<p>English and history—> My two favorite subjects. I love to write, want to be a journalist. I agree though, deep analysis`s are very boring and grinding sometimes. </p>
<p>Well, back to homework. I have a system. A hour of working, then a hour of doing something else.</p>
<p>My teachers were in a bad mood this friday lol. I just wish it wasn’t all due Monday! Especially since I’m going to a party at 7!</p>
<p>AP Enviro: 27 vocab with examples and a 1,500 word essay.
AP Psych: 120 pages of reading
AP Human Geo: 86 Vocab words with examples
Chem: 45 balancing equations</p>
<p>I love history and English Language/writing. Just not analysis, please no.</p>
<p>Although I don’t mind the literature analysis in my classis, we’re doing Ovid’s Metamorphoses (in english) at the moment. Maybe it is just the awful selection of books we have to do:</p>
<p>Great Expectations (the dullest book I have ever read)
Macbeth (a Shakespeare is necessary by law)
An Inspector Calls- alright but not fun to write about
Of Mice and Men (our ‘modern’ novel)</p>
<p>The only thing that could make it worse was if we were doing Jane Eyre (my mortal enemy)</p>
<p>Jane Eyre is so beautifully written.</p>
<p>I love classics: Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women etc.</p>
<p>Basically anything from Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte</p>
<p>I love English, History, Science and occasionally math. Its hard to find something that doesn’t interest me.</p>
<p>I’ve been writing a speech for English on monday about how much I hate Jane Eyre 
I honestly don’t understand how people like it. It’s tedious and slow and Jane herself is pathetic and competely passive.
I love historical fiction mostly: Birdsong, The First Casualty, The Book Thief, All Quiet on the Western Front and other books by Erich Maria Remarque.
Also rediscovered some books I thought I’d grown out of. Well basically just the Narnia series. I first read them when I was about 8 and too young to understand most of it. Then I fell in love with the 2nd and 3rd (but less) films and decided to read the books again. I cried for over an hour after finishing the Last Battle :’(</p>
<p>We<code>re going to start reading Julius Caesar Monday and I</code>m not looking forward to it. We had to read Romeo & Juliet last year.</p>
<p>Shakespeare, Shakespeare, where art thou, Shakespeare? Why did thou have to write such boring plays?</p>
<p>^See I loved Romeo and Juliet and can’t wait for Caesar.</p>
<p>As for our current English book though, on Monday were starting Animal Farm.</p>
<p>Well, I have an awesome English class so it shouldn`t be too bad…
After working on homework all day, I now am wondering why I am taking an AP class....imagine how much less homework if I wasnt in this one! Guess Im crazy. Oh well, normally it`s not too bad....only right before all this stuff is due, which is only once a month.</p>
<p>So PSATs…how’s that going?</p>
<p>I took the at home practice test and got 195? I wanna hit 200, so I’ve got work to do haha</p>
<p>Honestly, I haven<code>t really had time to study a whole lot…I looked over a couple questions, but didn</code>t focus so I got them both wrong. I haven<code>t even looked at the math section, and that</code>ll be the death of me…<em>SIGH</em> Oh well…there`s always that university in Antarctica that has a 100% acceptance rate and 1 major-Penguinology. ;)</p>
<p>I’m not studying at all. I’ve got more important things to worry about (Debate, AP Bio, when hockey season’s gonna start) to really put a lot of energy towards something that really doesn’t matter right now. Since this thing doesn’t matter until I take it in junior year, I’m really not concerned. Plus, the practice questions on the CollegeBoard website were really easy, so…</p>
<p>I see where you’re coming with that. I really can’t force myself to study haha.</p>
<p>Note to all who procrastinate: Just don<code>t. When it comes back to get ya, it hurts. Right now, I</code>m going for quantity, not quality of my homework.</p>
<p>PSAT next Wednesday whoo! haha. I’ve been going over the prep packet with my mathematics tutor (I’m homeschooled she teaches me both Honors Geometry and Honors Algebra II) and I just know the math section is going to kill me. In English I’ll be okay I think…and hope. Speaking of which, I have an English exam on this Wednesday. </p>
<p>I’m taking geometry and algebra II simultaneously, and geometry is great, but algebra II is…not going well. I took a test this past Friday…getting it graded by my tutor tomorrow. Worried… </p>
<p>And I absolutely hate my H. World History curriculum…it’s way too easy. So, we’re working on amending the coursework with more reading and writing. Worst history curriculum we’ve delt with to date and I’ve been homeschooled my entire life. </p>
<p>Getting more honors assignments tomorrow! Now off to do two geometry lessons and study for my midterm.</p>
<p>Also, any homeschoolers here? And what do you private and public schoolers think about homeschooling? </p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>^ Too easy, eh? OK, want to do my AP W. History homework for me? ;)</p>
<p>I took honors world history freshman year and got a 5 on the AP test. The test is really easy. They don’t offer AP world at my school though, so I wouldn’t know if the class is easy or not. The honors class was “hard”, a lot of kids complained, but I ended up with a 99 o_o. Just wish I could get those grades in math</p>
<p>Eh, my teacher is into getting us over-prepared for the AP exam. Her philosophy, “The class is harder than normal and the exams you<code>ll take allow you to take it in less time than College Board does so you can then do very well come May. Then after the AP exam, you</code>ll cram for a week to take standardized tests, which aren`t important.”
Yeah. Lots of projects and stuff that`s due at the end of the unit. (Tomorrow). And we have to read this INCREDIBLY BORING thing written by this guy named David Christian. I literally almost fell asleep in class reading it. The whole class was like, "David, go get a wife and stop writing."</p>
<p>Hey Alex were you able to bump your grades up? Are you still having trouble, because I saw some posts about your stress.</p>
<p>@Jax123: YES! I got my grades up, but still not to where I want them all to be. Right now I have an A in every class except algebra. And it doesn’t look like I’m going to get it for this term, but I’m taking it step by step.
Thanks for asking!</p>
<p>I’m worried about Euro. Despite getting As on the hw and quizzes, I just got a D on our unit test. From what I’ve heard that’s in the high end. I’ve yet to hear of any Cs (but I’ve barely asked any people) The teacher has a terrible AP pass rate. Last year out of 76 students she had 6 “3s” and 1 “4”</p>