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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