The End of An Era

Dear Fellow AP English Students,
      I can hardly believe this is our last week of school! It seems like yesterday we were cowering in our first English class with Ms. Serensky, praying we would get out alive. It turns out, we made it through. We've read thousands of pages, complete with extensive literary analysis. We've written over a hundred pages worth of Data Sheets and SOAPStones, most of the time pulling all-nighters to complete them. We've read a ton of poems, which vary in topics from Lady Freedom to plums. We've faced off in eight extra credit multiple choice games. We've written countless journal entries and timed writings where our hands cramped up and we couldn't feel our fingers for the next couple of periods. We've learned so much and made it so far. The juniors who only wrote five-paragraph essays and freaked out over essay headings are gone, replaced be seniors who aren't afraid to look past the obvious. AP English has paved the way for us to learn to be smarter people in general, and looking back now, it's apparent that this class has shaped who we are as students. I want to wish my classmates, and the incoming senior class, best of luck in the future. Farewell, AP English!
Sincerely,
Cat C.

1. You learn how to ACTUALLY write an essay.
2. You learn what words like juxtaposition and lytote mean and how to apply them to almost any sentence.
3. You get to play extra credit multiple choice four times a year!
4. You recieve a list of funny quotes you and your classmates said at the end of every quarter.
5. You get writing partners!
6. You are able to watch Ms. Seresnky pick on and mimick the smart people.
7. You watch movies with Leonardo DiCaprio as the star.
8. You get to hear Ms. Seresnky's life story.
9. You get free food and candy while you play games and learn poetry for a sraight week.
10. You get to spend time with the smartest students in the school and receive stickers when you get A's!

AP Test Analysis

Ashima: "I don't understand it" (Lahiri, 45).
Algernon: "[This test] is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, [Cat is] a terrible disappointment to me" (Wilde, 18).
Ashima: "It's a pity [she] can't [write]" (Lahiri, 149).
Iago: "Patience, I say. Your mind may change" (Shakespeare, 3.3.449).
Algernon: "[This test] is awfully hard work...I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind (Wilde, 17).
Iago: "Call up her father, / ...make after him, poison his delight" (Shakespeare, 1.1.64-65).
Algernon: "Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live" (Wilde, 15).
Ashima: "[Cat's] working too hard...I hope [she's] not getting an ulcer" (Lahiri, 164).
Iago: "It were a tedious difficulty.../...to [write so much].../....Where's the satisfaction?" (Shakespeare, 3.3.394-398).
Algernon: "I happen to be serious about [writing]. What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea." (Wilde, 40).