Please finish reading Huck Finn for Monday!
AP Language Semester 1 Study Guide
AP Language Semester 1 Study Guide
Your final exam will have approximately 125 multiple choice questions. The semester one reading list below covers authors that will be asked about on the final exam. There are some passages that we read this year that will not be covered on the exam.
Reading List
Novels:
- The Scarlet Letter
- Huckleberry Finn
Literature Passages:
- “Huswifery” (Edward Taylor)
- “To His Excellency, General Washington” (Phillis Wheatley)
- “To a Waterfowl” (William Cullen Bryant)
- “Fall of the House of Usher” (E.A. Poe)
Non-Fiction Passages/Excerpts:
- On Plymouth Plantation (William Bradford)
- General History of Virginia (John Smith)
- Wonders of the Invisible World (Cotton Mather)
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Johnathan Edwards)
- Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)
- Speech in the Virginia Convention (Patrick Henry)
- The Crisis (Thomas Paine)
- Speech of Miss Baker (Benjamin Franklin)
- Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
- My Bondage, My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
- Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Walden (H. D. Thoreau)
Question Breakdown:
- Two 5-event Huck Finn Timeline questions
- 12 HF character to quotation matching
- 6 HF social commentary
- 11 HF character analysis
- 10 general HF questions
- 8 Literary device quotation identification
- 10 literary device definition matching
- 14 Author to title matching
- 11 Romanticism quotation or author identification
- 7 Critical reading passage questions
- 6 Fallacy identification
- 10 Scarlet Letter True/False
- 10 Writing process questions
