Hello fellow AP peers!
I am excited to be apart of the AP English and Composition class. This class looks to be one of the toughest ones of the year, in my opinion. I am well aware that our instructor has high expectations and its both a good and bad thing. Bad: Requires working out of our comfort zone and actually putting more effort than any other of our classes. Good: Our instructor is realistic and is not going to "dumb us down" or baby us. She's going to be blunt and tell us what is wrong and how to improve it. (I love that.) And in return, we, as the students must put in the effort and push ourselves. The course does not guarantee a passing score nor does it guarantee an A. That depends on us and how wisely we are as students and used the lessons correctly.
This AP course will be challenging, not only because of the material it contains but the fact that I am a non-fluent writer. I believe that writing should come as easy as a language, it should be fluent and come easily. I, for one, am a horrible writer, I struggle when it comes to organizing thoughts and writing introductory and conclusion paragraphs. But that's something I hope to improve on. The main reason why I chose this class was because I want to stand out from all the competition when it comes to college application reviews. I don't want to be another number in the rejection pile. I want the experience and skills. I want to be "extraordinary*".
One of the vital assignment for the course is to write a blog about a school-related topic. My blog topic, as you can tell from the title, has to do along the lines of books and novels. In my blog, I will write comments and feedback on books I come across and read. I will summarize the story as best I can and express the importance of some parts of the book. I have to warn you, I may be bias in some of my entries. The first book I may blog about is "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom. Brief Summary: The story is about a man who has reached the 'bottom of the pit' in life. He is depressed and rejected from his family because of his ambition to become a baseball player. Therefore he decides to go to his old childhood neighborhood and commit suicide, and while he does he is unexpectedly visited by his mother's ghost. Throughout the story he learns more about himself and gives himself a second chance. The book's moral is to keep going and to make the best of your mistakes. I hope that my blog will be interesting and I encourage readers to comment any books you'd like for me to look at. I love to read and will look into anything.
*In my fifth grade class, my teacher taught me the most crucial word and definition in my life, Extraordinary.
Denotation:
Extraordinary. adj. going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary <extraordinary powers>
In my mind:
Ordinary means simple and normal, I don't want to normal, I want to stand out. Extra means to be more of. Being extraordinary means, being more than that, breaking away from simple and creating something WAY different.
