Ap English Reflection Paper

Welcome to AP TAG English III, otherwise known as AP English Language and Composition. I did TAG English in middle school, but this was the first year I did TAG English in high school. If you are in this situation, don’t worry, it is not that much different than regular AP English. You read a lot of the same books, but you don’t have a single test all year. Test grades in this class are projects, book conferences or seminars. This made a lot of people, including me, very nervous the first couple of times. Looking back, I can tell you that while the stakes are the same, having a book conference is a ton less stressful than a major test over the whole book. The reason this is is because you can actually talk about what you know. There is no guessing between two answer

My advice for you to be successful in this class is to take the projects seriously. I would highly recommend choosing a partner that can and is willing to work just as hard as you are. I did not do this the first semester, which made it a lot harder to do well on the projects. Towards the end of the semester, I became partners with someone who cared about this class just as much as I did, which made the class a lot easier. In the fall, the education project is a killer. It takes a ton of research and essay writing to do this project effectively. My partner and I ended up writing a 41 page paper on Ennis ISD, in addition to a poster and a speech. Although it took a lot of work, we got a 25 point bonus on that project (3 test grades) because we were recognized by Mrs. Davenport as the “most effective consultants” (the best project). This bonus is given out on every project. Other things that I would recommend is reading every book she assigns. I do not thoroughly enjoy reading, but through will power I read every page that she assigned us. This is something that paid off in the end as I was able to reference a few of these books on the AP exam. None of the books Mrs. Davenport