<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God for #3.</p>
<p>^^ lol that fine. Guess what? I COMPLETELY forgot to mention anything regarding the 100 years.</p>
<p>The test was much easier than I thought it would be. MC was a breeze, essays were easy too. Just talked about diversity for the poem, and malleability for the passage (I really do dislike those romantic early 19th century novels…). IM for the open-ended, felt it was a little bs-ey but good enough. Wonder if they’re just trying to readjust the score distribution, since evidently only around 7% of students get 5’s?</p>
<p>Edit: Where in the poem did the poet mention sickness? Seemed mostly about dreams/memories…</p>
<p>I was surprised at how similar the first two essays were. I know they wanted you to apply literary elements in different ways but they were both just asking for you to show how litereary elements did -blank-. Also, no Compare/Contrast (our teacher said how shocking it was last year that they didn’t have one).</p>
<p>I thought essay 3 was really easy actually. I couldn’t think of a book myself (I was ready with The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Othello by Shakespeare) so I used the story of Ulysses from The Odyssey. I’ve took Mythology last semister so it was a breeze getting through that part.</p>
<p>Overall I’m really happy with how the essays went, let’s just hope for a solid multiple choice section :P</p>
<p>Easy Peasy. </p>
<p>Weird, how easy it was. Multiple choice was quite…common sense. </p>
<p>Section II–doable.</p>
<p>Question #3-- Kite Runner, duh :P</p>
<p>Moby Dick!!</p>
<p>gcj000 - It was regarding the grandmother’s blanket. She was sickly and had taken medicine, walked with a cane, etc. I felt it was necessary to include the g-ma’s blanket in order to support my essay.</p>
<p>I analyzed using an explication format.</p>
<p>How does anyone feel about my choice to use fences for Q3? I talked about how after Corey got kicked out of the house and returned years later, he had undergone a transformation. My MOWAW was that parents actions affect who their children are as individuals, since corey was isolated from his family in the first place because a fight about Troys affair. Does this seem to fulfill the prompt???</p>
<p>Used Song of Solomon for Q3. Did anyone else?</p>
<p>i did kite runner on question 3…we didn’t really read anything else that could have been used. some people from my class used beloved? i ended up doing decent on question 3 i think after slipping into a little plot summary early on.</p>
<p>i didnt think #1 and #2 were that hard…both sorta asked the same thing</p>
<p>i agree that multiple choice was pretty easy. the problem is that i think the poems and passages they put on there are incredibly boring so it was hard to focus…</p>
<p>It sounds like the curve on MC is going to be brutal this year since everyone is confidant they did well! :(</p>
<p>does anyone remember what the first two multiple choice poems/prose were about? I’m totally blanking out on this.</p>
<p>Yeah lets see…the first one had to do with saying goodbye.
the second had to do with…crap i forget too!</p>
<p>The first song was lame and boring. The second (passage about town) was really good. The third was… I forgot. The fourth (narrative) was really good. The fifth was terrible - so boring and so lame. I hate whales. Silly Moby Wang.</p>
<p>Used Beowulf for Question 3. Had to twist it though to fit the prompt.</p>
<p>oh yeah the different versions probably had different orders of the poems/prose.
but now I remember 3/4:
saying goodbye
the weird whale one which I didn’t really get
the one about people covering up their faults or something I really don’t remember</p>
<p>what was the other one?</p>
<p>umm im pretty sure there were 5 passages…</p>
<p>okay well I don’t remember… you’re probably right</p>
<p>I had a friend who wrote about Harry Potter for the Q3. To be honest, I think Harry Potter was a much better book to write about that what I chose. So envious…=/ I told her I’d bake her a pie if she did that and still managed to get a 5.</p>
<p>I just realized that I could have done Atonement for number 3. Oh well. I’m always afraid to do books that are also movies. And I didn’t like it anyway.</p>
<p>Did anyone else have a really strong image of the speaker for MCQ passage 4? Everyone here was imagining a guy. I had other very distinct ideas about his appearance, but mostly, I was just bowled over that the speaker was female.</p>