<p>It was ok. I was looked over past essays and was so set to use The Awakening (it fit everything. I knew all the symbolism of the birds etc.</p>
<p>However I was forced to use Huck Finn, but it wasnt too bad tho.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure every single kid talked about when Huck rips up the letter. I hope they dont grade the essays grouped by class!</p>
<p>Anyways, we read:
Huck
Things Fall apart
The awakening
A raisin in the son
LOTF
Gatsby</p>
<p>Sun* (can’t edit on phone, and must not seem an ignoramus!)</p>
<p>Also that pony poem was just… Just… HILARIOUS. I just found it so funny.</p>
<p>My Calc teacher is a reader and he says he can tell whenever a school has a good program because he receives them in bundles. I’m pretty sure they are grouped by class.</p>
<p>@Oscarlany or anyone else who knows. Do the readers read directly from the booklet or are they given copies. Because if they read directly from the booklet, they might be able to see that I numbered wrong.</p>
<p>I definitely read some macbeth, tidewater morning, poisonwood bible. MC was solid, frqs weren’t too terrible…wrote on life of pi for the third one…</p>
<p>I also thought the mc was easy but I totally freaked during the essays…also, I feel lame for thinking the ponies poem was sweet, aha. :p</p>
<p>The books/plays we read:
Hamlet
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Bless Me, Ultima
A Doll House
Glass Menagerie
Invisible Man (I used this one for the open essay)
The Sun Also Rises
Pride and Prejudice
Death of a Salesman</p>
<p>Was there satire or cynicism in the ponies poem? If so, I had a major misread. 
Also:
The Importance of Being Earnest
Great Gatsby
Death of a Salesman
Animal Farm
Scarlet Letter
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Antigone (for academic superbowl, though)
The Awakening
Othello</p>
<p>Was it me or was the whole test really easy?</p>
<p>MC was way easy, FRQs were fairly average.</p>
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<p>@LeggoMyEggos Great minds think alike. The open ended was a dream come true for Mark Twain fans. Turns out a lot of people tried to force Wuthering Heights in the prompt. Not the best idea, I always like to stick to the list to reassure myself.</p>
<p>I wrote my the open essay on Great Expectations using Miss Havisham. NOT THE PROTAGONIST. Will it matter that i talked about a minor character even if the rest of my essay is on topic with character growth?</p>
<p>The multiple choice was really easy. The essays were alright. I wasn’t very prepared for the 3rd question and ended up using The Great Gatsby. And my essay didn’t make much sense at all haha…</p>
<p>This year we’ve read:
Brave New World
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Wuthering Heights
Wide Sargasso Sea
Beloved
The Stranger
Oedipus Rex</p>
<p>I didn’t write on any of those though…</p>
<p>@jonobob The prompt explicitly asked for a discussion of a protagonist but if your essay is GOOD, you should still do well. 3 or 4 at the very worst maybe? Also, I ask once more, was there any satire or cynicism in the ponies poem?XD</p>
<p>oh poop LOL
@The84thline I honestly thought the pony essay was really positive and about human connection with nature but i digress. felt more rainbows and unicorny to me :D</p>
<p>MC was pretty easy, probably made like 5-15 mistakes/misreads though (I vary a lot when it comes to critical reading type questions, on the SAT I go from 660-800). </p>
<p>I loved all of my essays. Essay 3 was perfect for me: I’d reviewed 2 books in depth for the free essay, Atonement and Dorian Gray. Atonement was perfect, I got so lucky. I did say Briony was 10 when she was 13, but of all the mistakes I could’ve made that one was pretty minor. </p>
<p>I wrote the essays 3, 2, 1 (blast off!) because I wanted to tackle essay 3 so I could pace myself.</p>
<p>For essay 3 I expect 6-8, 2 I expect 7-9, 1 I expect 6-7</p>
<p>Welp, I used The Stranger by Camus for my coming of age essay. I guess that makes sense in a weird, twisted, life means absolutely nothing - way.</p>
<p>Read that independently. Really nice and philosophical.</p>