This week, we started up “poem of the week” again, this time with two in one week rather than just a single poem. The two poems were rather challenging for me, and it took a lot before I understood the interpretations of them. I learned to challenge myself to share my ideas with the group, even though that I was afraid I would be wrong. We also started a critical theory project where we got into groups with people we have never worked with before. I am working with two other people, and we decided to use the psychological approach to the play, Macbeth. I learned a lot through this actually. Our critical thinking intro notes helped me narrow down the ideas that I had. When we picked psychological, I jumped the gun a little bit, and wanted to learn about every theory and idea I have ever learned in my three psych classes. But, we were able to narrow down our ideas, and focus on a few very important things, rather than just taking the full picture and running with it. One of the biggest challenges for me, was trying to be open to other people’s ideas. I am pretty well rounded with psych ideas, so I thought that my ideas were the best. It took a lot for me to listen to my group members, and take their ideas into consideration, they were actually really good ideas. I am a very stubborn and vocal individual, so submitting myself to other group members and their ways of thinking is very hard for me, and something that I need to work on more.
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This week, i learned a very valuable lesson, that the score of my multiple choice portion on the AP test is not everything. When I took the practice multiple choice test, I was slightly discouraged. I had hoped to do better than what I did, but then when we went back and looked at things, it wasn’t so bad. I saw that the majority of the answers that I had gotten wrong, were in large chunks. Most likely, this meant that those were pieces that I had misinterpreted, and then simply did not give the right answer because I interpreted them differently. This made me feel better about my score, and I know what to look for, and how to prepare better next time. I also worked on connecting themes in two different books, and then forming in depth questions and ideas on it. I picked the two books, Julius Caesar, and The Portrait of a Lady. These two books have very different ideas, plot lines, and tones, but yet I was able to find a similarity in both of them, free will. At first, it was hard to connect the two books, but once I understood what I was looking for I realized that the books that I chose did not have to be just alike, they just had to share a quality. https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-english-literature-and-composition/exam-practice |
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