The AP English course is a difficult and time-consuming course that requires dedication and persistence. AP English has a large course load compared too high school and I feel with persistence and dedication the work will be challenging and rewording. Advice to help with the amount of reading material is to take your time when reading and don’t rush find key details in the text and underlining details.
Important thing to remember in crafting an essay is to keep your ideas organized, quote ideas from texts to support your ideas. Keep your ideas logical and sound the help on the AP Exam and also narrative, argument, exposition, and personal writing.
The exam overall three hours and 15 minutes long and has a multiple choice and free response section.
English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural
After figuring out what the “issue” was and what it surrounded. It put me in a place where I had to really pause and think about where to go with this issue my young person was facing. Which I then told her I understood where she was coming and I will try my best to workout the situation. For instance, I reframed her with the question on how would she feel if being heterosexual quote and quote was the wrong way of living and knowing that persons don’t accept her for who she is. I then gave her a few second to marinate the question which she took a while before responding with I understand, but the bible said it is wrongful for a person to be dating the same sex and that the right way to live was to date the person of the opposite sex and that her parents let her know it's wrong.I took a step back and reflected on how I use to think when I was younger and how my surrounding use to portray the LGBTQ community as something that was not the right style of living.
Growing up, my sister and I would each write birthday cards to our mother, as our method of showing gratitude. My sister, now an author, would repeatedly bring my mother to tears after reading her birthday card, yet I would only receive a “Oh, that’s very nice Ryan.” Living in the shadow of my sister the writing behemoth being a math and science oriented person tainted my views on writing. I may not have put the necessary effort into becoming a better writer because I figured it was just an innate quality. In other words, I basically accepted that I was born left brained, and there was no realistic chance to drastically improve my writing. Consequently, I opted out of taking challenging AP English courses and instead breezed through my high
I learned, that in order to get a good score on my AP essays, it will take a lot of effort, and I won't have a lot of time. I need to write in a way that the reader can understand and comprehend my ideas, and control of language, while successfully getting my point across in a clear-cut way. This will allow me to get a score based how effective the essay is (Nine being the most effective and zero being the least). In addition, my score should reflect the essay’s quality as a whole. Completing this activity helped me realize that the expectations are high when it comes to writing essay, and I will need to work hard to get the best score that I can.
The biggest step in crafting an essay is to formulate a thesis statement; doing this will help you focus both your research and your essay writing. Constructing a thesis statement
Please find attached my reflection paper for this week. I try to follow your advices. I hope this paper is better. Yesterday, I was planning to go to your office at afternoon, but I completely forgot the Jeff Gill’s presentation, that is why I didn’t when to your office.
As I sat in my AP literature class, only a month before college applications were due, I felt as if there was something high school wasn't offering me. I wasn't able to express myself as much as I wanted to. Then my teacher began talking about college and I began to worry that i wouldn't find a good enough school. I came to the conclusion that it was time to decide.I wanted to go somewhere far, away from my neighborhood, but my parents wanted me to go to George Mason because of how close it was. I told them that I would go on a tour, in the hopes that I wouldn't like it and convince my parents to go somewhere else. I ended up finding what I was looking for all along. The school was nothing like I expected, and nothing like the forty tours I
Learning as much as my brain capacity can endure is my ultimate goal in life. School is not just a chore, it is a necessity to further me into the future. English class, specifically the writing portion has evolved my understanding of persuasive literature and how to explain my thoughts on paper for an audience to understand. Throughout the first semester of KCC English I have improved my essays from small to large mistakes.
* 5% of questions originate from videos, 10% from assigned articles, 90% from lecture slides and book
When I first picked this class I had in mind that I speak another language as well, I might be able to bring a different mindset to the class. I can say that the class was not what I picture or would have liked to be. I imagined more of setting where we discuss more languages and how they shape people and their culture.
In my initial submission for Lesson 1, I recall being amused by the statement in the introduction of Navigating English Grammar that humans have always been fascinated by language. Then, and now, this still seems like an understatement to me. Language is an incredible facet to me and humans of all ages. To consider that an infant can communicate with few words and more gestures and then continue to develop the use of language as the number of words increase proves to be such an interesting phenomenon which has an influence on a human’s existence. This influence permeates throughout language in formal or informal use. In that same lesson, I recall the childhood influences upon my language development. Being a young Southern woman, a distinct dialect permeated my childhood environments; from home, school, and small community, the slow, slang-filled conversations enlightened me in the ways of people around me. This information partnered with the Grammar Quest proved that my own method of verb usage perplexed me. The instruction received in my local elementary and middle school demonstrated an error in my grandfather’s way of speaking; therefore, my way of speaking did not follow prescriptive rules, and additional instruction was deemed necessary. With this review and research of prior writings, the use of verbs and verb forms used in a prescriptive nature proves to be an area of concern for my own proper use of Standard English.
This semester I decided to take english 101 with van Hartesveldt. I can easily say taking van Hartesveldt this semester has really open up new skills in my writing that I never knew I could be capable of doing. I have learned so many things this semester and this portfolio is a big example of it. As you all can see from my first paper to my last, It's probably easy to spot all of the errors from the first paper to the improvements all the way to my last paper that are being shown. There are a few different things that this class has taught me and has made me realize through the semester. Such as realizing my growth as a writer, teaching me the importance of literacy skills assignments, realizing how my skills from english 101 had helped me with my other classwork and also how it helped me outside of class, and lastly realizing what area of my writing that I am more confident about and seeing what parts in my writing skills that I think need more improvement.
Although I am not very good at writing and analyzing literature, English is a skill that I believe is essential and something I have always wanted to excel in. The reason why I believe my skills lack in English is that I tend to analyze situations more formulaically and systematically, which explains why I am a mathematics and computer science major. My primary difficulty in writing before I entered college was my ability to pull important information out of small, specific pieces of text. I never understood how one could retrieve so much information about a story from the analysis of as little as a description of the setting or a couple of lines of dialogue between characters. So, coming into my first day of English 1102 at the University of Georgia, I wanted to discover and use techniques that could help me analyze specific sections of text effectively and accurately. What I found is that there is a multitude of formulas and techniques that can help me effectively and efficiently analyze a story and that I can apply these same techniques to other forms of media. Overall, however, this course helped me realize that the methods and techniques used in analyzing literature and media are profoundly similar to ones used in the analysis of a mathematics problem.
Once, in fifth grade, my teacher, let's just call her Ms. A, for some reason, chose me as valedictorian of my class. I honestly don't know why though. Sure I was really nice to everyone and I had “pretty good (but not perfect)” grades in most subjects but I was one of the quietest people in the class. At first, I didn't want anything to do with it because being valedictorian meant giving a huge speech in front of the principal, assistant principals, fellow fifth graders, family, and siblings in the school. I had never spoken or given a speech in front of a small class before, let alone a huge crowd! If you had put me on a stage with no rehearsal or anything, I'd either freeze or hide behind the curtains. The most I’d ever done before was some fun dance performances in the yearly concerts, a talent show that I joined that year with my friends, and Dance Club which I was chosen for some random reason. But anyway, Ms. A made me write a page long speech, which I was okay with since I like writing. Afterwards, she made me go out to the hall to read my speech to a small group of classmates. I can't remind who they were exactly but I know that one of them was my good friend, Joy. I didn't really know them all that well so the second I got outside I was super scared and made up some excuse to use the bathroom (which I did do it wasn't a complete excuse). I was taking my time washing my hands so when I finally left the bathroom, Joy was about to come in. She said something
I've had the worst luck when it comes to English class. This was a recurring event, particularly in high school. Every year I would dread walking to my English because I already know that it would be horrible. The class itself wasn't horrible, it was just the teacher themselves. I was always shy and my teachers would never help motivate me to be a bit more interactive in class. In my opinion, the way you teach and the way you approach your student is very important because it has such a huge impact on the student's perspective for that material. So I wonder, will this impact my interaction forever or should I choose to not let this experience bother me?