After looking over the poems we wrote our second essay on, I still think I don't have the skill of picking apart a poem and being able to write on it. I think that will be the hardest part of this class.
I really appreciate the review of the different literary eras because sometimes it's important to revisit basic information like that. However, while Prezi looks cool, I think it's really hard at first to be able to use the confusing controls.
Analyzing Ceremony will be really different from analyzing the two plays we have so far. I think we will need to focus more on the larger ideas rather than looking at every word and sentence, because of the sheer length of the novel.
I totally agree with you about Ceremony. We were so in depth with the two plays, but it would take the rest of the year to do that with Ceremony. I felt very different about Prezi. I got the hang of it very quickly, and ended up really loving it. It was so easy to make the presentation interesting, and I understand Prezi better after using it once than I do PowerPoint after years of use.
ReplyDelete**note to Holmes: I was sick from 11/29-12/1, so that's why this comment (and all others from this set of blog responses) are late.**
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with your feelings on Prezi - but I did feel that, when it was effectively utilized, the presentation was interesting. Regarding Ceremony, I too think it will be hard to adjust from plays to such a complex novel. It's difficult for me to read without wondering about each sentence/paragraph/page, and analyzing things on a multiple-page-at-a-time level will be difficult.