Why hello there old friend, it's been quite awhile. Welcome back to the weekly ramblings that I like to call my blog posts. For the last 3 weeks, our class has been delving into the depths and meanings of tragedy. I’m going to be honest here, I was dreading this unit. I’ve never thought deeply about tragedy before and quite frankly, I was convinced that this unit would be extremely dull. From what I remember in freshman year, I thought Romeo and Juliet was a giant bore, and I figured that would bleed over into this unit. But surprisingly, that wasn't true at all! I am thoroughly enjoying this unit so far and am rather excited for the rest of it! I’m not sure if I enjoy it so much because I’m actually interested in the topic, or if it’s because we’ve been kept busy throughout this unit. Regardless, I feel like I’ve learned a lot about tragedy through the last couple weeks. Another thing that we have been working on over the last couple weeks has been our creative writing. Now, I don’t feel like I'm an outrageously creative person when it comes to writing, so much like last marking period, I am struggling to write the 750 words required. I’m never motivated during our creative writing time, and I’m not applying to anymore colleges and haven’t started scholarship essays yet, so I basically just reread what I wrote previously. Overall, I feel like I have learned a lot these past couple weeks, and I actually missed writing this things!
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(This image was me trying to help write these papers. I am sensing a theme....) The majority of this week was spent working and finishing up our What is Literature? Projects. Due to the fact that it is the first week of a new marking period, we weren’t deep in any other assignments, so I found it easier to focus on the work at hand. Which turned out to be a really good thing, because I had a low-key emotional breakdown in the middle of the week, and it would’ve been worse if I had an abundance of homework. At first, my group was lagging behind on our projects, but I feel like we have a good grip on our essays. We chose Humor and Fantasy as our elements of literature, and I’m pretty confident that we are analyzing our short stories correctly. The only thing I’m worried about is how our essays actually turn out and if they read well. I know that everyone has different writing styles, and I love my friends that are in my group, but I am too much of a control freak to let it go. I never thought of myself as a perfectionist (that was always my sister), but after completing this project, I definitely think I am. I guess I’m lucky that my friends think it’s funny, and let me do what I need to do in order to make myself feel better because otherwise this project would be very messy. Overall, this project really tested me in more ways than one, and as much fun as it was, I’m excited to get back to our normal weeks. (This image was me trying to figure out to what to write for the rest of my creative writing. No joke.) We did a lot of different things this week. We focused on our poem of the week (and I somehow missed writing the essay...again), our creative writing assignment and started working on the brunt of our What is Literature? projects. As important as our Literature projects are, I was more concerned with my creative writing assignment that was due at the end of the week. I don’t think of myself as an extremely creative person when it comes to writing, so this assignment cause me quite a bit of anxiety. I knew right off the bat that I wanted to include my I Remember piece that I had written. Most of that editing and revision consisted of me trying my best to turn giant chunk of text I started with into a decent poem. It went pretty well, and I’m happy with the result. My struggle came about when I couldn’t figure out what to write or use for the remaining 650 words I needed. I didn’t get any kind of inspiration from any of my various “writings” (i.e. rants and complaints) from this marking period. I literally bothered every single person in my life to give me a creative writing prompt to give me some kind of direction. And when that didn’t work, I turned to Google, looking for various prompts that might give me an inkling of inspiration. Finally on Friday, after school and swim practice, I was going through my creative writing document and saw a sentence about something weird my dog had done and had the idea to expand on it! Somehow, that turned into me writing a letter to my dog, and I have already read it to him and he doesn't seem to care that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Overall this week, I stressed a hell of a lot with the creative writing assignment, but I am very happy with what I ended up with and cannot wait to spend my time on something different. I’m not quite sure what to write about. My life has been so crazy this week with the homecoming events, work, and swim meets/practices, and quite frankly, AP Lit took a back seat this week. I can’t really think of anything that stood out to me as super important and I’m pretty sure that this blog is going to be very boring. I really like the poems that we listened to this week, even if they were about feet and having sex with ants. I think I liked them so much because the poet, Ross Gay, was actually reading them to us, so we heard how the poems were intended to sound like. I really like the tone in his poems, it seems like his poetry matches his personality well! We also started our What Is Literature project, and I’m super excited for the short stories that my group chose. We picked Rape Fantasies, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and The Most Dangerous Game. All of the short stories seem super interesting and I am excited to read them. However, I believe that we read The Most Dangerous Game in freshman English, but I think it’ll be interesting reading it with a different perspective. I’m sorry for this blog; it was basically just a run-down for the week. Hopefully next week’s blog will be better ㋡ |
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