<p>Hey guys
So my teacher doesn't seem to be preparing us very much for the AP exam, and though I'm not complaining, our class sounds pretty much like an honors course. </p>
<p>We occassionally write essays on rhetorical devices in class and every week we have another essay for an ongoing paper. We also read books but everyone sparknotes them and it's just a mess. :</p>
<p>I have CliffsAP and Barron's w/CD and looked through it about twice.. haha</p>
<p>For our midterm, (the midterm was a sample AP test), we prepared in class by doing the MC, and everyone did quite horribly. But for the midterm, the teacher used a sample test from a different booklet and I got a perfect score on the MC. So idk if that's a good sign, or if it was just an easier test.</p>
<p>What are you guys doing in class to prepare? Any advice? Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I’m taking it too and this along with AP Euro is my first AP class. This seems less structured so I don’t think it’s just you. What we have done all year is go through this book of essays and just read some each night. Also we take a MC test about every 2 weeks and we write a FRQ every 2 weeks. </p>
<p>Just wanted to tell you also that for the AP tests if you are getting about 50% of the questions right that is about a 3, 65% is a 4 and 80% is a 5 so it seems like your doing pretty good.</p>
<p>My AP English Lang class is a complete joke. My friends and I jokingly call it AP Arts and Crafts, because all we do is craft projects, word jumbles, and crosswords. We have a project that takes up the entire month, where small groups of students teach the class on different literary movements, while the teacher acts as a student. We have done two AP essays all year. And to top it off, we have only read one play and one novel: The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter. Needless to say, we are not prepared for the test.</p>
<p>I should be in aplac right now but im home sick, so this seems an appropriate time to post this. We do about one prompt and one multiple choice quiz a week, then the rest of the time we talk about “high culture” things to reference on the AP exam (like Plato, Shakespeare, ect) and read books, fun stuff.</p>
<p>I didn’t do anything when I took AP Lang last semester. (My school runs on a block schedule where we have four classes a semester, we change classes half way through the year.) I’m not taking the exam because we literally only did two practice tests and he didn’t count one because he wasn’t even there the day we did it and the sub messed everything up. That class was a joke, my friends and I would draw. It doesn’t really bother me though because I took AP Lit last year and took that AP test. Oh well, I’m taking three exams of the five APs I’m taking this year.</p>
<p>We haven’t read any books; we’ve read most of the chapters of The Things They Carried, but not in any particular order. We write about 2 essays a month, have about 10 vocabulary words every two weeks, and learn a lot about rhetorical strategies and fallacies. As for the reading comprehension multiple choice, I think that the best strategy is practicing, and thinking “That sounds like it would be a question!” as you read the passages. That’s what seems to help me, at least.</p>
<p>I think the main problem is that unlike other AP tests, APLAC doesn’t really have a set of information to cover. It’s not like APUSH, where we have to cover the history of the US from a certain time period to another. APLAC is more about analyzing and understanding passages and prose. It’s not something you memorize or remember, it’s something you learn to do. Some teachers may have trouble knowing exactly how to teach students to do that.</p>
but im home sick, so this seems an appropriate time to post this. We do about one prompt and one multiple choice quiz a week, then the rest of the time we talk about “high culture” things to reference on the AP exam (like Plato, Shakespeare, ect) and read books, fun stuff.</p>