10/22/11
In class, we have mostly been working on the annotation of The American Dream by Edward Albee. I still am not sure how i feel about theater of the absurd, because while some of it holds great meaning and makes a lot of sense, some seems with lack of a better word, absurd. Although i do feel better about annotations and feel that i am finally capable of doing them on my own, however the class annotations do still help me see certain things that i did not spot on my own. I enjoyed having the practice of spotting DIDLS use in actual plays like we did with Albee's play because it finally feels like we have gone away from the practice sheets and gone into actually applying these techniques to real world literature. Everything right now is going well in class and i feel as if i am finally getting a sense of annotating at least with Albee's play. I look forward to reading Death of a salesman to see if i have actually gotten better at annotating or if it is just that i now understand Albee's play. The only thing that i have to worry about in class currently would be getting down to memorizing the many words that we have to know for the test which just comes down to studying. Overall class is going well as of now.
Great description of what you are feeling about the class up to this point. I do agree that working on annotations and going through the play as a class helps greatly, and gives me more ideas on possible meaning of things throughout the play. Great work George!
ReplyDeleteNice response to the class, it is very helpful to do annotations with the class, I like this because if I have missed something big while annotating on my own there's a saftey net in the rest of the class, someone will catch it if I didn't. Applying DIDLS to actual literature instead of the worksheets is a satisfying feeling, it's like graduating from the kindergarten of literature analysis! Great job!
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