Dear Students: I'm glad you have decided to take on the challenge of the College Board's AP Program! Advanced Placement Literature is a literary analysis/writing class that helps students to read and write at the college level. We read many genres of literature in a deliberate, investigative manner. Each six weeks you and 2-3 of your friends in the class will get to choose a novel or play "of literary merit" to read and study together; students find these "book club" groups make the class and novel reading more fun. Colleges and scholarship applications want to see the presitigious "AP" designation on your high school transcripts; so taking AP English Literature and other AP classes at McNary HS helps you with college admissions and college scholarships. By the first week of May each school year, students in AP Literature class will be trained and prepared to take the Advanced Placement Literature & Composition exam. Students who score a "3," "4," or "5" on the AP exam earn high-status college credit, credit recogized by the top Ivy League, private, and public colleges and universities. AP exam credits are more widely accepted at prestigious, private colleges than are community college credits. If you earn a "3" or higher on 3 or more AP exams, you will earn the title of "AP Scholar" on your high school transcripts.

McNary High School
Linda Olson