<p>Right now I know As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet extremely well. Do you think any question they throw at us could be applied to these?</p>
<p>What books/plays are you guys reviewing and hoping to use?</p>
<p>Of Mice and Men, Inherit the Wind, Hamlet, The Secret Life of Bees, or The Crucible</p>
<p>When you say know them extremely well, what does that entail? Should i know plot or ideas or quotes or…</p>
<p>I think it would be pretty much impossible to know exact quotes because if you mess up one word it completely ruins it. Definitely know symbols, motifs, changes that the characters undergo, the conflict, pretty much anything that you could take and write a great two or three paragraphs about.</p>
<p>What Karategirl said. If you use a Shakespeare play, I also imagine it’d be helpful to know the key speeches. A quote or two wouldn’t hurt (such as “all the world’s a stage” or “To be or not to be”) but definitely not necessary in the least.</p>
<p>i haven’t had the time or desire to look over anything… that being said, i know 1984 fairly well and am going to review the plot of oedipus and force either of those into an essay</p>
<p>The ones I know the best are the ones we’ve just done for class: Heart of Darkness and Chronicles of a Death Foretold. I also know some plays from this year from our world play unit (and Death of a Salesman from last year) as well as some more modern novels (Song of Solomon and Farming of the Bones) that are hopefully of “equal literary merit,” as my IB (not AP) English teacher assures. I just hope she’s right. xD</p>
<p>I have a theory that Crime & Punishment can be used to answer pretty much any prompt…but I’m also looking over Invisible Man, Heart of Darkness, Portrait of the Artist, The Stranger, and Metamorphosis.</p>
<p>I loved Heart of Darkness! I am planning on either using Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, or King Lear for the essay portion.</p>
<p>^^definitely will second the crime and punishment statement. that book is amazing versatile. other than c+p, we also did othello, portrait of the artist as a young man, native son, member of the wedding, scarlet letter, candide, handmaid’s tale, and much ado about nothing</p>
<p>The Awakening (amazing book), The Stranger, Maggie, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Streetcar Named Desire, etc.</p>