This past week was mostly spent working to complete the visual metaphor project. In this project, we had to work with one or two others to connect a chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor to our various summer reading books. We then had to draw something that represents that connection in a metaphorical way. Mine happened to be how sunny weather and a healthy tree represents good times, and then snow and rain and a dead tree (hence the title of the blog) represent bad times and death. Because we did this project in groups, my group members really opened my mind to a lot of different connections between books that I hadn’t seen before. I also learned that visual metaphors can be really useful in aiding in the process of getting a thorough understanding of something. This week, we also read an article differentiating between story and literature. While talking about this in class, I got the vibe that I didn’t really get what everybody else got out of it. My understanding is that the story is the plot line and the literature is the grammar and like, how it is written and stuff, but to be honest I could be totally wrong. The worst part of the week by far was looking at the AP scores of the individual example essays. My essay that I wrote at the end of last week was a solid zero, which wasn’t surprising at all. I actually just wrote a parody of the poem, no essay involved. So, seeing the essay that scored a nine was pretty depressing. I have a lot of work to do.
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