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First week of senior year was so much more hectic than I expected it to be.
Everyone has been telling me that once junior year was over, life would be
so much easier and enjoyable.
...
I should have been smarter to realize they were just lazy bums who took their
final year in high school the easy way out. I wish I could do that. :(
But since I already decided to try my best to get into my dream college (Emory),
I don't regret signing up for all these hard courses my senior year.
I'm not going to lie, AP Lit is a pretty hard course. In my junior year, I had
seriously contemplated on taking College English instead of AP Lit because I heard
it was so much easier and could also get AP credit for schools in Georgia.
Nevertheless, I chose to take the challenge and take AP Lit, which I'm not sure
was a good idea after taking the All the King's Men's quotes test.
Honestly, the book itself was very confusing to me. Unlike all the details we pulled
from the first few paragraphs in class, I didn't realize that the idea of the
entire story was stored in the first paragraph when I was reading it during summer break.
The whole concept of the Great Twitch was hard to grasp, maybe because I didn't
fully agree with it-maybe not.
And once again, I was painstakingly reminded of my lack of comprehension about the
book while I took the quotes test today.
Yes-unfortunately, I don't think I did too well. D': This is probably because I wasn't fully
concentrating on the text while reading the book over the summer, which I find very
unfortunate. Hopefully, the in-class essay tomorrow on our second choice reading
will go more smoothly.
Other than that, I really like our class because of it's small-ish size, even though
it grew a little over the past week. OH. One thing I am a little worried about are the
Allusion Presentations. I'm not worried about if i'll be able to cover the topic
well. I know I have enough time to gather good and thorough information on it.
However, I also know that I'm not such a great presenter and I'm worried that if my
presentation does end up being horrible, my classmates won't learn anything
from it........fail. I guess practice will be the only way to get rid of my "stage fright-ish"
symptoms. Heh, good luck to all of us when our time comes to present. :)
Despite a rough first week and first test, I believe that this year will be a
fantastic one! Ms. Graham seems like a very exciting teacher with a good sense of
humor. :) I hope that my average rating of 6.5 will rise to be a 10.1 soon enough.
I plan do end my high school career with good grades. Well, BETTER grades than
last year.
Yay, leggo AP Lit.
Leggo seniors. ^.~