<p>okay...so my AP lit teacher has us read 2 independent novels on our own time each semester in the midst of 8 other required novels...she said that we could go onto the ap central website for an approved list of books to read...
i did, and over xmas break i read the majority of Orwell's 1984...i go into class today, and casually inform her that i want to read this book for one of my independent novels and she says that it is not of literary merit...</p>
<p>COME ON!!! it's on the list of approved novels, and it is listed as one of the examples of books that are acceptable to reference in old AP test prompts</p>
<p>i like the book, and more importantly i do not have time to start another novel(we are reading tale of two cities now that we are back from break)....
so my question is how many (if any) of you have read 1984 for your AP lit class? do your teachers approve of it? do you think it is of literary merit? (i am kind of looking for "ammunition" to back up my case...)</p>
<p>we read 1984 last year, which was the same year we read tale of two cities, so i think they are the same literary merit. now, we just finished scarlet letter in ap lit.180 pages.</p>
<p>wow we read scarlet letter in 10th grade and 1984 at the beginning of 11th grade - yes it's an important novel. another similar good one is Brave New World</p>
<p>yeah, we dont read 1984 in our curriculum but we read brave new world, which is very similiar in its theme and messages. i assume, if we read brave new world, 1984 would be okay too. i'm sure 1984 would be a good book to use for the open-ended prompt if the book fits the question that is being posed</p>
<p>That's ridiculous. 1984 definitely has a lot of literary merit. The only good reason I can see why she might not be happy about you reading it for the class is that I think it fits a little more into the AP Lang syllabus than AP Lit. If you look at the course descriptions on collegeboard, Orwell is listed under suggested authors in AP Lang, but not AP Lit. The suggestion that his books do not have literary merit, however, is preposterous.</p>
<p>We will be assigned 1984 and Brave New World later this semester in my AP Lit class. I already had to read it in APUSH though. Every school is different... we read tale of two cities freshman year.</p>
<p>I read Scarlet Letter, 1984, and Tale of Two Cities during my freshman and sophomore years. In AP Lang. this year, we had to read Jane Eyre (one of the worst books ever written), Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Adventures of Huck Finn, along with many other short stories. I think the main thing to do is read, and comprehend it. We are working on rhetorical analysis right now in AP Lang.</p>
<p>Let's see--- after a year of Pre-AP and half a year of English Lang and Comp we have read... </p>
<p>All Quiet on the Western Front
A Seperate Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
Taming of the Shrew
Our Town
The Scarlet Letter
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Macbeth</p>
<p>...along with a bunch of short stories from the realism/naturalism period.</p>