Clarifications

So these weeks passed in a blur, with the German students here and all of that fun. It doesn't quite feel like it's been so long, right? Anyways, the most memorable part of these weeks has most definitely been learning about syntax. Before, I was completely confused about syntax. What possible ways could a sentence's length influence the tonality of a piece? I didn't quite think syntax would really shape a piece in any way. However, once I learned about it, everything just came together. I finally realized what syntax was about, and I feel like I can now apply it to my own writing (Correctly, that is)!

The play The American Dream was also quite an interesting part of the week. It wasn't quite what I expected when I first read the name of the play, but it definitely was entertaining! At first, I was still quite weirded out that the characters' names were "Mommy" and "Daddy". However, once we got into the play farther, I started to get used to it, and it started to make sense as well. The play was a bunch of fun to read, but unfortunately, the essays prompts that followed weren't the highlight of the week. The essay prompts were a bit difficult to understand at first, and it took us two entire days just to complete three prompts! If you ask me, that's quite a long time! Part of that time includes constant disagreements over what should be written within our group, but the majority of it was still trying to understand and relate to the prompt with The American Dream. It was quite a relief when we finally finished the prompts!! Although I was glad the finish, them, which I believe the rest of the class was too, I felt like they did indeed help me to truly analyze the play and to think about how to write a thought-out thesis and topic sentence. These weeks were definitely full of education as well as fun, and I hope to learn more in the following weeks!!