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In reply to the discussion: One teen’s standardized testing horror story (and where it will lead) [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)class only.
there's a difference.
My junior year of high school I was enrolled in an English class taught by the best teacher I ever had....He really pushed us when analyzing poems and books and allowed us to form our own ideas and argue them well...
I enrolled in AP English due to my great experience with English the previous year hoping it would be more rigorous and I would grow even more as a writer and as a person. I was wrong. The entire purpose of AP English was not to improve our critical thinking or our writing, but to prepare for the AP Exam in May and to get ready for college. We read great pieces of literature... But, instead of analyzing themes or characters our teacher would give us questions which we would have to write essays about in a 50 minute class period similar to what we would find on the AP Exam and in college classes...
In other words, they were assigned a reading and then asked to write an essay, then graded on it as though it were an AP exam. No discussion or analysis.
That's not what college-level English is like.
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