Synthesis of Course Material 4: The Other Just As Important Stuff

Along the way of learning about tragedy and DIDLSand annotation and how to write Open/Closed Prompts, there were other stuffs too. There included how to write in plain style, these time consuming blog posts, forums, how to answer multiple choice questions and eras of literature. Oh and 128 vocab words that we memorized.

Plain style is plain and not so easy. It's simply putting your words in the most effective and simplest way possible so that your point is there and it's clear. Which is sometimes hard because I like to write and embellish.  Along the way, we posted lots and lots of blog posts to practice for the open and closed prompts, though i'm pretty sure some of my peers BS'ed theirs so bad you need a lifetime supply of diapers to keep it from leaking. We did this for practice and we commented on others because sometimes it's just easier to hear it from a peer then a teacher. Plus Holmes woulda never read every single one of 'em.

Forums are my favorite though. You post your opinion and you get other people's opinion. Simple as that.

We've practiced for MCQ (multiple choice questions) several times and i've somehow been absent for every single one of those lessons except the last one. So, i'm not too sure but i think the idea is to read questions, passage, answer the question without choices, find choices that match yours and bubble. Also leave the "all of the following are true/false" until the end 'cause they're uber time consuming.

Eras of literature help us understand where the author is coming from because we need to understand the enviroment he/she lived in when they wrote the work and how it could have possibly affected the piece of work. This further helped us to reach our goal of understanding the meaning of the novel/play/poem.

Lastly, we had this enormous list of vocab words that turned out to be super helpful because instead of saying something like "the repeated words created a harsh tone" you could just say "the epizuxis (did i spell that right)  in lines 28-29 functioned as...."

And that AP Lit!