Final Project2

Assumptions Literary works- support
Big novels “The Glass Castle”
Fiction vs. Poetry Sonny’s Blues& cathedral vs. Alzheimer’s & How I love thee?
Drama Death of a Salesman

For my final project I would like to talk about how at the beginning of the semester getting through big novels was a big challenge for me. I am going to use my literacy circle book, “The Glass Castle” and talk about how I wasn’t sure how I wasn’t sure how I was going to get through this book when I started it but, I didn’t manage to get through it and really enjoyed it.

I also want to talk about how reading poetry for me has always been easier for me to read and understand where as reading some of the fiction pieces that we read this semester were a little challenging for me to get through. I want to use Sonny’s Blues or Cathedral for the challenging fiction pieces and the poetry pieces I want to use is Alzheimer’s or How I love thee?. Of those two poems I think I like the poem Alzheimer’s the best because it was easy to read and the author created a very clear picture for me of an older man coming back home and not really knowing where he was. I did think it was strange having this unknown person at the house. I really have discovered this semester that I like contemporary poetry rather then more traditional poetry.

Finally, I want to talk a little bit about my first reaction when we got into reading the drama “Death of a Salesman” the other day. Even though looking at a Drama in particular “Death of a Salesman” at first glance can be overwhelming to me I think that reading it in class where I am not reading even but maybe a line here or there is much easier for me because if I am reading just a little here and their I can sit back and sort of think about what I just read or what someone else is reading. Reading long drama like this I have never really liked and I think after reading a little in this class my option about drama hasn’t really changed but I will say that reading them as a class does defiantly help.

Final Project

For my last project I would like to run with the idea of option #3, “Tell me a Story” or a literacy narrative. I would like to do this by writing you a letter. I am still working on the assumptions that I have seen changed over the course of the semester but, the one big assumption is being able to get through big novels without having that “How am I going to get through this?” feeling. I have also discovered while reading short stories and poems this semester that I really like contemporary pieces rather than traditional pieces. As for one more assumption my list has a blank. Can you give me a direction to maybe think about a little bit for one more assumption? For all of these assumptions think I am going to defiantly use the memoir “The Glass Castle” that I read for our class. As for a contemporary piece that I liked from this semester I have not come up with one yet but, plan to keep thinking and searching for one. Also when I find something to fill in the last blank for my third assumption I will find the perfect story to compare it too.