At the beginning of the week we started out with the poem "The Eagle" written by Lord Tennyson. We read it aloud as a class on Monday and worked on it at our tables throughout the week. It was really cool to see how the class' perception of the poem changed as the week went on. Our first interpretations were mostly looking at the poem literally, but as the week progressed each group developed their own ideas spanning from a narrator that holds their self on a pedestal to a crooked king. Overall I think it was a great learning experience that helped everyone in the class think about we should look at poems.
Another thing that we did this week was work on our summer reading projects. Haley and I are partners for the comparative essay and so far we have made an outline to start the essay. We found some common themes from both Caramelo and The Waves and are working to flesh out all of our ideas and get the ball rolling on the paper. How to Read Literature like a Professor has been extremely helpful in finding things that are common between the two texts. We have tentatively decided to go with chapters two, twelve, and twenty-four as our links. I am excited to see how this essay turns out and getting feed back on it from our peers in the class. Lastly, on Friday we did something a little different. We independently wrote down our thoughts about "The Eagle" on a google doc for about forty minutes and at first I thought Schoenborn is insane. How was I supposed to write for forty minutes about a six line poem! Then after forty minutes of almost non-stop typing, I was only maybe half way through explaining my thoughts on the poem. After the forty minutes I realized how much of a story a poet can tell in six lines, whether or not they know it. Also to expand my view of "The Eagle" I found a neat website called Shmoop that had their own analysis of the poem and they took it more literally.
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Andy Schoenborn
9/25/2016 04:51:39 pm
Hi Ed,
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