WOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Hooray, hooray! I’ve completely written everything! Today, Natalie and I had a very productive AP English party at my house, and I wrote my annotation introduction as well as my general introduction. I also edited and printed out new copies of everything I’d already had written. That means I have almost two weeks to edit! I do have to find one more background source, and make the citation page and whatnot, but for all intents and purposes…I’ve finished writing! Hooray! And let me just tell you….it feels goooooood.

OU Library…again.

Once again, I find myself spending one of my lovely days off of school, not to mention one of the few days that happen to be GORGEOUS outside, in the quiet, relaxing OU library. This is because RK said my criticism abstract was done on a parody which was apparently NOT a criticism (it totally is, in case you were all wondering. I ripped my abstract up, so no, you can’t read it). Due to this little mishap, I chose not to trust much of the criticism in the back of my book anymore, and made a second journey to the library. This search was extremely successful, and I’ve come away with five essays that look promising. My plan is to get rough drafts of the abstracts done today and tomorrow, so that I can work on editing them this next week, as well as writing the intro to my annotations. I’m trying to leave two weeks to work on my general introduction, which I’ve heard is the hardest part.

The end is approaching. I can’t wait to see it all come together! Happy writing :]

Criticism Abstractsssss

Well, I turned in the last of my annotations today to be revised (let’s get a WOO HOO!). Who knows how long RK will have it before I can revise them (just kidding!!) but in the meantime, I’m getting started on the abstracts. I’m still having trouble picking my criticism — I just have too many choices, and don’t know exactly what to look for. I picked one for sure; it’s really unique – it’s written in the manner of the Bible as a parody. It makes me laugh. If I’m feeling bored later I’ll type it out on here for your enjoyment, since it’s not very long. It IS kind of inappropriate though…I’m not sure edublogs.org would appreciate it. Ah well, on with the work. I’m not exactly sure how to write the abstracts yet, since I’ve never really done one, although I have heard that they’re easier than the annotations, which makes me hopeful. If I keep at the pace I’ve been going (and manage to pick out my criticism!) I could have these done by the end of the week. Keep your fingers crossed!

ps, I’m planning on adding the finished parts of my project as pages, if anyone wants to look at them.

SpRiNg BrEaK 2oo9 :)

Over spring break, I decided to take a break from my final project, which may have not been the best idea, but we needed a break from each other. Instead of spending my time writing annotations and critical abstracts on the beach, I decided to read Slaughterhouse 5, which I actually enjoyed a lot. Since I finished that over break, I don’t have to worry about trying to finish it before we write about it in class :] Also, today I got right back down to work on my final project, using AC to read through some more criticism and edit one of my annotations. Hopefully I’ll really crack down on this project in the next few weeks and not have to worry about it as May 21st approaches :]

Happy reading!