Assignment 26- Cassie Adams

Overall, I felt pretty prepared for the AP test this year. I think you were right in your assumption that most of us already possessed the necessary skills of writing, reading comprehension, and analysis, and all we really needed was a lot of practice. For example, I would assume that we all knew how to read a text and identify it's literary devices, but we needed a little practice discussing this in writing in the format that the AP test required. Because of this, I thought that the timed writings we did in class and our  discussions regarding them were extremely helpful. Personally, I liked the online commentary because, as a person who doesn't usually like to speak up in class, it was easier for me to give honest and constructive criticism in this way. But, I can see how some students would dislike this, as they didn't always give thoughtful comments or go back and read what their classmates had said about their writing. I think that although we didn't discuss much if the multiple choice section in class, most of it was stuff we already knew how to do, only maybe on a more difficult level. However, I think that you should have made it more clear at the beginning of the year that we would not be focusing as much on this section as a class, and if we had questions then we needed to take it upon ourselves to ask them. Because I doubt that many students actually checked to see what they got wrong and why they missed each question when we got our scores back from the practice tests.