Moving from the basics to annotation/discussion, it was time to learn more about the five "Eras of Literature"; Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Romantic/Victorian, Realist/Naturalist and Modern/Post Modern. My group presented on the Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages, taking us back to the times of famous authors Plato, Aristotle and Homer and famous novels Oedipus Rex, Beowulf and The Odyssey.I not only got the chance to work with Prezi for the first time, I got to see presentations on all the other times and how literature has grown from the beginning to where it is today.
For a month or two we also focused on many literary terms that every AP student should know. It was TONS to memorize but it wasn't so hard because of the many games on the Spruz site that gave me multiple practice at matching terms to their definitions. After we had learned and tested over the terms, we began to look for them in passages. It was hard at first to pick out "synecdoche" from part of a play or novel, but after practice it was easy! Like everything we've done in AP Lit, constant repetition has been one of the most helpful things throughout the year.
2 comments:
Again you hit a large idea of the class but perhaps you are missing information that would make this useful to study from. I think that you should include example for every category just like you did for classical antiquity category. I think that again for the second paragraph here could be a spot to list some of this vocab with original examples that apply to the texts we have read as a class.
Here, you do a good job at bringing up the topics of what we learned, but Somebody could not study off of your summary because you don't explain enough of what we have learned. You summarized what we did in class, but not what we actually learned.
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