<p>For those of you that have taken it or are next year what summer project did you have for it? At my school we have to write a 24 page essay.. Did you guys do the same? For those of you that have taken it what would you say about the class? Out of all my AP classes this is the one that is stressing me the most! What would you rate it? 1 being the easiest 10 being the hardest</p>
<p>My personal class: 3/10 </p>
<p>My summer work was read a book, write 2 papers and a poem…lol…</p>
<p>It was honestly the easiest A I’ve gotten in my high school career. We wrote I think 27 essays over the course of the whole class. I still got a 5 though so it’s all good.</p>
<p>A 24 page essay seems a bit unnecessary for a class where you write at most 4-page papers…</p>
<p>Mine: 9/10</p>
<p>Summer assignment was to read 15 famous essays, then to write 15 essays about them. It was okay though-- each essay only had to be 2 pages, and then there were all these types you could do, like 3 of them had to be in faux letter format, others were close-reading, and still others were critiques. </p>
<p>A very challenging, but extremely rewarding experience. Easily my favorite class in junior year. Also, you’ll never have to study for SAT CR ever again :). And you can actually read literature after the stuff you learn in this course.</p>
<p>I’m taking it next year and I have to read Cannery Row and another book, write a paper, and analyze 8 essays. That massive paper seems absurd.</p>
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<p>Why were all of your classes so tough? Do you really need that much preparation?</p>
<p>2/10
Honestly, in my school, LANG was a huge blowoff class. I mean besides the hard grading on essays and tests, which we rarely got, most of us were able to sleep through the class and still get an A. Our summer homework was to read like 3 books listed and annotate them. I read 1 out of the 3 and still ended up with an A and a 5 on the exam =]</p>
<p>I’m not really sure what this class is supposed to teach. Our class was quite difficult, but it really seemed like pointless busywork to me, e.g. writing analysis of various pieces, memorizing the specific definitions of rhetorical strategies, etc.</p>
<p>I got a 5 without really studying at all.</p>
<p>I enjoyed Lang a lot. We had a lot of busywork, unfortunately, and the tests were formulaic, and the essays were graded hard, but I enjoyed most of what we read, and rhetorical analysis is neat.</p>
<p>Never studied Lang, didn’t take class, didn’t look at practice books, and got an easy 5 on the exam.</p>
<p>I’m taking it next year.
Assignment:
Read 1984 by George Orwell & A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf.</p>
<p>Summer we had one required book that had to be annotated. Then one strongly recommended one. The class was probably 5 or 6/10 for me. I ended with an A- and then an A. The in class timed essays were the hardest for me at first because I dont fully develop my ideas in that time, thus receiving a lower grade on them. I got better over time and I think the essays we had a few weeks to write really strengthened my skills.</p>
<p>I’m taking it next year as well…</p>
<p>I’m reading Beowulf and Memoirs of a Geisha. I have to write a 2-3 page essay on Memoirs, but that’s it!</p>
<p>At my school, I hear it’s challenging but not super hard (that was for APUSH!) lol.</p>
<p>6.5/10</p>
<p>We didn’t have a summer project. I only had it for half a year in he spring term.</p>
<p>5/10
Read the Overachievers and the Glass Castle, do an MWDS, and then write a reflective essay.</p>
<p>3/10
no studying, 5.
i think you have to be just decently good at writing.</p>
<p>5/10. Not because the class is a joke, but because my school goes hard on English frosh/soph years, so it’s not a big transition. Plus English is the only thing I’m good at :)</p>
<p>No summer work, as the English teachers all teach different books.</p>
<p>Oh and it’s a required junior year class.</p>
<p>What on earth does your essay have to be about?</p>
<p>They gave us a list of authors from different eras and we have to pick 7 authors and read two books from each of them. So in total it’s 14 books. And we have to write introductions, textual analysis, exposes and other stuff.</p>
<p>I’m taking this next year too! Our summer assignment was just to find 5 articles and write an 8 sentence summary for each… Easy stuff :)</p>
<p>8/10</p>
<p>I took it in my junior year and our summer assignment was to read a book and analyze several sentences in it to explain why each one was the most emotional, most interesting syntax, etc. We also had to find a few news articles and explain the connection between them all. It was a good, rigorous class during the year which really prepared us pretty well for the AP exam. I got a 5, and I believe most people averaged 4’s in the class with some 5’s and so on. The school year was much more work than our summer work though (24 page essay? Wow…).</p>