<p>My sophomore son has been told that he must take British Lit Honors before taking the AP Language his junior year. Has anyone else heard of this? What does everyone else do? My older son took the course his junior year without British Lit.</p>
<p>I didn't even take Brit Lit or even American/World Lit, before taking AP Language. My teacher slacked off in freshman and sophomore year and we barely did any prep. I virtually self-studied AP Lang. in Junior year and got a decent score on the exam. </p>
<p>So IMO it's not because the material needs to be covered, probably a school policy or curriculum thing. I would tell the school that many others do not take Brit Lit before AP, but if it's the school's policy to have students take the course then I guess you have little control over that.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd make sure that all the college requirements are out of the way before I took any other classes (for the colleges my daughter is applying to, British lit is a requirement as is American lit). </p>
<p>You could probably accomplish a great deal by making an appointment and talking with the guidance counselor about the schedule - if it is important to you (and your son).</p>
<p>At my prep school, we take Ancient Lit as freshmen and British Lit as sophomores.</p>
<p>Thanks all! </p>
<p>Pearl - Can you please tell me which colleges you know of that require Brit Lit?</p>
<p>british lit is an important, good, and usually challenging class, that i hve been told is looked upon well by colleges. perhaps your son could self study for the AP language if he thinks the AP score might help his admission chances. I took british lit my junior year. My school doesn't offer AP Englishes, and I felt guilty that I was only taking one AP class, (though three others were requirements or strong suggestions!) so I self-studied for the English Lit and Lang and got 4s and 5s, respectively... If your son is a good english student, and studies for a couple of hours one a weekend for like three weeks, its pretty easy to score well on these (especially if you just choose one, I suppose). Colleges will be impressed if you self study and do well and if you dont do well you dont have to report it and since you didnt take the class theyll be none the wiser</p>
<p>All curricula are different. I'm currently taking Honors Brit Lit as a junior, and I'll be taking AP Eng lit next year (my school doesn't offer AP Eng lang, sadly).</p>
<p>All we have at my school is reg english and AP english. So yeah <_< But our AP classes are amazing(Considering our schools pays for the test...I don't know of any other school that does this in my area; the average grade for the AP English exam at my school is a 3.8 I think.)</p>
<p>Yeah, our school pays for the AP tests too... I guess they kind of have to considering if we take an AP class we have to take the test.<br>
I guess our way works decently, I don't recall anyone getting below a 4 on the English AP in recent years
Freshman year we take a bit of an overview English class I guess, Sophmore year is British Lit, Junior year can be either AP Eng Lang or CP/Honors American Lit, and Senior year is World Lit</p>
<p>We take AP Eng Lang before we take AP Eng Lit (which is basically like Brit Lit) at my school.. hmm</p>
<p>My daughter's school also does AP language first, then AP Eng. Lit. She says Eng. Lit is really easy, because she has the writing part down ... it's easier to analyze & write about the plays/books that way.</p>
<p>They are all in Georgia. Mostly I've seen these requirements on "home-school admission check lists" (which are lists that tell home-schoolers what subjects they are supposed to have learned in order to be admitted - it follows a college prep outline. I can't remember specifically, but schools I've looked at have included: Emory, Agnes Scott, Olgelthorp, GA State, GA Tech, UGA, Georgia College and State University. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that all of those might NOT require it, but many did. Most described the English requirements as American Lit, British Lit, World Lit and Advanced Composition.</p>
<p>In my sophomore year, we took a Pre-Ap English class before AP Language junior year...but it was technically a british lit class, because all the works we discussed or wrote about were from Europe...</p>
<p>I don't think it's that unusual.</p>