Class Eval.

1. During the course of this class I have definitely grown in my understanding of literature. It was hard at first to really look into a piece of literature and pick it apart but the more we did it the easier it became. I started to be able to look critically and draw questions from the text. My writing improved because I genuinely had questions and ideas that I believed and it did not feel like I was writing a paper on a book but on my feelings of the book which was interesting.
2. The text I responded to the most positively was The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. I really liked the novel because the story was interesting and it was fun to read. I was interested in this novel the most because it was my favorite type of literature, a novel.
3. Graphic novels have made a way into my definition of literature. We spent so much time as a class picking apart the different elements of graphic novels and all the work that goes into making one that I don't see how it isn't literature. The multimodality, symbolism, icons, gutters--everything put together made the graphic novel what it was at the end. I can't not appreciate the authors of graphic novels and I believe they should be called literature.
4. I really enjoyed the response papers because they didn't have to be too long and it was basically all opinion based. The least favorite for me would be the research paper and the other paper because they tok the longest to write, but that wasn't even bad. I enjoy to write papers so I liked this class. The discussions we're sometimes dragged out but we had a lot of good ideas that we went over in class.
5. I definitely feel more prepared to think critically about different texts. This class really has taught me the right questions to ask and how to find the answers with in the text. I didn't expect much more out of this class because I can not interpret literature much easier.