The ThankYou

     During this semester of AP Lit, I’ve been very grateful for the amount of reading I’ve done for the class. Picking short yet influential books has given me a variety of perspectives and different modes of analysis I plan to carry with me to college. It ALSO has had a very rewarding impact on my Goodreads account. Without The Stranger, The Alchemist, and other “The Blank” books that are around 200 pages, I would’ve never reached my 30 book goal, so with that I will dedicate the title of this blog to how I feel about that: “The ThankYou.” I would also like to give a special thanks to the singular week it took to read Candide, you will never be forgotten.

All jokes aside, another aspect of this class hasn’t only been the reading, but the writing as well. Something this class has offered that other English classes lack is the philosophy that is so deeply embedded in all the lessons. I still look back fondly at the power paragraph where I talk about the color of grass being a symbol of new beginnings. I’m still a little surprised that what I was trying to say got across, but this class has shown me surprises like that are not few and far between. Every in-class essay comment had something nice to say (before the desperately needed corrections), which gave me a little more faith in myself to take risks on the next one.

How free I felt talking about a hill for 20 minutes because I didn’t understand anything else in the essay


For my second and last semester, my goal is to get a 90% on at least one APMCQ practice. Those have always been my downfall, even the acronym giving me chills. But it is my goal to make sure I nail those, so that I can not only score well, but show myself I actually know something so fundamental to this class and beyond it.






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