Last time I wrote one of these, we had just finished reading "The American Dream" and I talked about how confused and unimpressed I was by the play.
This week however I've started to take a liking to the play. Not because of the work itself but because i find the way it creates thought and discussion among my peers interesting. Again, I have no taste for the play itself whatsoever, but i find the way 15 kids sitting in a room are able to conjure new meaning to a bizarre play very intriguing. As for individual annotation i can't say i'm a fan. I do however, find it interesting to look back at my annotations. Reading my previous annotations is something like reading a journal of what i was thinking about as i read. Overall, it was a great week. Being able to look at the book and in a sense solve out what it means was a great pleasure and even though annotating was a drag, it was still cool to be able to look back and my thoughts.
Yeah annotating takes way to long and is a huge pain, but I agree with it helping in the long run because it's like a journal. You hit it on the nose saying the play wasn't very interesting, but the discussion was- I found new meanings for the play I never would have thought of myself.
ReplyDeleteUnlike you guys I don't get much from the group discussions, if I don't see it clearly myself then I have a hard time really getting at the idea. I really like looking back at my old annotations too, it's really interesting to see what I was thinking at that time and how my perception of the passage has changed or stayed the same.
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