Greetings and thanks for coming back to our English class blog! This week's assignment will take 2 possible directions, depending on your blogging from last week (see Why Study Literature? - Part 1):
Possibility #1: You read last week's blog post and responded to the question contained in my post on time. If so, your assignment for this week is to please view the comments from last week's post and look for my response to your comment (I have personally read and responded to each one of your comments). Once you have read my response, add new comments to last week's post to continue our discussion. Again, please check for spelling and grammar, and also be sure that you use at least 150 words.
Possibilty #2: If you missed the deadline for last week's post (Why Study Literature? - Part 1) Please comment to last weeks' post on this week's post (Why Study Literature? - Part 2). PLEASE NOTE: Any comments posted in the wrong place will not be considered.
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I understood Of mice and men because i think i was interested in it. It was a easy book to follow. The discussions about the author and stuff, yeah they helped me learn about the book more and understand it. It was a very sad book, and that meaning, i couldn't bear to watch the movie because it was such a wrong ending. But the book as a whole was alright. Reading as a whole has always been a problem for me. I have troubles focusing on one thing at a time, that is why sometimes i do other things in your class. I just cant focus on one thing at a time. I need to do be doing other things at the same time. My speech is also not that great when looking at a word and saying it, but that will just get better in time.
ReplyDeleteVictoria J.
I feel like I connected most with George from Of Mice and Men because he is small, like me, but he is tough and a good leader. Even though I'm small I'm pretty strong and so is George. He shows Lennie what it’s like to live like a normal person and he shows him what to do when you’re in a sticky situation. Even though George loved Lennie he had to kill him before he went through that pain of suffering. If I had to recommend a book for us to read in class it would have to be Romeo and Juliet because it's written by Shakespeare, who wrote Othello, and it's a great love story. It tells a story about two people in love but they are from different families who dislike each other a lot. Even though their parents disapprove of their marriage, they do it any way and live happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteEthan Jaffe
I don’t think we should study literature. I don’t think that it will help us in the future. i already know how to read and use context clues. I think that after a certain time that we shouldn’t have to take English since it is our native language and we already know how to speak it. Literature, especially Shakespeare is pointless because we don’t know what they are saying, and we don’t use that kind of language anymore. Plus, all the stories are the same, they all are about how someone is in love with someone else but there is some kind of obstacle that they can’t be together. In the end they are together and everyone is happy. I think reading is ok if it’s studying or something productive, but fiction stories aren’t. That is my opinion on why we should or shouldn’t study literature.
ReplyDeleteBen Gordon
Well, the obvious answer to this question would be for me to say something like, "Literature is worthwhile to me because it teaches me life lessons," and I could easily just write out some generic examples of things that I've learned from the books we've read, but if said that, I would feel that I was lying to you. Honestly, reading books in school does not have an apparent purpose to me other than helping me get the literature section in Jeopardy right. I underline apparent because I admit that I may be overlooking some subconscious benefit of reading, but really when books are supposed to teach us about the importance of friendship, I don't really see the point. If I'm wrong in saying that Of Mice and Men's message was of friendship, then that just changes the argument to the fact that I really cannot understand what an author is trying to get across by writing a book. Well whatever, maybe you can enlighten me as to why we really should read literature or if there was a point that I missed in your response to this post.
ReplyDeleteGeorge B.
There are two things I could instantly thing of that helps me improve in my reading and writing skills in your class. For my reading skills reading books in class then watching the movie helps me understand it a lot better. After watching it then going back to the book and rereading it makes it so much clearer. So I appreciate you letting us see the movies for the books we read. I think my writing skills are starting to improve a lot better now. Especially when we do journals I try to write as much as I can but the only problem is that I am not that good with free write I like writing about things when you give me a topic to write about. Finally I would recommend for families and friends to read Mice and Men. That book shows you the meaning of life in different ways. It shows you the meaning of life, the meaning of friendship and the meaning of trust.
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