This week in AP Lit, we focused on the question, “What is Tragedy”, and while it may seem like a pretty cut and paste answer, there is a lot more to tragedy than its standard definition.
The class was given 4 links revolving around tragedy from regular to Tragedy of the Commons, which was a concept I was not familiar with at the time, being of the idea in which someone does something for their own benefit despite the other possible outcome that will affect everyone, which intrigued me. So we delved deep into tragedy and wrote a new kind of blog relating to tragedy which personally I wasn’t a huge fan of, but it didn’t bother that much.
Also, we talked about opinions. This was something led by Josephine. She had us look into the Dakota Access Pipeline issues that are currently happening. She had us look at various sources of groups that have varying viewpoints on whether the pipeline is good or bad, and therefore, we had to form our own opinions based on these well thought out arguments instead of just going with what others say because they’re your friends or something like that.
My understanding of this week would probably be about a ⅘ , because it was just fairly general, I just disliked the blog posts.
http://literarydevices.net/tragedy/
The class was given 4 links revolving around tragedy from regular to Tragedy of the Commons, which was a concept I was not familiar with at the time, being of the idea in which someone does something for their own benefit despite the other possible outcome that will affect everyone, which intrigued me. So we delved deep into tragedy and wrote a new kind of blog relating to tragedy which personally I wasn’t a huge fan of, but it didn’t bother that much.
Also, we talked about opinions. This was something led by Josephine. She had us look into the Dakota Access Pipeline issues that are currently happening. She had us look at various sources of groups that have varying viewpoints on whether the pipeline is good or bad, and therefore, we had to form our own opinions based on these well thought out arguments instead of just going with what others say because they’re your friends or something like that.
My understanding of this week would probably be about a ⅘ , because it was just fairly general, I just disliked the blog posts.
http://literarydevices.net/tragedy/