#i took ap lang last year. im not taking ap lit this year.

[boycritter]

three weeks left in the semester and neither of my major papers ive submitted for english have been graded. this functionally means i have no idea what my grade actually is in this class, and also that i have received extremely limited feedback in my longer writing assignments, and i have no idea what i need to improve in my final one so i can make sure whatever fucking grade i end up with is a good one !!!!

[go60go]

school schedule fuckery update: they managed to put me in ap psych again even though i took it last year, also im in ap lang which i dont want to take, also im going to be an office aide second semester apparently?? more than half of my classes currently are things i did not sign up for. if they dont switch me to ap lit instead of ap lang im going to kill a man

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hey sorry, i know this is a tos blog so you can answer privately or not at all, but i saw in an ask that mod angel took APLAC last year and im taking it rn and im freaking out and how does one NOT SUCK at writing essays aljhsflkdjghlskdfjghlkjfhsg

Hewwo it is i the frenchiest of fries

don’t worry! i will answers asks tos related or not tos related, I’ll seriously take either to make my followers happy :) besides i love talking to you guys it gives me life ngl

yes well, I, for one, can’t write for shit, I’m seriously not kidding you. Despite writing fanfiction for multiple things, I still am an awful writer. My teacher literally sat on her computer all day and just gave us work while she shopped, no joke.

I bs’d all my essays and I take AP Literature today and BS it. I ended up getting a 3 on it lol which my mom was kind of mad about but I got a 4 on the APUSH, so that was slight compensation? This year I’m taking AP Chem, AP Lit, and AP Calc (not fun, don’t recommend 10/10)

the main survival tips for AP Lang are under the cut!

- TAKE TIME TO PLAN UR ESSAYS IT SEEMS LIKE A WASTE, but isn’t!! even something like

introduction

paragraph 1 - alliteration (the repatitive use of ‘k’ and ‘cr’ in ___ evokes a rough tone and makes the audience feel unsafe or something; the use of s creates a sneaky sound that makes the audience feels caution)

p2 - imagery (the deep description of the smells makes the audience feel safe, the description of the ‘pretty’ and ‘delicate’ girl characterizes as weak)

p3 - polysyndeton (use of ‘and’ in a long list stretches the time and legnths the narrative pacing)

conclusion

generally speaking i either do: strongest example (1st), second strongest (2nd), weakest (3rd) or the other way. you can use abbreivations and stuff bc nobody will look at ur planning page

- study your rhetorical devices and try to know as many as possible

- try to know synonyms for easy words ‘big,’ ‘small,’ ‘use.” it’s a life saver and will make you sound more mature

- know transition words like ‘for example,’ ‘moreover,’ ‘however’

- SUPPORT THE HECK OUT OF EVERYTHINg use direct quotes if it’s a passage you’re analyzing and analyze the hell out of it all - I’m still awful at that but the more support you have = THE BETTER. it is literally so hard to try to find meaning out of like 5 words so i feel you but itll help you get that push

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that class was hell, mostly because of the teacher that didn’t teach; I seriously didn’t learn anything but a bunch of rhetorical devices and kept getting like 40′s on the multiple choice practices (im typically an A student) so like it’s okay dude

If you ever need more advice, help with writing stuff (i can’t write, but I can edit and suggest things), or moral support, feel free to shoot an another ask here any time or message me at @melodramatic-butterfly :)

Best wishes and have a wonderful night/day,

Mod Angel