Final Reflection

Final Reflection: Student Blogs

Akane Ohara

http://oharaakanetwain.blogspot.com
Responded to Poetry Essay

Comment:I really enjoyed hearing your analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!! You did a great job creating a very cohesive presentation! It was very easy to understand your thought process throughout the project and the direction of the presentation. Your poetry prompt really stood out to me because of the connection between the extended metaphor with the rivers in the poem, and the Mississippi for Huck. It set a great foundation for the rest of your presentation. You did an awesome job (:

Jordan Grollmus
http://extremelymeandincrediblylitgrollmus16.blogspot.com
Responded to Research thesis

Comment: Jordan!! Prior to your presentation I had only seen the trailer for the movie version of your book and I found it very confusing and hard to follow. But after your analysis of Foer's writing I have a great understanding of not only his writing style but also the book. I also liked that you chose a more modern novel. A lot of the presentations were over books that are considered classics, so I found the differences between the two to be interesting. For example in your research paper you talk about Foer's use of "wasted space" is in order to reach the reader while in my novel Plath's used allusion to reach out to both the readers and herself. You did a great job with this presentation!!

Kylie McCalmont

http://kylieccalmontprojectblog2016.blogspot.com
Responded to Prose Passage

Comment: Hi Kylie! I really liked how professional and clear your presentation was. All of your hard work really paid off. At the end of your presentation I was familiar with your author's work and how her life influenced her characters. The way you simultaneously were able to describe the Gothic/ Victorian literature with the plot of the novel was very impressive. It really helped me understand your prose passage. While Emily Bronte's writing style is very different than Sylvia Plath's, I saw that influences from the author's personal life were prominent thought both of our prose passages. Thanks for an awesome presentation (:


Kara Lennon
http://karalennonapenglishfinal2015.blogspot.com
Responded to Introduction

Hi Kara! You had an awesome presentation. I thought it was really cool that you chose to read and analyze two plays. Seeing the similarities between the two plays really reinforced everything you analyzed about Tennessee Williams writing style. Like Riddihi said, I also thought that your introduction was extremely powerful. It was so interesting to see how the different light transformed the viewer's perspective of the woman's face. At some angles she truly looked like another person. Other videos people showed gave out a lot of information, but lacked the "attention grabbing" aspect your video provided and the audience needed. This video really kept me engaged and excited about your presentation! The ideas you introduced here were clearly talked about until the very end of the presentation. You did an awesome job (:

Melissa Phillips
URL
Responded to Prose Passage
Hi Melissa! I really appreciated all of the effort you put into the cupcakes. Even though this was an extra credit assignment I thought your explanation really helped me understand your whole presentation. The two different sizes of the cupcakes was also another cleaver aspect of your presentation! Your prose passage did a really great job at showcasing George Orwell's journalistic and blunt writing style. I thought that it was really interesting that George Orwell lived under a government similar to one in 1984. My author, Sylvia Plath, also used influence from her own life as a basis for her writing. It really cool to see similarities between such different literary works. Your presentation was very professional and well designed; you did a fabulous job!!! (:

Personal Reflection 

The final project is over! I feel very relieved after working hard since spring break. I thought that I was really cool that we pretty much took a whole novel through the “AP test”. It not only allowed me to review all of the information we have covered in class this year, but it also allowed me to really dig into my novel.  I got to analyze a Sylvia Plath poem earlier this year so I felt somewhat familiar with her work when we started the project.

            However, I did not do as well on the project as I would have hoped. In the process of printing and organizing my papers my final poetry essay did not end up in my turn in packet. This really hut my grade; but I can only learn to double and triple check my work before I turn it in. But other than that I could really tell a difference between the quality of my thesis statements at the beginning of the year and now. They’ve gotten so much better! I am very proud of all I have accomplished this semester.

            Next time I would be more on top of the schedule, it was very easy to go off task at times and I while I was still able to complete my work it would have been less stressful.  If I were to do this project again I would try to write my essays so that each of them were connected somehow, some of my favorite presentations carried the same concepts throughout each of their essays without making it seam like they were repeating themselves.  I wish that I would have known my research thesis at the beginning of the project. We spent a lot of time doing research and looking at literary criticisms as one of the first steps in the project but when we actually began writing our paper I had to go back and pretty much find all new information that was actually useful to my topic.