With only a month left before the AP Exam, I'm starting to get a bit nervous! I definitely need the most work on the essay writing, but I also want to get as much multiple choice practice in as I can too. Throughout this past year, I feel like my analyzing skills have gotten better, it's just a matter of putting that analysis into words with good claims and warrants that I struggle with.
Over the last few weeks, we have finished reading, discussing, and annotating Ceremony. This book was definitely the hardest to annotate, as it was extremely long and detailed, with many hidden meanings woven into it. I think that the background knowledge, poems, and culture that this book came with made the story quite interesting to read. I found myself constantly underlining symbols like the circles, directions, and colors that were described over and over again. It was as if Silko deliberately did this to attract attention to those symbols. I thought it was cool that although all the poems were scattered within the book, at the end of the story, those poems came together to create a giant story. Although it took my forever to annotate this book, it is really one of my favorite books we have read this year!
We have just started to read Fifth Business. Even though I'm only a couple pages into it since I was absent for a couple of days, I can already tell that it will be a great read. It reads much quicker than the rest of the previous books we have read and best of all: we don't need to annotate it! :) I'm excited to finish reading this book and practice for the AP exam. We're in the home stretch!
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