To update every day. It is hard, but worth it. I don’t want to get behind like my LJ did.
Rundown of my day: AP test, AP test, AP test. More specifically, English Literature.
For those not in the know (aka: people who have been out of highschool for an extremely long time) AP stands for Advanced Placement. It (should be) the equivalent of a workload of a college freshman/sophomore course, depending upon what you’re taking. Its the uber honors class, so to speak.
At the end of the class in May, there is a huge standardized test to see if you are worthy for college credit. I passed with a 4/5 last year in English Language. I was also more prepared last year.
I guess I just got the whole freaked out “what the hell am I doing?” thing going on in my head because, honestly, going into the test, I felt less prepared than I did last year. As I told some of my friends, if I would have taken this year’s test last year (as a note, the English Language test you take as a Junior is much harder than the English Literature test you take as a Senior), I would have killed the sucker, hands down.
I guess I just psyched myself to do badly. I just kept on getting this really weird vibe the whole way through. Usually, on the essay portion, I have lots to talk about, especially if the prompts are simple.
I just don’t know.
I just don’t think it was up to my usual standard of excellence.
I’m just praying (and placing my faith in realms above) that I at least got a -4. Even though they don’t grade like that in reality. It just says ”4″ on the stupid grade report.
Deep breath out….I’m letting go now.
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell about the awesome performance of A Midsummer Night’s DreamI went to at OU.
It was a completely modernized rave version. No, I am not kidding. The fairies were drugged out clubbers and the Aristocracy Wall-Street brokers, Havard Law Grads and Fourtune 500 company managers.
Although it sounds completely bizarre, it worked beautifully. Besides the fact that it was straight up entertaining (rapping, dancing, awesome lights and set pieces…not to mention everyone in the show was EXTREMELY pretty) the quality of the transposition really fit what Shakespeare had in mind.
As my Junior AP Lit. teacher told me after Act I and after I asked his opinion, “This is what Shakespeare would have wanted. If text messages were around in his time, he would be making full use of them. He wrote humor that had relevance to his purpose.” Then he reminded me with what he insists AP really stands for: Audience and purpose.
“Audience and Purpose, Ms. Bohannon.”
…I guess if I even hit on those in my essays and remembered this during my multiple choice, I’ll do just fine.
Waiting untill July is going to kill me though.
