Monday, June 8, 2009
Summer!
Summer is only a few days away, but we all know what that means- summer assignments. These books don't look too bad, we may even enjoy them. We should keep up the blog posts over the summer so we can talk about the books or maybe even our vacations and stuff. That probably won't happen though, because I'm sure most of us will forget about them. Either way, I hope you all have a great summer and enjoy the summer assignments. See you next year (well, after Wednesday and Friday) when we're seniors!
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YAY Seniors at last!!!
ReplyDeleteThis year has been great you guys =]
Have any of you started reading the books for the summer assignments?
I have started reading the novel, How To Read Literature Like a Professor. First off the book is hilarious it really is. I thought it would be a boring manual like the Little Brown Thorn in the Side (haha thanks Mr. B.), but it is acutally really interesting. He makes some wonderful points about novels that I would normally not think of on my own. It makes me pause for a second sometimes and think about it and then it makes sense and I have to laugh because I didn't see it before. Great book Mr. B.
Yeah I started reading How To Read Lit. too. Its interesting and there are has been a lot of times where the little light bulb in my head went off because of the motif stuff. I was talking to Mr.B today about the references to random people, litterature, etc., it frusterates me how I know very few of these things he is mentioning. It would take too long to lookup every single one.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of excited now to read How to Read Literature Like a Professor since everyone who has started it likes it. Hopefully I'll know some of the references he makes. If not, I may have to read that book again a few years from now to see how much more I understand (hopefully there's a difference after a few years).
ReplyDeleteI really love How to Read Lit. so far. It is really interesting, and entertaining. I found that some of the books we read this year have motifs that we didn't even think of that was in the book. I suppose it is a foreshadowing of how much deeper we will have to go next year with the motifs, symbolism, and themes.
ReplyDeleteAnd Holly, I say that we make a list of all the references through out the year so we can keep track of all of them!
Well, not all of us get on the blogs all the time, but I believe we all have facebook? We could create a group thing on facebook for the AP 12 summer assignment where we can all talk about the books and have our "in class" discussions virtually via facebook. Just an idea, but I'd really like to talk about the books with other people so that way I don't end up going one direction without looking down the other, you know?
ReplyDeleteI really wish I could stay here for this class. As much as I hate doing assignments in the summer, How to Read Lit. seems interesting, and 1984 is one of my favorite books. I talked to some of the seniors in the class, and the books they listed for the year seemed interesting as well. Although for the summer, I'll be on my boat, or on the beach, or playing World of Warcraft instead of doing summer assignments =P
ReplyDeleteLucky you, Nick. But I haven't started reading anything yet, and probably won't be for a few days. Procrastination is a hard habit to break, haha. But How to Read Lit. looks pretty good. But I'm not excited about Shakespeare at all.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I haven't made it extremely far, I have started reading the first book, and what I've read so far sounds so familiar. You can tell that Mr. Bruno really referred to this book when teaching us this year. I'm really excited to finish the book though, because even if Mr. Bruno has taught us many things from it already, it's likely that we've gotten the shortened version. I'm really interested to read on and get the indepth version. Pretty soon, we're all going to be reading and thinking like proferssors. Look out, Mr. B.
ReplyDeleteI agree with daniel, procrastination is not only a hard habit to break, but self destructive as well. Read my "Don't Worry. Be Happy" blog and you'll understand where I'm coming from.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too thrilled about reading more Shakespeare; however, I'm sure theres some benificial information to be gained by doing so. Reading and Thinking like a proffessor seems pretty cool though.
Well, TJ's idea sounds nice; however, if you take the time to put it on the AP Literature and Compositione Blog, then you can begin to build up blog credits for the fall.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, if you all are interested in discussing the books locally (i.e. Starbucks, Panera, etc.) let me know and I can see if I can come and listen to what you guys are talking about.
Happy Thinking,
Mr. B