During the first week of AP Literature and Composition I learned that digging deeper into concepts helps you grow as a reader and writer.
Within one week Mr. Schoenborn had shown us numerous ways to express our thoughts through writing and to better understand literature. One lesson that really stuck with me was Shaped By Writing: The Freshman Experience. I was at first wary and slightly nervous to express my opinions and what I noticed in the video documenting students and their writing at Harvard University. I watched the video thinking, "I don't know what to write. I don't want to be wrong." But then I realized something: I couldn't be wrong.
Mr. Schoenborn had told us to write our thoughts and opinions of the video clip as it played. So I hesitantly wrote down my first observation. The responses from the class started flooding in and I saw my comments were similar to other students around the room. I typed every word, phrase, and idea that popped into my head and then I got it- writing what you see and feel helps you grow as a writer and also helps you understand concepts you didn't even know you had feelings about.
A lesson that helped me think deeper about literature was the response activity, "What is Literature?". Many of the questions were about comparing literature to commercial fiction novels. I thought this was an interesting topic because I do not commonly think of what characteristics make the works of writing so distinctly different. I really like having class discussions online like "What is Literature?" where I can see my classmates' responses to questions. The benefit of having a class discussion documented is I can go back and see how other students perceived ideas and apply their thoughts to my own literature analysis.
I believe that I can still work at elaborating on my thoughts and ideas about topics in class. By practicing and staying open minded to what I am feeling I will be more easily capable of expressing my thoughts and coming up with more concepts to improve my writing and reading.
Within one week Mr. Schoenborn had shown us numerous ways to express our thoughts through writing and to better understand literature. One lesson that really stuck with me was Shaped By Writing: The Freshman Experience. I was at first wary and slightly nervous to express my opinions and what I noticed in the video documenting students and their writing at Harvard University. I watched the video thinking, "I don't know what to write. I don't want to be wrong." But then I realized something: I couldn't be wrong.
Mr. Schoenborn had told us to write our thoughts and opinions of the video clip as it played. So I hesitantly wrote down my first observation. The responses from the class started flooding in and I saw my comments were similar to other students around the room. I typed every word, phrase, and idea that popped into my head and then I got it- writing what you see and feel helps you grow as a writer and also helps you understand concepts you didn't even know you had feelings about.
A lesson that helped me think deeper about literature was the response activity, "What is Literature?". Many of the questions were about comparing literature to commercial fiction novels. I thought this was an interesting topic because I do not commonly think of what characteristics make the works of writing so distinctly different. I really like having class discussions online like "What is Literature?" where I can see my classmates' responses to questions. The benefit of having a class discussion documented is I can go back and see how other students perceived ideas and apply their thoughts to my own literature analysis.
I believe that I can still work at elaborating on my thoughts and ideas about topics in class. By practicing and staying open minded to what I am feeling I will be more easily capable of expressing my thoughts and coming up with more concepts to improve my writing and reading.
I included a link to a blog page talking about digging deeper into your writing. This is relevant to what we have been learning over the first week of school because it talks about how important it is to elaborate on your writing and let the readers into your mind to see what you really want them to see.