<p>Hi, next year I’m going to be a Junior and my HS offers a mandatory Junior English course. (No Honors, no AP). Senior year is just a bunch of English electives.</p>
<p>My question is do you need to take a course for AP English? I have no idea what the test is about or on. Is there like a mandatory list of books you have to read to prep? What would a normal AP english course teach? </p>
<p>Basically i’m inquiring about the curriculum of the test.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Depends. Are you inquiring about AP English Language or AP English Literature? </p>
<p>For English Language, you really don’t need the class. Your skills as a writer and reader will be enough to get you through, granted you spend a couple months before the test with a prep book to learn some necessary vocabulary and familiarize yourself with essay format/expectations. Not too difficult if you are a good English student.</p>
<p>I just started English Lit., so I really couldn’t tell you about that, but I do know there is a reading list for the class.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Well, there’s an AP English Language and Composition exam and an AP English Literature exam.</p>
<p>In my school, AP English Language is taken in the junior year and Lit in the senior year.</p>
<p>The Language & Composition exam involves reading passages and answering multiple choice questions about how the writer uses language (often involves being able to identify stylistic techniques; you’ll need to know lots of literary terms) and also writing three essays: one involves reading a passage/essay and analyzing their use of language (like the MC), an argument (persuasive) essay, and a “synthesis” essay where you read a bunch of passages (like the DBQ in history AP exams). The class is supposed to be a writing class, rather than a literature class. You don’t read novels, you read and write essays (no fiction). You analyze style more than thematic content. </p>
<p>I haven’t done Lit yet, but it is consists of more of the traditional reading novels and poetry and analyzing thematic content. I think you get to choose the books you draw your examples from.</p>