<p>For the upcoming school year, I registered for AP English Literature; however, I have received news that the course at my school has been cancelled. Only a few students registered for it. Because I won't be in AP Lit, I will be placed AP Language. Before originally signing up for Lit, I extensively researched the course. I was able to "picture" an average day in an AP Lit classroom. Now, I need to find out more about AP Language: how difficult is it compared to lit? What are the nonfiction texts like? What was your expirience in the course like? Etc.</p>
<p>It’s far easier at least in my school; you essentially read papers looking for strategies used in language to convince and appeal to the targeted audience while considering the rhetorical situation (eg. audience as well, tone, etc). Texts will often be argumentative or informational, nothing else to be honest. AP is quite easy if you are good at SAT type stuff, if not, you will need a lot of practice.</p>
<p>Taking Lit this year, so I can’t say much about the comparison between the two classes. In my school, the class was a pretty big joke, though it wasn’t a super blow off class. An average day would either include reading and/or discussing different essays and speeches and finding rhetorical terms and discussing how they are used or practice essay questions from the collegeboard. I really enjoyed the class, and I’m not even a huge bookworm/ English “freak”. You should enjoy your experience in the class unless the teacher sucks haha.</p>
<p>AP Lang sucked for me, mainly because my teacher made it almost impossible to pass the class. It really depends on the teacher, but AP lang is basically just reading and analyzing these old texts that were written 100-200 years ago & learning about rhetorical devices and how they’re used in certain texts. Half the time I couldn’t even understand what they were saying cause they were speaking in old English. You might find it a lot easier than I did though</p>