brianaliz

I would understand my ability to read a poem a 5/10. I love reading poems and I try to grasp the concept of it, but I always find myself over reading it multiple times. I definitely need to work open the tips to improve my reading skills for poems. I still need to search up certain lines because to understand what they are saying because no matter how many times I read it I will just not be able to understand what they are saying. My tips with poetry can help me read Oedipus the King by helping me understand old time language and figurative expressions. The line “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”These lines are saying even though May is supposed to be a beautiful time of year with fresh, new buds, the winds can still mess things up and shake them around. He’s pointing out that nothing is perfect or permanent, even in the best seasons.

The purpose of the prewriting assignment is to analyze the student sample essay and see if the student had followed the guidelines needed to complete the essay correctly. First, we read “The Most Handsome Drowned Man” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and read the analysis for it written by Dean Rider. Followed along by some PowerPoints one about thesis statements and another one on how to include quotes in a literary essay. There’s also videos included on formatting and MLA citation guide to make sure we understand on how to properly form and cite our essays.  Once we’ve gone through all that, we look at the student’s sample essay and check if they followed all the guidelines we’ve learned and if they did what they were asked for the assignment. The whole point of this prewriting assignment is to teach us how to write better essays by understanding these key elements.