Ah, the first day of school. It's third period and time for you to navigate your way to your next class, AP World. You heard from other students that it was a hard class to get through, since it is a college course. You're nervous, but it's time to shake those jitters away because you've found the classroom! As you step inside the room labeled J12, you spot familiar faces. You rush to greet them and are not only greeted by your friends, but by a thick face of its own: the AP World textbook. There is one on each desk in the classroom, and students all around the globe are picking up textbooks at this exact moment and thinking, "I am going to have to be tested on this in ten months. How can I remember all this?" The hard cover with its illustrated drawings stares up at you. Its pages are mocking you. All 1274 of them. The people in the illustrations seem to be laughing at you. And you stare back, wondering how you'll get through the year, so the only acceptable thing you can think of doing is dropping the textbook on your desk. And that is how your relationship began.
It was a rocky road for you and the textbook. First off, it was extremely heavy, lugging it around for that first day of school. You kept bringing it from home to school and back, but after a while you started to leave it at home. It got shoved under your bed along with your winter coat and boats, and for a while you forgot about it. Then, an assignment was given to read parts of the textbook and answer questions. That assignment was given once every two weeks. So, you got used to reading the textbook and answering questions. You didn't like reading the textbook, but you did it anyway.
It was down to the last two weeks of classes. Finals were in almost a month, and you had to be prepared for your test. You crammed in as much studying as you could, and the textbook was read front to back more times than it wanted to be. The last day of school rolled around, and it was time to hand your textbook in. You wouldn't be sad, though, and neither would the textbook. You both would be getting a break for a few months, and that was all you wanted. You hand it to your teacher with one final glance, and the textbook is gone from your care.
The hard cover is closing its eyes. The illustrations throughout aren't laughing at you anymore. They're yawning, and you yawn with them. It's time to say goodbye to this textbook that you've dread so much. It was hard to accept the textbook in September, but it wasn't hard to let it go in June.
- Gabriella
Author's note: Yes, this is a joke! I know it is extremely important to study and you SHOULD! I know how important the textbooks that we get in school are; this story is only a joke, and a light-hearted one at that. :)
It was a rocky road for you and the textbook. First off, it was extremely heavy, lugging it around for that first day of school. You kept bringing it from home to school and back, but after a while you started to leave it at home. It got shoved under your bed along with your winter coat and boats, and for a while you forgot about it. Then, an assignment was given to read parts of the textbook and answer questions. That assignment was given once every two weeks. So, you got used to reading the textbook and answering questions. You didn't like reading the textbook, but you did it anyway.
It was down to the last two weeks of classes. Finals were in almost a month, and you had to be prepared for your test. You crammed in as much studying as you could, and the textbook was read front to back more times than it wanted to be. The last day of school rolled around, and it was time to hand your textbook in. You wouldn't be sad, though, and neither would the textbook. You both would be getting a break for a few months, and that was all you wanted. You hand it to your teacher with one final glance, and the textbook is gone from your care.
The hard cover is closing its eyes. The illustrations throughout aren't laughing at you anymore. They're yawning, and you yawn with them. It's time to say goodbye to this textbook that you've dread so much. It was hard to accept the textbook in September, but it wasn't hard to let it go in June.
- Gabriella
Author's note: Yes, this is a joke! I know it is extremely important to study and you SHOULD! I know how important the textbooks that we get in school are; this story is only a joke, and a light-hearted one at that. :)