On Tuesday afternoon, I walked into Room 202, dreading what I thought this class was going to be. I expected a boring class that wouldn't truly challenge me, with a boring first day of ice breakers and syllabus run-downs, much like every other class that day. I was pleasantly surprised, when by the end of the first day; we were already working on our first assignment, You as a Reader/Writer. The main ideas for the first week of class, were reading and writing (surprise, surprise, this is an ENGLISH class), but not in the way I thought it would be. I've never had to think of myself based solely on my reading and writing, and I probably struggled more than I should’ve, but I learned something from it. I’ve learned that reading is a lot more about the process of actually reading then it is about the storyline. Before this summer, reading to me was simply trying to finish the story, while still understanding what was happening, but after finishing, How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster, I realize that books have layers of symbolism, meaning, and references, and there is no “right” or “wrong” way to interpret it! Our whole class can read the exact same book, and come up with twenty-something different interpretations, and that is so crazy cool to me! I feel as if I have already learned so much for this AP class, and am beyond exited to explore reading more with my new insights!
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Ben
9/14/2017 02:18:11 pm
Hey Rebekah,
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