<p>Hello i am a sophomore that will be taking AP English Language and was wondering what books people have read in that class?</p>
<p>We read (or were supposed to read, although nobody did, including me) The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, some other random stuff…</p>
<p>Most people, me included, relied on Sparknotes. Lang and Comp isn’t really about what you HAVE read, although reading a lot probably would be beneficial.</p>
<p>We read essays from “100 Great Essays” compiled by DiYanni. It really helped us, as we came across essays on the exam that we read in class.</p>
<p>But Lang and Comp is more about Comp…</p>
<p>Don’t take the exam. AP Lang is an exam where if you don’t already get ~40/55 on the m.c. you can’t get a 5. It’s really really hard to improve on the m.c.</p>
<p>Hm… Everyone was supposed to read The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Walden (Thoreau), and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau). Then we got to choose from a list of other books, and I ended up reading Band of Brothers and My Antonia (Cather). Other choices includes Flags of Our Fathers, The Jungle, and The Bluest Eye.</p>
<p>We read a mixture of literature such as The Great Gatsby, Middle Passage, Ragtime, and non-fiction essays / novels (mainly essays) such as MLK’s Birmingham letter, JFK’s speech, and a variety of other famous essays.</p>
<p>We’ve read the Scarlet Letter, about to read a Street Car Named Desire, we’ve read stories by Ernest Hemmingway, modernist writers, Thoreau, Emerson, etc, etc.</p>
<p>Why don’t you go to the AP English Language and Composition description and see a list of suggested readings?</p>