Literacy Autoethnography Analysis

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Ella Votapek Andy Cheng ENGL 2089 June 26, 2024 Literacy Autoethnography AP (Advanced Placement) English Language and Composition is a college-level course that high school students can enroll in to gain college credits through College Board. The course ends in May with a 3-hour and 15-minute exam and is evaluated on a 1 to 5 ratio, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. Most universities will not take this credit unless a student has scored a 3 or higher. This course is designed to strengthen and test the student’s writing and analytical skills. The AP exam includes 45 multiple-choice questions for 45% of the exam score and 3 free-response questions for 55% of the exam score. The free-response questions are based on nonfiction passages and …show more content…
My AP teacher put a lot of value on seeing our high school’s testing scores ranked highly and it showed in her intense teaching style, although I would rather phrase it as training. We spent all year doing repetitions of multiple-choice questions, synthesis, rhetorical analysis, and argumentative essays. She trained us to recognize any detail that could be transformed into evidence for a synthesis essay, every literature vocabulary term to strengthen our rhetorical analysis essay, and all the different experiences and facts we could use to back up an argumentative essay, from pop culture to historical events. In May of 2023, I was taking the AP English Language and Composition exam and had finally reached the last question. My hand and forearm were burning from writing 2 essays prior, I was sweating from the anxiety that plagued me when taking a standardized test, and my thoughts were racing from the noises of people’s pencils on their papers and the sound of testing books closing way before mine. All I wanted was to lay my head on the table and give my brain a rest, but alas, I needed to finish this last