I've been back at school now for a week. I've not yet had Monday classes (Labor Day! Let's push Ben in the pool! I have a bruise on my chin!) but I've been in all my other classes already. It's going to be intense. I have a feeling that I will enjoy my English classes the most. Here's the breakdown:
American Modernism: This class is going to rule. We've started on some poetry and short stories, two of my favorite literary genres. I read some Carl Sandburg today, for the first time, and I am very excited to be learning more about poetry. It is an area in which I am not very well read, so I am glad to learn more about it. We'll hit T.S. Eliot at the end of it, and we're also doing Willa Cather.
Intro to Shakespeare: We've already gotten started with the Taming of the Shrew (I once played Kate in a small production of the play!) and it's going to be interesting, I think. I've gotten assigned to the group that does a presentation on Henry IV. SNOOZE. Fortunately, I've already read and I have extensive notes, as do the other folks in my group, so we're ahead of the game a bit on that one.
Poetry: Writing poetry. So awesome. I love this class already. Maybe when I start writing more than just haiku warm-up type things, I will post some of them.
Ecclesiology: This class is going to kick my butt. It's a top-heavy semester, with so much dense reading at the beginning of the semester. I am a little afraid of this class, but it's going to be really good too, hopefully. As long as I can keep up with the work, I'll be okay.
Honors - America: I am not sure what this class is all about. I know we're reading Burke, and Lincoln, and Douglass. But I'm not really excited about it at all.
I also put in an application to work at the Writing Center, and submitted as my writing sample my week 8 essay from my John Donne tutorial in Oxford. That week's topic was Donne's sermons and religious poems and the Renaissance obsession with anatomization. I hope that wasn't too pretentious.
In any case, this semester has so far started out well. I have Wednesday off from classes, which is a great boon indeed, but I have to stay focused in order not to put off the work that I should be doing on that day for all the other classes I have. Now is the time to get ahead. If only I could follow my own advice...
6 comments:
Oh, Erin. At least our butts will be kicked corporately? Also: why do you hate America?
I don't hate America! I just don't know about the class. Although, I had an epiphany today as I was biking home that maybe I can incorporate this semester's reading somehow with my newfound and likely fleeting interest in Americana, and American literature and music that is ABOUT America as a geographic location and a culture. Hm, that sentence really stank. Sorry.
But in any case, we will all come home Friday afternoons beaten up together. :)
Carl Sandburg is easily my favorite poet. Hopefully you get to read more of his stuff.
Oops, that last one was from Mike. Jenny likes sissy poets.
Michael! Yeah, Sandburg rules. It made me start thinking of what it means to be American, and how we can embrace our ever-urbanizing culture. Just a tidbit there. :) And I am sorry your wife likes sissy poets.
Yeah, though she does like Carl Sandburg as well :)
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