<p>I'm a junior in high school, and I enrolled into AP English 11, I am alright with the amount of work and the rigor that follows the curriculum, but when it comes to context of some pieces or "essays", I can't seem to find the right perspective of certain things. In a way you could say I interpret things the wrong way.. </p>
<p>Is there any advice anyone could possibly give me in order for me to not feel like an idiot when it comes to the discussion of how/ what we thought of an assigned text.</p>
<p>I’m in that class right now and our teacher always makes us read it multiple times before we even answer anything because I have the same problem as you, but once you keep rereading you’ll notice smaller details and I think it might help. I’ve heard the AP test for the class is all context written in the style like Thoreau’s Walden (which was pretty hard for me when we had to read that), so just make sure you’re able to learn how to do it fast if you take the test.</p>
<p>Thank you so much tinyone!</p>
<p>You can’t interpret something wrong if you can find the evidence to back it up. After you read and interpret something, ask yourself if you would be comfortable explaining your point of view to someone else with sufficient evidence. If you are, then by all means go ahead and take the risk of “being wrong”. I don’t think anyone will really judge you for it; after all, literature is always subjective if you think about it. You should only try to re-interpret the text if you wouldn’t feel comfortable explaining it to someone else, which does happen. Really my best advice for you is to just trust your instincts and go with it.</p>
<p>Thank you anastasia10! But my teacher seems to correct me just about every time I open my mouth. Although I have been noticing, along with a few other peers, that she seems to be reinventing what I say, except in different words :c. In reality its the same answer, but in her words…</p>