So once again, the biggest thing
we did was finish a play. We finished Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
although I feel like we didn’t really spend a lot of time on it. Maybe that was because we spent so much time
on Hamlet. Annotating for R&G was
rather painful. When we first started
reading the play, I really liked it but annotating started to make me dislike
it. I just felt frustrated with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern because they never did anything and the play never
went in any direction. One of the things
we did with this play was read and discuss articles comparing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead with Hamlet. I thought these articles were interesting
because they provided different ways to see the relationship between the two
plays. One article focused on the
importance of Hamlet and how
Shakespeare is basically god controlling everything. The other article tried to keep a neutral position
and instead just focused on the changes that occurred between Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
We have now started Ceremony, which
I am excited about because it is not a play.
Although it’s long, I’m excited to finally be able to read a novel. I think this book will be interesting because
of the different cultural traditions and perceptions in this book compared to
the other things we have read in class.
Lately, we have also been trying
to prepare more for the AP test, which is good because I still feel a little uncertain
about the test. We did this assignment
with poems from Chapter 7 in our textbook.
This assignment was a little difficult for me because I am not that
great at interpreting poems so having to answer all the questions about the
poems was challenging. Some of the poems
were quite interesting, such as “The Flea” which compared love/sex to a
flea. It was definitely something I had
not encountered before. For most of the
poems, I could pretty much understand what was going on in the poem, but I
struggled with understanding the meaning.
I think maybe analyzing is something I just need to practice more in
order to get better.
We also did some essays in
class. I found these to be stressful
because I couldn’t finish my essay in the 40 minute time limit. In the close reading that we did, I wasn’t
able to quite understand and analyze the passage so I had some struggles
starting the essay. Thankfully, Ms. Holmes
explained it to us and I had a much easier time writing the essay. I am worried because on the day of the AP
Test, I will have to be able to analyze and write my essay all by myself in 40
minutes! Aaahhhh!
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