Last week in ALA was a nice one, and wasn't loaded
with work compared to past weeks for different reasons. The main reason is
because we didn't have school Friday so the week was shorter, but it was also
because of the flow of our units, and that we basically ended one unit and
introduced another. On Monday, my group and I for the tragic hero project
watched other group's presentations, but class time ran out and we didn't
present. Then on Tuesday, being the second to last group to go, we presented
our poster and explained everything about Saving
Private Ryan and Captain Miller, and how/why he was a tragic hero and how
of course, we showed those elements through our poster. I think we did a great
job on our project, from the writing to the poster, but maybe could've
presented our poster a little more prepared. Otherwise I feel we deserve a good
grade for all the hard work we put into it, and I believe every other group in
our class deserves good grades as well. I'm glad to have been in a group with
Ryo, David, and Tiffany, and am glad we based our tragic hero project off of Saving Private Ryan. On Tuesday we
finished all the presentations, and basically concluded our tragic hero unit. To
end off the week on Thursday, we were introduced to our new unit on Dante's Inferno.
For
our writing assignment, we had to write lengthy, essay based short answers to
seven questions concerning hell. The first questions comprised into one, were
general wonderings of what hell is, what it like is, what you believe in, etc.
The next six questions are specific ones involving one's personal hell, what it
would be like, what are the punishments, how can one escape, what's a symbol,
and more. Out of anything, besides its length and time consumption, it was a
fun writing assignment for an introduction to a unit, because it used imagination's
darkest. The writing wasn't analytic or reflective, but rather a collection
of intellectual and thought-out answers to the questions of one's own hell. I
know I wrote a lot and spent a lot of time thinking about my personal hell, and
my hell is pretty dark no doubt. I could've made it darker, but that would be gruesome
and only scare myself. If I lightened up my hell at all, it would be too
forgiving for the definition of a hell. Thanks to this assignment, I imagined
my own hell for hell-borne souls realizing the dark side of my imagination, but
also got an idea of what this next unit is going to present to our class.
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