Week Three Reflections

As we move into the third week of this class, we are passed the breaking in stage. The learning curve has been fully surpassed. This is the week when we are starting to get to the bulk of the work that we are going to do. We are starting our what is literature project. I am just going to let you know on here, a lot of people in the class, not just me, don't really know what they're supposed to do for that project. I don't know if we just need to hear it explained a few more times, but just so you know, more than one person is lost. It is possible that when our class is held on the library floor, many people find it difficult to hear. There is to much ambient noise, and your voice often gets muffled by the room. This week, we also focused on explicating and analyzing poetry, with the goal of writing a full PoW, again, Poem of the Week, not Prisoner of War, on Friday. I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, I'm not a huge fan of poetry, and I did not realize it would be such a huge part of this class. We'll just have to wait and see how the essay goes. How much poetry will be on the AP Test? I'm very curious. The in-class discussions on the poems can be very helpful, however, I think that they can also lead us to collectively misinterpret the poetry. I think some form of time limit should be imposed to prevent against incoherent ramblings. I think we saw more than one of those last week. I am a little disappointed that we have so little SSR time as well. I have a job, I play a sport, I am on the executive board of two clubs, I am in three AP classes, and two relatively difficult other classes. I also have friends, and family that I need to spend time with. You say that time should be made outside of class for SSR, but my time outside of class has been extended just about as far as it will go. There is n