We were supposed to start commenting this week, but the nature of this blog won't really allow for that UNLESS you have some helpful advice for your peers. So, we will start the list for comments next week.
OK, ladies and gentlemen. You have done it. Well, almost.
The year is 3/4 over-and even more than that for AP folks because your year ends sooner than everyone else's.
So, now is the time for some introspective reflection. And, while this is not the original blog idea (the words for the other idea I have aren't arranging themselves in my brain so I need more time with them), it is equally if not more important.
As you answer the questions, I want you to keep you in mind: how you learn, what shuts down your learning, and what you can do or I can that will improve upon, and remedy those things.
What do you know now that you didn't know on September 4?
What kinds of things still give you fits because you can't seem to grasp the concept?
What would you like to focus on moving forward?
What would you like to see more of? (might be the same as the last question--might not)
Do you feel like your getting the most out of the class?
Are you living up to your own expectations?
What can you do better, differently?
And, most importantly--are you learning?
Take your time, think about your answers and tell me how you feel. I will use your responses as a means to plan out the rest of our year. If there are other things you would like to say, tell me, vent about (respectfully) etc feel free. If you feel you cannot do this in a public forum, you know what to do.
PS--this is still a blog--it's not a worksheet--please don't answer the questions one by one.
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ReplyDeleteIt’s crazy how fast this year seems to be moving but so slow at the same time. My first day as a junior, I went in really motivated and had tunnel vision. Along this path of my junior year, I’ve seem to become distracted and unfocused from my goals. I knew it was going to get hard and stressful through the year but that time of the year I just thought about school work and sports. I didn’t realize how many friends I would lose or how many things I would realize about Oakcrest, relationships, and myself. I definitely didn’t know at the beginning of my junior year how much my life would change. I think I’ve grown a lot in that short amount of time. I’ll still never understand the people at Oakcrest. I’ll also never understand the purpose of some of the rules or topics taught at Oakcrest. I seem to find myself asking often “When will I ever need to know this?” “Who is this benefitting?” And something along the lines of “What do I gain from this?” Although I have yet to find answers to those questions concerning my daily life at Oakcrest, I’ll continue to move on. I need to focus on maintaining my grades, stress, time management, and relationships. These are goals that are often set for myself but I still struggle with fixing them. So I guess I need to focus on completing the goals I set for myself. Overall, something I would love to see more of is important topics being discussed with current news, awareness for different causes and simply people not being assholes. Nothing I dislike more than someone who completely rains on my parade. It’s great to be in a good mood but I often see people spreading this negativity. So something I would rather want to see more is people being more kind. My Lang class is one of the best places to be when your upset. I never realized how many people care about me until I became closer with the people in my period two. In addition to that emotional connection, I feel like I’ve gotten the most information to benefit me as a writer and reader in my Lang class. I actually can benefit from what we learn in that class. One thing I wish we did more in that class is review. I understand it can be hard to take the time to review things we have learned due to the lack of class time we get. I could review on my own but since I have 7 other periods, homework every night, sports, clubs, rehearsals and etc, I find it hard to remember to do that. If we had some days that were scattered around the year to review things such as vocabulary, writing tools, and more, I believe that would benefit the class and help us retain the knowledge more effectively in a stress free manor. I also wish I got more feed back personally to help me fix my writing. Overall this class will always be one of my favorites because I actually enjoy learning how to become a better writer. And I love all my classmates!!!!
From September 4, I have learned and been assured of things I had little experience on. I learned that junior year and AP classes are no joke. I've learned slightly more about senior year and all the stressful college stuff. In this class, I've learned more information of the period 2 family, SAT vocab, lit terms, and me. I still become frustrated when I am given a short amount of time to complete something and be confident with it. Being rushed with distractions is something I want to become better at. I feel this concept is big in life and I'm trying new ways to overcome the stress caused from it. I'd like to see more techniques that adapt to everyone, a clearer understanding of what is being addressed and updated grades. I can honestly admit I am not living up to my own expectations. My expectations are to not procrastinate, cause unneeded stress, worry too much and not talk myself down. During this year especially, I have had many setbacks that make it hard to come back stronger. I get easily distracted and shut down when I can't figure something out on my own that may be easier for others. I have been overthinking or not prioritizing the most important people or objectives. For this class, I am improving myself through the blogs, the set time to look further into concepts in different ways and assignments like OPS, blogs, etc. that change my perspective. I feel like I am getting a good routine out of this class due to the calendars, blogs, SAT vocab quizzes, and MC quizzes that happen frequently. I appreciate knowing what is to come next. I would like to receive feedback to improve my writing and see grades posted quicker in the grade book.
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ReplyDeleteThis year really is flying by pretty fast. Pretty soon junior year will be over and we'll all be off for summer vacation. This school year was really helpful for me. I've learned a ton of stuff since September 4th such as making a good argument, writing better, and a variety of other things. Nothing has really been making me mad and I can grasp most things pretty well. Moving forward, I'd like to focus on improving my multiple choice skills more. I also really enjoy doing the blogs and class discussions. I feel like I'm getting a lot out of class and learning a lot. I've been doing pretty well in school this year and have met my expectations. Some problems I have this year is with loads of work in some of my classes. However, part of the problem is my fault. One thing that I still really suck at is time management. Whenever I have free time I choose to just sit around and do nothing, and then when I'm super busy and things are due, I stay up all night. Useless work makes me mad, but when I know it's helping I realize it's for my own good to do. For the rest of the year I wanna try to fix this problem. Overall though, I'm really happy with this year and I am learning a lot. I can't for summer and then senior year.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to be completely honest with you all, I'd have to say that junior year has lived up to it's expectations in being the roughest year so far. I feel like I've gone through a lot of unnecessary shit this year, but it's helped me advance and grow as a person. But let me tell you that I always look forward to walking into room 204 because I love the way we learn. I'd consider myself almost dumb and just unaware of a lot before AP Lang. I definitely had no idea what most of our vocab words meant, I wasn't as strong in my writing or expressing my ideas, and I learned more about the people I surround myself with everyday. I still may struggle with writing exactly what I mean, and my memory might not hold all of the words we've been tested on, but I've learned so much from this class. But I think I still need practice with MC quizzes because I tend to overthink lots of the questions and get in my own head. Moving forward I need to stop procrastinating and just do my work. For some reason I just don't get things done early, it's always on time. I think that I have done what I am capable of, but if I were to do assignments when they're first given to me, they could turn out better. Other than that, I don't have any problems with the work I've received. I'm looking forward to having more class discussions, and learning more about situations occurring in the world now. I'm always wanting to know more about the things around me, and this class has most certainly been a huge part of fulfilling that goal.
ReplyDeleteSo, at first I thought junior year was going to be pretty okay. Sure, it’ll be a little stressful at times, but I’ll get by, right? I couldn’t have been more incorrect. AP classes give me absolutely nothing. I was trying my best, but now I simply get by instead of actually learning the subject. I do what is expected of me to get an A and nothing more. I know now that SOME AP classes are a waste of my time and I gain nothing from them other than how to manage stress and not care about grades anymore, specifically AP physics. So, one of the most frequent things I’m telling myself is that I’ll never need this later in life, but then again, it really depends on the class. I honestly am not living up to my expectations whatsoever. However, I do feel that I am getting the most of my classes even though I’m not necessarily learning. For instance, I study a lot for the test, but after the test I remember absolutely nothing, so I’m sure most people wouldn’t consider that learning. Obviously, it’s mostly my fault since I procrastinate or half-ass work that I don’t care about like APUSH packets. Things that shut down my ability to learn includes the onslaught of pointless work, teachers that don’t teach a subject to the point where I actually understand it, and my grades. Having a low grade in a class doesn’t seem like a good reason to be more motivated to doing my work, but instead makes me care even less. With this in mind, I would like to work on staying motivated to study and practice concepts.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning of this year, I knew it was going to be rough, and I knew I had to work hard, but this year is harder than I expected. I feel like it is going fast and I hope it goes faster so this torture could end. Not only is the year going faster, but also the teachers. They are just giving us a bunch of information at once, and I genuinely think that they do not care if we get it or not. They just tell you the information and then there is a test, and if we do not get a decent grade on this test that we know nothing about, our grades will suffer. What I learned since September 4 is that college is no joke, and I have to get everything together before senior year. I have also learned a lot of SAT vocab that I am trying to use in my writing. I have also learned a lot of things in biomed, like the structure of the ear and a lot of chromosomal disorders. What I still can not understand is PHYSICS. I honestly do not know why I took that class, its honestly not worth it. I do not get it and it's getting harder. Moving forward, I would like to focus on my SAT and getting that score up. I also would like to see teachers caring more for the students mental health because at this point I do not think they really care, and I feel like I am about to explode. I have no motivation to do anything anymore, I honestly give up. This kinda ties in with the next question, no I do not feel like I am getting the most out of my classes. Teachers are just telling us the information we need to know and if you do not get it will too bad, whose problem is that. I am not living to my expectations at all, I am procrastinating more, I am not getting any sleep, and I do not understand anything that is around me anymore. I do not feel like I am learning anymore either. I do not know what I can do differently either, because I gave this year my all and I have nothing left in me to finish this year, I just want it to end.
ReplyDeleteWhen I planned on taking a bunch of AP classes, I knew it was going to be hard, but I didn’t know that it was going to be this hard. But, because this year was so hard, it allowed me to grow as a student. Due to that, I know how to write better now, than I did on September 4th. This is from all of the blogs, OPs and essays that we wrote. I want to work more on the AP MC quizzes in the future, so I am prepared for the AP exam. The thing that frustrates me the most is having a lot of assignments due on the same day. This is because it makes me not want to do them because it’s overwhelming. Moving forward, I want to focus on not procrastinating more because that is one of the reasons why the work I get is overwhelming. Also, in the future, I would like to see more homework that will actually help me because some teachers only assign busy work. AP Lang is one of the few classes that I feel like I’m getting the most out of. This is because everything that we do is useful. Furthermore, in this class I feel like I’m living up to my expectations because I do my work to the best of my ability. But, in classes like APUSH, I don’t because of the amount of work given in the class. I can improve in lang by trying harder with my essays and blogs. I am also learning a lot in this class and it’s allowing me to change the way I talk and argue in real life.
ReplyDeleteComing in as a junior I was completely oblivious to the importance of time management. Don’t get me wrong I still find myself procrastinating about things but not nearly as much in September and sophomore year. As the year continues I want to drive and motivate myself even more to not wait last minute for assignments. I hope by the time I get to college I have my crap somewhat together because I know I’m still learning things as I go. I’m very comfortable with the different learning styles of every teacher I have and I would hate to be bound to only ONE specific teaching style because I know in college it will be 10x harder. I learn a lot of things from every teacher I have and I know not a lot of people say that but I think it’s because they don’t fully open their minds to it. Every teacher has their own way of doing things and I try to adapt to their ways in the classroom as much as I can. It upsets me when I doubt myself. I know what I’m capable of and when I do reach my goals I try to push myself to achieve more than what I have. Although in some cases I’m not living the best expectations I’ve planned for myself and that frustrates me but I can’t win everything and I remind myself that. I’m my worst enemy and many people in my life have told me that I’m too hard on myself and I really didn’t know why I was for the longest time until last year. I know I can do better BUT I also know it’s not the end of the world for me if I can’t do one thing.
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ReplyDeleteIn years prior, I was aware that junior year had the reputation of being the roughest year, and I was shown why; juggling AP classes and SATs with extracurricular activities all while trying to find the balance between school and our social lives is overwhelming. Although junior year is not the easiest, it has taught me quite a lot. For one, my time management is gradually improving, I learned what a rhetorical analysis was, and my vocabulary has been expanding week by week. On the other hand, physics continues to get the best of me. Moving forward, I would like to focus on improving my multiple choice and other AP exam and SAT skills; as a result, I would like to do more practice multiple choice quizzes and practice AP essays. So far, I feel that I have been getting the most of this class, as the vocab quizzes and essays have helped me to improve my time management, and the OPs allow me to practice whichever style of writing I choose. Although I have done a decent job of living up to my expectations in previous years, I do not feel the same way for this year. My continuous procrastination has kept me slacking, so I would like to reduce and, eventually, eradicate my procrastination habits. Most importantly, this class has helped me to efficiently get my message across in writing and in reality, which is a useful skill no matter the career path.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when things come to an end, this feeling hurts me. I don't like it when things end, the good ones and especially the bad ones (b/c they teach me the most). Junior year was and still is very dyspeptic and debilitates me daily. But I'm happy that it was (and still is) like that because like I said, when things are bad that's when I learn the most. To me, questions 1, 5, and 8 are asking the same thing which is, did you learn something? the answer is yes, I've learned a lot but not from the classes I'm taking even the AP classes. I haven't learned ONE valuable thing in any of my AP or normal classes (w/ the exception of your class). However, I've learned things from your class and it's the only class that taught me something since September 4th. From your class I've learned that my work isn't more important than me or my health because if something happens to me then I will not be able to get my work done. Not gonna lie, my other classes taught me or made me garner things that could help me later on. They taught me how to respect time and that every minute matters to the point that you could get many many things done in one hour. I've also learned how to manage stress and how to interdict myself from bringing myself down. When the teacher's only intention is to teach whatever he/she has to teach w/o his/her students understanding makes me hate learning and also makes me not want to waste my time studying or doing homework for this class cause if the teacher doesn't care then why should I? I'm not living up to my expectations and maybe it's because most of the people around me that I love aren't, idk. Am I learning? yes and I will never stop myself from learning because this is my number one priority in life. The things I should do differently and I will be so happy if I did them are motivating myself and to stop bringing myself down.
ReplyDeleteThis year has been a roller coaster ride. I’ve done and seen things I thought I wouldn’t be able to and thought that they were impossible. Junior year has shown me a lot. One thing I found out that I didn’t know before was that junior year is difficult if you make it difficult for yourself. Going into this year, I expected a lot worse. I thought there would be no time for free time, which is what most student crave for. Now that I’ve adapted through my daily school routine, it isn’t really as hard as everyone says it is. Yes, the classes you might be taking are hard but work wise, as long as you have good time management, it would be much easier to enjoy junior year. Nothing is really making me mad but one thing that comes to mind are the APUSH packets. Moving forward, one thing I’d like to focus on is how learning how to balance each class. This means, maintaining an equal grade for each class that I’m taking. Doing this can help me with senior year. Knowing that I will be taking either the same level classes or even harder next year, learning how to balance each class will be very important. As far as getting the most out of the class, I can definitely say that I am learning new things I haven’t learned before, which expands my knowledge in things. I don’t really believe that there is a limit on how much you can learn in a class. There are many things I don’t know myself. At this point of the school year, most of the time, I believe that I am living up to my own expectations. There are thing I can definitely changed or get better at.
ReplyDeleteSomething I know now that I didn't fully grasp at the beginning of the year is that I need to stop slacking. It has gotten me this far but it won't get me any further. The idea of not getting good grades this year because of my own faults is annoying. Moving forward I know I need to focus more on my work and less on my own time. But I do feel like I am getting the most out of AP lang, right now it's actually my highest grade besides compute graphics and gym. And as I said above, no, I'm not living up to my own expectations, I need to be better on getting my school work done. And finally, I am learning about academics, life, myself, and what I need to do to be better.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first entered my junior year in September, I didn’t know there was a whole world of lang. Quickly, I learned the many ins and outs of it and I started to see writing from a whole different perspective. Every article I read now I’m able to realize that there’s a purpose for every strategy that an author uses. Moving forward, I want to improve my time management when we write in-class essays and do multiple choice tests. I get easily distracted or sometimes I find myself reading the same paragraph over and over again and still retaining nothing. Also, I hope to get better at writing AP essays. I would like to look over more highly scored AP essays and compare them to mine to see how I can make mine better. I feel like I could do better in this class, I’ve been really frustrated lately because I just haven’t been able to get myself to finish my assignments, which frustrates me even more because I really do want to do well in this class. Despite my frustrations, I’m glad that I’m learning. I’m learning more about writing in general, and I’m learning more about myself through this class as well which I’m incredibly grateful for.
ReplyDeleteSince the start of school I do feel that I have learned a lot about myself. The first few months of the school year started out rocky for me, I slowly got my shit together, but now I feel like i’m falling behind again. Lang has become especially stressful for me (sorry). The vocab tests are killing my grade, I cant write a decent essay to save my life and I leave almost everything for the very last minute. In class i'm so focused on other things that I zone out and completely miss what's going on (again sorry lol). I become frustrated because I genuinely don't know why i'm in that class, like I sit there and feel like I don't belong, it's a miracle i've made it this far. I really want to focus more on writing and multiple choice quizzes because i've discovered that I cant pass one of those to save my life. Excluding Lang I am happy with where I am. Since school started i've decided I don't want to go to college, found people I can trust, advanced in my high school art career, and just overall started living life the way I want to. All of this has made me happy and i'm so glad that I have the people that I love supporting me through everything. SERIOUSLY IM SORRY, I just feel like my progress in Lang kills all of that and I become disappointed with myself and discouraged.
ReplyDeleteIt goes without saying that a lot has changed since the first day of our junior year. Coming into the school year, I had pictured a similar workload as I had once been dealt, but that was certainly not the case. I quickly realized that my old habits were not going to fly this year, even though procrastination is something that I am, needless to say, still dealing with. At this point in my educational career, I have noticed a sort of toxic pattern forming among students. Assignments are no longer done in order to enrich a student’s mind, but rather to fill the slots in a teacher’s Genesis gradebook. Cheating has become as common as washing your hands, regardless of the undeniable presence of anti-cheating campaigns. I am certainly not getting the most out of my classes, but I personally make up for these shortcomings by teaching myself outside of an academic workplace. I can’t arrogantly say that I haven’t learned anything this year, since I have acquired more information about economics and physics than ever before. Personal experiences and research, in my opinion, are the most effective ways to educate yourself. With that being said, a “lack of learning” shouldn’t be blamed solely on the actions of a teacher, but a shared blame between the student and educator. I would like to focus on a less robotic approach to learning. This can be done by making interactive lesson plans and activities that engage both the teacher and student. As teenagers, our lives are stressful enough. Our list of worries shouldn’t be extended by an excessive amount of homework. The idea of assigning work just to fill up empty time in each period is what frustrates me the most, and if it were up to me, would’ve been gone long ago. Learning is not an experience that flicks off like a light switch once a student leaves the school. Therefore, personal growth and independent exploration should not be shadowed by mindless worksheets and packets, period.
ReplyDeleteI used to like and enjoy school, but all the stress of this year has made me despise it. It is very hard to do all this work when lots of it seems pointless. Take AP History for example, I rush through these packets to turn it in on time and don’t learn anything. I don’t really have time to analyze and learn the information because I am just hastily copying from the history book to finish on time. It just feels like busy work and I dread it. I also used to think I was good at math, but after physics and pre calc I can’t really say that with confidence anymore. I have gotten better at precalc, but I still can’t manage physics. She rushes through the units in order to “learn” all the information in time. However, I am not even learning it because we are rushing too quickly, so it does me no use. I can’t seem to understand it and I just feel frustrated and helpless. Going forward I would like to focus on improving my writing, grammar, and vocabulary because I know I need more work and I can do better. I would like to see more writing revises and criticism so I can know specifically what I should work on. In general learning in school is a 50/50. Sometimes I actually learn the information and other times I just remember it for the test and then I forget. Most of the information taught are things that aren’t useful in the real world. For example lots of things in Precalc are with imaginary numbers and such which can’t even be applied in the real world so it has NO POINT. I feel like I am wasting time when I could be improving on things that will help me in the future. With all this being said, I feel like I could be putting in more effort to learn these things, it is just hard to do when it all feels pointless. If I spent more time at home doing it instead of just relaxing and procrastinating, I could be doing much better.
ReplyDeleteI came into junior year stressed and worried for the upcoming months ahead, with my motivation being summer time. The school year is about to be over and I still have the same mindset, I dream of summer and senior soccer season. I still wake up every morning contemplating if I should fake being sick. I have learned that having a girlfriend that supports me is a major motivation for this stressful junior year. I wake up sometimes and feel like complete garbage since I come home at 10 or 11 almost everyday from training and soccer, and then I think, “If I don’t go in today, I won’t see Nadia!”. Along with being a great girl, she pushes me to keep up with my grades which really helps. Other than learning a bunch of new school stuff, I have learned who my true friends are and how short high school really is. I honestly still feel like a freshman. Moving forward to the final push of this terrible school year, I’d like to focus on keeping up with all my work, I fell behind on my blogs and APUSH packets and they both affected my grades this trimester. I need to manage my time better, but that is really hard due to the fact that I am never home and go to bed at 1 everyday. I’d like to see some more teacher support, obviously all these AP classes are going to be hard, and it is even harder when the teachers don’t really give that extra support that’s needed. This led to me not really liking any of my classes, I have noticed that in Apush and Macro, we don’t do anything in there 90% of the time. Me not really liking any of my classes led to me not getting the most out of them. This is mostly my fault as I should be focused in and intrigued like I usually am in my past years in school, but this year I really don’t enjoy school. My expectations were set very high this year, and I ended up getting my first ever C, i have never gotten a grade below a B and I hate myself for it. My expectations have significantly been lowered since. The main and only problem this year is procrastination. With so much work due in the little amount of time I have, I sometimes say, screw it, and sleep, which is my fault only. If only I would stop procrastinating, my grades would be pretty good. With all this stuff, I really don’t think I am learning. I do the bare minimum in math, AP physics, macro, and Spanish, and just glide through it. I hate this year very much, I want to go to college and just start my career, hopefully involving soccer.
ReplyDeleteThis year has taught me more about myself than any other year. Since the beginning of it, I have learned more about who I am and what I'm capable of in school. I have found out that the main thing stopping me from doing the best I can is motivation. Motivation is such a big factor because I'm not willing to work unless I want to do it for a purpose. So the best way for me to learn is by doing something I want to do. Moving on, I would like to focus on time management. For these AP tests, one of the main obstacles is the large amount of questions that have to be answered in a certain time limit. I can see myself running out of time on many of them, so I need to learn to improve on that especially since this test has me writing three essays in a row. Personally, I don't feel like I get the most out of this or any class because of the numerous distractions that steer me away from what I could potentially be doing. But I came into this year dreading it, and it turns out that I'm doing pretty well and I'm meeting my expectations by keeping good grades. But good grades don't always mean good exam scores, so I have to focus on learning those skills. I am learning, though, about the exam and about myself as a writer which is a good thing about this class. With that, I am satisfied and I can come out of this year happy enough, even if I don't get a scores I wanted.
ReplyDeleteMarch 4th marks the end of our second trimester as juniors, and it also means that we have more or less sixty days until the end of junior year. Two and a half months until our dreaded AP tests, one month until April and all of the wondrous review which shall bring us plenty of stress to last us for generations. However, if you asked me if I envisioned my year going like this on September 4th, the short answer would be no. The long answer is that this year was an absolute mental and stress-induced rollercoaster, and it’s not that I didn’t expect that, it’s just I didn’t expect for the rollercoaster to be the equivalent of Kingda Ka. This year has been really good, and really bad, and honestly it’s too much to say for simply one blog. Maybe if it’s the direct and overarcing subject of the blog, I would go into great detail discussing my year, but this is about my school year, not my mental state and all of things which happened to me outside of school. What I have learned is that some of these classes I feel exceptionally confident in my abilities to learn and do well in, and some of them are some of the pits of hell in my life which I have learned to slowly but surely hate. Like AP Physics. And… nope, that’s it, just AP Physics. I’m pretty sure most of my classmates feel the same way, and that’s because I don’t feel like I am being taught the material effectively. I understand that practice makes perfect, and that especially shines true in that class, however there needs to be a ratio of actually learning and going through the material, and practicing the material by yourself. This also applies to APUSH somewhat, but since I am an absolute nerd when it comes to history, so I know a lot of the material already. Despite all of this though, I am still learning in those two classes, and I am getting the most I can out of these classes because I’ll know I’ll have to probably take some of them in college. Also, I truly enjoy the teachers in them, even if I disagree with their style of teaching, don’t take this as a direct jab at their personalities or anything. Now, moving on to myself and my attitude towards school and stuff. The first trimester was almost perfect for me, it had everything I envisioned in terms of academics, and even had some good surprises in there too. The second trimester was anything but perfect. I felt like I lost a lot of my work ethic, and my success in the first trimester could be at fault for that. You see, I was absolutely ridiculous when it came to assignment, meticulously making sure I didn’t miss anything, or if I did, I made it up the next day and internally scolded myself. Therefore, I experienced massive burnout around January per se, and I haven’t felt the same ever since. I feel as if I work slower, when I should be working faster, and my focuses need to realign on the end goal of all of this, which is to have outstanding grades which I can show to colleges and those somehow prove my academic worth to them. I know how I can be better, and I think the fact that I am moving from my house soon enough is the thing I needed to refocus. The last thing I want to cover is something directly dealing with AP Lang, the one class which is vastly different than any of my other classes in terms of teaching methods (I feel like a good English class is often this way). And that is probably one of the best classes I have during school hours simply because I feel like my time is never wasted there. There’s always something for us to do, and I know that it will benefit me in the future, so it’s good to do it. Anyways, to sum up this school year in one sentence, it’s that it’s a stress-induced rollercoaster, and I hate rollercoasters. Yet I am still surviving, because AP kids are strong people.
ReplyDeleteSo far junior year has flown by and it's crazy thats its almost the third trimester. For me I know a lot more than I did at the beginning of year. My homework habits used to be horrible and I used to procrastinate a lot, but junior year has taught me to get my things done on time so I don’t have to do them all at once and also risk losing points by doing them late. Sophomore year we honestly didn't do anything but read a book and focus on answering questions about a book in English, and I kinda figured that was what English was going to continue to be. But I was completely wrong this year and I believe my writing skills, and just the way I think about things in general has changed so much. When it comes to things that make me mad there's not that much, except for wisebacks packets. Moving forward I would like to focus on good strategies for getting through the AP tests and other tests, because i always find myself running out of time when I do multiple choice tests. I feel like I am living up to my expectations in school and hope to keep feel that way moving forward.I think that I am learning a lot in both Lang and all my other classes, definitely more learning than freshman and sophomore year.
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