We have only had one week of school, but surprisingly i have learned a lot. I have never really needed to connect homework assignments to my life let alone anything i have learned at school. But the things we have learned in AP English over the summer is really helping me. we read How to Read Literature like a Professor by Foster which has helped me read books just for fun as well as school. I think that this was a very helpful book for the school to have us read over the summer because we will be reading a lot of literature over the course of the school year. Foster wrote about a lot of things that i knew in the back of my mind but never really applied to literature.
Also we read The Nuts and bolts of Writing a College essay, which has helped me immensely when writing any essay including my admission ones for colleges. The book had a lot of detail concerning things that I personally did. Of course i didn't know that i was doing them but when i thought about it I did quite a few of them. The book mentioned on thing about pompous style which i thought was a little funny because the previous book we had read had a very pompous style.
We have also been looking at literature terms. Learning them gave me another perspective on poetry. i looked back over the summer poems we were supposed to read and saw a lot of things that I had missed when looking at them during the summer. I also think that these terms will help me throughout AP English when reading poetry, though I don't think that we will be reading much more Poetry which is sad.
~Emily Mackson
Hello, Emily.
ReplyDeleteI think it's awesome how you related Nuts and Bolts back to your college essays! I wouldn't have thought of that, but I guess it is kind of obvious now! I agree that all of the summer reading really helped open my eyes to the world of Literature, and I can't wait for that window to open even wider.
Erin Donahue
Its great that you got so much our of our summer reading books. Hopefully you can refer to them throughout the year. Next time, just don't forget what we talked about during class. Good luck with college essays!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh Emily I agree! I learned so much from the summer reading and helped me write my essays for school as well! Also, I think we are reading more poetry? I think Ms. Holmes said we had a lot of poetry to read this year but I could be wrong! I'm glad you learned so much from the books!
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