhetoric, and argument.
As this is a college-level course, performance expectations are appropriately high, and the workload is challenging. Students are expected to commit to a minimum of five hours of course work per week outside the classroom. Often, this work involves long-term writing and reading assignments, so effective time management is important. Because of the demanding curriculum, students must bring to the course sufficient command of mechanical conventions and an ability to read and discuss prose. The content of the course is constructed in accordance with the guidelines described in the AP English Course Description. AP EXAM AND AP EXAM FEE REQUIRED.
PREREQUISITE: STUDENTS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLASS BASED UPON TEACHER RECOMMENDATION OR SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR. CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION WILL INCLUDE THE EVALUATION OF FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER GRADES. STUDENTS MUST HAVE AN AVERAGE GRADE OF 85 IN ENGLISH.
GRADE: 11</p>
<p>Oh ok. Thanks petlover…I think AP Lit is even more reading than that. Can’t wait for this class!!! </p>
<p>Although I’d like to take AP Lit, I’m going to take College English senior year since it’s only a semester, that way I can take even more classes. Cheating the system! :D</p>
<p>Always been proud of never having to study late or anything like that. I think I’m going to be up until at least 3 tonight finishing my textiles coursework due tomorrow. At least 10 A3 pages to do :(</p>
<p>All late but yeah I’m taking ap Lang. At my school there’s two teachers. One is really hard but has a high ap pass rate, the other is really easy but you don’t learn anything. I’m hoping for the latter</p>
<p>yay AP Lang group here! </p>
<p>I got partial scholarship to go to Cambridge, UK!!! I’m so excited! UKgirl, tell me what I should do except for my camp. My family will pick me up and we will visit some places. I recently got hooked to Jane Austen. so I may take a Jane Austen tour. Of course Doctor who. Of course Harry Potter. and this and that… so many British things to do!</p>
<p>^Wow, that sounds awesome!!! Be sure to speak in a British accent :D</p>
<p>That’s really cool! I’ve never been to Cambridge though, but I can give you suggestions for London and the nearby area at some point :)</p>
<p>It’s nearly 1am and I’ve achieved very little.</p>