Advanced Placement, or AP, classes in highschool are meant to be rigorous and mentally taxing. Despite the challenges these classes bring, they also provide benefits for the students who persevere through these classes, such as the sense of accomplishment. The sense of accomplishment from different aspects of my life, pressured me to take English III AP. There was a sense of pressure to take English III AP to pursue my passions of filmmaking in the future. While films themselves do not seem to contain the need of what students learn from English III AP, the pre-production of film making needs the intensive knowledge of correct grammar and literary devices, which can be translated into films. The film industry uses these English skills to create better screenplays, better plot lines, …show more content…
At a young age, I was a told that I was a ‘smart kid’ and since I was a ‘smart kid,’ teachers would partner me with other ‘smart kids’. This meant these other ‘smart kids’ became my friends because we would all be partnered together. As I grew and passed more and more grade levels, I began to have the option of picking my own curriculum. This meant I could leave my ‘smart kid’ friends and join classes that seem more fun and less stressful. But this also meant I would have to resign from the ‘smart kid club’ and I would be left in the dust when applying for colleges, for all the ‘smart kids’ would be picked first. This ideology put in my brain forced me to take difficult classes, and even though I enjoy a challenge, the pressure of society was there at my side when choosing classes. While I do not like to admit that I follow society’s pressure, the reality is that I do not take difficult classes just based on my passions but because people have told me that if I want to be a ‘smart kid’, I should take