CHALLENGES!

Well, at this point, our class has gotten better in essays and more so in benchmarks. However, we still have some weaknesses in certain areas that we need to improve during this 5 week-period before the exam. Briefly, I would say that my weakness right now is understanding poetry and what ideas are being posed in it. I certainly have trouble in poems that use lots of complicated diction and especially, the form of writing. With this, I tend to misinterpret the overall message of the poem and write whatever I feel from the poem. I don't know if I can actually work with interpreting poems in a correct manner, hopefully there is a method for this. Also, I would say that vocabulary is another problem that we are currently facing (the benchmark today). Some words I did not know and some words I'm a bit skeptical about. Other than Fatima's suggestion of improving our memorization of terms by having multiple choice questions for the  sponge, we should do the regular routine of bringing in a poem, but this time, we should bring in a poem that covers a term and allow our classmates to identify it within the poem. Its different from Fatima's idea because we can focus on more than one term rather than having a passage that probably only covers one or two terms. We can't have a passage that contains a bunch of terms in it, that's just a massacre.