This week in my Literature class I learned a wide variety of things. Though they were not things that directly pertain to the curriculum they did teach me a lot about the class that I am taking. Some main ideas we developed and talked about this week were: being comfortable in class, appreciation for written art and understanding each other better. For the first idea, Mr. Schoenborn told us all to get up, walk outside, and on a piece of paper write down what got us into taking this class. After everyone had three things written down the entire class sat down in a circle and shared one thing about themselves. We all clapped once after someone shared, indicating that we heard them and understood. There was definitely a lot of interaction and that will help myself and my peers to communicate. I learned that this is a very open and supportive environment through some of this activity. The second idea, appreciation for art, was demonstrated by listening to spoken word and reading poems everyday. It opens us up to different types of writing and poets. Finally we were told to create a website and a page within it describing who we are as a reader and a writer. After we all completed the assignment our peers read what we wrote. This helped me to figure out more about my classmates and for me, helped me connect to some of them. I even learned some things about myself by writing out who I am as a read and a writer. We were able to learn all these things through being physically and mentally engaged in the class. Overall I feel that all of these ideas and experiments helped us to get used to our surroundings and get us in the mindset needed for AP Literature. I would like to know if getting in a sort of Socratic seminar circle is something we will do often. I feel that my participation was adequate and that I fully understand the ideas previously mentioned. Though I do need to learn how to be more open with sharing. Something I'm sure will improve.
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Andy Schoenborn
9/16/2016 05:22:22 am
Hi Corrine,
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Corinne
9/16/2016 12:28:37 pm
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