Response to Course Material

I had never really given it much thought, but AP Lit has really helped me see what types of ideas authors are trying to convey in their work. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor helped me see different perspectives and underlying motifs in literature. Also, Foster talks about how all literature is connected by common ideas and backgrounds, and how ideas in literature are hardly new, but instead reused in a new and interesting way. This helps me understand literature better, and draw connections with what I already know. The three presentations on the Spruz page showed me how to approach literature in a different way. The AP Test Essay Basics taught me how writing and reading for the AP exam is a very active process, and you always have to be thinking about how ideas are related, and how they are applicable to everyday life. Also, the rhetorical situation must always be considered, which ties back to how authors write with a very definite purpose. Considering the rhetorical situation aids readings and makes writings stronger.