This week was another week cut short. We had a fog delay on Tuesday and a fog closing on Thursday. We powered through it though, as we managed to analyze this week’s poem and start a new project. The poem this week was “Bright Star” by John Keats. I did not like this poem. Not in that I didn’t like the poem itself, but I knew from the beginning that this poem was different from the rest. It is very direct compared to the other poems we read. This scared me all week as it meant we analyzed it differently than the previous poems. We talked more about how the poem feels, and less about what it means. I felt like all of the training from the last two poems was useless, so I felt very helpless this week. This is definitely an area that I will need to work on before the AP test. The project we started was a look into the elements of fiction. The specific elements my partner and I chose were Point of View and Theme. Point of View has been especially informative, as I learned a few different things from it. The first is that there are 4 (not 3) points of view. I did not know that the Objective point of view existed. The second is that Point of View can give a lot of insight into how the author wanted the story to be seen. Before reading about this, I would have just guess that the author just chose whatever viewpoint was the most comfortable to write in. This reminds me of reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor in that it taught me about something that I didn’t realize I didn’t know. Coming into the last week of the marking period, I feel pretty good about this class.
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Josephine
10/13/2016 06:47:47 am
Hi Eric,
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