<p>hey i was wondering what are the major assignments that you guys have written in ur AP Lit and Comp class. Also, what works have you guys read? The teacher at my school is really stupid and basically all we've done is the same paper 3 times (analyze 3 different books) and TPCASTT. I don't feel like we're actually doing anything lol...</p>
<p>We do the same thing every day:</p>
<p>Write a 20-35-40 minute essay
Do 10--20-25 minute Multiple Choice (SAT, then Pre-AP, then AP)</p>
<p>Literally, that's what we do everyday. Same it AP Lang last year. But it prepares you. It's much easier for me to write and write well because I write everyday as opposed to my friends at other schools that only write once every week or two. </p>
<p>We've read The Shipping News (ugh), Snow Falling on Cedars, and we start Native Son next week. </p>
<p>Anyone else read "The Shipping News," I honestly don't see the academic merit in the book. <em>shakes head</em></p>
<p>^That's the type of teaching that is frowned upon in our school (although I would like it much better). We have read two things. heart of darkness (SUCH A BAD BOOK) and The Metamorphosis and The Yellow Wallpaper. 2 are short stories and we are still on heart of darkness. In other words, nothing. I don't like my teacher at all. he is bad.</p>
<p>We've read Turn of the Screw, Return of the Native, Heart of Darkness, and Things Fall Apart so far in class. We read The Kite Runner, To the Lighthouse, The Handmaid's Tale, and Song of Solomon.</p>
<p>Just handed in our sixth 200-point analytical essay.</p>
<p>Lifefolding: Do your school have block schedule or something? I</p>
<p>n class the only thing we've read is Chaucer. We did three anylitical papers on 3 books that we're supposed to have read over the summer already. We also did TPCASTT papers on a few poems and our college essay. That's it for the 7 major papers but i'm really getting tired of analyzing stuff cuz thats basically all we do. I really like Lang and Comp b/c of the variety of papers that we wrote but this is just plain boring.</p>
<p>19283: How come your class read so much in only a couple of months. thats 8 books!</p>
<p>How come my school sucks... 2 short storys (1 10 pages long and another 60 pages)... and we JUST started heart of darkness. My teacher is so bad. Man I wish he would be removed.</p>
<p>We've read Merchant of Venice, Blood Wedding, and Equus and watched Death of a Salesman. We don't get homework aside from turning in a journal on every book we read.
At our school we combine AP English Lit with first-year IB English, so the book selections are somewhat...bizarre. ::cough::Equus::cough::</p>
<p>Oh yes, how could I forget The Yellow Wallpaper? Ugh, I think I detested that more than The Shipping News, a tight race though. </p>
<p>No, we aren't on block schedule, we have 55 minutes in the class. We get started right when the bell rings nad work up until the bell. What I meant is on an average day we'll do like a 35 minute essay and 20 minute multiple choice. She mixes and matches. Like today we wrote an essay almost all period.</p>
<p>ahh Equus! I'm going to see that play tomorrow.</p>
<p>^It's thoroughly awesome, though I've never gotten to see it. I'm guessing it's way better/freakier live.</p>
<p>We read Anna Karenina for summer reading, have completed Beowulf and Hamlet and are finishing up Henry IV Part 1 now. The Sound and The Fury is next. We do weekly two page essays, have performed various skits for the plays, and wrote a larger 5-8 page paper on Hamlet. We also have watched part of Hamlet from the Olivier and Gibson movies as a supplement to our reading. Classes are 45 minutes long, 5 times a week.</p>
<p>We've read Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Color Purple and we're reading Hamlet now and we've read a whole bunch of short stories and poems.</p>
<p>We did impromptus on our summer reading, then we read Oedipus & some related works (poetry & short stories), had an impromptu on those & a test, and we're taking the test for The Importance of Being Earnest tomorrow. After that we're going into The Portrait of Dorian Gray. In addition, we're working on our second novel paper outside of class, and our research paper that's due in December.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre, Crime and Punishment, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, and now we're on the last act of Hamlet.</p>
<p>We have daily journal responses, which are one-page, single-spaced reflections on whatever the assigned reading is.</p>
<p>Presently, my teacher has split us up into groups to present all the chapters from Golding's Lord of the Flies. Also, she has us writing our college essays, which a final draft will be due tomorrow. And... oh yeah, independently, we are supposed to be reading our "fat" novel ( I chose Crime and Punishment), I'll start it next month. Hmm, we also read several poems from textbooks during the week and analyze them for syntax, diction, tone, etc. That's pretty much it.</p>
<p>so far we've read (including summer reading which we worked on during class)</p>
<p>the bible (excerpts), edith hamilton's mythology, the odyssey, Moby DICK, Gulliver's Travels, couple weeks on poetry, and now we are working on oedipus(u know the mutha******,literallly)</p>
<pre><code> we have written 4 essays, and rewrote all 4! i really like the class and I think the only way to get ready for the test is to understand major works of literature and be able to analyze in ways to fit the prompt... the AP test wants 3 essays in i think 2 hours or so.
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<p>We've written a huge summer reading essay and essays for college admissions (UC prompt). We've read Macbeth, studied the Romantics and the history of the English language, read Beowulf, and now we're studying the heroic journey. We're about to start Oedepus Rex (sp??) and Heart of Darkness. We've gotten classic lit assignments (each person gets a book and studies it in-depth). We don't really study for the AP test as much as study the Western Canon.</p>
<p>I took this class 2 years ago but I loved it and it was GREAT so I thought I'd respond. </p>
<p>Over the summer, we read Jane Eyre, A Passage to India, 1984, Candide, and one more that I can't remember...</p>
<p>We did poetry first semester, starting with Beowulf then the Canterbury tales, and then moving into the romantics like shakespeare, dickenson, poe, and all those classics like Ode on a Grecian Urn, Kubla Khan, etc.</p>
<p>Then we read Hamlet, Medea, and Oedipus Rex. </p>
<p>Oh god, and then there was existentialism. We read Sarte's No Exit (LOVED), and Waiting for Godot. We watched Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.</p>
<p>The rest of the class was novels and short stories. We read short stories by Graham Green, George Orwell, Thomas Mann, DH Lawrence, etc. We read Metamorphosis, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Crime and Punishment, To the Lighthouse, Brave New World.</p>
<p>We've read "The Poisonwood Bible," "Song of Solomon," "Things Fall Apart," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "The Goat," and we're reading "The Handmaid's Tale" now. We've only had like 2 major assignments, one comparing cultural, etc. elements of PWood Bible and Things Fall Apart and an essay on the negative criticism Virginia Woolf received.</p>
<p>In my school's AP Lit class, they have read Crime and Punishment, The Inferno, Waiting for Godot, and Heart of Darkness. Now they are reading Beloved and has to do a closed reading journal on the book. Every Monday or Tuesday (depending on when the class meet), they have two quizzes: vocabulary and literary terms (AP Lit at my school gets you ready for the AP Lang and Lit exams). Then every Wednesday or Thursday, they have to turn in an AP Response, and on the same day, they do old AP Lit and Lang exam MC questions to get ready for the exam. They have done two college essays so far in class.</p>