I am proud to say that the year is finally over! Well, at least after this assignment. It has been a long journey in which I have grown tremendously in thinking, reading, and writing. Coming from the 10H class with Ms. Loussedes, I thought writing was all about sticking to a strict guideline and nothing more. I tried so hard to perfect my writing in that format that I missed the entire point of writing, aside from the education standpoint. Writing is meant to express the authors, me in this occasion, point while the authors enjoy themselves. From the beginning of this class, starting with the summer work I tried so hard to stick to someone else’s form of writing, that I found no joy in writing. Though the year was hard, I slowly started to let go of that strict guideline and began to write for myself, and of course my grade. AP Language has reopened my mind to feel free to express myself through writing, just as I would express myself through physical/emotional activity. Unfortunately, I always found reading to be a burden. This was obvious throughout the entire year, for the reason that, I only finished reading one book out of the many we read in class. The one book that I finished, Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad, opened my mind up to realize, once more, that writing is about what the author want to say from their heart and mind, not what the authors has to say. Safe to say that this AP Language class has allowed me to evolve in my thinking, to not only think outside the box, but to tear it up!
To be honest, I do not know where I would use all of these skills in the outside world. One thing I do know is that I will keep all of the valuable information I learned within the class for next year in English 101/102 with Ms. FogartyJ. Outside of reading, writing, and thinking skills, I learned a lot of vocabulary. I will continue to use these vocabulary terms beyond this class to further improve my speech, as well as my train-of-thought.
During the beginning of the year I was completely fixated on the fact that I had to write to impress, or in other words, I had to write to show how sagacious I was by getting a good grade, and nothing more. I stuck to writing with a guideline, that when the time came to write without a guideline, I broke down and was unable to successfully complete the task. An example of my early work is the summer work. I wrote for a grade to show the world what I had; I got a hundred for the assignment and it was not until now that I actually looked at the comments due to the fact that I was satisfied. Throughout the year, I have matured as well as grown in my writing to the point that I lost the self-consciousness of writing for others and began to write show myself how sagacious I was and to allow for a connection between my mind and the paper. The maturity difference can be seen from the “The Power of Eminent Domain” essay in which I took time to utilize the information given and write a fully supported argument. This maturity came from the many different critical reading activities, such as annotating, outlining, and highlighting important points/appeals within the columnist activity. The maturity also facilitated from the constant writing of high level essays, in and out of the class.
I do not know how Ms. Fogarty instructed me to reach where I am now
From the few AP Courses that I have taken I feel that I can challenge other high college level courses. I do not know if I am prepared for more college courses from just this course, but this course has instilled great hope for my future. This course has given me confidence because I started out knowing nothing about prompts, syntax, diction, and rhetoric, but throughout the year I learned. So, if I do plan to take more college courses I know that I can learn and overcome any educational challenge through practice and hard work.
Through my struggles in AP Language, the best thing for me to do was simply to relax. The amount of work given is intense, but the more I thought about it the more stressed out I got. My advice for this class is to relax and always seek help from Ms. Fogarty because she is always willing to help, and she usually has the answer!
To be honest, I do not know where I would use all of these skills in the outside world. One thing I do know is that I will keep all of the valuable information I learned within the class for next year in English 101/102 with Ms. FogartyJ. Outside of reading, writing, and thinking skills, I learned a lot of vocabulary. I will continue to use these vocabulary terms beyond this class to further improve my speech, as well as my train-of-thought.
During the beginning of the year I was completely fixated on the fact that I had to write to impress, or in other words, I had to write to show how sagacious I was by getting a good grade, and nothing more. I stuck to writing with a guideline, that when the time came to write without a guideline, I broke down and was unable to successfully complete the task. An example of my early work is the summer work. I wrote for a grade to show the world what I had; I got a hundred for the assignment and it was not until now that I actually looked at the comments due to the fact that I was satisfied. Throughout the year, I have matured as well as grown in my writing to the point that I lost the self-consciousness of writing for others and began to write show myself how sagacious I was and to allow for a connection between my mind and the paper. The maturity difference can be seen from the “The Power of Eminent Domain” essay in which I took time to utilize the information given and write a fully supported argument. This maturity came from the many different critical reading activities, such as annotating, outlining, and highlighting important points/appeals within the columnist activity. The maturity also facilitated from the constant writing of high level essays, in and out of the class.
I do not know how Ms. Fogarty instructed me to reach where I am now
From the few AP Courses that I have taken I feel that I can challenge other high college level courses. I do not know if I am prepared for more college courses from just this course, but this course has instilled great hope for my future. This course has given me confidence because I started out knowing nothing about prompts, syntax, diction, and rhetoric, but throughout the year I learned. So, if I do plan to take more college courses I know that I can learn and overcome any educational challenge through practice and hard work.
Through my struggles in AP Language, the best thing for me to do was simply to relax. The amount of work given is intense, but the more I thought about it the more stressed out I got. My advice for this class is to relax and always seek help from Ms. Fogarty because she is always willing to help, and she usually has the answer!
Farwell AP Language!
I am so excited to say it's over too! I like how you point out the difference is writing style from last year's English course to this one. They are definitely very different. It is funny how different the writing for the courses is. I agree how strict the writing was in tenth grade. It is true that you must follow certain guidelines when writing in AP English but you must also be free and try your hardest to think differently. I use to believe my examples in my writing was the most important part to writing my essays but now I believe that it really is more important to make your writing personal to your beliefs while maintaining a more mature pros style.
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