Accordingly, rather than simply sharing our final sentiments about texts on paper and turning it in to me, I want your classmates to be able to see how much (or how you little) you enjoyed your book and what you learned. Keeping this in mind, please respond to the following questions:
- What book did you read? (Give author and title)
- To what extent did you enjoy (or not) your reading experience? Is this a book you would recommend? If so, to whom?
- To what extent was this text conducive to our independent study project? Did you find it easy to write about? To read in our given time frame?
Please keep in mind that this is a writing assignment. It doesn't need to extend a paragraph, but should be effectively written and proofread.
I read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and it was definitely NOT my favorite book. It is an extremely descriptive novel that is in more of a Victorian Style writing which means it has some lengthy descriptions and is lacking in action. If this is the style of writing that you enjoy, then this is a novel that you should read. Another disappointing aspect in the novel is that it is the original story and has absolutely no relation to the Frankenstein character that Hollywood has dramatized. Because of this, read the descriptions and summaries of this version before you read the book. The novel, however brings up some interesting focus questions such as the morality of humans playing the role of god and different aspects of human kindness that are seen throughout the book. The ideas for writing are there and if you search for them create some good writing topics but the questions given as writing prompts were sometimes difficult to answer. Reading this book in the time wasn't too bad except that with very little action, there are long parts of the story that drag on and make the reading feel much longer than it is.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. I really enjoyed the play because it taught me some vauleable lessons about jealousy and revenge. It was a very challenging text and it took a long time to read. The style of english that Shakespeare writes in makes it very difficult to understand. I would recomend this book because it still aplies to people today. This play was also extremly hard to write about because it is so compact and fast, but it is very worth the read.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Tempest" by Willaim Shakespeare, it was a pretty good play, I enjoyed it. You can realate to it in many ways. I would recommend this book to anyone, its a pretty difficult read but, quite enjoyable. Although it was difficult to write about because the language is different and sometimes hard to understand.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Iliad" by Homer. I liked this book because it has some historical signifigance, as well as adventure and action. I would recomend this book to any avid reader seeing how it is a long and tough book to read.It was very hard to write about because the charachters and overall themes were pretty hard to distinguish.
ReplyDeleteI read the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly. I found the book to be interesting to read, but it was defiantly not one of my favorite books that I have read for and independent study. I would recommend this book to someone who enjoys classics. However, I would not recommend it to people like me who enjoy stories that relate to the life that I am living. I do think that this novel was easy to write about and I found the topics to be fairly easy to convey in my own words through the necessary text. Reading this book in the time frame was a little bit difficult, but I got every reading done on time and I even read Spark Notes for constant clarification.
ReplyDeleteFor my independent reading, I chose Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Generally speaking, I enjoyed the novel. The author’s chose to use different narrators throughout the book which kept my interest because it gave perspectives from several characters. Although at times, some of the details regarding setting seemed extraneous and distracting from the message. I would recommend Frankenstein to those who like to analyze character motive. Frankenstein is appropriate literature for high school seniors because the main character’s journey can be paralleled to seniors entering a new stage in life. This novel went well with the independent study project which caused me to explore the messages within the plot. I found it difficult to condense my thoughts into short papers because there were numerous underlying themes in Frankenstein. However I would rather have several directions to write than a book with little substance. The time given for this project seemed fair.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I did not enjoy my reading experience very much because the book was very boring. There was little action actually occurring on the pages of the book, and the descriptions were very long. I would probably not recommend this book unless the person was interested in this style of writing or very interested in the subject matter. Even though it was not an enjoyable read, it worked well with our independent study project. Each time the journal topic seemed to mesh with something else that was going on in the book, so it made it very easy to write about it. Also the subject matter of the book was a topic where I was able to explore multiple different meanings or angles. It is also a good length to read during the period allotted to us. We only had to read about six chapters each time and they were relatively short. However, because I did not enjoy the reading it made it seem like there was more to read. Overall I would not read this book again, but I still believe it was a valuable book to read for this project.
ReplyDeleteThe novel I choose to read was The Hound of The Baskerville by A. Conan Doyle. It was defiantly a book that I would never read again. I found that it was very hard to finish within the time that we were given. I say this mostly because I didn’t want to read the book at all. It was very hard to try and get through this book because of how slow paced it was and it just didn’t “grab” me and make me want to keep reading it. I would not recommend this novel to anyone just because of the fact that I had a hard time getting through it. Some people might like it but I just wasn’t a fan. The only people I would recommend it to would be someone who wants to fall asleep after reading the first three to five sentences. I don’t think this book was a good choice and helped with the learning aspect in any way with this project. I found that some things where easier than others to write about in the novel, however it was a little difficult to write about because of the fact that the novel didn’t hold my interest.
ReplyDelete"Candide" by Voltaire
ReplyDeleteCandide was a very interesting book for me to read. It is not a book that I would normally pick up to read. The whole time I was reading it I struggled to enjoy it because it was so different from most books that I had previously enjoyed. However after finishing the book I look back on it as a book that I did enjoy and I am glad that I gave myself the experience of reading it.
Although it was difficult at times to analyze this book I did find that I could apply most of the journal entries to some part of the book. It was also a fairly fast read which made it easier to keep up with.
I read "War of the Worlds" by H.G Wells. I enjoyed reading this book, although the author used WAY too much description. The book could've been about 50+ pages shorter of he would've just gotten to the point. I would recommend this book it you like books about Martians and Science fiction type books but not if you're like me and really don't want to read more than you really have to. For the most part I found this book to be easy to write about because the prompts fit with the flow of the book pretty well.
ReplyDeleteI read "Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling. Overall I liked this book. It was a little challenging but it took some pressure off knowing that you had other people in the class that were also reading the book. This book went along well with our Independent Study project well, and made me really look at the deeper meaning in the novel. The book was kind of hard to write about because it was a little boring, but it was still possible to write about. I liked how much time we had to read the book, but I wish we had less time in between group discussions. I also would have liked to have more than 2 people in a group.
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ReplyDeleteI read the book Candide by Voltaire. This book was at times very intense because there was so much death surrounding the main theme of the book. At times Voltaire even made you feel bad for the main character Candide. Overall though I thought that this was a very interesting and exiting book. There were a lot of thematic ideas that Voltaire tried to get across to his readers concerning social views. This book was very easy to talk about in my mind. You could literally sit down with your group and discuss every chapter because there was so much going on throughout the whole book. This also made it very easy to write about too because you could discuss many events during the book. At times it was a little difficult to understand the language of this book becuase it is very old and you can clearly tell that writing has changed a lot in modern times.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley because it is a classic and people seemed to like it but, I didn't really like it, I felt like it was confusing at times, and it didn't grasp my attention that much. However I did think that she put a lot of valuable lesson that I think everyone can learn from like not judging people for there looks and stuff like that but overall it's not one of my favorite books. If you like Gothic type novels this might be a good choice, it is very dark and emotional and it is kind of long.
ReplyDeleteI read “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling. This book taught me about morality and leadership. It was descriptive when needed in sections but not too descriptive. I would definitely recommend this book to someone else because it made me think about my own morals and my friends close to me. I would tell almost anyone to read it because this book teaches us great lessons no matter what our age. “The Jungle Book” followed along well with our independent study project because it made me think about what the author was truly trying to tell us as readers. It was easy to write about because I could relate well to the text. I think that it was a fairly easy read and I could have done it in a little shorter time.
ReplyDeleteI read "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. Overall, I learned that the world is filled with many different aspects that we don't always take the time to appreciate. The world is completely organized in a system and if anything were to shatter that system the world would be filled with chaos. This book left me undecided, meaning I couldn't really decide if I liked it at the end or disliked it. It was interesting to read a book with lots of imagery and "out of this world" events, but I felt at times the book was very repetitive and the author kept stating details he had previously already touched on. If you are a science fiction savy, I would recommend this book for you, but I definitely believe it is a more guy focused text. Also, the book caused difficulty regarding our independent reading project. I found it difficult to sit down and write up a page about my reading because rarely did the details correspond with the questions asked on the assignments. Reading became a burden sometimes. There was a few chapters I felt were unnecessary and completely unrelated, so it was hard for me to comprehend and I felt as if I struggled reading at the speed our class did. I definitely wouldn't read this book again, but it did have a lot of interesting symbolism and imaginative images.
ReplyDeleteI read "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen; I very much enjoyed reading this novel, however with the way Jane Austen writes it is or does become very difficult to read and understand at some points. This novel really showed me that in life you can't have just one of these qualities of sense or sensibility to really have a fairly happy life you should be able to manage both of these. I would most certainty recommend this novel to someone because it shows what things you should and shouldn't do in life. However, I would say if you like your reading to be more straight forward and in mostly modern English this may not be the right novel for you. This novel would be great for someone who has already read Jane Austen's other very famous novel "Pride and Prejudice." I feel that this novel was hard to start to get into which made me run behind on the time frame, but once I was into the novel more I was able to keep up well and write my journal entries effectively.
ReplyDeleteI read “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, for my independent study project. It was a book I thoroughly enjoyed, there were times when it went at a pretty slow pace, particularly towards the beginning. But once I got into the interesting part of the story, it became very engaging. I would recommend this book, especially to anyone who enjoys science-fiction novels, because it has to do with time travel, and the future and what it holds. The book makes you think about the future and how what we do now may affect it. I thought this text was conducive to our study, it was not easy to write about but I did not struggle with the writing, for me it was a good book, for my pace. And the amount of time we had was good, because I didn’t have to rush to read and I could enjoy the story and actually spend time on what I was reading and how I was reacting to the book.
ReplyDeleteI read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll for the independent study. I did enjoy this book despite the peculiarity of it. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was because I had seen the movie before, so I could relate it to that. I would recommend this book to others about our reading level; however I think the way the book was written isn’t easy enough for younger kids. I found this book fairly easy to write about, I occasionally had to go onto sites such as sparknotes to jumpstart ideas, but once I had an idea I could easily write about it. I found this book very appropriate to read in our time frame because it was definitely was not written recently, the style of writing proved to be older than I was used to.
ReplyDeleteI read "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells for the fall independent study. I enjoyed to plot of the story much more than I enjoyed the writing itself. I found the writing to be too discriptive and not exciting enough. I think this is because of how generic he made his characters. He did not give them a significant role in the story, rather an angle to the story. It was more like reading a discription from a camera that only sees the scene but does not partake in it or influence the events at all. That is why I would not recomend it for others to read. However if you are looking for a text that is very straight forward with its symbols, than this would be a nice book to write up about. It was very easy to find motifs and to discover what the author was trying to convey. In this it was very easy, but the book itself was not enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI read "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells. This book was obviously not written for a modern American audience, as it was written in semi modern English with many words that needed to be defined in order to know what was going on. However, I had seen the movie and knew generally what the story was going to be about before I started reading. I enjoyed reading the book however found it difficult to follow at times and found myself re-reading entire pages at a time. If I would successfully power through the repetitive parts of the book and the parts that were simply not interesting, it was a very enjoyable book. Despite personally being able to get through it, I know that many other might not be able to. I would recommend this book to anyone who says that they like science fiction who I think would enjoy an older view on an alien invasion story. I think that this was a good book to read for the independent study project. There was plenty of depth in the story to take apart and analyze nearly any way I wanted to and I didn't find it difficult to get the reading done. Overall I enjoyed reading the book and discussing it with others. However it feels good to finally be done with the project.
ReplyDeleteI read "Dracula" by Bram Stocker for the independent reading assignment. This book was easy to read but has some words that are in Latin and French. The book is very detailed and does not have a lot of action. I would recommend the book to anyone that likes horror or detailed books. The book was easy to write about because the characters are well developed and can be analyzed. Also most of the prompts given to us correlated with what I read. Reading the book in our given time frame was possible if you read at least a chapter a night that was hard for me to do because I don't like to read much. Overall I enjoyed the book Dracula.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Dakota and I read the book Candide by Voltaire. Throughout the book I had mixed feelings about my overall enjoyment of the book. One of the things I did not like was the amount of just random violence that occurred. However at the end of the book you do find out that there was meaning behind all of the violence so it’s hard to say that Voltaire should of took it down a couple of notches. All in all I did enjoy the book from beginning to end however I might not recommend it to anyone because it is brutal and violent which almost anybody would find disturbing, I know I did. The way we went about studying the book I also enjoyed. I had a good chunk of time to get my reading and responses done so I never felt crunched for time. I would definitely enjoy another independent reading study like this one if we have time in the semester.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. I really enjoyed the story for most of the book, but the way that this book is written, it gets very long in some chapters. I liked how the characters introduced in the first two chapters were constant throughout the entire book and that you could tell how much Dorian was changing by seeing how differently he interacted with the characters through the book. Something different about this book is there isn't very much action, there are many conversations with the same characters and it becomes repetitive at some points. I would recommend this book to people who like a lot of detail and descriptions. This book was very easy to comprehend and understand and it was very easy to write about because I had strong opinions about the book and the characters in the book. I also thought that the journal topics helped me analyze the book and what the characters roles were and how they contributed to the plot.
ReplyDeleteI read "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. I enjoyed this book very much. It was written with a lot of detail, so at times it did drag a little but the overall plot and story were very exciting. Also with the detail, it paints a vivid picture in the reader's mind. It also helps that I read this vampire story in the time of Halloween. But I would most definitely recommend this book to anyone. However, I would say that if someone was to read this book, they must be able to focus and be able to get through the dull parts and know that the exciting parts are worth it. Also if someone is focused on the story, it may take him or her a long time to read it. It took me a while to get through the book even though I loved it. So I would recommend this story to anyone who could focus on it and anyone who has the time to focus on the book. However I believe that this is a story that everyone should have the opportunity to read in his or her lifetime.
ReplyDeleteThis story was conducive to this independent reading study project because along with the detail and plotline, it provided a lot of concepts and messages about courage, perseverance, love, and many more. It gives a lot of material to think about and they way it is written allows for multiple viewpoints. It is written as if it were the diaries and letters of the characters. I think it is easy to write about because I enjoyed it so much also because it gave me so much to write about, and I just allowed it to just flow onto the paper. Finally, this book fell with the timeframe we had to read it very well because as I said, it can take some time to process this story and we were allowed enough time to do that.
I read Candide by Voltaire. Though repetitive, I thought Voltaire created a great story and life lesson to go along with it. I enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who loves a good story or someone who just loves to read. I found the last two journal prompts a lot easier to write as fair as Candide and over all pretty easy just because of how many different ways there are of interpreting the meaning behind the story. It was very easy to read in the time we had given for this project.
ReplyDeletei read "Candide" by Voltaire. I was a little shocked at first by this novel because it was very intense and dealt a lot with death. It felt like there was a climax in almost every chapter. I enjoyed that it was constantly exciting but at times it was a little much. He was constantly being put into situations of life and death. I feel Voltaire did an excellent job of displaying the meaning of life and death in this book. There were several hidden meanings that we could all relate too, even in today's society. Love, adventure, friendship, and death are all apart of life. I would recommend this book to other teenagers because it is very different than other novels we have read. I felt really comfortable in my independent study groups because like Erik said there was always something to talk about. It is also a fun book to talk about because it's pretty surprising how intense this book really is. I felt it was easy to write about because there was simply too much going on for there to be nothing to write about. "Candide," also happened to be a short novel so the given time frame was simple for me and i was always ready when i would meet with my book group.
ReplyDeleteI read "Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, through its dynamic characterization of Dorian, and all of the plot twist throughout the novel. Oscar Wilde really did a good job describing all that happened painting a very vivid picture of the scenes and images. In a way that is a bad way to go about a book leaving no room for interpretation really but still it flowed really well, with the exception of the chapter with the yellow book. I would recommend this book to people who have the time for a nice sit down book and really anyone who has the attention span for the languid text of this Victorian style. I still find it an enjoyable read. It was a longer read but in the time that was given I had plenty of time to go through and actually contemplate the texts significance, making it easy for me to write about.
ReplyDeleteI read "War of the Worlds" by H.G Wells.I absolutely loved the way the book was written. It was descriptive but it's vernacular was completely not what I expected at all because it was quite easy to understand for the time it was written. The plot was also very intriguing and kept me hooked.I think that this is a book that I would definitely recommend to a friend. Being a shorter book, it was easy to read in the allotted time and easy to write about given the prompts for this project. I really liked the concept of the book group meetings. It was good to discuss different textual questions we had and the prompts we had for that meeting.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, a novel about a young man who becomes so involved in himself, he sells his sole for his looks. I enjoyed the book, for the most part, from beginning to end. Unfortunately, there were some parts of the novel that tended to drag on and never really connected with the plot of the novel. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, however, you must be patient with it. It starts out slow and there are many words Wilde could have left in his pen, specifically in chapter eleven. However, don't let the words scare you, the read is excellent and the ending will have your mouth agape with surprise. The characters and story made it incredibly easy to discuss with the group just as it made the writing simple and quick. The read is easy as well, I could have finished the novel in half the time given. If you need something to read, pick up "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
ReplyDeleteI read "Frankenstien" by Mary Shelley. I thought this book was very interesting. It kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat the whole time. I'm going to recommend this book to my mom, because I feel like she would love a book like this. This book was easy to read and write about and I feel like we had just enough time to read it!
ReplyDeleteI read "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen; I really enjoyed reading this book. The only problem I had when reading this book was the way Jane Austen wrote it. I felt that I couldn't understand a lot of it and had to use spark notes. I think that I would recommend this book to my mom, aunt, and Grandma because all three of them love to read and I think that they would enjoy the romance this book has. I felt that this book was a really good book for independent study, but it took a lot of work for me to understand the text. Because I had difficulty reading this book, I fell behind in our reading time frame. When it came down to writing reading logs about this book, I really didn’t have a problem. The time given on this project was just enough.
ReplyDeleteI read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. To me this book was a little slow and dragged out a sence of horror and resentment. I would reccomend this book to incoming freshman, because i feel that it would give them a sence of science fiction, while still expanding thei vocabulary and giving them a challenge while reading this book.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. It was an intriguing book that hadd both hidden and obvious messages that kept me as the reader interested. I would recomend this book for someone who wants to just relax and read a book to escape from reality. The book was quite easy to read and write about. The only thing to keep in mind is managing time correctly.
ReplyDeleteI read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. Looking deeply into the book at the beginning would have been helpful. There is a lot of side story behind the main story. Although I found it boring to read long sections at a time, there were many parts that I found myself thinking about all day. The part I enjoyed the most about this was not the actual reading but allowing my mind to think about what was going on after reading. I would recommend this book to someone who wants to read the "classics" or someone who thinks of Frankenstein as the scary green monster with screws coming out of his neck. I found it very easy to write about for the same reason why I enjoyed the book, it was a great discussion that was rolling through my mind and I felt like there were too many ideas to talk about in one paper. The time frame to read the book was extremely reasonable, if you broke it down into a certain amount of pages per day, you weren't reading too much.
ReplyDeleteI read Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Although this book started off slowly it still was interesting. It wasn't until about a good 5 or 6 chapters in when it took off and became more interesting, but there was good detail and Mary Shelly did a good job on keeping you kinda guessing on what was going to happen next. Such as after he left the monster and it ran away, life seemed to be going better until his little brother died. Which brought him back into reality that he cant just run from his problems. I would defiantly recommend this book to friends and family because I think its one of those books that might not be the greatest, but still has a good meaning to it, and how its interesting that she could think of something like this so long ago. When writing those reactions and doing the discussions, some weeks were better than others because sometimes allot happened that you could write about and than some times it didn't.
ReplyDeleteI read “The Picture of Dorian Gray” By, Oscar Wilde. I actually found the book to be really interesting, although the book is in sort of a constant power struggle, I think it really played with my mind and made me really question the overall sanity people actually have. There were some parts in the book that I found to be very similar to each other (Arguments between Dorian, Basil and Harry) which got a little confusing. But overall, I thought their arguments and dialogue was very insightful to not only what problems were occurring in the book, but I felt I could also relate them to things happening in real life. For this novel I feel like we had just the right amount of time to read and understand the text, I think we could have used a few more book group meetings that were a little more structured. But for the most part I found the independent reading study to be really helpful.
ReplyDeleteI read the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. To be honest, i didnt really enjoy the novel because the moral of the story seemed to over power the possible smaller ideas. With this, i was extremely hard to write about because i felt as though i kept repeating myself through out my journals. Most likely i wouldnt recommend it to any one just because i had such a hard time with it. I did however really appreciate the time that we were given to read our novels i felt like it helped alot.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. I loved this book. I say this for a variety of reasons: the plot was intriguing, the philosophy within it was awesome (I love philosophical stuff), and the book was well written. It was entertaining to read because the author used such great word choice; I did not have to conjure of an image with my own imagination. Some of the themes of the book were also fun to think about. I believe the key to the overall greatness of this book lies within Oscar Wilde's ability to push the reader to question his/her own beliefs and ideas. It definitely made me do that. I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys books with the contents I listed above.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen. To be honest I found the overall story and plot to be good but it was difficult to understand and had a lot of detail that I didnt find necessary. I found myself spacing out alot. I would recommend this to anyone that has alot of time to sit down and thoroughly understand the different meanings and symbols. I found this novel to be difficult to write about because I didnt always understand what was going on so it was difficult for me to look deeper into the meaning when I didnt even know what the meaning was. I feel like for this book, it would have been easier and less stressful if we had more time to read because it did take up time to read and interpret and understand and it was a long book.
ReplyDeleteI read the novel “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen. I enjoyed the novel overall. I feel that she portrayed the theme and plot of the story well. When she explained anything there was always a lot of detail used and it was hard to understand at points. When I read this book it took me a while to read I had to reread a lot of the chapters. I would read a page and go on and catch myself not knowing what I just read. During reading this book I recommend it to my aunt and she stared reading it. We would always talk about it and that made it more fun to read and enjoyable. I feel like the book conversations were more beneficial then having to write about the book. I was confused about what was happening with all the detail therefore it was difficult to write about. Also I think it would have been easier to understand if we had more time to read so we could reread if we needed and could take our time understand everything that Jane was trying to portray throughout this novel.
ReplyDeleteI read the book Candide by Voltaire. Overall i thought this text was enjoyable to read. At times though it could get very intense and hectic. The book had all sorts of violence and death involved but it also ha a very bright teaching of life and ways to live. It at Times it was challenging to write about because constantly things are happening and it just goes so fast. It was an easy read because you just roll right thru each short chapter. I would reccomend this book to anyone because it has great lessons and philosophies.
ReplyDeleteI read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles. I would not recommend this book to others because it was nothing like I thought it would be. Most people when they think of Sherlock Holmes they think of action and solving mysteries. this was completely the opposite. It was a very dry novel filled with background knowledge. At times I found this novel hard to write about because it was hard to really get into. I would agree with the statement that it was easy to read in the time frame that we were given.
ReplyDeleteI read the book "Sherlock Holmes Hound of The Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle. This book started off to be enjoyable but then wasn’t so enticing at the end. There were a lot of twists that I felt weren’t necessary at some points. I would recommend this book to people who like mysteries and cliffhangers. This book was a nice independent study because it was nice talking about the text and hearing different opinions about what was going on throughout the novel. It was easy to write about because the book made you think, and made you work out your own perspectives to try and find different solutions.
ReplyDeleteI read the novel Candide by Voltaire and the longer I read the book the more I enjoyed the lessons it was portraying and the less I enjoyed the actual storyline. The book is a very repetitive satire which makes it increasingly difficult to read. Everything in the novel is unbelievably exaggerated and at some points is angering. I was aggravated with how ridiculous the story was and had trouble reading towards the end. I would recommend this book for people who want to read something with substance and a good commentary on our society, but not to someone who only wants an enjoyable read. I think because the book made so many great comments on our society is was fairly easy to write about and find literary elements to discuss. The book is quite short and I was definitely able to read the it in the time allotted. Overall this novel was worth the educational read and aided in my comprehension of difficult literature.
ReplyDeleteI read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I didn't really like this book because of the way that it was worded. I would only recommend this book to someone if they liked this type of writing but otherwise that I wouldnt recommend it. It was a hard book to follow so it was difficult to write about but if I dug down deep I could find some good information to react to.
ReplyDeleteI read the novel "Candide," by Voltaire and found it to be interesting because of how fast and full of action it was. I found the ending to be unexpected, but was relevant to the book's overall theme. The theme of the novel was relatable even for the current generation. The language presented was easy to understand and analyze. Some events were violent, however added to the theme of the novel. I would recommend this book for any one who gets bored easily because "Candide" moves from one event to another quickly.
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ReplyDeleteTaylor W. said: "I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. I fairly enjoyed the book and the controversial subjects that it brought up that are still relevant today. I would reccomend that everyone read it at least once in there life. The ideas that the book brought up went well with subjects we were learning in class because of the broad spectrum of ideas. It was easy to read within the time frame given. "
Nate L. said: "I read "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley. This book was sometimes a struggle to read because of the way it was written, but i think it made me ask a lot of good questions about the morality of trying to play god and create another living being. I would recommend this book to someone else because the Frankenstein image is something we see constantly in pop culture, so it was good to read the book and see what the story is about. I thought the book was easy to read within the guidelines set by Mrs. Lee and i it was also easy to write about because of the controversial topics it brought up. Overall i thought Frankenstein was a good book because of the issues presented to the main characters, and how the dealt with these issues."
I read Candid by Voltaire. I enjoyed the beginning of the book more than the end of the book. This book was very reptitive. I felt it would never end because there was never a slow moment through out the whole novel. Eventually all of the excitement Candide experienced got old. This book was a great book for me to read for our independent study because it was very quick and easy. This novel did not require much extra when trying to understand the text. I would recommend this book to people who really enjoy exciting and adventurous novels.
ReplyDeleteI found this book fairly easy to write about because there was always something going on. Candide was always going on a new adventure and discovering new things. I was easily able to finish this book in the given time frame.
I read Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. I enjoyed my reading experience with this book very much. I found out many things not only about the characters which I grew to love, but about love in general. This book gave me a new perspective on the way different types of people think and feel. I found myself engrossed within the novel and loved each chapter more and more the further on I read. I would recommend this book to any of my girl friends or girl cousins! I would also tell my mom to read this because she loves to read similar content.
ReplyDeleteI think this book fit in very well with our classwork and independent study work because it has plenty of content. It has so many different topics to write about that it is not hard to find one you are interested in that has plenty of textual evidence. The book was a good length to fit the time frame, and the amount given seemed to be perfect.
I read Frankenstein, by Marry Shelly. I wasn't the biggest fan of this book, but I am still glad that I read it. I personally thought that most of the book was useless information that could have been cut out of the book. It almost seems like Shelly was paid for the number of words she used. I wouldn't really recommend the book, but I wouldn't discourage someone who wanted to read to either. It is a classic and it does present situations that one might not generally think about.
ReplyDeleteI thought the wording in the book was slightly difficult, and also very repetitive. There was a particular word that was used almost every page to describe what was going on. (it would have been nice if Shelly had used a thesaurus). However, even though the book was written a long time ago, it can still be applied today. Especially because cloning is something that can be done today. Also I think this can apply to subjects like stem cell research. It just debates the morals of creating life. I did find this book easy to write about and to read in the time frame given.