AP REFLECTION

When i first started class in AP Language and Composition, I didn't know it would be that challenging. I was learning about all these different types of devices that I had never heard in my life before. I can say it was a challenge to me since the years before were not as challenging as this year: better yet not at all challenging. I learned many rhetorical devices and how to write essays: Rhetorical Analysis, Synthesis, and Argument. My favorite essays were the Argument and the Synthesis. I believe those where the best ones I could write. The Rhetorical Analysis was a bit of a challenge for me because it was very confusing to me. I followed the exact format but still was confused. I enjoyed doing the Socratic seminars: they were the best! The imitations were very interesting, though I feel that they didn't help us at all. I also enjoyed doing the vocabulary packets, as well as the dialectical journals for Huckleberry Fin and Fredrick Douglas. Reading Huckleberry was one of my favorite things to do, right after reading Fredrick Douglas. This year was a hassle but I enjoyed it. I really don't see where you could improve your teaching because you're just a great teacher. Maybe if you would have taught us the years before, the class would not have been such a challenge.

Beyond the Book

2. Great numbers of black Southerners emigrated to the cities of the North during the Twenties and Thirties. The new lives of these urban African-Americans in the industrial North were radically different from those they had led in the agrarian South. On the surface, they confronted much less prejudice. What were the differences in racial attitudes between the two cultures? Was the prejudice of the North less real because it was better hidden?

The African-Americans moved to the north during the WWI. By then the Great Migration had begun and continued for 20 years. Later, in 1970, about 5 million people moved to the North. This changed the whole map for African-American settlement. Even though the Great Migration helped African-Americans with education, it also caused a lot of discrimination towards them. With discrimination, it was hard for blacks to obtain jobs. The North was in fact less prejudice because slavery had been abolished, but there were a few whites that were racist towards blacks. Though the prejudice was less than in the South. The prejudice in the north was less real since it was hidden. With the prejudice being hidden, many African-Americans saw opportunities and a better future for them. In the North, African-Americans had a better opportunity of getting stable paying jobs, good education, and a nice place or piece of land to live in.