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ap lang or ap lit
ap lang or ap lit
hi! so do you take ap lang or ap lit?
thanks for replying.. i have some questions..
1) does/did it help your essay writing at all?
2) what do you guys do exactly in class? only write essays? read books/essays/short stories, learn grammar..etc
3) does your teacher give you sample essays/writings from other students (name withheld, of course) to see as examples of what to do or what not to do?
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I'm taking AP Language right now.
I'm only in the first month or so of class, but I think it's helping my writing a lot. I don't know; maybe it's because of the expectations I have of my teacher's standards. Here's what we have done so far:
Our first essay was a personal experience essay (this was fun) concerning anything we wanted, focusing primarily on selection of detail.
We read "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (a short book) and wrote 2 essays concerning it. For the first essay, we used the book for examples. For the second essay, we were given a prompt: "There can be no freedom without education" and told to agree, challenge, or qualify it (both agree and disagree) using the book and other specific exmaples.
In class, we did not really go over the book plot. We did discuss literary elements of the book.
We were assigned a new book, "Angela's Ashes" and will have to write 2 research papers on it.
We have been given various short essays (1-2 pages) and taught to annotate them. This means really focusing on the smallest of details and commenting on them, asking questions, noting specific imagery, itc. This helps the writing of essays.
Learned about Parallel Structure
Selection of detail
Diction (to analyze the effect of chosen words)
New vocabulary
Punctuation (Commas and Apostrophes)
We also learned to imitate syntax.
I don't know about you, but this sounded really difficult to me when my brother took the same class last year.
However, this year, as we've been being taught everything, it has not been too hard.
Today we were given sample essays from other students from past years and told to grade them (essays are on a scale of 1-9, 9 being the highest). This is so we would know what is appropriate for an essay.
My brother told me that last year, when some essays were assigned, the teacher would grade them first, then have students (from the other AP Language class) grade them (those grades would not really count).
Anyways, if you asked this question because you are considering taking AP Language or AP Literature, I suggest you go for it.
My essay writing dramatically improved, or at least I think it did.
Hope this helps. :)
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