<p>I guess I'm the only one that thought that the whole "country" thing was just a suggestion. The last sentence of the prompt was something along the lines of describe a work in which setting plays an important role and is essential to the meaning of the work as a whole. It didn't use the qualifier "country" and so I figured you could write about any work that's dependent on setting. If not, I'm completely screwed.</p>
<p>btw- I wrote on Wuthering Heights</p>
<p>OC has nothing on where I live... they actually tried to tell us "evolution is a theory, not fact," with advisory stickers in bio textbooks. OC looks like San Fran compared to some places!</p>
<p>I go to Fullerton HS. U? </p>
<p>OK, so it's probably more of a mix than I made it sound like it was, and the parents are probably more conservative. But the honors students - especially the outspoken ones - tend to be pretty liberal</p>
<p>i think i kicked ass on the prose one (sorry just vent some kick ass venting) kickin ass is kick ass!</p>
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nope...I almost made that mistake too but I read the prompt again and it said something along the lines of "describe a work in which SUCH a setting plays an important role..." so I used "Huckleberry Finn"...and was I the only one who completely fucced up the FIRST essay...I don't know what the heck happened...but I was very confused with the poem...was the "hawk" actually a plane or something? I only wrote like 3 paragraphs discussing the passage of time :/...I just didn't care anymore and ended up blanking out because I did essay #1 last </p>
<p>the MC on the the other hand was EASY...the practice tests that we've been taking in class were harder...</p>
<p>fut - I agree with you. The lead-in didn't have that much to do with the actual prompt. The prompt was just a basic "pick a setting that is important and tell why". It had nothing to do with country, nation, city, state, etc.</p>
<p>Interesting responses so far though...</p>
<p>Oh, also...something kinda funny.</p>
<p>For the second essay, one of my sentences began "The Duchess likes balls..."</p>
<p>I'm immature, but during the monotony of the test, it was wonderful.</p>
<p>Well honestly they should have been soooooooooooooooo much more specific. Because the wilderness, jungle, and desert are not country settings. Seriously my class read like a book a week and yet we did not have a single book that had a true country setting. I did Grapes of Wrath last year and yet I couldn't remember enough about it to write a whole essay.</p>
<p>i thought it said "pick a novel/piece of literature/whatever in which a country setting plays an important role in showing the meaning of the work" or something along those lines</p>
<p>i cant believe there is so much scrutiny over this country thing. it meant country as in nation not country side. idk if we established this already, but it did. the choices on there were full of different books, like journey into africa i believe, thats wat gave it away for me.</p>
<p>but i used our town and small town america.</p>
<p>The whole thing about the country issue...most of the books dealt with rural areas: As I Lay Dying, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (England, still rural)...so, I just played it safe and picked Huck Finn.</p>
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lmao...NO it didn't...they meant country as in rural...c'mon, they said a country setting could convey a sense of "peace and also one of primitiveness (and some other things that I forgot)"...they meant a rural setting...I don't really see how people could've gotten that twisted...</p>
<p>and wasn't Journey Into Africa in a rural setting...in addition to Wuthering Heights, Huck Finn, etc. ?</p>
<p>yeah sorry, the phrase "a country setting" was definitely used and there is no way it could mean nation in that sense. that would also be kind of a ridiculous prompt IMO.</p>
<p>Ok question... would Leonato's estate from Much Ado About Nothing count as a country setting? </p>
<p>If not... oh well lol</p>
<p>i'm thinking i did pretty well on the multiple choice but completely messed up the essays. i know the essays have more weight in the final score but does anyone know of an estimate scale. i want to get an idea of what score ranges are for 3, 4, and 5. for example, for AP Cal, many people say 66-108 is typically a 5. any input?</p>
<p>Leonato's estate from Much Ado About Nothing more than likely counts. I couldn't see how the setting made much of a difference though, especially when my brain was starting to die from hours of testing.</p>
<p>One of the greatest and simplest lessons I learned from my AP teacher:</p>
<p>AP = Answer the Prompt.</p>
<p>All the kids who mistook it for nation clearly didn't read it well enough. It states country setting (wouldn't the idea of a nation setting be somewhat redundant? Aren't almost ALL settings within a nation? Hmmm... CB has NO reason to specify nation in their prompts -- they do, on the other hand, have a need to specify country-road in order to get you to write about that. If they meant nation, they wouldn't have said anything at all). You can write one of the most fantastic essays ever, but if it doesnt address what the prompt asks, you'll get a 0, or a 1 if your lucky. I read each prompt thrice, and underlined the key parts of it like with the hawk one "language, mood, meaning", the open end "country setting, and how such a setting contributes to the work..." </p>
<p>A little late now, I guess, but READ THE PROMPTS!!!</p>
<p>//ranting</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath also works wonderfully.</p>
<p>AP = Answer the Prompt.</p>
<p>My teachers always said that too, which is why I made sure to write about the countryside, and not like the jungle or something. But some people answered what they thought the prompt said, and talked about a nation. I doubt they will give that many people a 0 or 1, especially if it is well written. After all, it somewhat answers the prompt. 0's and 1's are usually way off topic, or are extremely poorly written.</p>
<p>I still don't quite get country setting though. I mean I know it is not a nation. That thought never even crossed my mind. But would a setting in the wilderness or jungle or desert count as a country setting? I think that they would because too me country is anything that is rural. Yet to someone else it might not. The AP graders are going to have to come up with a very generic ruberic on this one.</p>