<p>I'm a rising Junior taking English III Honors next year, my school has no APs. I thought about taking English Lang. AP on flvs but decided I wouldn't have time. So, what text book, not review book, should I buy? Unless you think a review book is all I'll need.</p>
<p>EDIT:
taking the test Spring 2009</p>
<p>not really any real textbook unfortunately...the class is centered around analyzing effective modes of rhethoric/rhetorical devices...therefore, students prepare by reading classic fiction/historical fiction...the teacher shows how to analyze passages/text...u should ask for a reading list first.</p>
<p>oh, lovely.</p>
<p>Don't worry about AP English Language. You won't really have a difficult time in that course. Anything you need to learn is taught directly by your teacher (just make sure you have a good one).</p>
<p>For my class, we used "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White, and "The Bedford Reader" (I don't know the author). You can check those out if you want. "The Elements of Style" is a great book by the way, it'll help anyone out when it comes to English language rules, grammar rules, and etc.</p>
<p>ok thanks, but i'm not taking the course. i'll check out those books though</p>
<p>We have 2 textbooks, one of which was also Bedford Reader. To say we used the textbooks is an overstatement. The only time I flipped it open was to write my name in it when it was given out.</p>
<p>Mostly we analyze rhetorical devices, etc. from novels. I didn't need a review book either.</p>
<p>I took AP Lang on FLVS!!!</p>
<p>It was a lot of work, but it prepared me well. You don't need a textbook. Buy the review book by Cliffs.</p>
<p>our class used the Bedford Reader, but u really dont need any help from the text</p>
<p>Same as above, no official textbook.
We used:
Practical Stylist
Spunk and Bite
Strunk and White
A basic grammar book
Several novels that we examined (Hamlet, Childhood's End, Things Fall Apart, some more)</p>
<p>yeah, we were given our textbooks for AP summer homework two weeks ago, and we don't get a text book (except a grammar book) for AP Language</p>
<p>I echo that-we don't use the text much at all. If you want a class that will help you take debate. Learning how to form an argument and analyze/defeat another's is the key.</p>
<p>actually, you really just need a good teacher.
maybe just get a tutor?</p>
<p>I agree with z09, but it sounded like you didn't have that option (teacher). My students who come from debate find the transition from debate to Lang pretty easy, and with some prep help from one of the books out there (Cliff's, Barron's, Peterson's, etc.) I could see THEM being successful self studying.</p>
<p>I also took Honors English since my school doesn't have an AP. I think a review book will probably do for you too -- go over terms, what you should probably include in the essays, etc.</p>
<p>We had:
The Elements of Style
Readings for Writers
The Riverside Reader</p>
<p>The second and third ones are really old--I reckon they were printed in the 80s. But we barely touched these "textbooks" anyways, most of the reading came from other essays.</p>
<p>I doubt that the course itself actually prepares you for the test--unless you have no previous knowledge whatsoever about writing a compare and contrast essay or a narrative. I felt like I would've been better off if I concentrated more on understanding the rhetorical devices as recommended in PR and Barron's... rather than class notes.</p>
<p>we read Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student and
Writing with Power (by Peter Elbow) . but without direction, theyre not going to teach you much. and even with a perscription of adderall, i really dont think that anyone can make it through the first 50 pages of classical rhetoric without a teacher standing over them.</p>
<p>If you are strong in English already (and pay attention in your honors class), you'll do fine on the AP English Lang exam. D2's jr. year schedule was a nightmare, and she ended up taking honors English instead of AP because of conflicts with other classes she wanted. Her older sister (who HATED AP English class) told her that there was nothing unique that she learned in class that helped her on the test. D2 had AP tests that she really studied hard for; I think she may have taken a couple practice English tests, but she certainly didn't do anything remotely close to self-study. She got a 5.</p>