>>2113052
READING GRRM IS FUNDAMENTAL TO SUCCESS

>(winter is coming))

that teacher should be fired

>no fear shakespeare

This looks like a really good list to hook a kid who doesn't read very much into reading for life.

You have the rest of your life to read pretentious shit by Frenchmen. Calm your tits.

>>2113054

>(winter is coming))
>))

Little mistakes like that are always bad omens to me if it's an English teacher/professor who makes them.

That's a really hefty amount of reading for a class. Expensive, but I like it.

I'm sorry OP

>>2113061
Except that non-reading kids usually don't enroll in an AP literature class.

>To Kill a Mockingbird
that's Freshman shit
>The Hunger Games
isn't that for little kids?
>True Grit
I enjoyed this book, but there's nothing advanced about it. What is there to discuss? Maybe the main character's sense of justice. But not much
>Three Theban Plays
I fail to see what's advanced about this
>Beowulf
Same
>Game of Thrones
like True Grit, I wonder what can possibly be discussed about this in class
>Shakespeare
token high school lit.
>The Kite Runner
token minority author talks about being a minoirty literature

Is this AP Freshman literature? I guess "advanced placement" means quantity of books over quality of books.

considering that this is high school, i think the reading list could be much worse

it wouldn't be my list though for an AP Lit class

>>2113107

AP Lit is usually senior class. AP Language is junior. Freshman/Soph English is just "Honors" a lot of the time.

>Beowulf
Okay
>Translated by Burton Raffel
Oh God no....

Everyone knows you read the Seamus Heaney translation or else you bust through it in Old English.

>>2113107

I think the Theban plays are at a pretty good level for an AP Lit class. Enough typical shit to talk about like Greek tragedy and the motif of blindness.

>>2113107

>The Hunger Games
>Isn't that for little kids?

Questionable. When the main character shoots an arrow through some kids throat so he chokes to death on his own blood, I'm not so sure of this. After all, the whole premise is kill everyone, be the last person standing.

>>2113154
So basically, it's for kids.

>>2113107
>Shakespeare
>token high school lit.
Shakespeare might be a staple of High School English classes. But that doesn't mean his works are simple or academically worthless. As Shakespeare pretty much the father of modern English literature it would be quite stupid to leave him out.

>>2113154

>>2113154

It's also a retelling of the Theseus mythology.

Whats up with that (winter is coming) anyway, is the teacher a neckbeard faggot who likes to quote things.

>nobody saying anything about the period inside of the parentheses

What are you, some sort of neckbear faggots who can't focus on anything non geek related?

The texture of the paper and formatting gives me a boner for some reason.
I like it.
Must be from staying on /lit/ for too long.

>the Hunger games
More like shitty rip-off version of Battle Royale, inturn a rip-off version of Lord of the Flies.

u mad cuz the Gurm is stylin' on ya?

>Game of Thrones
>I wonder what can possibly be discussed about this in class
You can spend a handful of classes just discussing all the complex implications derived from
>"Hodor" said Hodor

>>2113107

>like True Grit, I wonder what can possibly be discussed about this in class

There's a lot of discussion to be had about characters like Tywin Lannister.

So what books would be good for AP Lit?

>>2113170
>the Gurm
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahaha!

>>2113251

Twilight...

Now, don't laugh. Here is my reasoning.

>You can learn just as much if not more about literature by reading bad novels as you can by reading good novels--just so long as you still read the good novels.

True Grit is a real good book yall. But Hunger Games is a laughable selection, i hope we can all agree.

>>2113061

>This looks like a really good list to hook a kid who doesn't read very much into watching the movies/tv series based on these books and failing the class.

FTFY

>>2113251
Finnegans wake

>>2113261
0/10

>>2113264
True.

Thank God my parents sent me to private school.

Enjoy discussing The Shit Games, pleb.

>>2113286

I also went to a private school (years ago). This is last summer's reading list. Tear it up, /lit/.

>>2113300
Honors my ass.

That's unsurprising: every university has a unnecessary English course. At least you have to read more than you would in a usual English course.

>The Game of Thrones
>The

>>2113264

This is what I was thinking; This list is full of televised shit. I haven't read any of these books, but I'm sure I would probably watch the movies and shit if I were a lazy ass fucker.

I wish I got to read True Grit.

This list clearly isn't elite enough for me. Where's the Proust? Where's the Joyce? Where's the goddamn Nabokov? This is clearly plebian horseshit.

Reading list for my AP Lit class was

Candide
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Frankenstein
Heart of Darkness
The Awakening
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hamlet

And a ton of short stories and poetry throughout the year.

Pretty good class that I actually got an A in with minimal effort.

>>2113976
I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest my Sophomore year in High School. That's not AP in the slightest.

List for my AP Lit class:

The Things They Carried
Siddhartha
Hamlet
Twelfth Night
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, or Great Expectations
A Doll House or The Importance of Being Earnest
Things Fall Apart
Heart of Darkness

I really wish she'd thrown some Nabokov on there, because Pnin was 2deep4me and I'd love to discuss it.

>>2113990
honestly can not even imagine how much of a life disaster you must be to be quibbling about the level of shit that appears on someone else's 12th-grade english class syllabus

>>2113990
Whoopdefuckingdo. I'm not claiming my reading list was the best ever, just sharing it. Besides, it's good literature regardless of what "level" it is (as if that's not completely arbitrary anyway).

The Stranger
Pride & Prejudice
Dante's Inferno
Wuthering Heights
Death of a Salesman
Waiting for Godot

That's all I remember from seniorAP lit but I know we read a lot more.

>>2113996
>>2114005
It's an AP Lit Class. Wanna know what AP stands for? It means Advanced Placement. Yes, Cuckoo's Nest is good lit, but it's not "Advanced" by the arbitrary standards that are put forth by Universities and Colleges. You know, the places you're trying to impress with this AP course?

Wanna know what makes a good AP Lit list? Crime and Punishment would be great (and helpful, considering it was ON the AP Lit test I took). Perhaps a little Jane Austen. You know, the books /lit/ reads to feel pretentious and better than everyone. That's the whole point in the ADVANCED PLACEMENT class. You're "better" than everyone else.

Captcha: silliness atmong

>>2114023
I'm not OP, I forgot to change my name from another thread.

>>2114023
Get a fucking life, dude. One thing you can say for the people who actually grade AP exams is that they're not 19-year-olds obsessed with Status so you'll be perfectly fine writing a decent essay about any ol' Barnes & Noble employee picks shelf classic that isn't a comic book or something sold in the kids section

>>2114029
Except my essay question specifically gave Crime and Punishment and Pride and Prejudice as two of the bunch of listed books I HAD TO WRITE ABOUT for the essay. And I HAD TO PICK 3. Teaching an AP Lit class with anything but high-level literature is a disservice to the student who has to take the fucking test at the end of the year.

>>2114023

No, the whole point of AP classes is so you don't have to waste the fucking money to pay for general ed. English or literature at a university.

is this becoming a share-what-you-read-senior-year thread?

The Sound of Waves
The House of the Spirits
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Othello
Teaching a Stone to Talk
Beloved
Assorted poetry of Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop
and a bunch of short stories

basically my school trying to be edgy by having a bunch of non-white/female authors + one Shakespeare

>>2114039
this sounds pretty dope to me tbh!

>>2114036
You can't receive credit if you did piss poor on the AP Lit test, and you can't do good on it if all you read for the entire year was irrelevant to the test.

wtf, have they always had Required Reading for the ap lit exam or did that one dude misread his essay question? i got a 5 on that shit and I was just writing about rando shit i'd done better essays on in other classes

>>2114036
If you don't want to take the general education courses, go to a university that doesn't require them. Simple as that.

>>2114041
Reported for global rule violation.

>>2114048
I took the 2011 AP Lit. And yes, I'm fairly certain that the essay had to include a comparison of at least 2 of the listed novels.

>>2114041

As long as you are 18, you can be on 4chan, regardless of whether you're still a senior in high school. Doesn't mean people won't look down on you for it.

Off-topic, but this thread reminded me of my high school experiences:

>sophomore year
>Huck Finn, Gatsby, Invisible Man are the only books required for the course
>choose two American authors for two separate, independent portfolios
>only read Invisible Man
>late and half-done portfolios
>receive piss-poor grade in class
>4 on AP test
>everybody mad

>>2114051

Unless I'm mistaken, in the US a degree must contain a number of general education classes if the granting university wishes to be accredited.

If I'm wrong, I'd like to know what universities do not requires general education, or even typical general education (English, Algebra/Calculus, History, etc).

>>2114063
Brown is pretty famous for having an open curriculum, though I don't know the details. I'm attending Grinnell, where the only requirements are that you take a single tutorial class (covers paper writing and citation, for the most part), that you have enough credits to graduate, and that you have a major at the end of four years.

What is AP Literature and how does it benefit you?
Is it a high school thing?
Is it specific to America?

>>2114060
Haha. I had a similar experience.

>Senior year
>Music Theory, Calc BC, English Lit AP tests
>Skip classes often
>Never do homework
>Sleep in class
>Teachers love me, inexplicably
>Rush through AP tests
>Doodle in the answer boxes
>Take naps
>5's everywhere
>Whatinthefuckinghell.flac.part2.rar.js

>>2114081
I found Senior year of high school the easiest.
Did less work than all of the other years and ended up with significantly higher marks.
Strange...

>>2113154
>When the main character shoots an arrow through some kids throat so he chokes to death on his own blood

Just because a story contains violence doesn't make it adult. Little Red Riding Hood is violent and for children.

Mine:
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Everyman
Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Gulliver's Travels
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Not too bad, considering the teacher's stated focus on pre-modern, British-only literature. Plus we had to do in-class poetry analysis essays every Friday, which definitely helped my analytic skills.

>>2114042

Yeah, they do a pretty good job at picking relatively underrepresented books in high school, except i feel like they try too hard. I think there's a problem when students never read Hemingway in their entire four years of Honors courses. >>2114048

The AP Lit test every year will have a prompt that asks you to respond using a work from a list of twenty something approved books

>>2114035

Pretty sure those were just "suggested works" not works you HAD to write about. They do it every year and the works on those lists are usually NOT what a majority of AP Lit teachers teach. I wrote about a book that wasn't on the list and got a 5 so pretty sure you could work off the list.

my AP Lit reading list:

Oedipus Rex
Medea
Othello
Macbeth
Richard III
Henry V
Hamlet
Waiting for Godot
R&G Are Dead
Metamorphosis

EZZ

>The Hunger Games
Babby's first dystopian sci-fi. Fuck that shit.

Can I even remember my AP Lit reading list? Let's see...

The Poisonwood Bible
Crime and Punishment
Pride and Prejudice
Hamlet
To the Lighthouse
Song of Solomon

...Yeah, I'm definitely forgetting a few. It was a good list, though. I liked all of them more than I thought I would, but I still don't really have a taste for Shakespeare. I think I was just about the only one in my class who liked Virginia Woolf, though.

>>2114039
I read in my senior year:
portions of Beowulf
portions of Canterbury Tales
Macbeth
... that may be it. My teacher was getting ready to retire and didn't give a shit that we were an accelerated class.

I assign my Senior English students:
Beowulf
Grendel
Portions of Canterbury and Arthurian tales
Hamlet
The Tempest
first book of Gulliver's Travels
Candide
The Importance of Being Earnest
Metamorphosis

I'm thinking of adding another long Modern or Postmodern work in spring this year, but yeah.

>teacher makes a profit selling books from a required reading list
Thanks college

You people realize that the AP Lit test is incredibly easy, right? The whole point of the test (and therefore the class) is learning how to critically analyze a work of fiction. As far as I see it, they can gain that skill from picking apart any book with a plot.
Honestly, I read some of these books in middle school Lit, but we didn't dig into them like AP students do.

>the botany of desire

Fuck yes. Great book.

what a fag