This last week in class, was a different class style than i'm used to. It makes sense for it to be like this and I guess makes better use of our time having the us (the students) lead. After reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor and the presentation about AP Lit basics, I will definitely read and analyze books differently. I think back to when I read On the Road earlier this summer and I can't even begin to think of all the things I could have missed. I'm sure I identified some literary devices and odd phrase in the books. It makes me think how I just noticed things and didn't exactly analyze anything as to why the writer would place something there. Since Kerouac was on Benzedrine the whole three weeks that he wrote it, even though he already had notes and an outline, he was probably making different connections to things that a lucid writer wouldn't have. This really makes me want to go back and re-read the book, now having the knowledge to analyze it. This also makes me think back to previous literature classes and how usually you just had to spot a literary device and then you could move on. You may have had to expand on it, but never had to relate it to the big picture, just what that little bit meant and that's it.
What a great response to that material; you chose to connect two things that Ms. Holmes didn't make obvious to us in class, and you even made it interesting. You should probably mention more material next time, though.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great response because it shows how you're connecting the material in this class to something outside of AP Lit. It would be interesting to see how the rhetorical situation, argument and AP essay presentations affected your reading of /On the Road/ though.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful the know that people are connecting the work that they do in class to outside context. Every teacher's dream in life is to get a response like this.
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