Individual Diction Assignment

1. Diction is an authors choice of language within a work, including the connotation or denotation of words and the type of language used (ex: simple, scholarly, ect.). Connotation is a readers' interperetation of the meaning of a word that is used, and also sometimes how it may make a reader feel.
2. I have a fairly clear understanding of diction, and there is not much that remains unclear to me.

1/9

• This week we continued reading Shakespeare's Hamlet. 
• We mainly discussed the ideas in act one this week and some of the basic plot of the story. We also discussed some background information on the play.
• This week I learned more about the play Hamlet in general. More specifically I learned more details about the plot and characters of the play.
• I don't have any questions or observations worth noting.

12/5

• This past week we read and discussed both Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
• The week was used to discuss the main ideas of these two poems, and we analyzed them for deeper meaning.
• I personally recieved some insight on some of the deeper meanings of these two poems during our class discussions.
• I don't have any new questions or observations that need to be adressed relating to AP Lit.

10/28

• This past week have studied several peoms including My Last Duchess, and started a poem called The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock.
• We mainly analyzed the poems in the way of the mechanics of the poems versus the meaning, though the meanings of the poems were discussed.
• One thing I was able to take from these discussions was a better understanding of how to determine the true meaning of a poem.
• This past week I didn't really form any new ideas or questions that need to be adressed.

11-14

This past week we began reading some poetry more in depth and learned some points on analyzing poetry.

I learned some more about the mechanical side of poetry and read some poems that I enjoyed, and also a few that I did not. 

This week I received insight on how to analyze a poem properly, and also the different types of poems and how they are mechanically different.

I really have no new observations or questions that I have formed over the past week. 

Poetry Forms Data Assignment

I read the poem "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. As far as technical analysis, I noticed that this particular poem followed the rhyme and rhythm pattern for a Rondeau. I also felt that the subject matter was correct for this poetic type, seeing as this poem seemed to refer to spirituality. Overall, I personally liked this poem, because of its particular subject matter and its flowing rhyme scheme.

10/31

-This past week we read several selections relating to the AP test.
-Using what we learned from the readings, we answered questions that are similar to what would be seen on the test. We also came up with our own questions for some of the short stories we have read.
-This week I obtained some new knowledge about the AP test that we will take.
-I have no new relavent observations or questions.