My earliest memories of childhood literature would probably be the children book Goodnight Moon. My mother would read it to me many times along the course of my childhood. My sister remembers some riddles and rhymes from when she was a young child, but I do not remember them as well as her. I was in Target a month ago with Alexis and I saw the book, Goodnight Moon. It brought back so many memories.
My most recent memories of literature would probably that of my high school. My English/Literature teacher, miss Buchanan, and I would get into multiple, shall we say, "discussions" about the good and bad of Literature. She happened to read hundreds of books a year; while, I read zero books a year. The reason why I did not like reading was not that I did not know how but the fact that I had no interest in books and reading, the only book that I recently have enjoyed reading was the book of Judges in the Bible. Aside from that book, I really struggle to read.
The most significant literary work that I have read recently would probably be that of the assortment of Shakespeare that we were required to read in class, each year in high school we were required to read on, Macbeth was probably my favorite. My initial thoughts on the essay that we were required to read about the class, were that of surprise. I have never had a teacher write an essay about the class and all the policies therein. I found it to be interesting. The only thing that I wonder about is the grading scale. I do not understand how a B- is the base grade. I understand that I need to earn my grades, but just how much extra work do I need to do in order to get an "A."

Hello Jeff, Welcome to this class.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that you mention Goodnight Moon. That's one of the books my wife and I read to our daughters now.
If you struggle to read (as you say you do), that doesn't mean you can't do well in this class. But it does mean that you'll have to work twice as hard to catch up.
Also, you ask, what's the difference between a B- and an A? The quality of the work is the answer. And I spell out the qualities I'm looking for in my essay I had you read for the second class session.