<p>The three books I have prepared are Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. I have Cry, the Beloved Country and The Glass Menagerie as social issue backups and Macbeth if the prompt asks about fate. </p>
<p>I feel like I’m on the edge of 4 and 5 right now… Anyone know how to bring up multiple choice scores? That’s definitely my weakest point right now.</p>
<p>I have The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisited, and *Hamlet<a href=“like%20everyone%20else,%20seems%20like”>/I</a>. Backup works: The Grapes of Wrath and Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>Edit: I forgot—The Illiad also, since I heart that book. It’s ok material for the test, right?</p>
<p>We should all have a group chat about material and themes from Hamlet since it seems like we are all using it, haha.</p>
<p>3 days left… How is everyone doing so far?</p>
<p>I’m just trying to finish reading Heart of Darkness…</p>
<p>My teacher hasn’t really taught for the test this year- just the basic template of reading novels and analyzing them. I didn’t know people were reading specific books for the test! Is it to have a solid background of examples to use and analyze on the FRQs? So far, my class has read Dracula, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, 1984, Brave New World, a selection of Oscar Wilde works, and Wuthering Heights. Are there any other basic texts we should cover? And if one already is comfortable with literature not common to the class, such as Dostoevsky and Brett Ellis’ American Psycho, is it ok to use that on the exam as well?</p>
<p>^ Same here. We’ve been writing papers and reading, but not much of the test itself. I feel so unprepared. I need to familiarize myself with the test layout before anything else.</p>
<p>I recommend that you read “Heart of Darkness.” Very good for symbolism analysis. (And a looot more.)</p>
<p>Same.</p>
<p>The only consolation is that it’s a predominantly Senior class, and at least half of the seniors have probably checked out at this point.</p>
<p>Maybe this could help some people out, but here are a list of books we journaled/read this year to understand completely:</p>
<p>Moby-Dick
Cry, the Beloved Country
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Stranger
Beowulf
Grendel
Les Miserables
Picture of Dorian Gray
Brave New World
Beloved
The Color Purple
In the Lake of the Woods
The Kite Runner
The Road
Heart of Darkness
Turn of the Screw
Hamlet
Macbeth</p>
<p>Hey guys - quick question. Can you use 1984 for the open essay? Someone told me that George Orwell’s novels are not good for the AP Lit exam. I can’t find a reliable list of books that the College Board deems “of literary merit” ANYWHERE…</p>
<p>I wrote a practice essay from 1996 (?) that had Orwell’s 1984 on the open response list for suggested books.</p>
<p>good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Ugh I’m so worried.</p>
<p>Books we read this year:
King Lear
Jane Eyre
Wide Sargasso Sea
Heart of Darkness
Beloved
The Stranger</p>
<p>and on my own:
The Great Gatsby
Slaughterhouse-Five</p>
<p>“My books”
-Jane Eyre
-Slaughterhouse-Five
-Heart of Darkness
-Beloved</p>
<p>Caesura and enjambment are my keys to poetic success.</p>
<p>I’m horrible at poetry.</p>
<p>What is caesura?</p>
<p>A stop in the middle of a line. Comma, etc.</p>
<p>My lit class read like 15+ this year. I hardly remember any of them. Should i pick a handful and just look over those? How should i sort them?</p>
<p>Ones you think cover a lot of different areas. Like we read three books about postcolonialism, so like pick one of them.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a comprehensive list of vocabulary we should know by tomorrow?</p>
<p>Be careful writing about the common books that get written about a lot every year (Hamlet, 1984, Moby Dick, etc.). As you would expect these books can get monotonous for readers, so yours has to stand out a bit. Using the common books also comes with a bit d a prejudgment; it seems like a trend that essays written over lesser known books in the literary canon earn a higher score.</p>