This week of AP Literature and Composition was dominated by two main activities. Those were analyzing a poem called "The Eagle" and working on a group essay. "The Eagle" has been a wonderful way to start analyzing poetry. It's short, and only contains two stanzas of three sentences. When I first saw this poem, I thought that we would spend five minutes briefly discussing the small amount of material. However, we had a decently long conversation on what we noticed about the poem. We then continued to have more conversations about "The Eagle" for the next few days. It was very interesting to talk with others about what they noticed in the poem. There were three students at my table, and each of us took a very different interpretation of what the poem was about. This is really amazing to me, as there is only six lines of writing! The concept of looking at one part of the poem and seeing three separate interpretations of it is what How to Read Literature Like a Professor is about. It was very nice to actually experience it, instead of just reading about it. One thing we didn't discuss much was the historical context of this piece. This video does a good job of explain that, which gives addition insight to why the writer wrote the way he did. The second thing that we did this week was planning a group essay. It is a comparison essay between the two books that we read over the summer. This scared me some, as I switched into this class and did not have the opportunity to read the books. However, I was able to make myself useful. Instead of thinking of details to write about, I focused on setting up the structure of the essay. In the small amount that I have learned about the book, I have begun to see connection between them. I imagine that we will continue to do essays such as these, as connections between writings seems to be a theme for this class.
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Andy Schoenborn
9/25/2016 04:20:06 pm
Hi Eric,
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