Being the first week of school, our AP Lit and Comp lessons consisted of the usual “welcome back” spiels. We discussed class expectations, grading, and the class syllabus. A unique grading rule in the class that I personally liked and found interesting is that if you don’t finish any work or turn anything in, you will still get a 50%. However, that is still an F. Yayyy. I thought this was a fair, although different way of grading. A simple zero can bring down an A to something like a B+. Even though a 50% is still an F, at least it won't take your grade down as far.
The syllabus covered class expectations even further and told how AP Lit and Comp is a college level class and therefore will include college level work and participation. As a student who is serious about school work and passionate about writing I am up to the challenge and have high hopes, not only for the class but for how well I'll do overall.
At the beginning of everyday, we either listened to or watched a poem being performed. I personally love poetry and would say I understand it pretty well, at least an 8/10 I would say.
If not previously accomplished, we were taught how to make our own Weebly pages/blogs. I had already achieved this in a past class so I simply needed to add to it. We also went over how we viewed ourselves as readers and writers and wrote short paragraphs about our skills. I wrote about how I fell in love with writing the second I learned how to properly write.
On Thursday we talked about creative writing and what makes a good creative writer. We started by looking at a list of example topics before making lists of topics of our own then proceeded to write for ten minutes. The trick, Mr. Shoenborn says, is to consistently write and to continue writing for the entire period of time given. He claims that you should not erase or backspace anything because that slows the brainstorming or creative writing process. I find this particularly hard because I'm a perfectionist. If I make a typo or type something that doesn't end up sounding right in my head, my immediate reaction is to delete all of the evidence.
The syllabus covered class expectations even further and told how AP Lit and Comp is a college level class and therefore will include college level work and participation. As a student who is serious about school work and passionate about writing I am up to the challenge and have high hopes, not only for the class but for how well I'll do overall.
At the beginning of everyday, we either listened to or watched a poem being performed. I personally love poetry and would say I understand it pretty well, at least an 8/10 I would say.
If not previously accomplished, we were taught how to make our own Weebly pages/blogs. I had already achieved this in a past class so I simply needed to add to it. We also went over how we viewed ourselves as readers and writers and wrote short paragraphs about our skills. I wrote about how I fell in love with writing the second I learned how to properly write.
On Thursday we talked about creative writing and what makes a good creative writer. We started by looking at a list of example topics before making lists of topics of our own then proceeded to write for ten minutes. The trick, Mr. Shoenborn says, is to consistently write and to continue writing for the entire period of time given. He claims that you should not erase or backspace anything because that slows the brainstorming or creative writing process. I find this particularly hard because I'm a perfectionist. If I make a typo or type something that doesn't end up sounding right in my head, my immediate reaction is to delete all of the evidence.