<p>Summer is coming...would appreciate if you guys could recommend some books I should read to prepare myself for the course. Should I also try a hand at essay writing? Please advise. ;D</p>
<p>For AP English LANGUAGE.
The language course is a tricky course to prepare for, because the mc portion tests one's reading skills, but includes only a few questions on rhetorical elements like Synechdote and Metonymy and Anadiplosis. (Those are helpful to know for the free-response part though!) The BEST Way to prepare for the exam is to simply prepare for the free-response questions by doing past exam questions which are available online at AP Central. I strongly believe that the MC portion is decidedly more difficult to prepare for, and therefore a less efficient use of a test-takers study time. If you want to feel more confident about it though, here are a few non-fiction, prose works that I recommend all AP English Language students should read:</p>
<p>Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Joan Didion</p>
<p>The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion -( An A+ work of nonfiction prose imbued with rhetorical elements)</p>
<p>and one of the below works:
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B Du Bois
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
The Age of Jackson, by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell</p>
<p>Thanks, I'll be going to the library later tomorrow so I'll try and check out those books and get the reading done over the summer. How would you suggest I should prepare for the essay-writing portion of the AP course/exam?</p>
<p>Register for AP Central, look at a sample student responses to a past AP Eng. question, and then answer a different year's question within the time limit</p>
<p>Hm..I mean on a day-to-day basis. Should I try to write, say, one essay a week? Or something short each day?</p>
<p>absolutely not. First of all, the number of essays that you write will do very little to improve your score. I recommend writing for AP prompts only, maybe one every two weeks? (There are three prompts per exam, plus the form B prompts) Be sure to evaluate your work by comparing it to the scored essays on AP central a few days after you write it, therefore you will be more objective in your grading.</p>
<p>o.o Hm..Scary. Also, I've heard that AP French is on the same day as AP Lang. Is this true? x.x</p>