<p>watching movies on summer reading. STILL</p>
<p>I love this class.</p>
<p>any suggestions for getting in class book discussions temporarily off topic to speed up class?</p>
<p>Oh and in your discussions, do you guys have those 1 or 2 people who just quote sparknotes analysis section word for word but pass it off as their own ideas?</p>
<p>does anyone know where i can find a list of the frequency of the books that have been used on past ap lit exams for question 3 on free response?</p>
<p>In my class (AP Lit Senior English) we read:</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Crime and Punishment
The Power and the Glory
The Stranger
Heart of Darkness
The Shipping News
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
and a lot of poems</p>
<p>We’ve also written 4 or 5 in-class (40 minute) essays, plus 3 or 4 out of class essays (ranged 3-10 pgs), and a 20 or 30ish pg poetry journal.</p>
<p>… wow, classes really are different around the nation.</p>
<p>We’ve done Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Stranger (and some other Camus pieces), Keats poetry… lots of other poetry… and some state mandated timed writings (only when our teacher is absent b/c she’s like the most awesome English teacher ever so she doesn’t like to do things that don’t really go with her lesson plans when she’s at school) some practice AP poetry timed writings (sometimes she’ll go over the 1-9 rubrics (or rather, just the 5-9 part) and we’ll rewrite the essays for homework)… and at the end of each major work we have like a 250 pt essay test <a href=“as%20well%20as%20about%203-4%20500%20word%20essays%20assigned%20as%20homework%20for%20each%20novel”>usually shelling out 700-1000 words on stuff like - how do each of these 5 quotes show how [insert abstract thing] relates to the work as a whole or explain the function of ‘blah’ and relate it to the novel as a whole</a></p>
<p>We’re to have Heart of Darkness read before we go back to school and we start on that right away.</p>
<p>… all I know is it’s a lot more (like 100x more) work than we had for AP Eng Lang and I got a 5 there… but I think the Lit test is a lot harder since you need to reference actually literature…but really what does it matter? since like very few colleges actually offer credit or placement specific to one exam</p>
<p>(no, I don’t really use ‘like’ in formal writing)</p>
<p>Well, we just had our midterm, which was basically an AP Lit free-response paper. Apparently I have no clue how to write three well-formed literary essays in forty minutes apiece. My first essay was quite good, my second essay was quite bad, and my third essay was one paragraph long. Granted, I’ve had no practice.</p>
<p>Hurray, I am screwed!</p>
<p>(Thank Ford I’ve already been accepted to college. And I have two As for my quarter grades so I only need a C on the exam to get an A in the class. But I was still kinda hoping for a 5.)</p>
<p>my class just started last week, and so far we’re doing return of the king simultaneously with Beowulf. Then we’re going to move on to Grendel.</p>
<p>^^ How can you “move” on to Grendel when Grendel is in Beowulf?</p>
<p>Granted I have only read sections of Beowulf, I might be wrong.</p>
<p>Grendel is a novel by John Gardner. I’m assuming that’s what wonky is talking about, as we did the same.</p>
<p>We’ve read/going to read:</p>
<p>Cry, the Beloved Country
Things Fall Apart
Death of a Salesman
The Metamorphosis; Kafka short stories
Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Oedipus Rex
The Stranger</p>
<p>Some great novels there…but we’ve only done a few practice timed essays. We’ve had no out-of-class essays (with the exception of a research paper). Is anyone else taking a combined IB/AP English class as a two-year course? (meaning that we don’t take the AP Lit and IB English exams until the end of senior year)</p>
<p>ha we only get 1 paper a quarter, and they’re little 2-pg analyses. Over the summer we read Snow Falling on Cedars, The Things They Carried, and St. Joan. So far we’ve done Hamlet, Return of the Native, The Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Lord Jim. No timed writings, no multiple choice, no exam prep at all. Every day we discuss the book in class, then get sidetracked every day with precisely 35 minutes left in class, and begin talking about blonde jokes and “ditch law” in minnesota. its the best senior class ever.</p>
<p>Zucky: My English Lit class last year was exactly like that. The teacher could not keep a relevant discussion going if her life depended on it. The funniest part was that it was always ‘our fault’. haha, it probably is the best senior class :P</p>
<p>I’m in AP Lang/Composition
So far we’ve read:
In Cold Blood
The Awakening
The Stranger
Lords of Discipline
Catcher in the Rye
Short stories by Salinger
As I lay Dying
The Glass Managerie
The Metamorphosis
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Scarlett Letter
Lots(and I mean lots) of other poems (Such as Young Goodman Brown, Yellow Wallpaper, etc.)</p>
<p>Our teacher told us right away that she isn’t preparing us for the AP Exam…so all we do is have a lot of work and reading, along with a timed writing once a week(only prep we do). We’re supposed to read a lot more books, like Great Gatsby, Color Purple, Kings of Solomon, Death of a Salesman, etc.
On the bright side, my reading SAT has really improved :)</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, we have read a lot of books…
We have to do a term paper this year. </p>
<p>I’m doing mine on “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”… and it’s a great book!</p>
<p>Other books we had to read include An American Tragedy, Turn of the Screw, The Awakening (ugh…), Othello, Things Fall Apart, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Hamlet, King Lear, Crime and Punishment, and Fences.</p>
<p>A decent amount of writing but much less work than Language last year…</p>
<p>We’ve read Oedipus Rex, Wuthering Heights, and Catcher in the Rye in AP Lit so far, and we should be starting Hamlet soon. We’re getting pretty prepped for the AP exam right now, doing lots of MC’s and a few open-ended essays, in addition to a couple of poetry and prose ones.</p>
<p>So far we’ve read: Cry, The Beloved Country, My Name is Asher Lev, Hamlet, Invisible Man, Heart of Darkness, Waiting for Godot, Wuthering Heights and some poems
Currently on Crime & Punishment…</p>