<p>In AP Lit, we once had to do a timed essay on Anne Bradstreet's "The Author to Her Book". The poem is an extended metaphor about how a mother and a child is like a writer and her work.</p>
<p>Most of my class didn't get that. They thought it was just about a child. :( IT'S IN THE BLEEDIN TITLE!!!</p>
<p>Nothing constructive to say, except</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA! </p>
<p>No, that's cruel. Wait, no, I think it's appropriate.</p>
<p>Please don't hate me.</p>
<p>Umm, we have something called AP Friday. EVERY Friday we have the 45-minute period to complete timed AP test practices, one week being MC packets and the following being essay prompts. They are all from AP tests in previous years, and all results go into our grades. Did I mention our essays are graded with far more scrutiny than the real AP graders ever will?</p>
<p>Oh, and one of our essays was about "The Author to Her Book" itself.</p>
<p>Yeah, my classmates are retarded. There's always one girl who raises her hand the day before a lit test and is like, "WAIT, ___MAIN POINT OF THE NOVEL THAT 'S REPEATED 40308493849 TIMES?!" and then like at least half the classroom is like, "Really, I had no idea!"</p>
<p>Yeah... I think that this was the most annoying English moment ever:</p>
<p>Teacher: "So, any observations about this chapter [in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn]?"
Girl: "Umm... yeah. I used to think that Jim was funny. Now he's just annoying. Like... I don't know. He's just so stupid."</p>
<p>This is an Honors class, Junior year. Yikes.</p>
<p>Last year, I was not in Honors English (dunno why, since I had the HIGHEST SCORE IN THE CLASS THE PREVIOUS YEAR, still not accepted) but we were reading Shakespeare and someone stumbled over the pronunciation of "universal" - then they pronounced "meat" "me-at". Yes, "me-at". "Me", as in you and me, and "at" as in "the girl is at the loony bin".</p>
<p>um how do you get me-at out of universal??? well anyway, today in class we were reading a short story called "You're Ugly, Too" and so the teacher asks " What do you guys think about Zoe (the main character)?" and then this kid says "I think she's a total douche!" and it was so funny because no one expected it from him. He's usually a really quiet smart kid and he just comes out and blurts it.</p>
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<p>Those were two separate (but equally annoying) incidents.</p>
<p>Um. I go to a math & science based school.</p>
<p>You try reading Shakespeare with the lot of them.</p>
<p>Hey hemingwayisdead. I'm reaidng your book in English called In Our Time. I honestly believe that Ben Rountree has more writing ability than you (when he's smokin' crack). The detail is bleak and the vocabulary is inferior to RC Cola.</p>
<p>Yes, sometimes my class seems to be really mentally challenged.</p>
<p>I hate hemingway, btw and I don't get him. :( In my opinion, he is on the list because of whatever new style he popularized. I don't see anything important about him.</p>
<p>Everyone always relates everything in AP english to something that happened in their life. Most of the kids in that class are friends (and have been for a long time) so sometimes it ends up like....
Girl 1: OH HEY THAT'S LIKE THAT ONE TIME
Girl 2: yeahhhhh when we....!!!!!
Girl 3: OMG that was so fun!!!!!
Girls 1, 2, 3: LOL!</p>
<p>Ew.</p>