The past 16 weeks have been both enlightening and
frustrating. I’ve definitely learned a lot of new information on the different
aspects of literature. The vocabulary lists are also useful (especially while
reading Pride and Prejudice) when I wish
to make my writing more refined. I enjoy reading independent reading books in
class, something I have not done since middle school, so I definitely
appreciate the opportunity to read in school.
On the
other hand, I’m not too fond of weekly blogs. Sure, it gets me writing
something semi-creative every week as a useful practice tool, but it’s not the
best during the first semester of senior year. During this time when I have a
multitude of college essays to write, I really have no creative juice left over
for these blogs to make them sound remotely interesting. Personally, I’d rather
have blogs due on Friday or during the weekend so I won’t have to worry about
other homework assignments due the next day.
I don’t know if we will be covering
this next semester, but I’d like to look at poems as a possible unit. I also
hope we have more time next semester to read our independent books. We seemed
to have very little time to read our third book choice.
When we came back from the break, I was glad to hear that poetry was on our semester agenda. It was something I mentioned on my final blog of 2012 as well.
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