English History

In my years of being a student, I've always enjoyed English. Elementary school was very nontraditional; I lived in four different places before I was ten years old. I learned the overdrawn subject of grammar and actually was used to great advantage when I took AP Literature and AP Language in high school. Maplewood high school was located in the middle of nowhere of Mecca,Ohio; three townships to one school with the graduating class of 2008 being eighty-four students. So, it was hard for students who have been there all their lives to learn grammar later in their student careers than it was for me. I started to thoroughly enjoy English when I took AP Literature my junior year. We had to read several novels--not quite sure how many-- and different plays by Shakespeare and Arthur Miller and so on; so basically all the classics. After having to write essay after essay, paper after paper, about all the literature, it was very rewarding to get better and better grades on assignments. We also had to do speeches and presentations where I was Elton John, but that's irrelevant to this class. Anywho, I took the AP exam and I passed it! I was pretty excited about it, until I took AP Language my senior year. The course focused more on writing styles and reading nonfiction such as Billy Budd and more interesting books like 1984. It was extremely difficult for me to focus on writing because I can't reread what I have written, for some odd reason. It would always just be a pain to reread my writing. Oh, and one time, we wrote like one of the authors', and my mind is failing me on which one, but we wrote a whole essay talking like a teenage boy with awkward words and I somehow got through it and proved my thesis. Well, that's all that I can think of on my English history, this being my first English course this year.