<p>I’m taking Gifted Honors Independent Study (basically a gifted class) next year at my school. We have to write our syllabus for next year, and I am really interested in challenging myself. I want to either write a syllabus surrounding AP Literature or AP English Language curriculum. The problem is, I don’t have much guidance. . . my school does not offer either class, and my teacher is not AP “trained.” My syllabus for next year is due next week for a grade. Could anyone give me some input? More specifically. . . </p>
<li> How many books did you read for AP Lit?</li>
<li> What type of assignments did you do for each class?<br></li>
<li> Does your teacher post a syllabus online? Can you PM it to me? </li>
<li> Anything else pertinent? </li>
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<p>Thanks for the help, guys! I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>im taking AP literature next year. i know we will read hamlet and crime and punishment. there are others i just don’t know what they are yet. there’s also a big poetry project somewhere in the year. not sure how it works yet, but i know the ap lit exam has a lot of poems, so it might do you well to throw in a poetry unit.</p>
<p>In my AP Lang class we read The Scarlet Letter, Wilder’s Our Town, The Crucible, The Awakening (SUCKED), A Raisin in the Sun, Ethan Frome, and some short stories like the Fall of the House of Usher.</p>
<p>Other than that we did a lot of MC practices for the Lang test, learned a few allusions daily, and wrote each essay at least once.</p>
<p>Oh and our summer reading was All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg, the Color of Water by James McBride (?), and the Jungle by Upton Sinclair. We did a lot of vocab quizzes and reading quizzes, some practice analytical essays (just annotating the passage and writing a thesis statement)</p>
<p>I took AP Lang this year, and we had alot of either curriculum reading or independent reading from a list. For summer hw we read My Antonia, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman. Our curriculum reading was The Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, and Catcher in the Rye. For our ind. reading, we had choices relating to themes, but I read The Picture of Dorian Gray, In the Time of the Butterflies (sucked), The Grapes of Wrath, Slaughterhouse Five, the Awakening, and Brave New World.</p>
<p>For AP Lang we read: The Poisonwood Bible, Huck Finn, The Fixer, Death of a Salesman, The Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, In Cold Blood, The Glass Menagerie, Othello, The Tempest, The Great Gatsby, The Prince, and The Woman Warrior</p>
<p>We read in Lang: Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Huck Finn, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Bell Jar, Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible, Things They Carried, Slaughterhouse Five, Of Mice and Men, Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. We also read some others but that’s all I can think of. </p>
<p>We did several vocab quizzes each week and we did an essay on every book we read and then we did practice AP tests (both objectives and essays).</p>
<p>My AP Lang class was awesome. It was a lot of politics in the beginning. We read The Selling of a President (about Nixon). And analyzed the presidential speeches and also political articles.</p>
<p>We read In Cold Blood, which is my favorite book. We read parts of Freakanomics, The Working Poor, Black Boy, Woman Warrior. We read the entire Thank You for Smoking book. We are now reading The Kite Runner.</p>