Literary Analysis
This is my literary analysis. The story that my literary analysis and everyone's literary analysis was based on was "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. This story was one of the short stories that we had to read and analyze. First, Mr. Gibault told us to "battle" with the story. He told us to highlight parts that we thought was important, and annotate on the margins about our thoughts and opinions. We were also required to read the story a couple times to get the story nailed into our head, so that it will be more convenient for us when we were writing our analysis paragraphs. In class, we mostly peer edited the paragraphs. Mr. Gibault told us to choose a solid thesis statement, and just write the three body paragraphs in the first place. And then later on, when we were almost done with editing our body paragraphs, he told us to write a hook and the thesis paragraph along with the conclusion that summarizes the whole analysis essay.
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LEARNING REFLECTION
Name: Priscilla Chang
Date: Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Unit/class: Short Story Unit/Humanities
Project/Activity: Literary Analysis on "The Most Dangerous Game".
What Did I Learn?
3 Things you learned:
I learned the easy way to write an essay or an analysis, which was to just think of a solid thesis statement at first, then write all of the body paragraphs, and finally write the hook and the thesis paragraph along with the conclusion that summarizes the whole essay. Also, I learned about the importance of a solid thesis statement and supporting details along with that, and the best way to improve my writing skills and my knowledge of vocabulary words was reading many many books. The last thing that I learned is about the proper MLA formatting. For quotes and the whole essay, we needed to follow the MLA format. However, because I didn't really know how to do the MLA formatting, until my second or third drafts, I got them all wrong. But because I learned by using the Purdue Online MLA format OWL site, I turned in the proper way of the standard MLA format.
2 Things that were difficult:
One thing that was difficult was making a "top-notch" essay with solid details/support. When I write an essay or a paragraph, I tend to write about unrelated or unimportant things (sometimes, but most of the times). Therefore, for me, writing a solid essay was extremely challenging. Another thing that was difficult during this assignment was quoting certain parts of the books. Mr. Gibault required us to include quotes from the book in our analysis as supporting details and evidence, but I really didn't know which parts were the really needed parts and were important. So at first, one of my quotes were a page long... :(
1 question you still have, or 1 challenge that still remains:
One question that I still have is what classical novels will help me improve my reading skills and my vocabulary, and around how many I would have to read to actually see my skill improving.
How Did I Learn This Information or Skill?
Explain at least 1 real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill:
One real life reason to know this information or be able to do this skill is for college later on, and maybe a workplace. Good writing makes a good reputation, and therefore causes many people to like you better than a person who has a bad piece of writing.
What would be a better way than this assignment to show what you learned or to demonstrate this skill?:
A better way than this assignment that would show what I learned or demonstrate this skill is to take a test on the writing elements, or write another essay, but one that we could choose between narrative, descriptive, exposition, or persuasion, and the topic too.
What did I find interesting about this assignment?
Although it wasn't very effective and I didn't think it helped me a lot, I found peer editing interesting about this assignment, along with how many different aspects people could see the story in. With the one story, The Most Dangerous Game, almost everyone in our class (I think) had different claims for their analyses, and had different supporting details and evidences that would support their claims.
Name: Priscilla Chang
Date: Thursday, November 1st, 2012
Unit/class: Short Story Unit/Humanities
Project/Activity: Literary Analysis on "The Most Dangerous Game".
What Did I Learn?
3 Things you learned:
I learned the easy way to write an essay or an analysis, which was to just think of a solid thesis statement at first, then write all of the body paragraphs, and finally write the hook and the thesis paragraph along with the conclusion that summarizes the whole essay. Also, I learned about the importance of a solid thesis statement and supporting details along with that, and the best way to improve my writing skills and my knowledge of vocabulary words was reading many many books. The last thing that I learned is about the proper MLA formatting. For quotes and the whole essay, we needed to follow the MLA format. However, because I didn't really know how to do the MLA formatting, until my second or third drafts, I got them all wrong. But because I learned by using the Purdue Online MLA format OWL site, I turned in the proper way of the standard MLA format.
2 Things that were difficult:
One thing that was difficult was making a "top-notch" essay with solid details/support. When I write an essay or a paragraph, I tend to write about unrelated or unimportant things (sometimes, but most of the times). Therefore, for me, writing a solid essay was extremely challenging. Another thing that was difficult during this assignment was quoting certain parts of the books. Mr. Gibault required us to include quotes from the book in our analysis as supporting details and evidence, but I really didn't know which parts were the really needed parts and were important. So at first, one of my quotes were a page long... :(
1 question you still have, or 1 challenge that still remains:
One question that I still have is what classical novels will help me improve my reading skills and my vocabulary, and around how many I would have to read to actually see my skill improving.
How Did I Learn This Information or Skill?
Explain at least 1 real life reason to know this information, or be able to do this skill:
One real life reason to know this information or be able to do this skill is for college later on, and maybe a workplace. Good writing makes a good reputation, and therefore causes many people to like you better than a person who has a bad piece of writing.
What would be a better way than this assignment to show what you learned or to demonstrate this skill?:
A better way than this assignment that would show what I learned or demonstrate this skill is to take a test on the writing elements, or write another essay, but one that we could choose between narrative, descriptive, exposition, or persuasion, and the topic too.
What did I find interesting about this assignment?
Although it wasn't very effective and I didn't think it helped me a lot, I found peer editing interesting about this assignment, along with how many different aspects people could see the story in. With the one story, The Most Dangerous Game, almost everyone in our class (I think) had different claims for their analyses, and had different supporting details and evidences that would support their claims.