I really like your reflection on group discussion and how it enhanced your understanding of literary techniques as well as "The American Dream." You did a nice job of explaining the significance of attaining other people's ideas and adding to your interpretations. As you have only briefly referred to the literary terms and how they have added to your instruction from your high school classes, I feel that you should expand on that and highlight how you think those words will be beneficial in the future. Do you think they will benefit our readings in class as well our discussions of the novels to more precisely point out the literary techniques and devices utilized by the author? Overall, I think you need to add to your blog post by incorporating more details.
I'm so sorry you missed our class reading of The American Dream! I can see how that would be very annoying. I know that if I had to read it at home, I would be confused and worried that all of the weirdness I was reading was all in my head or something. But it's nice that you were honest in your post! I still have the feeling of missing certain elements, and I'm not sure that that will ever entirely go away. I agree with you about the new terms we learned this year (for example, burlesque and farce). It's interesting (and hard to memorize) learning the new terms but I think they'll help us out for the AP exam!
I like your description of how we went more in depth with basic concepts. Syntax has been a weird thing for me because i didn't really know what it was at all until this class. I had a basic intuitive understanding about some more obvious uses of it, but the lessons have been tremendously helpful. It would suck to miss our first read of The American Dream, although the only things that are really bad to miss are the interpretations and background info Ms. Holmes gives us. In a play like The American Dream, i don't think you miss much my not seeing it performed.
I really like your reflection on group discussion and how it enhanced your understanding of literary techniques as well as "The American Dream." You did a nice job of explaining the significance of attaining other people's ideas and adding to your interpretations. As you have only briefly referred to the literary terms and how they have added to your instruction from your high school classes, I feel that you should expand on that and highlight how you think those words will be beneficial in the future. Do you think they will benefit our readings in class as well our discussions of the novels to more precisely point out the literary techniques and devices utilized by the author? Overall, I think you need to add to your blog post by incorporating more details.
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry you missed our class reading of The American Dream! I can see how that would be very annoying. I know that if I had to read it at home, I would be confused and worried that all of the weirdness I was reading was all in my head or something. But it's nice that you were honest in your post! I still have the feeling of missing certain elements, and I'm not sure that that will ever entirely go away. I agree with you about the new terms we learned this year (for example, burlesque and farce). It's interesting (and hard to memorize) learning the new terms but I think they'll help us out for the AP exam!
ReplyDeleteI like your description of how we went more in depth with basic concepts. Syntax has been a weird thing for me because i didn't really know what it was at all until this class. I had a basic intuitive understanding about some more obvious uses of it, but the lessons have been tremendously helpful. It would suck to miss our first read of The American Dream, although the only things that are really bad to miss are the interpretations and background info Ms. Holmes gives us. In a play like The American Dream, i don't think you miss much my not seeing it performed.
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