Re: Um...great?soccerplaya47August 11 2005, 14:20:52 UTC
Trust me. you made the right choice.
As an example. Towards the end of my junior semester(when I had AP english), we had to take a test on a book we were supposed to have read (Great Gatsby for me; The Jungle for soem other people). It was a HUGE test.. and the majority of our class was lazy and didn't read their required book. As a result.. the scores were horrible. or so we think they were. Mrs. Barnette kind of "lost" the tests in the midst of all her end-of-year junk. if you catch my drift.
I know you've probably taken Mrs. Weavers AP Prep class... this class is 1/4th the difficulty of that.
I went in everyday. slept. maybe wrote a quick, cookie-cutter paper every now and then (once or twice a week, less as you get farther into the semester). slept some more. and then, when it came time for tests and such, I stuck with sparknotes.com. I walked away from that class with a HIGH "B", and I was one of the worst writers.
Re: Um...great?ram_king007August 11 2005, 18:06:34 UTC
Well, that seems to be promising. I'd be highly satisfied to walk out of this class with a "B" of any sort. As for being a bad writer, I definitely fit into that category. I barely passed that stupid writing test this year with a 12. If I hadn't had all of my convention points, I'd have failed. I do better with regular tests. Maybe it won't be quite so bad...
Just thank your lucky stars you dont have to read "The Scarlet Letter".
Nathaniel Hawthorne, is, without a doubt... one of hardest writers to understand in the history of writing. He makes up for lack of actual content with a lot of wordiness. Ugh. No one in that class understood that book.. apart from what we read in the description and cliffnotes.
Huckleberry Finn isn't too bad. We read it later in the semester, though. and didn't have to do a paper on it. just a test. I just used sparknotes and got a 94 on the test. or something close to that.
That timeline stuff does sound like a bunch of bullshit though. It'll be worth it in the end though.
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As an example. Towards the end of my junior semester(when I had AP english), we had to take a test on a book we were supposed to have read (Great Gatsby for me; The Jungle for soem other people). It was a HUGE test.. and the majority of our class was lazy and didn't read their required book. As a result.. the scores were horrible. or so we think they were. Mrs. Barnette kind of "lost" the tests in the midst of all her end-of-year junk. if you catch my drift.
I know you've probably taken Mrs. Weavers AP Prep class... this class is 1/4th the difficulty of that.
I went in everyday. slept. maybe wrote a quick, cookie-cutter paper every now and then (once or twice a week, less as you get farther into the semester). slept some more. and then, when it came time for tests and such, I stuck with sparknotes.com. I walked away from that class with a HIGH "B", and I was one of the worst writers.
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j/p I know we have to do it. I just wish there was time
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, is, without a doubt... one of hardest writers to understand in the history of writing. He makes up for lack of actual content with a lot of wordiness. Ugh. No one in that class understood that book.. apart from what we read in the description and cliffnotes.
Huckleberry Finn isn't too bad. We read it later in the semester, though. and didn't have to do a paper on it. just a test. I just used sparknotes and got a 94 on the test. or something close to that.
That timeline stuff does sound like a bunch of bullshit though. It'll be worth it in the end though.
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