Waukegan High School offers a variety of AP courses including AP Literature. AP stands for Advanced Placement.  Students who score well on the AP test in the spring can earn college credit; however, the Communications Department does not require students to take the exam.

More importantly, the AP Lit class prepares students for college-level reading-sometimes up to 125 pages per week-and college-level writing.  If you welcome a challenge and love to read and write, register for the class.

Here are some sample titles and assignments that are part of the year-long  AP course:

Frankenstein

Metamorphosis

Lonelines of the Long-Distance Runner

Hamlet

Crime and Punishment

The Sound and the Fury

Oedipus Rex

Additional outside reading

Extensive poetry analysis

In-class writing once a week

Ten-to-twelve page literary analysis paper

Visit the College Board website to learn more about AP classes. (http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/about.html)

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