This week was the end of the marking period. This means that we did a few extra projects. The first was editing and finishing creative writing. This was nice, as it was a different type of writing than we had been doing previously. Most days we had just wrote quickly, without regard to cohesiveness. In editing, we were able to shift gears and focus on writing to make the story make sense. The other project we are doing is a essay about the book we read this marking period. We had to pick from many previous AP test prompts that were all about analyzing the story. I’m excited to be able to write about Catch-22, as I really enjoyed the novel. I think I have a good idea of the author’s thinking, so this essay shouldn’t be too hard (I hope). We also continued to work on the Characteristics of Literature project. My partner and I finished reading about what theme was, so we moved on to reading Hunters in the Snow. Since our job was to discover the theme through the three characters, we used three different colored highlighters for each of the three characters. After we finished, we looked for what was the same throughout all three colors, and we came up with a theme. This article is a good summary of the process of finding theme. I enjoyed finding the theme. It was very interesting to see what else you pick up on when you purposely look into the writing. For example, the setting in this story is in the middle of winter, which reflects the attitude of the three main characters. The first time I read the story, I didn’t think anything of it. It’s all very fun. Overall, it’s been a good marking period, and there’s know only five more to go!
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Josephine
11/1/2016 06:11:00 am
Hi Eric,
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