Got my summer work but no specific reading list for the course. Hope I do well for this AP test compared to Lang.
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Took the AP lit test this year, got a 5. My advice is to study literary terms since they definitely show up on MC, and you sound smarter on the essays if you use lit terms correctly. My class used the Perrine’s textbook to read various poems and short stories, which helped a lot for the poetry and prose essays in the FRQs. For the poetry and prose essays, always look out for examples of irony and juxtaposition in the passages, they will almost always have those two literary devices present, and they will usually be important to the general theme of the passage.
We read quite a bit in the years leading up to this class and during the year. In the class we read Catcher in the rye over the summer, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and The Things We Carried. Other good books to know are Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scarlet letter, Lord of the Flies, and 1984. Honestly, if you really really tried, you could probably find a way to use Great Gatsby for nearly every past AP lit prompt for essay #3.
Also taking it this year. Waiting to get my books. We have to read 4! I like reading though and I’ve read a lot of books that most people use on the exam so hopefully I’ll do good! My struggle is probably going to be the M.C.
While true, if you have to really try to make a work fit the prompt, the essay will probably not be the best. It is far better to know 3-6 works very well from which you can draw upon to answer essay #3.
So i thought i would have the summer without homework, but we have a meeting next week where the summer assignment will be given out :(. I just hope it is not too involved.
taking this class but no summer reading! I’ve gotten As in all my lit classes (except for one semester where I got a B due some problems I had with depression) and a 4 on the AP Lang test. Hoping I won’t be too lost…
I’m taking this as a senior. We only have to read “How to Read Lit Like a Prof” for our summer assignment. I thought it’d be dreadfully boring, but it’s not too bad.
I’m taking this at an online school next year. My materials were sent recently and I got 12 different novels! But no summer work… so I may start reading some of them over the next month or so before school starts.
