get rid of that 5 paragraph essayThis week in AP Lit we did a lot of collaborative learning on our own. At the beginning of the week we scrambled to get things down, but by the end of the week everything had come together. After finishing this project, I can say that I have enjoyed working with my group members and I feel proud of the work I put in. I thought that senioritis would get the best of me, however I did work hard on this project in the end and I learned a lot about Buddhism, collaboration, and webbdesign. I felt like my group worked so well together and I’m really proud of us. There were no disagreements and we all equally shared the workload. Mr. S likes to talk about how this class is preparing us for college writing and working in the real world, however I don’t feel prepared. In the past month I’ve been hearing back from colleges and I have a lot of decisions to make before the end of May. I’ve also been reading about and talking to people about college, and they all say that it is much much much harder than high school and high school didn’t prepare them. The writing is much more rigorous and is graded harder, and I’m worried that my best in high school will only be mediocre in college. I hope that projects like Siddhartha and the other learned things we did in this class will carry over to college so that I’m not thrown into something completely new. This class has definitely improved my writing, and gotten me away from the “thesis with 5 paraphs” essay stuff though.
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This week in AP Lit we dived into our Siddhartha digital article project. My group finished our book and worked well together all week to get a good start on the writing portion of the project and set up our website. I was sick this week, so I missed two days of class. However my absence did not deter my group from working hard on our project, and when I got back, I was able to jump right back in. My group has worked well together to be collaborative, which I learned was extremely important for this project. Even though we all have separate roles in this project, it’s important to understand all aspects of it and know what other people are doing in order for you to do your job well. Outlining our article was very helpful to begin writing our piece. Without it there would be no direction and our ideas would be messy. This way, we know exactly all the points we want to make and can execute it clearly. I found the outline helpful for website design as well. This is part of the collaboration of group work. Without the outline, I would of have a difficult time designing the layout of our digital article. Overall I feel as though this project is good and the book Siddhartha is extremely thought provoking. My group members and I had really good conversations about it that were pretty deep and actually very fun to have. However, I feel like as the end of senior year comes closer I am losing motivation to do more than the bare minimum. I want to just talk about Siddhartha and share my thoughts through a discussion rather than a group project with a bunch of different, weird aspects to it. Perhaps being sick as something to do with my slow start to the trimester, or I'm burned out. I really want my motivation back!!! FIghting SenioritisThis week was an abnormal week in AP Lit because Mr. S was only here for one day. So, we were in charge of getting all of our stuff done to begin our new project. Basically, we are modeling our projects off an article called Snow Fall. This article incorporated a lot of different aspects into it, like images, video, text, and graphic design elements. On Monday groups chose their books and roles in their groups. There was a writer, video journalist, graphic designer, and a wild card. My group has two wild cards that can help with anything, and we also all decided that we would all contribute to writing the piece because it’s too big of a job for one person. In my group I can the graphic designer, so I have to figure out how the layout for our project. I also need to learn how to code and things like that to make our page flow nicely together. The book that my group picked is Siddhartha. It follows a young man and his journal to reach nirvana or transcendence. So far I have really enjoyed the story! In our project we are answering a big question: “How does purpose motivate or discourage you, and at what point do they differ?” We think this is a good question to ask while reading Siddhartha because Siddhartha is really about just trying to find a purpose in life and his struggle to find it in a lot of different ways. Through following Buddha, to being on his own in the forest, to being taken in my strangers, he finds his path to peace… I think. I haven’t finished the book yet. How Snow Fall Was MadeThis week in AP Lit we worked on our Pecha Kucha presentations. This is a difficult project, not because of the subject or assignment, but mainly because presentation itself. Sense it’s a timed presentation we have to fit all our information into 10, 20 second slides. Putting all our information down into a short one page paper was helpful, because it allowed me to condense all my ideas and get my main points across in a certain amount of time. While writing my essay I realized how much my topic is actually talked about in society. There are a lot of articles, books, TedTalks, movies, and songs about the connection between love and money. This means that I’m definitely not the only one that contemplated this idea or was concerned about it. I think the thing I found most interesting this week was how divided people are on this topic of love and money. Some believe that love is more important, like all of my sources, however a lot of people don’t even care about love and just want easy, rich lives. The next part of the presentation is gathering meaningful pictures that go along with my project. The pictures in our presentation should match our theme, but also the tone, or mood, of our presentation and subject. I want to get really powerful images that match my subject of love, selfishness, and greediness. I think that there will be powerful images to go along with those themes. If I do this, the audience will get a better feel of what I am trying to convey and it will get my points across better. |
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