Sunday, November 24, 2013
Our Class #3
Making through another couple weeks of senor year.....
AP lit has definitely helped me stay motivated despite my encroaching senoritus. We finished up DOS and made a theme statement. After the all the discussions and hours of annotating I understand the meaning and plot of the play. Reading plays is not something I am experienced with to say the least, reading multiple is getting me prepared for Hamlet. I am also not the best at understanding Shakespeare's work but I am excited that I will be improving.
We have now finished reading Hamlet in class and I am about to start the close reading. I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, thanks to Ms. Holmes's explanations I understood it. I am kind of excited to dig into the close reading however I do know it will be a long process. Of course the ending is sad with literally everyone dying but it is a good story and I am liking it overall.
Our little activities are very helpful in understanding how to analyze but also create literature. We have looked pictures and written paragraphs about them, teaching us how to use imagery more effectively. We keep doing our practice multiple choice to get ready for the AP test as well, I am finally getting some of the questions right.
I started reading a new book called Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson and I realized after about 10 pages that I needed to start annotating it not just reading it. I retained some of the information from the book but I am not going to be able to write about it without doing a full close reading. So Ms. Holmes you have converted me to an annotator. I have noticed that a lot of the skills I have learned in class have helped me, even being as simple as how to approach a multiple choice test.
I am still excited to see whats next and to read more great stories!
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Kate,
ReplyDeleteYet another great post! I absolutely love how you set this up as far as using a diary type set up explaining what we did at what point in the class and explaining your feelings about it. One suggestion I have for you however is to expand more in each paragraph. If you're talking about Hamlet, explain what hamlet's all about. Tell me how you felt as you read through those deadly lines at the end of the play. What emotions were running through you? What could you relate the plot to? What could you relate your feelings to? It's extremely helpful to bring in outside sources that are easily relatable so I can put myself in your shoes at that moment and feel how you felt. Other than that you did a great job at walking through what we did in class and I enjoyed your post.
This is a great post - you did a great job of touching on the material that we have been covering throughout the quarter. I especially liked your connection at the end, which is a pretty good example of the synthesis that Holmes is always talking about. With regards to Hamlet, were you able to draw any comparisons to any previous Shakespeare works that you've read? Sorry I don't know whether you took Brit Lit or not, but did you find anything about Hamlet that really stood out from other tragedies like Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet? And with regards to the AP prep, are the voice lessons these completely new ideas to you or do you feel like they are the same-old material just in a new perspective? Going all the way back to DOS, did you feel more confident in your evaluation of theme this time around? You covered a wide variety of material, but I think you might want to add in some more explanations of your feelings. Great job otherwise!
ReplyDeleteKate,
ReplyDeleteI am not going to lie I was sort of excited to read this because you have done such a good job with your other posts, and although it is well written and spaced well I think that you can add just a bit more. This is my favorite post for most people because it is a way to really see their true selves, and I get glimpses of your literature personality but I want to read more. You could talk about Century Quilt or go into detail about the imagery activity. This may sound like a negative comment but it is just because you are a very good writer and I would like to hear more. Like I said everything that you have written in the post is perfect, great connections outside of our class but I just want more. I did enjoy your last paragraph about the need to annotate other books, I have felt it too due to this class but I know if I write in the margins of my favorite books I will not reread it because it would distract me. Oh well that is a personal problem you did good as always, keep it up!