Thursday, August 23, 2012

AP Madness!

Your concerns about AP English:

- test anxiety
- stronger in math and sciences
- not getting college credit
- keeping up with workload
- juggling with other AP classes
- understanding the material
- feeling prepared for the test
- poetry
- amount of homework required
- reading texts that don't interest me


What you hope to gain from AP English:

- know the "right" stuff for the test
- better my English skills
- interpret poetry better
- learn standardized test-taking skills to be faster/more efficient
- gain more knowledge in reading, writing, and test-taking
- to be able to test out of college level English
- be a better writer
- learn more about literature
- read good novels!
- have an independent reading assignment
- learn more about modern and classical literature
- improve writing skills and grammar
- write well
- expand vocabulary
- better my grammar and spelling
- prepare myself for college
- learn study tactics


What you expect of me this year:

-sufficient amount of time in completing longer assignments
- be patient with us
- prepare us for the AP exam
- be able to ask you for help
- be understanding of other classes/extra-curriculars
- explain all of the "confusing stuff"
- prepare for the test, but make class fun
- be super awesome
- give us tools and knowledge to prepare us for exam
- reasonable amounts of homework
- no boring poetry homework
- help us have an awesome senior year!
- teach the "right stuff"

Thanks for your awesome feedback, crew!  I will do my best to "learn" ya good :)

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