As Eiji Miyake sets off to find his father, he may just inevitably find himself in the process.
Monday, January 27, 2014
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS - SET II | “When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.” ~ Philip Pullman, "The Amber Spyglass"
Sri, I first want to say that your presentation as a whole was very well done. I enjoyed all your connections to Lennon’s song and your indication of the influence of Lennon’s work on the life of Mitchell, and it’s transience to the life of the characters he creates. Your thematic discussion was superb. That being said, I feel as if the thematic discussion could have been enhanced through a different form of literary analysis. You seemed to do more summarization of Mitchell’s literary devices, without: 1. Providing their basis in your literary criticism (your reference to sources wasn’t fully explained). 2. Explaining the transience of these devices TO the themes you so wonderfully described. If this had been done in your presentation, the overall project could have been elevated.
I was also interested by your AP multiple choice questions for poetry. After trying them out myself, I found that the questions as a whole had a fair mix of difficulty and great variety, but they may be a bit to basic when compared to the types of questions on the exam in May. While a few were challenging, the first two specifically were very obvious to me and seemed almost too easy. I felt the prose questions were about the same, perhaps being a bit more difficult and thus more in tune with the AP test.
Sri, I first want to say that your presentation as a whole was very well done. I enjoyed all your connections to Lennon’s song and your indication of the influence of Lennon’s work on the life of Mitchell, and it’s transience to the life of the characters he creates. Your thematic discussion was superb. That being said, I feel as if the thematic discussion could have been enhanced through a different form of literary analysis. You seemed to do more summarization of Mitchell’s literary devices, without: 1. Providing their basis in your literary criticism (your reference to sources wasn’t fully explained). 2. Explaining the transience of these devices TO the themes you so wonderfully described. If this had been done in your presentation, the overall project could have been elevated.
ReplyDeleteI was also interested by your AP multiple choice questions for poetry. After trying them out myself, I found that the questions as a whole had a fair mix of difficulty and great variety, but they may be a bit to basic when compared to the types of questions on the exam in May. While a few were challenging, the first two specifically were very obvious to me and seemed almost too easy. I felt the prose questions were about the same, perhaps being a bit more difficult and thus more in tune with the AP test.