One meticulous blogger asked the following:
Would commenting answers from your questions be helpful enough to bring my grade up? Or just adding to the posts in general? And will the site notify you of the corrections I've made?
Answer
Answers to comments can be helpful depending what I wrote at the time--to be honest, like you guys I'm not always on a 3 questioning level. Also, since the AP literature course is the training ground for college courses and, of course, the AP test, I recommend going to the source.
"A generic method for the approach to such close reading involves the following elements: the experience of literature, the interpretation of literature, and the evaluation of literature. By experience, we mean the subjective dimensions of reading and responding to literary works, including precritical impressions and emotional responses. By interpretation, we mean the analysis of literary works through close reading to arrive at an understanding of their multiple meanings. By evaluate, we mean both an assessment of the quality and artistic achievement of literary works and a consideration of their social and cultural values"
(English Literature and Composition: The Course Reading, 6).
You do an amazing job of discussing the literary experience (IE I felt this because of this) and you also push through to interpretation often. What's really left is evaluate some things, and not in that this is good and this is bad sort of way, but in the is the device being used effective. By effective I mean is the writer's meaning being yet again presented to you in a memorable and meaningful way.
A great example of this is your tears entry where you discuss the influence of not saying cried. Spot on work. You can also go back and comment in the following way, "After finishing the book I now see that X is important because of ______." Sometimes we don't understand what the author is doing in the first 50 pages until we've read the last 30.
As for adding posts no no! Please just put additional info into the bottom of your post or in your comments. As for the site notifying me, sadly, no. I will have to physically go through and look for them. I will start looking for at corrections in about 4 days I think. That should be enough time to get everyone's work graded at least once.
Question:
Are you going to update these once we've fixed the post?
Answer:
Indeed :) but I won't be able to go back and start checking until I graded everyone's blog at least once
English Literature and Composition: The Course Reading. Professional Development AP English Literature and Composition Workshop
Handbook 2009-2010. The College Board. 2009. 7. Print.
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