<p>I know a lot of people in my class wrote about Oedipus Rex, a few wrote about hamlet, and I was the only one who wrote anything different from those two to my knowledge.</p>
<p>lol One of my friends tried using The Invisible Man. He ended up getting stuck on 2 paragraphs.</p>
<p>Felt the multiple choice were decent, the grief poem and last passage were horrible though, others were easy. Essays weren’t too bad, however for the first one I didn’t know too much what to say and I’m afraid i was repetitive. Most likely getting a 3/4.</p>
<p>I thought it went pretty well. The multiple choice was good up in till the last one. I reread it three times and I think I was so brain dead that it just wasn’t making any sense to me. I loved the Cranford excerpt it was really straightforward with it’s meaning and I also thought that they reprinted it accidentally hahaha I was freaking out haha. </p>
<p>The horse poem was quiet weird and I almost laughed out loud for the question that said what were the horses intentions hahaha. </p>
<p>As for the frqs I really liked the poem. Not the question but more the poem itself. Idk if this is relevant but did anyone else realize that for the second essay the woman used a pen name and it was written in the 1800s? Idk if this was completely irrelevant to the question but for one of my paragraphs for that essay I talked about how the author was portraying the real life a women in the 1800s has to go through and how she had to use a pen name to do it because back then womans opinions were not highly regarded…idk haha I notices it so I decided to go with it. As for the last essay I used Hamlet along with almost everyone else:) haha</p>
<p>I expect nothing less than a 3. Even better a 4.</p>
<p>I saw No Country for Old Men on the list of suggested titles- I wanted to use it so bad, but I’ve only seen the movie so that was completely out of the question. It was one of the titles I wanted to read as my in-class independent reading book but I avoided it because it hasn’t ever been on the test before and I figured I was better off sticking to traditional/reliable books like Moby Dick or Crime and Punishment.</p>
<p>Anyways, I think this is the third year in a row where they’ve introduced a Cormac McCarthy novel on the recommended title list. Still waiting for Blood Meridian to get on there, though.</p>
<p>Cowart you read Moby Dick? I commend you. I tried that for my first independent reading book of the year…I could not force myself past 200 pages. Melville CANNOT stay on topic.</p>
<p>In all honesty, do the amount of pages written really matter? I’m slightly worried since pretty much everyone here is saying they wrote, on average, 2-3 pages per essay. I, on the other hand, wrote 1.5, 2, and 1.5 pages on each prompt. I have never been a writer who could stretch out essays for too long, and I prefer to be succinct. </p>
<p>On a side note, I used The Fountainhead on my third essay. I thought about using The Stranger, but I figured too many people would write about that.</p>
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<p>Since the prompt suggested discussing the narrator’s selection to certain details, I said that the diction of the narration illustrated a broader theme of the passage-- a criticism of conformity to traditional sex roles. I think that makes sense considering that the author’s background, so hopefully we both made the right inference. ^_^</p>
<p>Thought it was alright, all around. I didn’t gt stuck on any of th essays, which was promising. [: For the third one, I used “A Doll’s House”. You guys probably think I’m crazy, haha.</p>
<p>Freckles93, I don’t think you’re crazy! I did Hedda Gabler, which is another Ibsen play, but the two are incredibly similar. How the protagonists faced the unjust Victorian constraints on women?</p>
<p>Yup! Basically how the protagonist is trapped in a marriage full of gender inequality and a lack of real love. Basically all of my essays were about relationships, it was kinda fun. [:</p>
<p>@Hong214</p>
<p>I don’t think length matters too much. As long as you answered the question well, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Length in pages also depends on the size of your handwriting. :p</p>
<p>So i wrote about 4 pages of “The Stranger” for FRQ #3. I have a q. though… will I get docked points for not mentioning any character names (not even the main character!)? I just could not remember his name, but I got many of the events, situations, and dillemas.</p>
<p>For the essays, my friend wrote 7 pages for the first one, 5 for the second and a 2 page outline for the third. Do you think this will benefit or hurt her?</p>
<p>I used The Stranger as well</p>
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<p>How would that help her? The point is to do well on 3 essays- not do well on 2 and do some of the other one.</p>
<p>The multiple choice was surprisingly easy, and I only had troubles with the final passage (seriously, passages with sentences that go on for lines at a time shouldn’t go at the end when it’s already ridiculously hard not to zone out in the first place). I even managed to interpret the grief poem pretty spot on when compared to other classmates’ interpretations. The first and second essays were pretty solid. The third prompt made me feel like I won the lottery since I for some reason decided to extensively review To Kill A Mockingbird, which I hadn’t read since freshman year. I destroyed that prompt. Overall, I think I got a solid 4, which was what I was aiming for.</p>
<p>In my class, the main theme throughout the year was madness and racism, so we read Things Fall Apart, King Lear, Heart of Darkness, and Things Fall Apart. While it was a really interesting approach to teaching English (especially loosely holding onto a few themes throughout the entire year), it could have very well easily screwed my whole class over had the prompt been different. I just hope the graders grade classes at a time, since I was the only one in mine who wrote on something other than Things Fall Apart.</p>
<p>Also, @ Hong, I wrote about 1.5 pages for each prompt. While it could be contributed to my minuscule handwriting, I believe it’s quality over quantity.</p>
<p>^Unfortunately, that’s not always the case with standardized testing. </p>
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<p>I hope everyone’s right and these essays aren’t graded like the ones on the SAT, although I wouldn’t be surprised if it were.</p>
<p>For a second I thought I’d be alone since I chose “A Doll House” for P3 but I see someone here finally posted that. WHOO. I’m in love with the play, it’s one of the one’s I prepared, and I instantly thought of it when I read the prompt. I thought it was a nice fit.</p>
<p>I hated the grief poem, lol’d at the ponies poem, and then thought the other passages were okay.</p>
<p>P1 and P2 were easy to understand, I just hope I was in-depth enough with my analysis… I’m not expecting to get more than 10 wrong on MC, hopefully like 6-8, andd then hopefully a 6+ on all my essays.</p>
<p>Not bad not bad.</p>