EL 237 Portfolio #2
It's that time of the year again. Portfolio time. I feel like I've learned a lot since my last portfolio, and I feel like my discussions have become more depth both on my page and on my peer's blogs as well. Let's hope we keep up the good work!
Coverage:
- Life is Stew? was a blog entry about the second act of Good night Desdemona (Good morning Juliet). I wrote about my confusion because I never read Othello. I also talked a little about the dramatic irony in this play.
- In Immaturity at its best, I blogged about Romeo and Juliet's homosexuality being MacDonald's way to show their immaturity. They are in love with the idea of being in love.
- Transcendental War Anyone? gave brief reactions to two poems read for class. I compared Yeats' "Irish Airman" to Hardy's "The Man He Killed."
- Lonelliness is a two-way street offered my take on Frost's tone and theme for the poem.
- Stratego Anyone? was a blog about Roberts' chapter on research questions. I complained a little bit about his overuse of Hamlet for examples, but acknowledged that I disliked Hamlet in high school because my teacher did not do a good job teaching the play.
- Characters really make the story... gave me the opportunity to analyze the majority of the characters in Williams The Quick and the Dead
- Death of Innocence was my response to the second third of the book. I blogged about Annabel's loss of innocence--her dream of Ginger killing the turtle eggs, as well as other incidents of animal deaths.
- Ghostbusters! proved one of my assumptions in my first blog about The Quick and the Dead. I questioned whether Ginger was a ghost or a figment of Carter's imagination. Turns out Ginger was a ghost. Yay.
- Zombie book Review was my review of the book review of Pride Prejudice and Zombies. I praised the author for not summarizing the plot and was a little surprised by how many outside sources she included.
- Precious Cargo throughout the ages was a blog about Masefield's Cargoes 1902. I blogged that I saw the imagery as allusions to the past. I also commented that my liberal arts education came in handy, because I recently learned about the Assyrians in my Western Cultural Traditions class.
- Sensory details to the rescue! was a blog about Roberts Chapter 8. I wrote specifically about my love of imagery and the gustatory sense.
Depth:
Interaction:
- Josie's Who Say that Coming? We did.
- Dianna's I Think You Just Ruined My Childhood
- Ashley's Now the snarfblatt dates back prehysterical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So they invented the snarfblatt to make fine music ~Scuttle, The Little Mermaid
- Melissa's Passage of Time
Discussion:
- Transcendental War Anyone? I shared a conversation with both Aja and Karyssa on this blog entry. Karyssa even suggested that I visit Josie's blog to see their conversation about a similar subject matter.
- Characters really make the story...
- Death of Innocence
- Zombie book Review
Timeliness:
Xenoblogging:
- The Comment Primo: In Josie's Who Say that Coming? We did. I was the first to comment and sparked a lasting conversation with several people on Josie's blog.
- The Comment Grande: In Dianna's I Think You Just Ruined My Childhood, I reflected back to my own childhood and the fact that I learned when I was young that Disney stories were revamped.
- The Comment Grande: I reflected back to my childhood again in Ashley's Now the snarfblatt dates back prehysterical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So they invented the snarfblatt to make fine music ~Scuttle, The Little Mermaid.
- The Comment Primo/The Comment Grande: I was the first to comment on Melissa's Passage of Time. She responded, and I gave her another comment, which has not shown up yet (as I'm writing this entry).
Wildcard:
- Transcendental War Anyone? -This blog entry has another link back to a previous entry about another poem studied in class, because I chose to compare the two poems. It also caused a brief discussion.
- Characters really make the story... -This blog has a little bit of everything. Timeliness, depth, and tons of comments too!
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