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This week we did even more preparation for the AP test. It was similar to the last time, but it was more extensive. We did nothing the whole week except for this. It was kind of like a cycle. We would start out by taking the question portion of the test, then score it. After that we would do some work with looking at other essays and scoring them or just whatever we had planned that day, then we would actually write an essay. I believe we wrote three all together that week. I got the sixes and sevens on my essays, which is not a terrible score but it wasn't great. And for the question portion, the first time we took it I scored terribly, somewhere around the low twenties. The next few times we took it my score just rose and rose, and ended up in the high thirties, which is still not that great of a score. But at the end of the week when we used the AP test calculator it said that with those results I would have scored a four on the test, although I'm not sure if I believe that. I feel as though if I pass the test, it will for sure be with a three. But in all I am thankful for this prep week. I have learned just about how long it takes to write each essay to the best of my ability, so I can pace myself for the test. And I also have developed a few strategies for the question portion of the test as well that are specific to me. In the end I found this week to be extremely helpful and this website, http://study.com/academy/lesson/how-to-focus-your-essay-and-respond-to-the-essay-prompt.html is definitely helpful to me personally, but might benefit a few other people.
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This week we finished up our multimodal presentations and presented them to the class. To take the pressure off of us, we got to show our presentation in groups instead of going up in front of the whole class to present. I'm not sure it made a difference for most people but it didn't matter much to me. This project I think was one of the harder ones we've done, at least in my opinion. I wasn't in charge of the writing, but I was in charge of creating the website and designing it. It took me forever. I am not a computer savvy person by any means. All I can do is turn it on and use its basic functions. Maybe download a few things but outside of that it's like walking through a maze for me. So to sum it up I had a fun time wandering in circles trying to figure out how to make the website do this, or that but I ended up figuring out with a few google searches. This project in the end though was one of the most fun for me. After the frustration with the technical issues had passed I had fun being able to design the website and make it look tasteful and pretty. But I do believe we had way too much time to work on the project. I often found myself slacking off just because of how much time we had left to work on the project, that I don't think anybody was in a rush to finish. But like I said earlier, this for sure had to be one of my more favorite projects. This website, http://www.howdesign.com/how-to-design-a-web-page/ definitely helped me throughout this project.
This week our class started to prepare for the AP Lit test, even though most of the class wasn't taking it. We started out by reviewing other written essays, and judge how they would be scored based off of the writing. Most of the ones I scored I got right, and it was easy to see what constituted a high score, and visa versa. We then started taking mock tests, instead of writing the essays. I would like to say I did fairly well on them and that they were useful for the insight they gave me, to know what type of questions would be on the AP test. Then finally we started writing essays. We would then give them to our peers to score and judge, which I'm not sure that it was an accurate way to score our papers, even though we had an idea of what paper got what score. With the AP test coming up I find the time that we spent this week invaluable, because for myself personally, I am not a great test taker. And when it comes to writing essays, I tend to see things in a different light than other people, summing up my essay response "wrong". A lot of why I took this class though was to save money for the future. I am hoping that I get at least a three on the test. Even if I didn't, I wouldn't say my time here was wasted. I learned a lot that in the future will come to help me when I write or in any of my English classes. In all though, I am happy that I took this class, even if I don't happen to get a passing score. This website, https://www.ivywise.com/ivywise-knowledgebase/newsletter/article/tips-to-prepare-for-ap-exams/ definitely helps on how to prepare and study for upcoming AP tests. |
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