-My Final Reflection-
My time in AP World History has been very difficult. I enrolled in this class although I heard all of those rumors that the class was very hard and that the teacher left a lot of homework. One of the reasons I enrolled in this class was because I wanted to get that extra point for my GPA just for taking an accelerated class. Another reason I joined AP World History was because all of my friend were joining. During the year of my AP World History class I experienced many things like the challenge of reading accelerated books, I also had many regrets, yet I enjoyed taking AP World History.
When I finally got my AP World History book I wasn't expecting anything different from other class books I've ever received. My teacher gave us our first assignment for homework and it was to read part of the first chapter of the book and take notes on what you understood of every paragraph of the section. I got home, opened my book, and began to read but when I finished reading the whole section I noticed I didn't quite understand the whole section, therefore, I couldn't write down what I learned. I had to re-read the same paragraph many times in order to understand what was being told. At the beginning, I didn't mind re-reading, but the teacher would make us read a section of a chapter of the book and to take notes on what we learned everyday. I began to get tired of re-reading and taking notes because it would take me from 1 to 2 hours of my day. After a while I noticed that I stopped having to re-read because I began to understand better what the chapter was trying to tell me. While time passed my reading skills got better and I stopped re-reading although my History teacher would tell me to. Which leads me to what I regret doing during my AP World History class.
I regret many things I did in my AP World History class. Something I regret doing during my time in this class was to stop re-reading the chapters of the book. I believe that if everyday I would've re-read the chapter I would've understood better the chapter. Sometimes when we would have tests or quizzes in class I wouldn't know some of the answers but I would remember reading something about that certain topic. Then, I would go back to the book and I would read something that I missed. Another thing I regret doing was leaving everything to the last second. Although I did my homework most of the time right after school, sometimes I would leave it until the end of the day or the day before I had to turn it in. For example, I'm writing this final reflection the day before my final portfolio is due. I guess I just haven't learned my lesson, and then I'm procrastinating because I'm afraid I won't have it done before the date it's due. Finally, something else I regret doing is not going to all the study sessions for the preparation for the AP Exam. For example, I didn't go to the study session my teacher was giving to learn how to better do Change and Continuity Essay's although I knew I needed to go. When the AP Exam day came, I finished the multiple choice questions and the DBQ Essay but when I got to the Change and Continuity Essay I got stuck and I was just sitting there for 30 minutes. Although I did finish the essay I kind of think I did pretty bad on it, I should have gone to the study sessions. Although life with AP World History was tough, I enjoyed taking it.
Taking AP World History was very tough, although I enjoyed many moments while taking it. For example, there's this girl in my AP class that laughs at every single thing my teacher says. Although not everything he says is funny (not to be mean), I would laugh because this girls had a very contagious laugh. I also enjoyed the March Madness Debates. In these debates every student was assigned a historical character and we had to defend him by giving evidence of why our character was the best leader of all history. My character was Simon Bolivar, and although I lost my first debate and was disqualified from the whole debates, my loss was pathetic although I enjoyed watching everyone else debate. My friend Caleb wanted to win so bad and he would scream so loud students from the other classes could hear him scream. He would get up and talk in his opponents face and it was really funny. My other friend, David, wanted to win too and he would keep repeating in every debate that his servants built an underground palace for him although he was dead because his servants were still loyal to him and it was funny because he thought that by saying that he was going to win the whole debates. He reached the finals but lost, but we got some good laugh out of it. My time taking AP World History was epic.
My final thoughts on this course are that it was alright. Although it was difficult I believe it was really fun. Like I said I had problem with re-reading the chapters, I had many regrets during my time in this course, although it was really fun but something I don't regret was taking this class. I believe it taught me to have better reading skills and also how to administrate my time to be able to finish all my homework but also to have free time to do things I like to do. The time spent dedicated to this course was worth its value.
