The Last Blog

AP senior English has definitely had its ups and downs this year. As I reflect on this past year, I have learned way more than I thought I would have and I am happy that it is coming to an end. I've learned how essay don't always turn out the way you expected when you get them back and hopefully that has prepared me for college. I have learned how to focus on one thing at a time, even though I might have 5 different things on my plate at a time. I haven't taken the easy road for classes this senior year and I have mixed feelings about it. I have had senioritis pretty bad these past few weeks and I've just had to keep doing everything because I would fail all of the major assignments if I didn't complete them. It's been hard to see people in different classes do nothing while I have a crazy amount of stuff to do. I think I'll be the most prepared for college level classes because I took my senior year pretty seriously and I haven't slacked off too much. I hope that I'm not shocked next year with all of the work because I've kept pretty busy this year. I hope that I get some credit for this class after all that I've done this year but I'm not sure if I'm prepared enough for the test. In my calc class I've done countless practice tests the past couple of weeks and hopefully that will be enough, but I haven't studied much for this AP test. I hope that the frequent essays and a couple of poetry m.c. will be enough next week.

Poetry Project (Completed)

After the completion of the poetry project, I think it was a good way to learn a lot of information in a little bit of time. The projects were so jammed full of information that it seemed too much to process at times. The information of the time periods before the actual introduction of poetry was a good background for what we were about to be presented, but sometimes there was no connection back to poetry. This was my part of the project so I tried to connect everything back together to how it influenced poetry. The poems that each group read aloud were very long and didn't leave much impact. Each poem would've been much more impacting if the groups gave a summary of what it meant and how it connected back to the time period. My favorite make it memorable group presentation was when Kim did the cup song to a Robert Frost poem. It was surprisingly awesome and she really pulled it off. Each group had really good information to present but it was boring at times. The quantity of slides, poems, and poets made me lose interest a few times. Each group did a great job overall and my favorite aspect by far for all of the groups was the make it memorable part of their presentations.