Question #8—The Last One for the Summer
Over the course of the past several weeks I have posed several questions that have started to force you to think beyond summarizing a story. You have had to define terms, deal with sociological/cultural influences, and dissect language. You have had to use direct quotes (should have been done in parenthetical) with works cited/bibliographies. You have also been asked to look at what the Internet has out there in the great abyss about the three literary works The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Grapes of Wrath, and Black Elk Speaks and then come up with your own conclusions beyond those already stated. Some of you have chosen not to complete each assignment or any at all for that matter. However, those of you who have completed the “Blog Questions of the Week” you are well on your way to having three “A” quality summer assignments on top of starting down the road to success in AP Language. For your final summer response, I want you to write an up to 300 word response of what you have learned this summer that you believe will be useful in the AP Language class and what you wished you had learned. Please note that I am not asking you what you expect to learn during the school year; that is a separate discussion all together that will take place at the first zero period discussion we have during the second week of school. I really look forward to your answers and as long as you put forth effort you will earn an “A” on this blog response.
It is such a relief to finally have this assignment over that I don't know where to begin. I have learned many new things over summer, not all of them school related. I learned that procrastination is a student's wors enemy and that it really pays well to plan the assignments that you need to get done before the due date looms over your head. I learned that the hard way.(Guess what I have to do before school starts? Homework!) I could just weep at the amount I have to do. Besides learning that I need to plan better, I also learned that you can't always read the books tou want to. There have been many important lessons I have learned that will help me in this AP class that I had to learn on my own. Patience, endurance, and plain old stubbornness are what I will need to get through this class. I look forward to taking this class because it will challenge me in new ways that I haven't been before. This is the first part of my answer. The second part is more complicated than that. I learned many things over the summer that involved learning the aspects of horse care. When you work with horses you need patience and a calm attitude. you have to be willing to learn from your mistakes and to try and inprove on them. it isn't about how good you can be but how you connect with the animal. I spent a wonderful two weeks with a group of people who taught me how to be around these marvelous animals. There is much still I have to learn, but I look forward to it. I am going to carry that love of horses with me to this English class and remind myself whenever things get difficult that the good grades that I;m earning will help me later on in life to work with them. My summer was an eventful one at the very least and for me is a transitional point. Many changes will come. What they are I have no idea, but I will be ready to face them.
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