Why did I choose this class? I don't like thinking deeply about what I am reading. I think it ruins the plot. I can think deeply, but I don't want to. I also hate writing, and often get writers block. Finally, thinking about my future is scary. I just don't know how I am going to get through it. I break down every time I have to make a decision that will affect my future, for two reasons. The first is that I don't know what I will want in the future. I feel like I could be a different person by then and I wont want the path I had chosen anymore. The other reason is that I don't really know all the consequences my decisions could have. The main reason I took AP Lit was that the only other option was ordinary 12th grade English. no middle ground honors level class were I could still be in a class with smart people who care about school, but without the work being quite so hard. I am starting to believe that wasn't a good enough reason. I still think I am capable of passing this class, but I am not going to enjoy it.
So, this is supposed to be the part of the website where I blog about what I learned during the week. Unfortunately I don’t feel like I learned much this week. This would be much easier if this could include stuff from other classes or outside school entirely. Actually, I don’t know that that stuff is excluded. Of course, I don’t know if its included either, so I think I will go the safe wrought and only talk about AP Literature and composition, for this entry at least. Maybe I should just go through the days one by one to see what I learned.
On the first day of class we went outside. First we spaced ourselves out on the sidewalk according to age and thought about how we got there and were we are going. I think that was supposed to be enlightening or inspiring or maybe even comforting, but to me it was just scary. I don’t like to think about my future, because I don’t know how I am going to deal with it. After that we stood in a circle and introduced ourselves. The only information I remember from that is that Mr. Shoeborn wanted to be an engineer, and the student teachers name is Ben. On the second day of class…err, what did we do the second day? Um, anyway, on the third day of class we did some more work on our websites (ohh, right, that’s what we did on the second day). We also started thinking about our author studies. I for one didn’t choose a book till the fourth day, but I think it will be a decent read. On the fourth day we also were told some more information about how these author studies are going to go., and how much to read based on our average reading time. Since this was a four day week that’s it. I guess I did actually learn three things in class this week. Those were Mr. Shoeborns past interests, the student teachers name, and how one of our ongoing assignments is going to go. I could also count re-learning to use Weebly, which would make four things learned this week. Still not a lot. |
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