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1. The rotten fruit could be considered as something that has been corrupted, or lacks effort. It was once ripened, but is now damaged.
2. To fall first  could be considered as someone who is no longer of use.
3. This metaphor could apply to my experience by encouraging me to reach my highest potential, and put forth my max effort.

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1.  I think the rotten fruit would be the people who don't push themselves to be successful and don't get their work done
2. Falling first I think would mean to fall behind since if they don't finish the work theyre going to get behind on assignments and get low grades
3. I think this metaphor relates to me as a student because when I fall behind on work, may grades get low as well.

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1. I would say that the rotten fruit could be the people who don't think about getting their work done.
2. To fall first I think could mean to fall behind in class or get below average grades.
3. This could relate to AP Lit because it is a hard class and you do have to push yourself and set yourself to a high standard to get your work done on time and have it be nice quality.

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The Rotten fruit in this metaphor would be used to represent those who are unwilling to learn and distract others from their learning as well. The quote also states that these fruit will fall first. What this means in the context of our metaphor is that our "rotten fruit" will be the first to fail, or not succeed. This metaphor will apply to my class experience since it warns me of failure if I don't work hard.

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1. The rotten fruit could be a student who is unwilling to learn new concepts, unwilling to participate in class, etc.
2. To "fall first" as a student, a fruit, could mean that they had failed the course before it even began through lack of effort, before they had a chance to ripen.
3. This could translate to my AP English experience as I have been in classrooms with students who are unwilling to learn or complete their work, and they failed because of it.

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1.) I would say that the “rotten fruit” would be the people that don’t push themselves to succeed and just kinda hang back and don’t give themselves any room for growth

2.) I would say to “fall first” would mean the people to fall behind first. When you don’t put in the effort in life to be able to stay in step with everyone else you’re very likely to fall behind. So many people think that they can just go through life without trying and everything will turn out ok in the long run but that isn’t the case.

3.) I would say that this applies to me because I know that if I don’t apply myself and put effort into my work and into learning the content I will fall behind and once you fall it’s very hard to get back up again.

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1. The rotten fruit in our classroom would be the distractions and laziness that would prevent someone from doing their work, in my opinion. It’s something that would hold you back from succeeding

2. To fall first would mean to fall behind and not reach your full potential as a reader or writer.

3. This metaphor relates to this class because it expresses the difference in students motivation and determination, it picks out the more distracted ones causing them to fall behind.

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1. The rotten fruit would be the people that have more complex and thorough thoughts and ideas.
2. To "fall first" would mean to be able to express and share the thoughts and ideas that are had.
3. This metaphor could serve as a baseline to go off of and grow from to try and become one of the rotten fruits.

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1. The limited and undeveloped first thoughts/ideas we have about things
2. To place them to the side and push them out of our minds when we're looking for a better idea or answer
3. I think it's kinda a reminder that we should look for depth and that as time goes on we'll be able to look past surface level things/ ideas that aren't really good or thoughtful

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1. The rotten fruit could represent those who rush to seek the answer.
2. Falling first could represent the ones who are willing to challenge themselves.
3. We should take our time to understand what we don’t fully know before challenging ourselves to become better.

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1. The students who don’t give their best effort or push themselves harder.

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1. The students who don’t give their best effort or push themselves harder.

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2. It means they’ll be the first to drop or fail the class, and the last to reach their full potential.
3. It relates to the class because it shows the ultimate outcome for those who don’t work hard and what will be avoided for those who do.

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1. The rotten fruit would be the people who don't people who don't put in the effort needed to succeed.
2. I think falling first would mean to fall behind first and struggle the most.
3. The metaphor applies to my experience because if I don't apply myself in this course I could easily get off track while everyone else is where they need to be.

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1. The rotten fruit in this case would be the students who don't care enough to try and succeed in class
2. To fall would mean to be the first to completely give up on the class altogether I would think
3. Those who try to succeed in class will stay ripe, as if they were refrigerated, but those who don't much care will rot away and eventually completely fail

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1. In the way I interpreted it, the rotten fruit would be previous knowledge you hold coming into this course
2. To fall would mean that the previous knowledge you come in with is being advanced or changed in some way, so the past way of thinking you had falls from what you now know
3. In order to ripen our knowledge, we have to be willing to shed the past knowledge we hold onto in favor of a more advanced and somewhat more perfected way of thinking

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1. the rotten fruit would be the people with he most knowledge because rotten fruit is just fruit that has ripened too much

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1. the rotten fruit would be the people with he most knowledge because rotten fruit is just fruit that has ripened too much

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2. to fall first means they're the ones who take action first like maybe go to college or go after their career.
3. we must over ripen ourselves with knowledge so it can lead us to branch off on our own to start our lives (grow into a new tree)

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1. The rotten fruit would be the students who don't strive to succeed.

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1. The rotten fruit would be the students who don't strive to succeed.

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2. In this context to "fall first" would mean to fail or fall behind in the class
3. The ones who do not interact in class or do their assignments will be the ones to fail.

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Create a post that answers the following. Consider the following adage: "In the orchard of life, the rotten fruit falls first." 

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Create a post that answers the following. Consider the following adage: "In the orchard of life, the rotten fruit falls first." 

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If our class were the orchard...
1. What would be the rotten fruit?
2. What would it mean to "fall first?"
3. How would this metaphor apply to your experience as an AP Literature student?