Help! Madye Moore

Overall, I have found this class to be very effective as well as engaging at most points. You kept the topics we went over relevant, and I felt that the activities we were given enforced the topics well. However, I did find some of the activities we did over the course of the year repetitive, which caused them to lose their effectiveness to a point. One of these activities is grading the essays. Sure, it was nice to have other essays to compare ours to as well as for us to see what a higher or lower grade looks like, but I felt that reading 20+ essays out loud began to lose their effectiveness after 5 or so essays. Once we read a couple out loud, you could sense that many people began to lose interest in what we were reading, which then influences the grade that was given to the essays, and once we had done that once or twice I feel like a bunch of students dreaded the whole grading process we went through. On the other hand, I did find the smaller group grading to be effective, simply because it was a smaller group which not only gave people that tend to be more reserved when speaking in front of the class, like myself, a chance to actually voice their opinion, but it also reduced the amount of class time spent grading the essays, which was beneficial as well. All in all, I enjoyed the class this year and I found the work we did over the course of the year very beneficial when it came to taking the AP test!