<p>O.K. the moment is finally upon us. Have been obsessively reading my sparknotes for The Great Gatsby. I just hope the question applies to the book. If it does not than I will find some way to make it apply. </p>
<p>GOOD LUCK everyone. We will all get fives!!!!</p>
<p>It's spelt Dostoyevsky. </p>
<p>Very funny fut18000! "The horror, the horror!"</p>
<p>Hopefully I get to use Angels in America. THat play is awesome and nobody ever uses unlike some of the more repeated ones (cough hamlet cough)</p>
<p>quote... hmmm </p>
<p>"and I bless you, more life... the great work begins"</p>
<p>there! :D God I hate english</p>
<p>Hopefully the question involves something applicable to The Great Gatsby! I've read that book twice, did a seminar on it, and know it like the back of my hand. Otherwise, here are my backups:</p>
<p>Hamlet
The Poisonwood Bible
King Lear
1984</p>
<p>Does it matter if our quotes are completely accurate for question 3? Like if I said "A fool is the best thing a girl can be in this world." (spoken by Daisy Buchanan), which I'm not sure if she said it exactly like that but fairly close?</p>
<p>Well the AP graders aren't going to look up your quote. If you can't remember it, quote indirectly by using "that."</p>
<p>Let's see...I've used these to prepare:</p>
<p>Great Expectations - the universal book!!
A Separate Peace
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet
Death of a Salesman
A Doll's House
Importance of Being Earnest
As I Lay Dying</p>
<p>Hopefully a wide variety will give me a good score! I'm just worried about how to organize my essays correctly...</p>
<p>This test will bone me big time</p>
<p>how could you guys memorize so many works? I even found a hard time on just memorizing two!</p>
<p>I'm just memorizing Jane Eyre and Heart of Darkness. 90% chance at least one will be applicable to the open question</p>
<p>I'm doing Don Quixote. Universal novel.</p>
<p>Good call robotFOOD, I also like to use the novels that have a huge philosophical basis (The Stranger), that way you can go off on the philosophical implications the struggle they are talking about in the question has.<br>
I have been advised over and over again by AP teachers and AP graders alike not to use Hamlet, because everybody writes about it and they get sick of it (though that shouldn't affect the grade you get anyway). I think i'm sticking to The Stranger, Cry, The Beloved Country, A Farewell to Arms, and Pedro P</p>
<p>^^^Interesting choices. Yeah, I'm doing Macbeth instead of Hamlet even though Hamlet is my most favorite Shakespeare play ever (I've seen it twice live at the Shakespeare Tavern, ad I almost got stabbed by Hamlet once, yay!) Although, I think it would be refreshing for them to read a decent Hamlet essay...my teacher just said that they were sick of all the bad ones. Anyways, I'm doing the The Things They Carried and Pride and Prejudice, since the two of them pretty much cover every single question that they would ever ask me. :)</p>
<p>Lear, Hamlet, Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>My books:
Invisible Man
Native Son
Anthem
Animal Farm
The Stranger </p>
<p>Thinking about, but not memorizing fully:
Age of Innocence
Beowulf</p>
<p>I hate AP Lit.</p>
<p>I think I'm more worried about the stupid poetry interpretation question than anything else. Not to say I'm not worried about prose/open questions, but...you can't really study for poetry and it can be just so hard sometimes....gahhh</p>
<p>and what is up with that red dot thingy where the "CC" sign is supposed to be? does anyone else see that on my post?</p>
<p>So how did everyone do? I think I got a high 3 or a 4... the multiple choice was really easy compared to what I have done before in class, so I think I did well on that. The poetry and short reading essays were also pretty easy. The free response seemed kind of hard to me though. The prompt wasn't great but I had ideas in my head but I just couldn't figure out how to word it... so my essay seems a lot like the dreaded plot summary :(... oh well not much I can do now right?</p>
<p>i completely bombed the third essay, for some reason wrote on the wrong topic. Im expecting a 2.</p>
<p>I wrote a page on a DAMN CITY!!!!!!!! Then I had to start over with 20 minutes left. I owned the first two essays though. If I got a 9 on the first 2, and a 4/5 on the third, and reasonably well on the m/c is a 4 still in reach?</p>
<p>Also, they wont mark me down for having a page crossed out will they?</p>
<p>Damn..</p>
<p>Yea, I didn't feel so good after that. The MC KILLED ME! THe first poem we analyzed in class once so it was cake, however the two other poems I had no idea what was going on. The essays weren't TOO bad, I didn't know any of the books so i had to pick a different one. I think I'll get a 3, maybe a four if my MC wasn't as bad as I thought.</p>