<p>I'm a freshmen right now. I've done great in English until last marking period, where I got a B+ because R&J isn't exactly my favorite thing. It was a hard unit, and I went from being one of my English teacher's STAR students to just a little above average. </p>
<p>Although before my teacher wanted to set me in stone for Honor's next year and AP after that, now she's considered that I 'try out' honors, and possibly rule of the intensity of AP (she thinks we all take honors/AP because we LOVE English or something). But I know I can do it, I just didn't 'catch' on to Romeo and Juliet quick enough (we rushed to down all of it, with tests in 3.5 weeks). </p>
<p>But in case I just stick w/ honors and not AP down the line, how much will it affect my chances at going to a tier 1/ivy school? I do great (though not as great as I wished) in all my other classes. English is the main enemy of the Asians >=-/</p>
<p>I don’t think English will be a be all and end all decision, personally. And don’t feel bad – for the record, I HATED R&J as well. I had to read it in 8th and 9th; didn’t stop me from enjoying books in AP. Go for it (you seem motivated), though I warn you – Shakespeare is impossible to avoid in any English classroom.</p>
<p>Still… she used to photocopy my tests because they were so good. Now she barely seems to stand talking to me. She’s one of those teachers who puts their lives into teaching, loving every little detail about it. Maybe that’s why I did so bad on just this interpretive reading type thing.
Idk though… aren’t all the books further down like British English BS?</p>
<p>Not ****ed… but more like disapointed. I was replaced by this other guy who could read RJ. </p>
<p>And I meant like 15-17th century English. like
“Art thou in lovest with I?”
“Yes, I do bite my thumb”</p>
<p>And the grade should’ve been more like a 85. But the entire class had in the upper 60’s-70’s so she added in homework, classroom participation, and other crap like that which were 100’s and it effectively rose the class up. From a class of 25, we got 4 dropouts, and 3 kids (incl. me) who would get to move onto honors english.</p>
<p>Not taking an AP will never “break” an application. AP helps more than honors, of course, as do higher grades - but one versus the other won’t break your application.</p>
<p>Likewise, your teacher should shove it. You’ve done well and had an off quarter. If she’s one to change moods so quickly, she shouldn’t be a teacher. Kids go through phases. Big whoop.</p>
<p>Also, it depends. I personally love Shakespeare/R&J. If you do take Brit Lit, expect things like Pride & Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Milton, Chaucer, and ofc, Shakespeare.</p>
<p>Of course, there’s Dracula, Frankenstein, Regeneration, and oodles of other good novels you’ll read in Brit Lit too. But - if you don’t like novels like that, you may have trouble in britlit.</p>