Peer Reflection

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                Throughout this entire semester I think you have done a great job incorporating subjects that connect to your own life and commenting on the different issues within them. It is easy to see how you personally connect to the subject. I think you have also done a great job with the cohesiveness of you presentations, making sure that we know how one passage, poem, or point connects to the next. This circular connection has also been a main theme in many of you projects and I think you have emphasized this very well all year.

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               The Catcher in the rye is a very well-rad book, and although I have not read it yet, it was very interesting to hear your interpretation of how the main character matures during the book. It is also very interesting to hear about how connected the main character, Holden, and the author are. This is probably something we would be unable to see if we did not analyze the author’s background along with reading the book. Finally, I thought it was good that you added a few statistics in your presentation that related directly to our lives now, as teenagers like Holden.

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               Great Job! I think throughout the year, you have done a great job with analyzing the various works we have either chose or been presented with as well as expressing your own opinions on the themes, especially gender roles. I think, in this particular project, you expressed your opinion very clearly with the poem you chose and especially the video. I also liked how you were able to combine a variety of subjects within your presentation, not only feminism but other types of identity.

 

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            One of the main goals of this project, in my opinion, is to understand how an author’s background can really change the meaning of a work and to understand where the author’s inspiration for certain components of their work came from. I think your presentation was able to fully grasp this idea and I found the details you included very interesting. We have read or heard a few other poems from Sylvia Plath this year and it was enlightening to hear more about her personal life and The Bell Jar. Great Job!

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            When listening to your presentation I tried to remember all the way back to freshman year when we read Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. It was very interesting to see a few connections between each work, especially because of the same time period they were both written in and of course the personal connections the authors share. One thing I really enjoyed during your presentation was the context you were able to provide for us in your explanation of the Victorian era and the romanticism found there. I also really enjoyed the theme of self-struggle addressed in your presentation, a tough subject.