PA Homeschoolers AP English Lit - Time per week, total and writing time

[Eilonwy]

My daughter is considering doing AP English Lit with PA Homeschoolers (Maya Inspektor), but she's concerned it will take too much time away from her personal writing projects (middle grade novels that she self-publishes).  Can anyone tell me how much time per day or per week the class takes, and also specifically how much writing time per day or per week?  Does anyone have examples of the types of weekly assignments that are given? Thanks so much!

[Porridge]

28 minutes ago, Eilonwy said:

Does anyone have examples of the types of weekly assignments that are given? Thanks so much!

My DC will be taking AP Lang with Inspektor this coming year.  Ms. Inspektor was very communicative when I had questions by email. She sent me a sample assignment. You might try emailing Ms. Inspektor. She probably won't be able to tell you how much time per day, as that will be student dependent, but she could probably give you a sense for what a week's worth of assignments might look like.

[Eilonwy]

3 hours ago, Porridge said:

Ms. Inspektor was very communicative when I had questions by email. She sent me a sample assignment. You might try emailing Ms. Inspektor

Thanks!  I will try this. 

[NittanyJen]

10 hours ago, Eilonwy said:

My daughter is considering doing AP English Lit with PA Homeschoolers (Maya Inspektor), but she's concerned it will take too much time away from her personal writing projects (middle grade novels that she self-publishes).  Can anyone tell me how much time per day or per week the class takes, and also specifically how much writing time per day or per week?  Does anyone have examples of the types of weekly assignments that are given? Thanks so much!

I think you got excellent advice from the folks who suggested you write directly to the instructor.

I would also recommend that you go to her course description page and scroll to the bottom. The link at the bottom will take you directly to student reviews— I just looked at them, and in many of them, students mention how much time they spent per day or per week on the course, which you may find helpful.

The time required will definitely vary depending on your teen’s writing process!

I had one kid who took AP English at PAHS, and one who elected not to (He instead did one year of newspaper writing and editing (Byline) and three years of the rhetoric series from TWTMA, plus an elective we created just for him called The Anatomy of Story. The kid who took the AP English class thought it was very worthwhile, even with his other classes and commitments, and felt it set him up very well for college writing. The one who did not take it is still in college, but has also felt he was very well-prepared (this one’s actually majoring in English). I will say that I have heard nothing but good comments about Maya Inspektor.

Jen

AP Statistics/PA Homeschoolers

 

[Eilonwy]

I wrote to the instructor who responded very quickly, with several weeks of sample assignments, so that worked out very well. Thanks @Porridge!

I had read some of the reviews, but hadn't noticed mentions of the amount of time taken.  I'll go back and look for that specifically, thanks @NittanyJen!