Semester Loving

Much fun happened this semester. We went over the heroes journey, satire, and humanities faults. My favorite was the unit that we spent entirely on satire. Satire is just so funny and it really is a wonder that people don't realize they are being satirized. I mean, I'm sure I've been satirized before and didn't realize it, but it's still pretty amazing how satire works. When we did the satire video chunk of class, I really learned a lot on what satire is and how it is used (I recommend doing that same video project for years to come). Anyways, I really did love this semester; it was challenging, exiting, and most of all engaging. I'm not normally a very talkative person, but in this class there was much debating. I may not have talked much, but by forcing the debates forth caused others to talk, making my questions answered. I also learned different ways to organize my thoughts for essays, because as you can see from this blog, my ideas aren't exactly "neat". All around it was a solid time spent learning.

I really loved the hero's journey group project a ton too. As you know, my group did a Scooby-Doo movie for that. I think that was a lot of fun, and really helped me see how everything got sown into the real world. Now when people say "the real world" they don't really mean "when you are older". They mean "when you have to fend for yourself". These are completely different things considering the time we all live in. Let's face it; hundreds of people decide each day that they are going to live with their parents, making them still unaware and arrogant of "the real world" because they are still under the wing of an adult. This has to do with literature because we, as students and learners are getting let out into the world sooner and younger then years past because of our education standards. Literature is helping our young men and women into the real world with more and more gusto as teaching standards get higher as well. Now that I'm done with this rant, I would like to take a second to thank all the great people educating us young people into the world.

Thanks for all you have and will do for us.