It's the seventh week of school and that means a new marking period. I'm doing good so far except for one of my classes. Every week in AP lit we read and I enjoy getting the time to read during class, I changed my book for the author study project we will be doing later on in the trimester and I am actually enjoying it so far. This week was a little stressful. We started writing our essays for the what is lit. project and it's going but for me it's just harder being in a group while having to write an essay because everyone has their own ideas but not everyone likes the same idea. For most of the week we pretty much did the same thing everyday, we would hear a poem, read or write and then work on our projects so it wasn't too busy of a week. If we work on another project like this I think I will consider doing it by myself, only because I seems easier when you don't have to worry about other opinions in the group.
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Every week is a new week and I always think I couldn't possibly learn more about poetry that what I already know but that is not true. I learned that poems can be to the point where opposite interpretations can be correct. This week we focused more on getting into our groups and working on our projects. Some of the things we did within our groups was learning to analyze different elements. This week we also had a speaker come in and talk to us about writing and about his book. Things that the speaker had pointed out was that not everyone is going to like what you write and that's okay and he also said that criticism is a good thing but just because I few people criticize it doesn't mean everyone hates it. At the end of the week we started working on our creative writing portfolio's and while writing the portfolio we were to revise and edit our work that we wanted to put in it. Revising not only fixes the writing but it also helps me as a writing to learn what I need to know. Overall this week was really helpful with my writing skills and no matter what writing takes time and dedication. For next week something I can improve on is probably my creative writing. A lot of the time when we are doing creative writing I'm not really sure what to write about. This week was a pretty eventful week with it being homecoming this weekend. Spirit week was festive as usual and AP lit was as interesting as usual. This week we really started getting into our groups and reading a bunch of short stories. One of the things I really enjoyed this week was listening to the different poems by the poet Ross Gay. In our groups we had to choose three short stories to read and I chose to read The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, it was a really interesting story and we had to find symbolism in it. Earlier in the week we wrote an "I remember" prompt for our creative writing and then a few days later we went back to that prompt and either added on to it or changed it. Going back to that prompt I picked something that was really personal for me and it made me feel good to be able to write about it in the way I wanted to. Looking in to the lesson plans for next week it seems pretty busy and it looks like we are going to get into the What is literature project. Overall this week was a pretty good week, I know that next week we are changing the poem the day to a different author but I do think that we should listen to more of Ross Gay and any other poems he has. |
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