I was able to delve more into the illustrating, authorizing and extending that we learned last week, this week. We watched a TED talk at the beginning of the week that was about success and how everyone else around us views us and our success. It was very eye opening to hear that we live in a world "full of snobs" and that when we are at, or doing, our best, we tend to look down on people that are not doing as well or that are not as successful. We went on to write a blog post about this similar to how last week we wrote blog posts about tragedy and what we think it is. We also learned a new way of note taking, Cornell notes. This is a really helpful way to take notes because it helps you organize your thoughts and sets an outline of your writing for you because of the summarization you do and the quotes that you insert. Here is a guide about how to use Cornell notes: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Cornell-Notes . We put this new way of note taking to the test when we started reading the play "Oedipus". I think it really helped me throughout the reading because I was able to take notes and insert quotes as I was reading, therefore I didn't forget anything I read after we finished reading the play. It also set up a great outline and basis for the blog post we wrote after. The final thing we did this week that really put a new perspective of tragedy into me was the reading of the article "The Tragic Fallacy" by Joseph Krutch. It was about how not all tragedy is about something bad, sad or upsetting. It is simply a feeling that can also come from glory, honor, and love. Tragedy is more about the conquering of the task and the confident feeling after, than being sad or upset.
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This week I learned a lot about new ways of analyzing essays, how to read them and what makes an essay a good one. I learned about how illustrating uses specific examples from the text to support the claim, authorizing refers to an "expert" to support the claim, and extending is a spin on terms and ideas from the text. We used this by analyzing a good example of an essay about a poem and then turned to look at our own essays to see what we did right and what we might have needed to work on. I think this was very helpful to learn because now I know what to include in my writing and what could make my essay better. The second thing we began to learn about this week was tragedy. We began by reflecting on what we think tragedy is and what we already now about it. The way I use the word tragedy is by describing something really sad or something really bad that happened. While doing research, I learned that that is something that tragedy can be described as but it also has other meanings that can be deeper. It is a way to get emotion out of the audience and connect to them. I was able to learn about different types of tragedy that are caused by different things in story. Also about how a character acts of what they do that produces different types of tragedy. This link includes descriptions of some of the different types of tragedy: http://www.thedramateacher.com/types-of-tragedy-for-drama-class/ |
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