I feel this week flew by. Probably because it wasn’t just filled with boring syllabus explanations and silly icebreaker activities in my classes. Everyone knows that the second week of school is when the actual work starts.
In the beginning of this week we watched a film about writing in college, and how freshman grow as writers throughout their time there. One of the topics that was talked about was writing what you as a writer want to write about, not what you think the reader wants to hear. Last year, I think I became a pro at writing what my teacher wanted to hear. In this class and in the years to come I expect that won’t work for me anymore. The majority of this week was time spent reading, analyzing, and for the most part hating the poem “The Eagle” by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Well, maybe hating is a bit harsh but I definitely did not enjoy it. This week has showed me that one of the things I am going to struggle with most is learning to love poetry. We ended this week by attempting to write an essay analyzing this poem. I had a really hard time with this particular assignment. The smaller assignments leading up to it weren’t bad, such as just discussing the poem in groups or writing the TP-CASTT, but this one just seemed to stump me. I’m not sure if it was just a bad day for me, and I was just really not feeling writing an essay, or if it was just the fact that I have trouble writing essays in a classroom and instead of at home. Either way, I need to work it out, because this class entails a lot of writing, and I really need to be ready for that.
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