Senior AP English overview

Hmmm how to summarize senior year English in one blog post, well it was memorable for sure. I can't say that I have ever been more frustrated with a class then this one. All I can hope for is that all the work I've done has prepared me for the test next week. In all honesty, I don't feel prepared for the AP exam and I'm kinda upset with the fact that four major assignment were given to the class the week and a half before the test. The poetry test, independent reading book number three, the poetry project, and the poetry essay all before the exam! I have not had the time nor energy to study the past lessons because of the work load of these past few weeks. Overall the class was made even more difficult because it is senior year. I know you've heard this a million times and its the same statement year after year, but it doesn't change the fact that senior year is known to be a year to breeze through. I'm thankful that this class prevented me from breezing through, but because of that this year has been even more stressful than the past. Maybe I'm just being dramatic, but this class was much more work than I thought it would be. Maybe at the beginning of next year you should warn your students as to what they are getting themselves into. You're a great teacher, it is the class that I do not like, not you. Thanks for dealing with the moans and laziness that seniors bring along!

Poetry Project

The poetry projects went better than I thought they would go. Just because I am in my group, I am subjective when I say this, but I really thought that Kim's song for the make it memorable part was the best in the class. It was really cool how she managed to make a Robert Frost poem modern and sing it to a tune that many people recognize. I also believe that it was the most entertaining and out of all the groups, ours was the most memorable. I did enjoy all the sweets that people brought in and there were also some really creative groups that thought if ideas that were unique. The make it memorable part was the only part of the project that really stood out to me. To be honest I couldn't tell you any group's except my own style of the time period or poets. It's not that I wasn't paying attention, it's because of the quantity of information that I was given. They were very informative and covered the information really well, it's just that they were kinda boring at times. To improve on the project if you were to do it next year, I would focus on a specific time period or movement and then break that up. It was just too much presented at one time and therefore the quality of attention was not given that was deserved. I surprisingly liked the make it memorable part the most, so I would definitely keep that. It was surprising to me that I liked it because I thought that it would be a pain to come up with an idea, but in actuality, it was pretty simple.