I entered week two of class excited. I was looking forward to the chance to work on more creative writing pieces as well as reading the novel, Catch-22. However, I have to admit that there was one thing I was not looking forward to: poetry. I have never considered myself a lover of poetry. I can appreciate it, but when it comes to picking through a poem and analyzing it, I am no fan. So, when The Eagle was passed around the class, I was less than thrilled. But as the week wore on, and we discussed the poem more and more, delving deeper and deeper, I found it was becoming quite enjoyable. I was proud of analysis of the poem and the ideas I discovered as I talked it over with the others in my desk clump. More so that, I found that analyzing The Eagle helped me tremendously while analyzing my two summer read books as my group and I prepare to write an essay over them.
The other major part of this week was our preparation for writing about our summer reading books. Although I was excited for this and to share my thoughts and ideas about the books with other people, I was also a little hesitant. After all, I read my summer reading books back in June, and it felt as though many of the ideas within the books have escaped my mind. Fortunately, however, I quickly discovered that the ideas never really left, and as my group and I worked, they came flowing back in like a waterfall. It also helped to use, http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/waves/, as a reference as we worked on the essay. Overall, this was an interesting and fun week, and I hope the mood of the week continues into our third week.
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Andy Schoenborn
9/25/2016 04:14:05 pm
Hi Drew,
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