Top three things we did in English this year

    Over the course of this year in AP lang there were many moments, classes, and assignments that are actually pretty funny to look back on. However there were definitely some that stood out over the rest, over the year I thought that the group of guys that we had was definitely one of the most entertaining of all the english classes as everyone knew when to just joke around and when to actually lock in and get some not so top-notch grades on our assignments. 

For me the third most entertaining class that we had was the class where everyone was reciting their excerpts. On one hand there were some kids who had memorized every word to a tee, and on the other hand there were some kids who didn't memorize anything. Specifically, Lee was extremely confident going into the recital assignment saying that I would at max take him about an hour or two, but then when the day came, he royally fucked up. It was funny as hell. On top of that I found the recital project to actually be one of the best mini projects that we did all year, as while I was doing it I will admit I thought the entire thing was dumb at first, but then later on after finishing memorizing the entire script it was probably one of the most rewarding feelings ever.

The second most fun moment that we had in class would definitely go to every discussion coming back from reading a chapter from one of the books that we were reading. For Gulliver's travels it was nice talking about all the uncountable little details that everyone found throughout the long long pages. I also found it interesting that everyone was able to make tons of connections to the real world and how the book which was written pretty long ago did pretty well at actually predicting people's behaviors. There were also the discussions about some of the smaller readings that we did such as A Modest Proposal which caught every single person off guard as soon as they read it and the talk directly afterwards about what the hell, we just wrote was also hilarious.


In the end the top moment of Lang this entire year was definitely the reflections after we did the in-class essays. People talking about what they wrote about and the angles that they looked at the prompt from were always really interesting as almost everyone had a completely different perspective on how to tackle it as a whole. The best part of it all was everyone talking about how cooked they were since everyone knew that what they wrote down was probably dog in the end.


Overall, this year in English was actually one of the more enjoyable English classes I've taken as the group of guys that we had all brought something to the class. Whether it was everyone just kidding around or everyone actually locking in for a quiz or test the environment was fire and I can't wait to see what next year's class has in store.

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  1. Mr. BarronJune 5, 2024 at 8:17 AM

    I totally understand your feelings about the recital: it can feel "dumb," but actually turns out to be rewarding. "A Modest Proposal" was a highlight for me as well.

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