One of my favorite things in AP Lit are our small group and class discussions on the novels that we are reading this year. We have a great selection and the two that we have read so far have both been outstanding. After reading Albee's The American Dream, which I had never heard of and was quite surprised I liked, I was excited that we would be reading Death of a Salesmen next because I've heard such great things about it. Once we had watched the movie and annotated independently we began one our best class discussions about possible religious allusions. Our class discussions have given me a variety of opinions concerning the book and made me think more about the book as a whole.
Another thing I continue to improve on is my essay writing. Continuing essay practice and self-grading in preparation for the AP Lit test are helping me more and more to find the areas that I struggled with and what I can do to fix them.
AP Lit takes a whole new approach to literature that I never thought of. I continue to love the class and material that will help me in the end as we approach the AP Lit test.
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I agree with you when you mention the improved essay writing, I admit that sometimes I do just write whatever because I don't feel like actually analyzing, but when I really think about it, I use a lot of AP English techniques, and it hasn't even been half of the year yet! I'm excited as well to see how well I can improve. I'm glad a few people liked "The American Dream" by Albee. Personally I didn't really care for it too much, it was funny, but not my kind of humor.
Hi Melanie,
I definitely agree with you about the first two books. They were both very interesting, and it was a good experience to see how every aspect of the book related to what the author's intention was. Our class never mentioned the religious allusions of DOS so I would be interested to know what you guys came up with! Good luck with the essays, I'm sure you are improving! :)
-Nikki
Hey Melanie,
I totally agree about the small group and class discussions! I really enjoy hearing what others say about the reading, especially since many times, I think differently from others. Improving on essay writing is also important to me too. I feel like the essay is pretty darn hard to write, but once we get enough practice, it won't be as difficult!
Hope you had a great snow day!
Erin
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