AP Language & Composition

Hello and good luck - English was my best class also,

AP English Lang. was a difficult class (took it last year) but worth it. As for preping for the exam and getting an idea of what the basis of the class will be go find a copy of a CliffsAP book or any other book made for that class to get information on what example tests look like and a clear idea of what they are looking for in an essay. I'm sure your teacher will have example tests and prompts, but it's better to be prepared than shocked at the first test or essay. Make sure you focus on addressing the prompt and make sure to include many rhetorical strategies - they will be the only things you hear for the next year on your essays!

I had to do a 5-page essay on The Scarlet Letter plus a full practice test including the three prompts. My teacher (for full effect) was a hard jerk. You are correct in that a hard teacher will prepare you better, but keep in mind there is NO sympathy or slack in AP. College Board took it out.

by reading this you might not get that i am a good writter or that i have any writting skills whats so ever...for me english is so natural and free that i walked into AP english and i fit perfectly... i know that i am probably the best writter in that class and easily in the top ten writters in that class if i wrote the essay at lucnh =D not that im cocky or anything just that its natural for me =D anyway thats a bad bbok to read for AP english "of mice and men" is a freshmen book and farwell to arms a sophomore book... i think your school may not be providing you with novels that are at an AP level... im a junior this year for summer we read grapes of wrath which is a over 600 page novel and wrote three concreat details and five commentarys per detail per chapter which in itself took the entire summer... challange yourself more

I'm going to have to disagree with you, mora. Any book can be at AP level, depending on how in depth you go with it. For my summer reading, I had to read Dante's Divine Comedy, Beowulf, The Grapes of Wrath, and A Farewell to Arms, to name a few.

umm summer reading is summer reading...its an introduction to the course... not every book can be an AP book... AP english is designed to take certain higher quatlity books and then display rhetorical devices... not that of mice and men is a bad book...just that steinbeck's shorter books ae more for amusment...such as of mice and men or the pearl versus the grapes of wrath :D

So far my class has read Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, The Last Days of Socrates, The Odyssey, Inferno, Richard III, and We. The Last Days of Socrates is one of the most mind-numbingly boring pieces of crap I've ever had to suffer through... though I didn't really read it and got a bad grade on the test. I know how deep it is, and how college majors would call me a heretic, but I just could not read it, it was like the book was actually pushing me away.

At least the Odyssey and Inferno were good, though.

Wow. I'll agree that Inferno was interesting and whatnot, but I found it almost impossible to read. Thank God for sparknotes.

Well, I'm a senior currently in AP Language & Comp, and personally, I'm not having any trouble with it. I have a 95 in the class right now. For summer assignments, we had to read and take notes on The Fountainhead, Ishmael, and The Iliad. A TON of reading!

i didnt know seniors took the class... i was under the impression that it was a junior class...anyway its an easy class....im crusin with a 98% =D

Well at our school, it was only offered to seniors, but this year they made changes to the english requirements so juniors can take it too.

wow i think it should be the other way around...its a fairly easy class for seniors to be taking...its more junior level i think...liturature is a senior class AP of course