Hello! Here is my first post.
I just finished the diagnostic test from our textbook. It was quite challenged, and a lot of the vocabulary was from a lexicon I've only seen used on the SAT. Needless to say, my score was a little discouraging, but I loved the exerts! The poetry especially, I enjoyed, even if my interpretations weren't the 'correct' answers. That will be the challenge in a class based on such a subjective...subject as literature. Anyway, I am very excited to study literature at this level and of this quality.
I'd like to see this post developed a bit more with specific details and examples, Emily. I'm sure that you DIDN'T write this without taking the diagnostic test, but this post really COULD have been written without taking the diagnostic test at all. That tells me that there are too many generalizations and not enough supporting details in your post.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this feedback. I guess I was pretty burned out after legitimately taking the diagnostic test :)
ReplyDeleteSome specifics, I was impressed with the depth of interpretation expected from the Lowell poem- beyond identifying imagery to actually analyzing it. I will admit that I struggled to take the passage from Pride and Prejudice out of context, which made it hard to describe the characters as they are presented just in those few pages, so I got those questions wrong. The Civil War article was definitely the easiest for me, because it was straight information in a typical presentation.
A number of your classmates also struggled with the same aspect of the Pride and Prejudice section =) Thanks for updating your post!
ReplyDeleteHello Emily!
ReplyDeleteIn response to YOUR response, I did struggle with the whole "out of context" thing, too. I always want the background story on something, but I feel like those DIDLS worksheets we have been doing has helped me shut out the little voice in my head and just analyze what is in front of me, wouldn't you agree? (The Ancient Mariner ws comes to mind... I knew the back story in that case, but I had to analyze it like I didn't, which was tough for me!)