This past week in AP Lit we focused on writing a comparative essay and exploring the rhetoric of a poem. Our comparative essays pertained to the books we read over the summer. My group read The Fall, by Albert Camus, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid. After filling out the summer reading discussion, my group found that our two books were much more similar than we thought. Putting things next to each other on paper really helped us connect ideas. To begin our essay we did a pre-write where we lined out all the topics we wanted to write about, and found examples for each one. Both The Fall and The Reluctant Fundamentalist were interesting books. My group thoroughly enjoyed both of them. And we all got really excited when we found similarities in both books. We even started a group chat to continue our book discussion after class! I know, we are such good students. The other focus of the week was a poem titled The Eagle, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Each day we would go more indepth, focusing on different aspects of the poem. We discussed how things like imagery, alliteration, and personification helped convey the effect Tennyson wanted to the reader. To develop our ideas we took notes on our own, talked in our table groups, and then presented our ideas to the class. By going through the poem little by little each day, I began understanding the poem more. In class, we focused on what we each think The Eagle is about, but I'm wondering what Tennyson’s meaning of the poem was. Or does Tennyson’s meaning even matter? how to Explicate a Poem
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Andy Schoenborn
9/23/2016 10:39:30 am
Hi Sela,
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