@nyuhopeful44 It was, but my counselor highly recommended doing AP Economics junior year, instead of senior year, as she thinks it would decrease my senior workload, and it would. I can always do AP Psychology senior year anyway.
@Hamlon That’s true. But my teacher recommended me more because of my grade in the class and not knowing what other classes we had to deal with. I feel like I could definitely handle three AP’s, just not with AP Chemistry. AP Chemistry is going to be one of my first priorities next year and I want to make sure to focus on it, while still taking other AP’s.
@Hamlon wow five hours! omg I can’t imagine. Luckily for me the city is a rather short commute from my town by train so I’ll just commute every day and maybe take a tour of Columbia while I’m there bc I love the campus and school so much
My reading lists were as folllows
9th:
Summer: Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Class: Fahrenheit 451, The Odyssey, a lot of short stories, another book I can’t remember
10th:
Summer: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Class: Antigone, Julius Caesar, Night, other plays/short stories/poems
In a non-AP English class at my school, we read a different short story every day for most of the year and then two books/plays. Last semester we read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and this semester we read The Importance of Being Earnest. Freshman year I remember reading Romeo & Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird. I wish we read more. Good thing I’m taking AP Lit senior year.
@averagebean I despised The Odyssey. It was the first book they had all ninth graders read, regardless of level, but most of the honors teachers made you read it in full, while the standard kids (+ my sister’s honors class smh) got to skip sections. I gave up around half-way through and used SparkNotes for the rest of the book. I bombed the reading checks but I actually did pretty well on the essay and midterm questions. Escape from Camp 14 was really interesting, it especially helped that we were learning about North Korea at the time. I’ve heard that Shin fabricated a lot of what happened in the book, in order to look better. I don’t think I would have judged him no matter how he acted, if his accounts of how he was treated was true. :\
@ak2018 Good luck! I might be running the mile next week for gym, and I probably won’t pass. I couldn’t imagine doing track ever.
Has anyone else been nominated for an honor society? I got nominated for the National Latin Honor Society at my school, and now I need to fill out a form. Its asking about my other EC’s, leadership positions, and community service, all of which are terrible. :s Do any of you guys know how hard it is to get into honor societies at your schools? I’m hoping that it won’t be too big a deal. I’ve been doing really well in Latin this year, so at least I have that going for me.
We read excerpts from The Odyssey in eighth grade and I did not like it at all.
This year my class (10th grade Honors American Lit) reads:
Summer - The Piano Lesson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (probably one of my favorite books!)
Class - The Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn, The Grapes of Wrath, and then we’ll also read The Great Gatsby and some others. And we had a unit on transcendentalism where we read pieces of Walden and parts of Emerson’s essays.
In ninth grade we read:
Summer - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Animal Farm
Class - The Catcher in the Rye, Night, Julius Caesar, Antigone, Fahrenheit 451, quite a few short stories, and a ton of poetry analysis.
@LeopardFire we have a National Honor Society chapter at my school. Students are nominated at the end of tenth grade. My GPA is definitely high enough and I think I meet most of the qualifications except for community service. They require two different projects and although I volunteer four hours a week at a hospital, I still need to find something else to do as well.
@LeopardFire Same with our school, we get nominated at the end of 10th grade as long we have over a 90. Usually about 50-60 people join out of the 500 something. We just need to fill out proof of our volunteer work and tutoring.
@LeopardFire I have never even heard of “honour society.” I don’t think it’s a thing here haha. I guess people with above 80 average gets on Honour Roll and people with above 90 average gets on Honours with Distinction.
You guys, I’m so stressed registering for AP exams. I’m in online school so I need to find a local school that will allow me to sit with them. I can’t find a single school around here that administers the AP Macro and Micro exams, so I’ll have to make my parents drive 40 minutes away twice in 1 week in May, and they’re already doing that for me for state tests next month. I feel like such a burden and the cost of the AP exams isn’t helping. I’m considering not even taking the AP Micro exam this year. ughhh I don’t know what to do.
@neptuna I would say definitely talk to your parents about whether or not it would be a good idea or if it would bother them. I know many parents usually don’t put a price on AP Exams ( meaning if they know, or your explain, that taking the exam will make you look better to colleges and can also save you money when it comes to talk those classes). If your parents think it’s worth it, then they’ll be fine with it.
Escape from Camp 14 was really interesting, it especially helped that we were learning about North Korea at the time. I’ve heard that Shin fabricated a lot of what happened in the book, in order to look better. I don’t think I would have judged him no matter how he acted, if his accounts of how he was treated was true. :\