I have missed many days of school the past month from being in Florida, at 7th grade camp, and the multiple snow/cold days. We finished up Hamlet, created our final exam projects, and are about to finish up Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. We spent months working on Hamlet, so it was sort of a relief when we finally finished. The final exam project was actually a really fun project. My group and I made a video combining characters from The American Dream, Hamlet, and Death of a Salesman. I enjoyed doing an in depth analysis of the characters and examining them in different settings and situations. We are about to wrap up R and G in the next week. This play did not impress me much. I actually did not enjoy reading it at all, it was so boring to me! We read a few articles which including thoughtful ideas that assisted me in seeing the play in a different way. I unfortunately missed the movie due to camp, which tends to help me pull everything together. A main topic of discussion in class has been whether Rosencrantz and Guildenstern falls under the Theater of the Absurd category, or not. It has also been interesting to compare and contrast Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. In the next few months I know I need to be working on my open prompt essays!
I'm done with the intros for now,
ReplyDeleteI think you fell into the trap of just restating things dashed with a bit of personal reaction here and there. You should consider adding a lot more of actual connections and analysis. Restating is just a waste of time and doesn't really help anything.
- Ahmad
I totally agree with you Hunter when it comes to needing work on my Open Prompts. I tend not to enjoy writing, probably because I’m not good at it, well at least I think that. Also, I’m rather impressed that you went ahead, even though you were gone, and stated everything we did, because I was reading a blog earlier that basically said oh i was gone so I don’t what we did, and that kind of annoyed me. Although I do agree with Ahmad that it is best to make connections between things rather than straight up just restate what we’ve done, these are used to help Ms. Holmes get a better understanding of where we are at individually, not for us to have to come back to when it is AP exam time to review.
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ReplyDeleteWas Rosencrantz and Guildenstern really that boring? I thought it was a interesting - although depressing story at times. Now that we've finished reading and discussing it, do you have any change in perspective on the work, or do you still think it is boring? It might help if you could watch the movie, I felt that it showed some things in a different light than I thought originally. Again, good luck on the open prompt essays! I found the hardest thing about them was choosing a good work to write about (I also heard that Hamlet basically works for every prompt).