Sunday, November 20, 2011
Response to Course Material #4
Since my last response, we've finished reading Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. I love this play so I was very excited to get to talk about it with the class. We looked at it a little bit in my American Lit class sophomore year but it was great to delve into a little bit further. I still feel very little sympathy for Willy but I love the boys. I am bummed though, I don't feel like we got to discuss it enough in class. I was really looking forward to it but our discussion didn't feel like it really ended. I don't expect us to be able to really "finish" talking about anything we read but we never really got to talk about the play as a whole which I would really like to do. Ms. Holmes did say we'd compare The American Dream and Death of a Salesman so maybe we can talk some more then. Other than that, we did our Eras Presentations on Prezi. I love Prezi, I think its a great program. We did Modernism and Postmodernism which I've studied before in American Lit but even so, I enjoyed doing the project. We're just starting Ceremony now which is difficult but should be interesting and provide for a lot of material for the AP test in the spring!
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I feel similarly in my lack of sympathy for Willy. Sometimes I find myself feeling bad for him and wondering why the world is so cruel to him, but then I remember that he really did bring all of it upon himself and his selfish actions tore apart his family. I think the boys are pretty cool characters. I like the independence of Biff and I'm often amused and confused by what Happy's intentions are because his is always spewing b.s.. Ceremony is quite a rewarding read and I'm happy we read it, and I can definitely see it coming in handy for the AP exam.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree that our discussion on Death of a Salesman did not really come to an end. We just kind of stoppe talking about it one day, and that was it. I also enjoyed reading it and was interested to see what ideas people had on the work. I thought the Prezi presentations were pretty interesting and cool to use. I never heard of it before this class, so I was glad we were introduced to it.
ReplyDeletePrezi, that website is totally awesome. I'll use that in as many classes as possible. Sometimes what I think is nice about a novel like Ceremony, is that there are so many different meanings and points that you can make that you can bend it to fit a lot of different types of questions on the test.
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