We just finished reading our first
novel and I really enjoyed it (reading it… not annotating it). It was really
interesting to get a chance to compare a novel to the plays we have read. My
first interpretation of Ceremony was
so much different that my interpretation after our discussion in class. There
was so much symbolism in the novel and lots of Native American culture that I
missed in my initial reading. It was only after discussing it with the class,
and reading that article from Ms. Holmes did I understand things like the fact
that the hunter was the mountain lion. So I’m really glad we take the time and
discuss the book after our first reading. Understanding the book will
definitely help when writing an essay for it on the AP exam.
We just started reading Fifth
Business and so far it’s a pretty easy read. It’s straightforward, which is a
change from the other books we’ve read because the other ones required a bit of
deciphering. So I think this one will probably be easier to understand and a
plus side is that we don’t have to annotate it! J I hope these two books
will come in handy when writing an essay on the AP Exam, because the books from
the beginning of the year are starting to get a bit hazy in my mind.
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