This week in AP Lit class, we went over our usual poem, plus one. We went over two poems like last week, and we are going to compare them in writing. I missed a day this week, so I'm not entirely clear on what happened in one of the poems. I know that both are about how the speaker has a love, but she is not perfect. The object of their affection has flaws that they are very aware of. They know the girl they love isn't perfect to anyone else's eyes, perhaps they aren't even perfect in their eyes. The only thing that is true is that they love them even with these in consideration. I think this goes to show that love is a very strong emotion and can take over other negative things that could be associated with a relationship. It doesn't have to be perfect because the emotion is so strong. Your love doesn't have to be a model that has everything you want and more. They can be an average person as long as love is present.
This week we went over how to grade an essay. This is a valuable skill to possess when writing because if you can look at an essay and see that it is a nine, it makes it much easier to write a nine. When trying to learn how to do something, it certainly helps to be able to do it backwards. Learning the reverse way to do things makes you much more familiar with them and able to do them because of it. Not only that, but this skill will carry over to my college years and help me write coherent essays for my professors to grade. This is already giving me a leg up on the competition for when I get to college.
Overall, I think the main point of what I learned this week is that not everything goes as planned and that sometimes you have to just go with the flow. I'm not entirely sure how I came up with this but that's how I'm feeling at the moment.