<p>So I've heard AP Literature is supposed to be a really hard and rigorous class. I'm also not very good at old world English literature, but I'm taking this class to be challenged because Honors is not enough for me.</p>
<p>I've got about a month of summer left. Is there anything I can do to prepare for my AP Lit CLASS (not exam) so I can be ready for the type of work and reading involved? Any books I should read, any type of assignments I should give myself? I was thinking about also buying a AP review book for English Lit, so any suggestions for that? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>The review book will probably help with the test, not the class, lol. I guess you could try and simply read some good literature. Look up some classic novel lists and see what you haven’t read yet. That’s about the only thing you can do. I’m taking the course as well, but my school’s not that rigorous at all.</p>
<p>read the books u’re reading during the year now. interpret it.</p>
<p>I am also taking AP Literature next year. Maybe a question that could help both of us is what do you do in a typical class of AP Lit?</p>
<p>I second swim2daend’s suggestion. Find out what books you’ll be reading (probably many of the classics) and read them now. Even if you don’t interpret it or annotate it much now, you will have such better insights when you are rereading it and your classmates are reading it for the first time or, as I found out last year, not reading at all (only about 1/3 of the class would consistently read). Your participation grade should be very high, as should your literary analyses. And you will have more exposure to potential AP lit essay topics (you write one essay where you have to select a work of “literary merit” and use it as evidence for/against the prompt).</p>
<p>And a typical AP lit class is a discussion of poems, plays, novels, etc. It is really discussion based. Your homework will consist of reading and possibly keeping a journal. There are occasional essays, but the writing/rhetoric portion is not as pronounced as in AP language (so little to no writing workshops or anything of the sort), and the essays tend to be more literary analysis than free-writing. It probably changes from school to school though.</p>