#aplit17writing

[thewomanthatalwayswearsblack]

AP literature and composition exam

So the power went out in the entire building except a small portion of lights in the room I was testing in. Then the ceiling basically started screaming, all of us in the exam room totally thought we were gonna die, me being one of them. I then continued to laugh like a mad man. The proctor then "shhh" ed us and we continued our test. Proctor was about to call time but then all of the lights went out... in the entire school district, town etc. We then sat there in the test room for the longest time ever, and then were moved to another building with Windows so that there could be light once again. We then began our second section of the booklet, free response. At this moment in time with all the worst things that could go wrong during this test went wrong, the hallway then began to fill with loud people, during most of the test around 80 minutes worth of this. No one could concentrate. It was fucking terrible. We finished the test and went to our fifth period class, this test was to approximately end at the end of 4th period we were about an hour and a half late. But there was one good thing since our English teacher knew that we would be missing lunch she bought us pizza and sent a note "power though" I am pretty sure it was a pun intended moment (she makes a lot of puns). Anyways that is how my exam went how did yours go?

[slaveoftuition-blog]

Ap lit

Whoever wrote the ap lit test was listening to Adele on repeat and watched the notebook 400 times

[brookeblanchette-blog]

Love Writing...HAHAHAaaaa

Honestly the general introduction wasn’t as hard as I thought, however it was really hard to start. I knew what I want to write but I don’t know how to find my way into the conversation. This project as a whole isn’t as hard once you have all the information to get started. But that’s the thing, getting started. It is sooooo hard to start. First off it’s overwhelming as heck, and there is so much to do you don’t know what to do first. But once I get going, things start to flow. Almost over guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[shahrozmkhan-blog]

Blog  #6 Post All-Nighter

I've got a general introduction draft. It's not perfect. It's definitely gonna get ripped a new asshole once it's edited. But it exists.

[riyaa-99-blog]

Wow

okay Ishiguro is kind of full of himself. I’m looking at background sources right now, and I have like two that I know for sure influenced him. I’m looking for my third, sorting through interview after interview and through his blogs, but everywhere, he denies anything really influencing his writing. It’s like he’s saying everything comes from within. Occasionally, he’ll say something like “yeah that may have influenced me subconsciously, but not really, I just kind of put myself into the character’s shoes and write.” Like okay sure. I’m going to keep looking because surely, he can’t be THAT arrogant. But yeah, I’m having trouble with this background source part. Thank god it’s only like 10% of the project. #priorities 

i also really wish i hadn’t waited until the last day of break to work on this stuff. i’m the queen of bad decisions. but then again, Kreinbring did say to take a break. oh well hope i can still graduate

[krispykrew-blog]

Im worried this criticism that I have is talking more about the author than the book and I don’t know how to connect it. They are talking about how one character in the book is the authors way to cope with what is happening to him in his life in soviet russia and all that, and I don’t really agree with that. But if that is my opposing source is that okay? Because I don’t know if it’s more a question about the book or a question about the author. I agree that the book itself is a protest against soviet russia, but I don’t think the characters helped Bulgakov to get through all the issues in his life. He didn’t even finish the book and theres no proof that they helped him. I’m trying to figure out how to loop this back in a way to talk about the book rather than the authors personal life. But his personal life is kind of relevant to the book, so idk where I’m gonna go. I think I’m just gonna keep writing about it and see where it goes and then if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. Write to find out what we think right haha kill me

[heyitsparpar]

It’s actually sorta looking up...

I wrote my last post exactly a week ago, and since then I’ve honestly started to feel a lot better about this.

I’m actually on track for once (yay)! I’ve got the lit crit stuff pretty much set to go (though I may make some minor edits in the future), gotten whatever Eli stuff I was able to do finished, and finally managed to work through the annotations and the introductions (which I may likely still edit in the future, but at this point I have something that I’m happy about and can work with). I know we can’t expect it often, but I really liked the workdays we got; they not only gave me 3 extra hours to get my stuff done but also took a significant amount of stress off of me, since I knew I had some time before the next lesson to finish what we were currently working on. Which highly differs from when we were doing the lesson-a-day thing, which was practically a lose-lose for my stress levels - I had this mental urge to get everything done before we moved on (which was, like, every day), because if I didn’t, it felt like I had way too much to handle at the same time. So it was really nice to slow down, for a change.

But that still doesn’t change the fact that I can’t wait until I finally hand this thing in.

[bridgetcona-blog]

the lit crit

This is the worst project. Looking back at the lit crit, that was probably the hardest assignment I have ever done in high school. In fact, this project is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in high school. Wow, high school really isn't that hard. I just feel like I am learning so much from this project; no other teacher has ever sent me to an actual library. Reading through those criticisms was so exhausting and trying to find meaning and centralize these long papers into like one or two central claims. Also, going to an actual library and looking up scholarly articles, I felt like a college student doing college work. I got lucky though because my first three criticisms I read were good and original ideas. Once I got started reading them, it wasn’t that hard to finish them because the ideas were interesting like I had never even thought about race being a factor in the book. It really opened my eyes to other interpretations and lens that people see while reading. Writing the literary criticisms wasn't even that hard either, it was like writing a paper. However, THANKS RICK FOR NOT MAKING ME AND LILA PARTNERS FOR THE ALIGNING CRITICISMS SO WE HAD TO MEET UP AT PANERA TO READ THROUGH AND CHECK THEM. WE ARENT GOING TO DO THE ELI REVIEW THO now just so u know

[the-meggsterr]

what's the write thing to do?

i just want to procrastinate and not write this project even though i'm so close to being caught up and being done. i'm so tired of wuthering heights and i want to move onto something else. i love working in the library and collabbing with my friends i'm just bored with the project and overwhelmed with all the work that i've done. i'm just ugh. i'm excited to finish and ready to turn in my diploma. i'm gonna graduate. i know it.

[lilytakada-blog]

Cat’s Cradle Crit

It is literally so hard to choose criticism when everything seems to persuade you that the person writing is correct and all other views are wrong. like it’s kind of like reading up on a candidate by looking at their webpage with all their points written by masters of disguise. of course they are going to convince you that THEY are right because they want their ideals to be tTHE ideals.

[akoaysi-cathy-blog]

Turtle speed..

I’m slowly but surely catching up to everyone else. Got one draft of a lit review done and am starting to work on the other one. I’m still not very happy with the first draft of my opposing view lit review though. 

The problems I have with this is that I wrote the different parts of the review in a weird order because I wasn’t entirely sure if my views are actually aligning or not aligning with what the lit criticism author is saying. It’s a struggle because most of the stuff about the criticism I chose as my opposing view is also in the other two criticisms in the other two criticisms which I chose to be in my aligning views pile. 

So, I got really confused and just ignored the similarities between all of my lit crits and looked at the secondary things my crits were talking about. I then grouped my piles by how similar the secondary topics were. Then I thought “oh well this one lit crit has ideas that I feel aren’t super accurate” and decided that was the non-aligning crit.... Now I’m having second thoughts...

But first I jsut want to write the next one and then worry about revisions :)

[maggieeeeeliz-blog]

The Corruption of Criticisms

If you read my last reading blog you might recall me explaining my less than enthusiasm about finishing my book. I know that probably seems lame in a sense because I know there’s a whole lot of people who don’t really care much for reading or finishing books, but personally, with just about every book we’ve read this year, I’ve gotten excited about the symbols and themes and ideas and I like trying to piece those parts of the puzzle together. Now I guess here’s why I’m flustered. I should probably preface by saying that I didn’t finish my book before reading my criticisms but I truly had about only 1/5th left. Although I totally appreciate how much insight the criticisms have given me, I feel like reading them before finishing somewhat through off the process for me. Because my book is structured so uniquely, it took me a while to figure out what what going on and once I did, I was able to recognize more and more symbols but as I started reading my criticisms, realized I truly hadn’t gotten to process them for myself. For example, I knew that structure was a huge piece of how Foer was trying to talk about perspectives, but I hadn’t had the time to really process further and further about that with everything else going on both for school and life and everything and so when we were asked if we agreed or disagreed (even loosely), I honestly didn’t really know what to say because I didn’t have a formed opinion of my own. And quite frankly then I just felt kinda stupid honestly which made me more frustrated. As stupid as it may sound, I wish I could have developed my thinking more, had more time to piece together the puzzle myself without looking at the picture. Anyways, so now as I’m still chugging away at my criticisms it’s a bit difficult because I feel this need to keep working on them but am also trying to form an opinion at the same time but I’m not really sure what I think because even as I completed the book the way I looked at it shifted based on what I had already read in my criticisms so I’m not fully sure what to do except keep working at it. When I think about it, this is a pretty lame struggle in the grand scheme of things, also probably one of the most nerdy, AP kid struggles ever, but nonetheless, it’s true and I didn’t know how to put into words what exactly it was that was bothering me until we were talking with a partner today in class. Well, gotta keep annotating and writing. Temporarily signing out, Maggie

[shahrozmkhan-blog]

Blog #5

So it is now as I buckle down for what I hope to be a productive all-nighter that I find this weird process that we’ve taken in place of the 3 month schedule actually start to make sense. Regardless of the amount of time Mr. Kreinbring could have given me I’m certain that I’d be at almost exactly the same point I am now - just with an extra month or so of leisure time before I would realize the approaching deadline. NOW THATS NOT TO SAY THAT IM FEELING PREPARED RN EITHER BTW. The goal for tonight is to at the very least have a draft with all my thoughts strewn across the general introduction and my alligning chunk being the weakest link that I have a semblance of an idea of what to do with.

[graceannehorton-blog]

This is hard

I am doing my best to continue through this project, getting closer and closer to the end. I am having a hard time because it is so intricate and it's very difficult to tie all the pieces together. I'm scared I'm missing something. I feel like everything I do holds a lot of weight and if I mess one thing up, everything will fall apart. I am very stressed and cannot wait for this all to be over.

[riyaa-99-blog]

Wow wow wow wow

Wow wow wow wow wow I finished the first draft of all my explications wow that's dedication. I sat down today and told myself I was going to type all of these up today if it's the last thing I do, and I did it. I'm proud, and they're not even that shabby really. I didn't even need NyQuil. Oh but I did do some more yoga before I started, but I did it in my basement where there were a lot of rolly pollies and my friends in bio know how much bugs creep me the frick out so that probably stressed me out a lot more than it did relax me. Wow now I'm thinking about gd rolly pollies. Oops Okay but to conclude, I did good today and I'm proud of myself. I also cooked dinner with my dad today and that was a lot of fun because we just made fun of each other the whole time, a lot of laughs. Good times I had a good day.

[jstearns-blog]

The Writing

The criticism and literature was definitely my second favorite part of the entire paper. It was enjoyable, looking at the information and view of a critical author, and the critical lens they used. Then adding my input, how it differs, the critical lens that can attribute to and so on.