assingment #26 - yearlong review - Buddy Goodwin

Overall I think that the blog posts were very effective this year because they weren't super large assignments that take forever so they weren't huge stressors that loomed over you every day that you hadn't done it but it also was very good at keeping us writing and practicing getting our thoughts organized on paper. It also helped me become more interested in writing during my free time because each time I wrote a blog post I realized even more how much fun writing can be.

One piece of advice I would have for the future is that whenever the class is discussing essays I would maybe try incorporating a fun random way to chose people to talk so that everyone is "forced" to talk about the essays so that one, cole and emma aren't the only ones talking on each essay and two, it would keep everyone engaged and force those who might have good ideas but are a little shy.

assignment #24 - Summer plans - Buddy Goodwin

I could easily write a 150 word blog post for each of the ten questions asked in the prompt so I am going to narrow it down to what I am going to be doing this summer since I am so excited for what is to come. One thing I plan to do this summer is spend a lot of time with my cousins. My family and I get along super well with them and I love spending time with them. They have three boys that are the same ages as me and my brothers and they also love to play sports just like we do so its always a great time when we are together. Im also excited to take trips out to our houseboat this summer. My dad bought it 3 years ago for very cheap and it was old and trashed. Since then my dad and I have logged countless hours on weekends and summers fixing it up together and while spending time with him working is fun its also gonna be great to take advantage of the work we have put in on it this summer so I am excited for that aswell.

Assignment #23 - Perfect Playlist - Buddy Goodwin

In this post I will be creating the perfect playlist for a wall ball session.:

Song 1: Levels by Avicii. This legendary song, produced by the late Tim Bergling, is an electrifying song that is perfect in providing extra energy which allows you to get a better workout. While this song only uses like 10 words the beat is amazing and upbeat which makes it a perfect song for this playlist.

Song 2: Hot by Young Thug Featuring. While this is not the most appropriate song it also has a truly electrifying and uptempo beat. It also uniquely uses heavy breathing in the song which is kind of relatable when I am working out

Song 3: Beliver by Imagine dragons. Imagine dragons has so many great songs and this is definitely one of them. The reason I would choose this for a wall ball session is because the lyrics go along well. for example "second things second don't you tell m2e what you think that I can be I the one at my sail I'm the master of my fate"


Song 4: You make me feel by cobra starship. The lyrics to this song is not the best but the beat is great. It was made back in 2011 when pop was at its prime

Song 5: Legend by The Score. This is probably the most appropriate song on this list. It is an electrifying song but the lyrics also go great with a wall ball session. For example "BANG BANG, BANG BANG, BANG BANG wont stop till were legends"

Assignment #26 -William Webb

Writing has never been my strong suit so when we had already written a paper after the first week of school I was a little bit nervous for this class but ended up loving it.

One of my favorite things about this class was the speech that we did for our final in first semester. I thought this speech was a great way for us to express ourselves. It gave us an opportunity to talk about something that we found interest in. It also forced people to come out of their shells. Having to stand up in-front of the class and recite a memorized speech was challenging but pushed us in a good way.

Even though we did not end up needing to practice for the multiple choice section of the AP test, I felt that I would not have been prepared for it. During the year I think something we should have done more of was multiple choices practice tests. We focused a lot on writing papers, which was helpful, but splitting up some of the time to practice multiple choice would have made me feel more prepared.

Another thing I would have liked to do more of during the year is more of the small group discussions. When we were in a small group it was easier to get more feedback on the paper. I felt more comfortable talking with a small group of people rather then in large group discussions.

Assignment #24 -William Webb

Junior year has had its ups and downs but has been by far the most eventful year of my life. Even with Covid-19 making life difficult in many ways, I have still received and found new objectives for the future. Allowing for me to pave a path for myself and head down the correct path for the future. Even the hardships such as last years football season I was able to see what I can do and become. I've been able to find and meet new people in a variety of places. Finding myself and what I want to do with my life has been  prevalent piece of this junior year. I've learned how to balance myself and things in my life with ease. So taking into account that Junior year is suppose to be the hardest and most hard to coup with year I have fond that it just has helped me become a stronger and more independent person.

Assignment #23 -William Webb

1. How Deep is your Love -Bee Gees
I chose this song due to the fact that it is my most favorite song of all time. The hidden meaning within the song  speaks on another level to me. It was also my mothers favorite song which leaves even greater meaning behind it.
2. Let's stay together -Al Green
I chose this song because ever sense I could remember it was the only song I had downloaded on my iPod. Forcing me to listen to it on repeat for hours. And still hasn't got old yet.
3. It Was a Good Day -Ice Cube
Although this song differs from the rest it has a certain vibe unmatchable by any other song produced in the history of music.
4. Walking On a Dream -Empire of the Sun
This song is fairly new but has helped me succeed in the weight lifting world. It's a long story but I have made PR's to this song numerous times. It helps me relax and focus on the goal at hand.
5. Don't You -Simple Minds
First time I heard this song was in Breakfast Club and sense then it has remained as one of most favorite songs of all time

assignment #26 - lily gardner: (and now i find) now i find i've changed my mind, i've opened up the doors

Things I appreciated in class: socratic seminars (reading, discussion); writing many many many blog posts; a feeling of comfort; honesty from my teacher; practicing, a lot; writing a speech; making a movie; assignments that did not feel inherently related by were interesting nonetheless; anytime we read; flouting henry clay’s prescribed grading system; homework? who is she?

Things I didn’t appreciate so much: watching a webinar on leadership skills and development; where are the books? how can we learn to write if we do not read?; grading essays for days on end as an entire class; discovering that there are units? ap classroom videos felt radically different from class

I do not pretend to understand the intricacies of teacher pedagogy or claim to be a superb English teacher, but I think a fundamental component of any language based class should be reading. I’m not calling for a class wide analysis of Anna Karenina in the dead of winter, as I expect no one to read Russian literature at the height of Kentucky’s “great grey,” but perhaps more than a few articles for a socratic seminar would be nice. I just don’t understand how anyone can claim to be a good writer or understand the world and analyze it and think about what Abigail Adams wrote to her son if no one has Amy Tan or Shakespeare or Virginia Woolfe. How can we fully understand Ghandi’s quest for liberation without reading the unsanitized writings of Martin Luther King Jr. in tandem with romanticized depictions of colonization (Out of Africa)? Otherwise, we’re all going to think like Jeanine Cummins and write books about things we can’t understand and shouldn’t propagate. I love that this class is built upon foundations of relationships, and reading is the key to empathy in a world of ignorant white people that is increasingly divided. My schooling thus far has lacked any preparation for interaction with the world or guidance to navigate it or even an opportunity to think critically about what is happening right now, perhaps this is a start. And if we’re all going to be sitting at home next year, the least we can do is pick up a book or read an article.

Assignment 26: help!-Emma Lauritzen

I'm a person who loves writing so AP lang is somewhat my idea class. In terms of suggestions, I would offer the following, but honestly, I had very few problems with your class.

• It would have been cool to have feedback on the first-semester final 
• I was still somewhat confused with the scoring guide by the end of the year 
• I wished we could have done more inner-outer circle discussions 
• Small-group peer reviews could have been cool 
• I wished we would have had more feedback on our essays 

Overall I thought it was a great year and I'm sad that I won't be able to look forward to more blog posts because I absolutely love them. They brought joy to my weeks when I did them. Thank you for being my teacher this year. 

-E

Assignment 24: chapter three of four- Emma Lauritzen

I have had weird school years. There was the year that we had two weeks of snow days, the year the swine flu went around, the year we had a whooping cough outbreak, the year I was a part-time student, or the year where I was in the hospital and did a semester online. And then there was this year. The weirdest of them all, which is like a big combination of all of the other weird years. 

This was a good year for the most part. I finally found my perfect friend group, I somewhat discovered what I want to do with my life, I loved my teachers this year, and I made some great memories, and I played a bigger role in the school. Those were my successes, on the other hand I did have some failures. I dated a really mean guy, I confessed my love for another guy again, I didn't push myself hard enough in school, and I should have stayed more out of the drama and controlled my temper. 

One lesson I learned this year was that you can have your cake and eat it too. I learned that I can be happy, have fun, and be a good student. This was a big risk I took this year. Another risk I took was letting my freak flag fly and finally embracing myself for the loud, emotional, flower child that I am. 

This summer I was supposed to go to Costa Rica for a month. I was supposed to scuba dive, rock climb, see endangered species, and zipline. But instead, I will be not doing that. I don't really know what I will do this summer. I signed up to teach a psychology class this summer but besides that its an empty calendar. 

I have two goals for my senior year, the first one is to not cry more than five times in Ms. Deweeses class and the second is to experience a lot of joy. 

It's so odd that the year is over, se la vi (I don't know how to spell it and I also don't know what it means but I like it).

Assignment #23: Emma Lauritzen- the perfect playlist for a warm summer day in a field

Every parent wants to make sure they instill certain values and ideas in their children, and my father is no exception. However, the things my father wanted to instill in me are a little different than most parents. I wrote in a previous blog post the lessons my father gave me growing up, and those, of course, are some of the things my father wanted to make sure stuck with me throughout life. The other big one is music. Good. Classic. Music.

When I was 14, we were cleaning out my grandmas garage and I found hundreds of records, ranging from Bowie to the Who to Donovan and Led Zeppelin. Fantastic music. On that same trip, my uncle gave me some more records (the Beatles, talking heads, Prince, ect) and his old record player. From that point on I was addicted to music from the 70s and 80s, the same music my dad had been playing me my whole life during fishing trips and long car rides. The following playlist includes some of my favorites, specifically in the genre of folk rock and chill rock. 

This is my perfect playlist for laying in a field on a blanket on a warm summer day (weirdly specific, I know):

1. Choctaw Bingo (James McMurtry)
I chose this song because its a style of music I love and its a song that tells story. It reminds me of Tyler Childers. I put it first because it is the longest of the songs on my playlist and is a perfect mix of upbeat and folk and mixes well with the other songs because of this.

2. She's Not There (The Zombies)
I chose this song because it has the same vibes as house of the rising sun, which is my all time favorite song. I really like the vibes in this song and I put it second because its really chill.

3. Mary Janes Last Dance (Tom Petty)
I chose this song because it is my favorite song by Tom Petty, and after he died I started listening to it more. It is third because the color of the song is the same as the color for the number three.

4. House of the Rising Sun (The animals)
This is my favorite song of all time, which is why I put it near the middle of the playlist so that I can look forward to it.

5. Bad Moon Rising (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
This song is another jam, and it puts me in a really good mood no matter the setting. It is the ideal song for laying in a field, and therefore it should be in the middle.

6. Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf)
This is a great song, but not as memorable or exciting as the other songs. It reminds me of Cheech and Chong, therefore it goes sixth

7. I hoped I'm stoned when jesus takes me home (Charli Worsham)
This is literally the perfect song for laying in a field. The vibes of this song are immaculate. I got to see it performed live in a field over the summer at railbird.

8. Buttercup (hippocampus)
This is just a fun song to listen too but is also not as exciting as the other songs and therefore it goes eighth.

9. Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac)
This is the perfect song to finish a show before the encore. Fleetwood Mac makes me feel like I am a hippie, who eats fruit a lot and picks flowers. This song is also perfect for this playlist

10. Take it Easy (The eagels)
This is the perfect encore song and it pulls the whole playlist together nicely. I like this song because I remember listening to it with my dad growing up and it makes me happy.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48oxMZDW7itEHWuOa1GSLv?si=v0_oOcLVRPKo-CcNXFMCFQ     <---- This is the link

assignment #23 - lily gardner: sunday dinner scaries

Sunday Dinner, not dinner on a Sunday, is an inherently special thing. It is a final opportunity for freedom, shrouded in the reality of the Sunday scaries and, in my case, impending homework. I have discovered, however, that if I cycle through the many emotions of a Sunday evening through a solitary playlist as I mince garlic and throw it into hot oil, the pain is eased ever so slightly. Here is that playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EpiIAlnSZe3LyuRMFBBkV?si=TvEDA2tkQHykZ9wdVozGVw. 

“El Cuarto de Tula,” Buena Vista Social Club - When I was younger, my mother made cinnamon rolls on Sunday mornings as she listened to folk music. On Sundays, I listen to Buena Vista Social Club and pretend I am back in Cuba as I make pancakes, which I understand are not quintessentially Cuban. It is how I survive the winter. It feels only appropriate to begin this playlist with the final feelings of joy that come on a Sunday morning, the only morning I ever wake up feeling truly rested. 

“Casio,” Jungle - I like the breeziness of Melissa Young’s voice as she sings about how she doesn’t care that her boyfriend is unhappy during the chorus of this song. Apparently, For Ever (album) is intended to sound like “a post apocalyptic radio station playing break up songs.” I simply like the neo-funk whisperings of this song, and how it lets me down gently from my bolero high. I saw this song live, and I like the remember that day on Sunday evenings when I am anywhere except a bar in Nashville. 

“Barefoot in the Park,” James Blake + ROSALIA - I adore ROSALIA and James Blake as individuals, and listen to the former every single day. I have never seen the film of this same name, but my understanding is that it is about a couple in which the mans lacks spontaneity and the woman has an overabundance of it. I like this song. I think about my Monday during it. It is like the time warp in Interstellar and I emerge intellectually cognizant of the fact that Monday is coming yet believing in God enough to think that it won’t arrive quite yet. 

“Monday, Monday,” The Mamas and the Papas - As the title suggests, this is a song bemoaning Mondays. I participate in this bemoaning. Then I get over it. Because, “every other day of the week is fine, yeah,” so just have to suck it up. I am conflicted about whether I can continue to listen to The Mamas and the Papas after hearing that John Phillips had a relationship with his daughter. 

“Ottoman,” Vampire Weekend - Despite the upbeat tune, this entire song is about the impending failure of a relationship, with sweeping comparisons to famous empires of the past, notably, the Ottoman. Ezra Koenig’s voice brings me joy, so does the memory of this song, which I saw live. Again, a good memory to evoke on a Sunday evening, and one that helps lift me from the Sunday scaries induced by the two previous songs. It was the final song at their concert in Cincinnati, and balloons were tossed into the audience and people were screaming and I cried ten feet away from greatness. Sometimes I pause the playlist here, as I am again crying - of happiness, surprise! Who would have thought on a Sunday?

“Forever,” HAIM - These final songs are not quite so interesting. I don’t often listen to dance pop except when I do Ryan Heffington workouts on the porch of my grandmother’s house at 4 PM on Thursdays. But on Sunday evenings, they’re just the ticket. This song is particularly funky because it has drum beats styled by reggae as three Jewish girls sing. I feel like I’m a part of the family. 

“I Wanna Be Your Lover,” Prince - Who doesn’t want to end their cooking listening to Prince? An icon. No explanation necessary. 

“All My Friends are Falling in Love,” The Vaccines - Ok, admittedly, this is far from dance pop. But it achieves a very similar purpose, and feels like a good English teen movie in which high school is far from hell and something that can be looked forward to. As you can see, we’ve gotten to a stage of hyped up delusion.

emanuelle sippy—assignment 26—what's a synonym for "prompts" ?????

I really enjoy writing and talking, so mostly, this class was a bet. 

I appreciate that we didn't have a ton of work and barely had homework. 

I appreciate that you also don't like the grading scale of our school. 

I appreciate that much of the time in your classroom, we were teaching and learning from each other—it wasn't just a one way exchange between you and students but a recognition that students would learn from other students and that as much as you were there to teach us, you also knew there were things we could teach you. 

I appreciate that you don't shy away from conversations and topics that others deem "political." News flash, people: everything is political. Wearing a mask is political. 

I loved the socratic seminars and wish we had done more of them and done them earlier on in the year. I also think we can go beyond retorical devices and into arguments in order to  have real exchanges where we question each other, ourselves, and our opinions. I think it would be cool if we got to recommend articles for socratics. Maybe even each student could pick one, and we could use them throughout the year. 

I wish the visual literacy projects were more flexible (i.e. that we could address any topic we're interested in and not just advertisement and office supplies). 

I don't mind the timed writings as much as I thought I would but do think we should spend less time grading and more time writing. 

I love writing the blogs !!!! It'd be cool if we got to write some of the prompts? For ourselves or like randomly assigned to others? One of the prompts could be to write a prompt and then the next one could be to answer one of your classmates'.  

I think there is more we can do to co-create our education, especially with a teacher that is as understanding and flexible as you are. But I recognize that in our current system, that is far from easy. 

Thanks for recognizing that we're learning from the things we do outside of school as much if not more than in school and thanks for actually asking and caring about what I was doing when I missed class :) 

emanuelle sippy—assignment 25—whether told through sign language interpreters or in thick-accents

I think it's hard for me to write this one because I feel like I've told bits of pieces of my story in responding to all the prompts and have already been repetitive. I don't want to say the same thing, so this time I'll try something different—less me, more the people who've shaped me and my sense of purpose in the world. 

Grandpa Lachman immigrated to America as a graduate student; he was only one of 6,000 Asian Indians to enter the U.S. between 1947 and 1965. In his retirement, he spends countless hours tutoring children and helping them access opportunities that might otherwise be out of their reach. 

Nani listened to patients in mental health crisis in Richmond, CA, counseling mothers who resorted to feeding their babies McDonald’s in order to keep them from starving. 

Grandpa Jonathan heard the shots of the 1972 Yom Kippur War, but he also heeded calls for peace, removing shrapnel out of the eyes of soldiers, Palestinian and Israeli alike. 

Grandma Carol documented the stories of Holocaust survivors, so we not only remember for those who came before us but also for those who will come after. 

Mom seeks to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange through teaching students the nuances of religion & violence and women & gender studies. (She claims if you put certain words in the titles of your classes, more students will want to take them. Hence: Sex, Jews, & Gender, Desire & Diaspora, and Sexuality & Religious Controvestory).

Aba builds interfaith coalitions through hearing and uplifting the experiences of others, addressing that the undocumented community has largely been left out of COVID-19 relief. 

Working to repair the world may not be genetic, but for me, it’s never been elective; it’s an expectation. 

The first roundtable I ever attended was at the Kentucky School for the Deaf. I was in eighth grade, sitting in an over-air conditioned room with strangers, but ironically, this was the place I learned the power of listening.

A few weeks later, I sat down with refugee and immigrant students. I became immersed in their words—the dichotomy between their unflinching gratitude to this country and the daily slur of their classmates’ insults, which they repeated without anger and with remarkable eloquence. 

Stories are vital, whether told through sign language interpreters or in thick-accents. I'd like to think mine lies in listening (but tbd I'm a bit too much of an extrovert for that to be the case).

Assignment #26- Sam Chavez- Dang this is the last one?

Reading and writing has NEVER been my strong suite. All skills in the English language skills in the Chavez household were given to my sister, and while it has and will continue to carry her far in life, this subject has always caused me to struggle. 

I will start this with my “criticisms” which there are few of don’t worry. To start, I found the the majority of the vocabulary I haven’t used. Maybe I could be using it more and don’t even know it, but as of right now, it was of little to no use for me personally. Secondly, I find the grading on Socratic Seminars to not encourage thorough responses, but only push for ANY words you can think of just to get your grade. Many times I found that I read the essay and did all of the work, but it just didn’t particularly strike me and therefore left me with little to say about it, this isn’t because I didn’t do the work, just because comprehension for me is hard. So, Socratic Seminars themselves are fine, however the way in which they are graded to be relooked at.

Now don’t take these little criticisms as me saying your class wasn’t effective, because for the first time in way too long, some of these essays I actually enjoyed writing. Most english in high school such far has been very bland and left me with skills I don’t feel that I will use later in life. Your constant encouragement to step outside of our comfort zones while writing the practices actually lead me to enjoy creating pieces of writing and for that, I thank you. Your approach at teaching to the test and not just throwing random reading in our face is EFFECTIVE, and that’s all we as students should ask from a teacher. Overall this year with you wasn’t as bad as I thought, you weren’t just another Literature robot who asked me empty analysis questions, you were a real teacher and a human at all times.

This is pretty broad now isn’t it- assignment 25- Sam Chavez

This prompt leave light years of room for interpretation, while many common app prompts are like this, I keep finding it difficult to find one certain aspect of my life that sets me apart from the applicant pool. I mean on paper, I seem pretty basic. Besides my hispanic last name and spanish skills, I can’t seem to find something really “juicy” that makes me stick out. My true life experiences do. However these don’t show on college applications. My experiences in different corners of the United States and deep hispanic roots ARE what set me apart. Constant change and adjustment have made me who I am today and my parents extremely different experiences in early life that have given me different point of views on life that I am extremely thankful for.

Junior year: meh-Assignment #24- Sam Chavez

Everyone said that Junior year was gonna be grueling and that I wouldn’t have any time to see my friends because i’d spend the weekends studying, and need sleep after every day at school. While I did study hard and usually felt like a nap was a great idea after classes, I found that this year offered a healthy balance between work and play that i’ve been told by my sister is similar to college. This year is the year I feel like we start to become more responsible for our in-school work and work more independently than any year previously completed. This year was full of things that made me want to stop working, deaths in the family, hard days, a car accident, but this year has taught me that temporary sacrifice leads to success in the long term. While I wanted to spend this summer with my friends and boosting my college resume, it doesn’t look like those will be as easy as previously thought. I was wanting to volunteer at the summer teen program at Baptist Health hospital, but Covid-19 has proven to have other plans. I want my senior year to be a combination of all of my previous years. Though the work will likely not be any easier, I feel that I have the knowledge and time management skills that my previous years taught me so I can tackle it with “ease.” I’ll report back and let you know how that goes.

assignment #26 - here ya go - taylor galavotti

heyo! i just want to say thanks for keeping your class a respite from the drudgery that was junior year.  we consistently got off topic but it was for the betterment of our brains i think. being able to think creatively was one of the greatest aspects of your class. i thoroughly enjoyed the freedom you allowed us in our writing and honestly these blog posts that gave me a chance to write about whatever pretty much whenever. i also enjoyed grading essays during class when debate and discussion could be facilitated because we were in a group setting but i don't think spending class time to grade essays in silence was the best use of our time because we weren't making the most of the resource that was most abundant: each other.

reviewing the benchmarks at the beginning of each timed writing was helpful in working towards what AP was looking for but i think the grading of essays slowly became subjective to the reader. as in "if i liked this essay, it gets a 6," or "this essay was boring because it was so thorough so i'm giving it less points." i'm not quite sure how that can be combatted except using the rubric to back up everything you say in class, especially the grading.

apart from that, i found many activities to be helpful in class, especially the socratic seminars and the Writing with Style book. you should definitely continue those into the next year.

at the risk of sounding like a brown-nosing suck up, thank you again. your class was very helpful for me in developing my style and voice outside of the "norm" of rhetorical analysis essay and the creative outlets you provided were greatly appreciated.

assignment 26 - year in review - cole knight

So, I'm going to start with the criticisms that I have, which should be pretty brief, and mostly have to do with the multiple choice section of the test. I have no idea how you're supposed to teach the ability to read critically, so maybe taking the "practice makes perfect" approach is the best that can be done, but I do think that the amount of time that was devoted to honing in on the skills taught within the writing portion of the test wasn't exactly proportionate to the time focusing on the multiple choice section.

On the positive side, I genuinely want to say thank you to Mr. Logsdon for making me enjoy writing for the first time since elementary school. It got kind of tiring writing essays every few weeks, but the approach taken to writing in class, which was extremely challenging (not using no-no words), high-stakes (I don't want the class to read my terrible essay), and interesting (finding a new way to twist the prompt into something beyond a 5-point-3). I didn't enter this class liking to write, but I'm leaving with a genuine desire to continue improving my skills, and I think the simple, yet effective approach to this class is the primary reason why.

Finally, I know I was totally insufferable in this class (especially, I hope/think, during first semester), and I want to thank Mr. Logsdon for putting up with my pseudo-intellectual hot takes and not completely losing his mind every time I raised my hand to make some half-baked criticism of a perfectly fine essay.

Assignment #26- Ellis Padgett- Last One

What I found most effective were the practice essays and the book Writing With Style. I even think that book could be incorporated more throughout the year, so that the information it provides is constantly refreshed. As for the essays, I feel that completing them in general was very helpful. They helped me practice timing, and your feedback on the essays helped guide me through my writing.

We spent a lot of time grading essays in class, and while I see the value in that, sometimes I received mixed responses from my peers. For instance, sometimes you would give me a good score and point out areas of my essay that you liked, but my classmates would find fault in those same areas. It felt like mixed messages. 

But what struck me the most about the class was your encouragement of a fun and fluid style of writing. For the first time in my life, taking risks in writing was valued. That made all the difference to me. I finally had a teacher who did not idolize the 5 paragraph essay, and who smiled and laughed at the weird essays. This year, I started writing in my free time again, and I continue to make choices that reflect what I learned in your class. So for that, I thank you. 

Blog Post 26: Annie Bohannon "Wrapping it Up"

I think that I was very prepared for the AP test through this class. The assignemtns that did the most to prepare me was the practice timed writings. Although, they are not fun at the time having the practice made the AP test feel less stressful. You sent a remind saying that we had completed 12 timed writings over the year. It didn't seem like we had comeplted that many over the year but it turns out we did. I honestly would have been fine with doing more timed writings even if we did not spend the time to critique each one. I thought the grading was helpful but it took so long to do that I would rather be writing another essay for practice instead. I also liked reading the Writing With Style book. There were a lot of good points in it and I wish I had remembered to utlize more throughout the year. Overall, I learned a lot from your class and it was a great experience.