Sunday, November 20, 2011
Response to Course Material
Prior to this last week, we focused on our group discussion and individual annotations of Death of A Salesmen. I thought that using the film as a first read was a very good choice. This allowed me to have a solid understanding of the plot, character traits, and interactions/dynamics of the play. When going back for the close read, I was pleasantly surprised to see how much was similar. The move is a very near direct copy of the play, only leaving out some very minor discussions or events. When I went into the close read I had some ideas in mind, and was able to quickly and easily identify these parts of the play and find plenty of evidence and examples. Overall I feel that the movie is a very accurate version of the novel, and portray's the same feelings and emotions as Arthur Miller's actual play. This week we spent most of our time working on projects for literary eras. Though this was something I did in American Literature, I didn't really pay attention to that class or do anything so this is definitely something worth learning the second time around. I learned a lot from other projects and a lot from my own group's research so overall it was definitely time well spent. I can see this being of utmost importance on the AP exam. Being able to identify a piece and what literary movement it fits in will allow for accurate pre-reading generalizations to be formulated which will help to understand the writing in a timely manner.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with what you said about the movie being a good first read. I felt like it was basically exactly the same as the play when we went through and annotated it. I think I understood it a lot better when annotating as well because of the movie. The era presentations were also very helpful for me. It was a great review and will definitely be beneficial to know for the AP Exam. Nice thoughts Will.
ReplyDeleteIt's always nice to watch movies, and I agree that the version we watched was very impactful!
ReplyDeleteNow I was really amazed with the website "prezi". I'm going to use this the next time I have to make a presentation, and the era projects were nice, and honestly relaxing for some reason.
I love that the movie follows the play so closely, too. It made rereading for analysis a little bit easier. They even took some of the motifs of the play and put them into the movie, like the color red, which I thought was amazing. I liked the era presentations, too, I think we all did. And I really liked using Prezi, I think for the right projects, it's an awesome format. Being able to put literature into their eras gives some clues as to what might be some major themes or even techniques used in the piece, I think it's going to be really helpful for us, especially in looking at older literature.
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