Here are my five goals:
1. Be able to recognize themes
2. Get better at identifying tone
3. Be able to identify the speaker easier
4. Getting more familiar with poetry terms
5. Work on the questions that ask about the definition of a word
When I was doing the practice problems, I realized that I got kind of confused with the theme questions. I think maybe I just don't understand theme as well as I should so I will definitely need to work on that. I also get confused with identifying the speaker, especially if the speaker changes within the poem. For tone, if it's obvious, I can usually tell but sometimes I'm not so sure. Hopefully I will be able to improve on it. I didn't know some of the words that i encountered in the practice examples so I want to broaden my vocabulary. Finally, I really want to get better at recognizing the meanings of word because on the practice problems, I got every one wrong!
Speaker changes get a lot of people! We'll work on this, and we'll work a LOT on theme. You can work on the vocab issue by reading, reading, reading--the tab at the top of the Spruz home page that's called "You Should be Reading" links to a page of RSS feeds from sources of great articles and stories full of the kind of adult-level vocab you need as an adult reader and writer. Just saying. =)
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