My week of learning! :)
This week has been an awesome week in English III. I love the book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I learned that it is not a novel, but not a short story either. It is known as a novella, which has the same language and type of writing style as a novel, but it’s simple like a short story. I learned a lot by looking things up outside of class, such as information on what inspired Stevenson to write his novella.
Another thing that I learned in the class is the Victorian era! It is my favorite era so far because of all the poetry and just the way that Stevenson writes. The language that he and the poets use just floors me with inspiration. I am utterly excited to write this Victorian short story that is due the next time we go to class. I love to write short stories and I do it on my spare time, if there ever is any considering I am always engaged in something more important such as school or work.
One of the most important things that I learned this week was that when I annotate I need to write everything I think right then and there! I used to read the entire assignment and then write down my thoughts. I discussed with some of my friends about it and they suggested that I write down what comes to mind when it pops up. I tried it and I was surprised to how much I could remember about the book! It helped tremendously with the way I read now and I can’t wait to read Frankenstein.
Greg I LOVE YOUUU!!!!! DONT BE SAD MY FRIEND! IM HERE TO COMMENT!! BE HAPPY!!! I really liked the writing style of Jekyll and Hyde too, it was an easy read and it flowed really well. I think our large class discussions helped me understand the Victorian period really well rather than the smaller circles. It’s good to have as many different views as you can get. Since you love to write short stories so much you should totally write mine, because I don’t have any good ideas. KIDDING, well kind of lol. That is how I annotate, when I read a paragraph I go back and look for special and important things and underline them and write out to the side a summary in a few words of the important things. Annotating has really helped me this year, even though I hate it.