<p>@kimchee1212: omg, I love her new song <3 It’s been stuck in my head for days.</p>
<p>Is anyone else having trouble with Ap Lit? I just can’t seem to satisfy my English Teacher with any essay i right. We read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and I just couldn’t bring myself to like those books. They were overly emotional and I just can’t stand things like that.</p>
<p>@newtocollege: I agree, part of me would prefer to not have a repeat game. but then again, Alabama and LSU are both amazing teams and I’d like to see one team have a definitive or relatively definitive game. Their first match was kind of boring and easily could have gone either way. What are your thoughts about people saying the SEC is the toughest division by far?</p>
<p>@FreeHugs</p>
<p>I posted it :o haha X)</p>
<p>@Plasticbag80 is your teacher grading with the AP 1-9 scale yet? Or still a regular grading scale? If it is the latter, ask if you can have a rubric to guide you when you get the prompt. </p>
<p>When it comes to books I don’t like – I just throw myself into it. Also, ask if you can have discussion in class so you can express your likes/dislikes – it usually helps to get insight from your classmates and you can see it from a different perspective.</p>
<p>@Salamence My mom is perpetually annoyed at JYJ for “abandoning” HoMin. I guess I can understand her:P I just miss TVXQ all together, I don’t care who abandoned what lol.</p>
<p>@Plasticbag Can you channel your dislike of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights into some critical essay? I definitely did NOT like Jane Eyre and a lot of other Brit Lit books I read, but a lot of times it’s about latching on to the stuff you hate and writing something awesome based on that. It’s also extremely possible that your teacher is just mean lol.</p>
<p>BigBang and 2NE1 FTW :D</p>
<p>My teacher doesn’t give us prompts. What he does is every friday we have to turn in a short essay(320 words or less - he calls them 320’s) on one moment from the book and analyze it. He grades the essays on a 1-9 scale but the class average is always around a 4 or 5. He doesn’t care about how well your writing is or anything, he always gives good grades to papers which had unique ideas regardless of the writing style. I just can’t seem to come up with these unique ideas. I feel like I’m not learning much from this class like I did in Lang.</p>
<p>Okay, have you guys heard that it’s good luck when a bird poops on you (esp. your head)???</p>
<p>I saw a post earlier this week in which the poster had a dream of an acceptance letter and hopes it was good luck, etc etc. and it reminded me of when I visited Stanford, a bird pooped on me (omg it was sooo gross – I freaked out all the way to the bathroom) and someone said, “it’s good luck!” </p>
<p>Has anyone else heard of this? I’m not superstitious in the least, but I was just wondering…</p>
<p>@Plasticbag80 -__- I hate those classes when you legit try your best, and the teacher is unreasonable – it has happened to me this year only and it sucks. I would have him read your 320 before it’s due and see what was wrong/try some “unique” ideas (like what serendipitee said on your dislike of the reading) and pass those through him too.</p>
<p>@Plasticbag, </p>
<p>Live. Love. APLit. That class kills me - I’m not a reader in the least. I read good books for entertainment, but analyzing them is brutal. For fear of breaching confidentiality I won’t say what books we’re currently reading (they’re quite peculiar) but I will say that we had a class discussion on our current book today and took ONE HOUR to discuss FIVE PAGES. Yes: that is my AP Lit class. </p>
<p>Also we’ve written a couple closed prompts (the ones that give you a passage) graded on a 1-9 scale. Highest I’ve gotten is a 7, but I’m fine with that. Those things suck. </p>
<p>@vannaj, if you get in, the bird ****ting on you will be heralded as a definite good luck charm. If you don’t get in, the fallacy will be revealed as nothing more than basic physics and terrible luck. Luck is nothing more than a coincidence; it’s a cross between beating extreme odds and having good fortune, both of which are completely exclusive. As the old saying goes, “correlation does not imply causation”.</p>
<p>He is really unhelpful. I did this last thursday and asked him for help on a topic with Hamlet and he outlined it for me and I wrote what I thought was a pretty good essay on the ghost in Hamlet being a bridge between his Catholic beliefs and Paganism(what we both agreed on was a good topic) and he gave me a 5. Thats an F and he doesnt curve, just puts that 55% right into the category of essyas that is 40% of our grade.</p>
<p>@Plasticbag, are you analyzing the author’s meaning? The first thing we learned about the AP Lit essays is that the prompt ALWAYS says something about “how the author uses techniques to convey meaning”. So the essay has to analyze the text on a superficial level (the author’s techniques/metaphors/connections) and commentary on WHY the author did what he or she did.</p>
<p>For the most part I feel that I am. My last essay was on why Shakespeare included the small disease imagery in Hamlet and what he meant by it and how it affected the novel. He hasn’t given it back yet but I don’t expect anything above a 6. He is the Valedictorian-killer at our school and he loves it.</p>
<p>Yeah I know teachers like that. But I would hope his classes get really, REALLY good AP scores every year? My school doesn’t rank, so valedictorian=anyone with a 4.0 (which is quite a few people, many of whom took easy classes for four years and got straight A’s). I wouldn’t fret about having or not having the position anyway - after April, when you have all your acceptance letters, you won’t give a rat’s ass that someone else got the title. </p>
<p>I can’t wait until the moment after graduation when everyone realizes how much of a joke high school really is. You’ll do great things in life, and no one will care that you were one grade short of being high school valedictorian. </p>
<p>Valedictorian of your college class on the other hand…</p>
<p>@Plasticbag80 I’m really sorry =/ that sounds like my AP Lit teacher last year (ugh)…there’s something called a graduated scale that some AP English teachers use. Since it’s still first semester, the essays you do would be weighted since you’re not as polished (I wish I could find it – try googling it), and thus a 5 would be something like an 85. But closer to the exam, it would be an F (but by that time everyone would have so much practice they’d be getting 6s and above).</p>
<p>If this is truly hurting you and is unfair, round up some other students who usually do really well in tough classes and talk to your principal about how it’s unreasonable – I did it and it worked! But then your teacher sounds like the vindictive type, so be careful. It helped me to talk to people who have taken the same teacher before and did well, and see what they did to get a good grade.</p>
<p>@UnsureOnLife hahaha I like your thinking. If I do <em>crosses fingers</em> I will take the bird poop story to my graveeee lol</p>
<p>Haha sorry didn’t read that far back :)</p>
<p>One hour to discuss 5 pages? Our class has spent over 30 minutes on the first two sentences of a book haha</p>
<p>I know a lot of people are speculating that we all could find out as early as this Friday. Does anyone know what level of skepticism there was last year around whether or not they would release decisions early? It seems like there is a lot of speculating this year, and I was curious if it’s more, less, or around the same as last year. Anyone who has looked back, wanna clue us all in?</p>