If you took AP French, what did you do during class time and did you reead any French books?

Question

I know there is no curriculum for the class, so a teacher can pretty much do whatever they want during the class. Some people read actual French novels. Did you do that, and which ones did you read?

Answer 1

I'll answer this since no one else did... when I was in high school, I took AP French Literature. Some schools also offer AP French Language, which is for a different AP test that includes testing your pronunciation/speaking ability.

For the Literature course, though, we spoke in English for most of the class. We read a lot of French novels - in French - and wrote essays about them - in French - but discussed them in English. I was a wiz at writing and grammar, but I am horrible at speaking French now - pretty useless.

I think we read Voltaire's Candide - that took a pretty long time. We also read an incredibly difficult book called "Une Si Longue Lettre." don't remember the author. I know we read lots of other stuff, I just can't remember. if I saw a list of books, I could probably tell you which ones I read....