<p>My teacher is so weird! We haven't read anything, except for some short stories by James Joyce and Willa Carther. We've been analizing random poetry and prose peices and she's been pushing vocab (20 words a week.) I've been reading Austen and Dickens on my own. Does anyone have any other books I should use to prepare?</p>
<p>Jane Eyre, A Fine Balance, How to Read and Why (URGH!), Obasan, Angela's Ashes. We mainly look at motif stuff, recently going into formulating theses and connecting literary elements to the meaning.. and all that</p>
<p>In my AP Comp class we're spending out time talking about rhetorical devices and we've finished reading King Lear. We also talk about previous AP questions once a week.</p>
<p>read:</p>
<p>the Handmaid's tale
the Odyssey
1984
Slaughter-house Five
currently reading All Quiet on the Western Front</p>
<p>we're pretty much jacking off.</p>
<p>omg...we haven't read like anything</p>
<p>we read parts of scarlet letter but that was it...
we just do rhetorical terms and read random essays</p>
<p>i don't have the class till next semester, but our summer reading were the first two LotR books, and the third one was recommended to read so you dont have to during school....guess what im going to be doing during winter break >.<</p>
<p>Completely off topic, but your username, Wonky-Faint, reminds me of Willy Wonka every time I see it. Glad I got that out of me. Good luck with AP lit :)</p>
<p>Our ap class is pretty awesome. we do short stories, write practice essays once every two weeks, and engage in very dynamic discussions.</p>
<p>Insofar, we've done Brave New World, 1984, Animal Dreams (IMO such a gushy sob story), The Stranger, and Heart of Darkness. Lots of fun!</p>
<p>We've read: Things They Carried, Things Fall Apart, Age of Innocence, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Siddhartha, The Awakening, Ishmael, and Heart of Darkness. Our class was split into groups and we had to do a four-day presentation on a book. We have also written example college essays and now are doing poetry.</p>
<p>We've Read:</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice
The 3 Oedipus Plays
Lord of the Flies
Siddhartha
Native Son
Greek Mythology
A Death in the Family
Death of a Salesman
Catcher in the Rye
Heart of Darkness
MacBeth
Hamlet</p>
<p>And we did 3 AP Prompts
Essays/Tests/Projects For Most of the Books</p>
<p>And Now we are working only with poetry until like end of january.</p>
<p>My class is great. Our class is split into 5 units (Tragic world, Mad world, All in the Family, Who Am I, Woman's World). For each we read 1 summer novel, 1 independent, and 1-3 in class. So far we've done:</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby
Oedipus Rex
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (outside book)
1984
The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony
No Exit
Slaughter-house 5 (outside)
Cuckoo's Nest (outside)
The Stranger (outside)
The Cherry Orchard
King Lear</p>
<p>We do practice essays occassionally (mostly on poetry) but in general they're out-of-class and are fairly interesting. One was to write about your reaction to criticism of Kafka's work, another on relationships in a "mad world," and one comparing Gatsby to our outside book.</p>
<p>I feel lazy. We don't do nearly as much reading in my class, but I feel confident...</p>
<p>lots of poetry right now. lots. dozens. we've written 3 prompts on poetry over the past few weeks</p>
<p>lots of practice ap MC sections - about 20</p>
<p>about 10 prompts on prose.</p>
<p>we've read heart of darkness, catcher in the rye, king lear, a clockwork orange, and edith hamilton's mythology. we've had to read a few general lit books in private, we work in private out of a literature anthology, and im reading the kite runner for extra support. i don't feel nearly as prepared as some of you guys. we do read quite a bit of short stories (the yellow wallpaper being a real knockout) and we tend to have discussions quite frequently.</p>
<p>oh, and we do quite a bit of research work, unfortunately. a requirement for our school is a research paper on a career related field (so i wrote mine on minoan architecture, for example) which is nice prep but not related to AP. we are designing our own research paper on a novel of our choice in january and continuing to work on poetry. that's pretty much it.</p>
<p>zacsrequiem--We had to do one of those career papers in 9th grade. Like any 9th-grader really know what they want to do with their life.</p>
<p>At my school, we read Lord of the Flies, the Catcher in the Rye and the Great Gatsby all in a normal 10th grade English class...</p>
<p>Yeah, I pretty much love my AP Literature class.</p>
<p>We've read:
1984
Brave New World
Parts of the Bible (good for detecting allusions in other literary works)
Siddhartha
Medea
Oedipus Rex
Poetics (chapter on Tragedy)
Mythology</p>
<p>...And a BUNCH of remarkable short stories that are great for analyzation.
Duh, we've done a gerjillion essays, strengthened our analytical thinking (also by watching a John Wayne movie, woohoo), and... yeah. :)</p>
<p>At my school we have read:
Paradise Lost
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
Mythology
Eaters of the Dead
Cold Mountain</p>
<p>honied dreams - My school is career oriented. Students apply to academies and study architecture, health related careers, journalism, or commercial arts... thats why it is a bit easier for us to write and why it is a requirement.</p>
<p>rocker - ive read several of the books that we are now reading in literature, but i dont think it hurts to go over them. they are classics for a reason. going over them always yields new insight, imo.</p>
<p>omg...my class is so behind. we havent done anything. the first like month of school we went over our summer reading and did 2 papers. then we did some short stories, but in our class discussions we got totally off topic, so those aren't going to be helpful. now, we're in poetry, but we still get completely off topic, so, once again, we have accomplished nothing. how screwed is my class?</p>