When I heard that our next unit would be focused on tragedy, I expected this week to be much more sad than it was. I believed that we were going to be exploring all sorts of upsetting and horrible texts, but this was not the case. We focused instead on what a tragedy actually is, and that turned out to be very surprising. The first part of the definition is the part that everyone knows: a sad, emotional story. That part wasn’t new; it was the second part of the definition that really shifted my perspective. When digging a little deeper, we learned that a tragedy also comes when the audience enjoys watching the suffering take place. This whole idea blew my mind. How could we enjoy watching other people suffer? As this revelation was so mind boggling for me, of course I wanted to learn more about it. We did two different activities throughout the week that really helped us explore this idea more. The first included taking detailed notes when looking at different websites, and the other had us read an article and discuss it with a partner. After this, we did blog posts for both using the illustrating, authorizing and expanding technique for our responses. I really enjoyed this as it allowed me to organize my thoughts very clearly. We have always been told to expand on our thoughts when writing essays, but these three steps made it much easier than anything we have learned before. I am excited to see where the this tragedy unit will take us as we get closer to the end of the trimester. http://literarydevices.net/tragedy/
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