My Favorite of 2012

Beginning classes early for our AP English class gave us a chance to start sooner and get additional work done. Until today, our class has read and discussed different types of literature, for example speeches, autobiographies, memoirs, and a few novels. Out of all the pieces of literature read until today, my favorite would have to be one of the first couple of essays we read, which is "Graduation" by Maya Angelou. This essay could be considered my favorite because the story is one we could relate to and picture ourselves in her place because it is the day of her graduation. Our graduation is a year and a half from now, which is not too long. In the story, she is graduating eighth grade as the end of her school life. However, our ending is high school, even though we still have colleges or universities to attend to and start taking classes that can affect our future. I can tell that, already, the students in my class are getting excited to graduate and leave what they think is our torturous high school. Even Maya Angelou states that her school is torture, but they only had to be there until eighth grade. An additional four years, and who knows what she would have described her school as. Even though this essay was read a while ago, compared to the other ones we recently read, I can clearly remember it because it makes me think of where we are going to be a year and a half from now.