Remember when I said I was ready for Senior year to end in January? Yeah, I didn’t really mean it
This is a PSA: I really miss school and seeing my classmates and teachers and actually learning things.
My favorite assignments were the poetry one where we made a presentation about a poem and forced our classmates to analyze poetry, and the blogs. I didn’t expect to enjoy the blogs as much as I did. I had a lot of blogging momentum the start of spring semester, but being away from school really killed that for me. They’re fun though! I also liked doing the vocab cards and tests (with the scratch and sniff stickers), and doing the book projects. They were a lot of work but I loved ripping apart the characters and symbols to figure out what the books were really trying to say. Job shadowing was also a blast. I was dreading it at the beginning of the year but it’s probably my favorite thing that we did. Job shadowing really helped me figure out what I want to do in the future, so that will probably help me in the years to come. The random assignments like the literary techniques and archetype and APA worksheets will probably be helpful as well.
I didn’t like all of the AP prep, but only because the days we did that always aligned with the days I wanted to sit down and do nothing 🙂 I also didn’t like that a lot of assignments were due on the same day, like if you assigned a couple of things in a week, and it was a little bit alarming to finish all of them on time. Other than that though, I l absolutely loved your class!!!! In my other 3 years of English, I hated that there wasn’t a balance between reading things and learning technical things and doing fun things. This class had all of that, and I really looked forward to going to your class each day (except for when we had to write AP essays).
To all 2021 seniors, Howdy! I don’t know if anyone but Mrs. R will read this, but its the thought that counts 🙂
My advice is to enjoy the year while you have it. Take those random classes that always looked interesting! Participate in spirit week! Go to some of the games! Join a club with your pals! Keep in touch with your favorite teachers! Go to prom with your friends! Apply for scholarships if you’re thinking about college! Take the time to do fun things! I never realized how many activities I went to (and missed) until they were all cancelled. Its unlikely that school will be cancelled again next spring semester, but take this year’s event as a reminder to do the things that you’ve been putting off, because there’s a chance you won’t be able to do them again.
I don’t have much advice for the AP exam since we haven’t taken it yet, but take the multiple choice prep and mock essays seriously. Sometimes you aren’t in the mood to write or think hard about a passage, but it will be a lot more beneficial to deal with it and learn in January than cramming for the test in May.
Also turn your work in on time, because you do Not want to be spending your last week of school overloaded with late assignments to turn in. (This is hypothetically speaking, of course. I’m totally not 5 art projects behind). If I could go back in time 4 months and slap myself, I would gladly do it.
Don’t let the Senioritis win.
Katie, out ✌️
(also some final memes)
Katie Ranting about English 