<p>@letmeseetheworld The rumored teacher for this class at my school is supposedly super tough too…UGGGHHH! Just when you get comfortable writing essays for one teacher, the year ends</p>
<p>I’m extremely nervous for this class. I hate writing essays and I’m horrible at it. The teacher I got doesn’t really like kids and he is very sarcastic. I got an A in honors this year but he was extremely easy. I usually got like a 6 on my essays which was an A but a 6 in his class is like a B-. It might be ok though because my friend wrote like her first essay in December and he mainly focuses on grammar. Since I’m so horrible at essays, I’ve made it my personal mission to work my butt of for an A on every essay </p>
<p>My goal is to start essays early and spend more time on them too. This year I usually wrote them like a day or two before and didn’t put in as much effort as I could have. </p>
<p>I’m taking this course my senior year, and I hoping to improve my writing skills while potentially earning college credit. [-O< </p>
<p>AP Lang at my school is hellishly difficult. It is considered a good grade to get around a B. Most of the kids had cs first quarter. I’m not sure about prep for the class. I’d just say start the summer work early so you have the whole summer to edit. I heard that the AP was not to difficult for lang. Our teacher gives the students a AP review packet in Jan.
AP Lit is easier and is the favored senior English class. Wouldn’t know much because I’m taking Lang :p</p>
<p>This sounds like a nightmare. Why did I sign-up for this class? Lol…
Working on my summer assignment which includes an essay and a presentation.</p>
<p>This class is entirely what you make of it. There really is no way to teach a high school student “how to write” or “how to read (critically)”. Many people in my class just sat there all year, did nothing, and copied the MC practice answers from online - yes, every practice question packet and essay your teacher will give you is probably online - but some didn’t. You can choose to not cheat, practice MC questions, practice writing essays, familiarize yourself with rhetorical strategies and modes of discourse, etc. AP Lang is like a box of chocolates. You never really know what passage or time period or essays you’ll get and people struggle because they can’t just memorize stuff and KNOW they’ll be prepared. But if you put in effort, you’ll get results.</p>
<p>I have to read The Grapes of Wrath over the summer and it is honestly beyond boring. </p>
<p>As someone who basically got straight 9s on all essays all year long, I’d be happy to give any little pointers or tips in this thread to anyone who needs it. This class is a serious writing boot camp, but also arguably the AP class that’ll most prominently jumpstart your AP career and even flow into anything else dealing with DBQs/FRQs. </p>
<p>Took this last year, and gotta agree with @z0e101
I’m pretty confident I got a 5, but I’ll have to wait till july 5th gah.</p>
<p>@letmeseetheworld not all the books are… I thought the Great Gatsby was really good and Their eyes were watching god had its moments. I don’t know your syllabus though.</p>
<p>I hate the Awakening and the catcher in the rye.</p>
<p>@theskittlebug I definitely do not think all books are boring. I like to read during my free time and have spent a lot of my summer reading. I just happen to think this particular book is very boring. </p>
<p>@letmeseetheworld Yeah I meant the books that you are required to read for AP lang</p>
<p>Anyone else have to find essays by various authors to analyze tone? </p>
<p>At my school it’s either get a really good, nice teacher and do well or get the bad teacher and do lots of extra work at home.</p>
<p>@PhazonFire FRQs and DBQs?!? This is not what I signed up for 
Are they more like APUSH DBQs/FRQs or like AP Government (more brief)?</p>
<p>@ErenYeager yes, we used SOAPSTone. I thought it was rather shallow.</p>
<p>@Erenyeager Only FRQs or whatever the essays we have to write are called, i dont believe we write dbqs</p>
<p>^I was gonna say DBQs in AP Lang doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>@theskittlebug yeah just saw a write up on it. Probably how I’ll have to do it too - my school’s teacher tend to go by the book…</p>
<p>@ErenYeager The Synthesis essays are almost identical to DBQs. In fact, they were how I learned to even do a DBQ. </p>
<p>The AP Lang teacher at my school is supposed to be terrible. /:</p>
<p>What books do you all have to read over the summer?</p>
<p>^ When I took this class, I read Confessions of a Surgeon: Life Behind The OR Doors. Fantastic book–despite being a writing class, AP Lang has some arguably amazing book recommendations for the summer. </p>
<p>My teacher wasn’t stellar but she did make us do a ton of these and as much as I hated it at the time, they really helped me when I went into the test. I got a 5 and I firmly believe the extensive essay practice with the AP Lang format is what got me that score. If your teacher doesn’t do timed practice you should take the initiative and do them on your own. Other than that, review some rhetoric/vocab terms but don’t obsess over memorizing every vocab word. It only helps to a certain degree.</p>