Week 3

We can all admit that week three of Sweeney’s English 102 was pretty pointless. This week consisted of three main events. Truly only one of these events were enjoyable. The three events consisted of Monday: going to the library with the entire class, Wednesday: having a snow day and Friday: a lovely class discussion on our reading. I am sure you can guess which one was enjoyable!On Monday the entire class took a trip to the community room near the library. Once arrived we found out that we were going to be participating in a lovely scavenger hunt throughout the library. The whole class was overcame with joy in the news of this to say the least. Sweeney’s class was then separated into four teams, which we were not allowed to pick ourselves, then sent out into the library to find a series of things.  Once completing this scavenger hunt, each team had to present their findings in front of the class. This whole activity was completely pointless because I am sure each of us had the same presentation in English 101. It was so incompetent that I felt as if I were in high school again. Then on Wednesday the ground was covered enough that RBC actually closed school, which was quite shocking. I thoroughly enjoyed my day full of snow. Last on Friday we actually meet for a good reason. Behind in our discussion though, we discussed Monday’s reading. Monday’s reading was “The Chrysanthemum,” which like past stories, was difficult to understand. After a long and hard to stay on topic talk about this story we came to a conclusion. The main woman was frustrated with her life because her husband only saw her on the outside.
Week three started off slow but began to pick up the pace on Friday. Even though it was hard to discuss the story because we were all so chatted we manage to get to the main point. What a lovely week! 

Week 2

The first week of the 2014 spring semester has past. All the fun of going over syllabuses are over. English 102 had a slow start to it. Beginning with an elaborate overview of the course and a contract each student must sign. Each student would contract for the grade he or she would like to receive in this particular class. Another big aspect of English 102 with professor Sweeney is blogging. Once a week, the students must blog about the reading, class discussion or approved topics. After a couple days of going over this interesting stuff and creating a blog, we began discussing the reading. In class we discussed “How to Become a Writer” and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”. I missed the discussion of “The Yellow Wallpaper” due to the snowstorm we had on Tuesday 21, 2014. Also, I was absent from the discussion of “Hills Like White Elephants” because I was not feeling the best.

            I shall do a quick overview of the readings I was there to discuss.  Each story was extremely difficult to follow and understand. Through the discussion of class, I began to read in-between the lines and fine the true meaning of each story. In the story “How to Become a Writer,” a woman is struggling with writing stories that have a meaningful plot. In consequence the story itself was without a plot. It was very choppy and difficult to follow. The title truly had nothing to do with the story because it did not give steps in which to follow on how to become a writer. The next story I was there to discuss was “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.” This story was about an Indian man having troubles with finding his place in society. He also struggled a lot with race. The title actually went with this story. The Lone Ranger is an Indian man which symbolized the young man in the story. Tonto, which is the Lone Ranger white side-kick, symbolized the social races in this story. The fistfight part symbolized his continuous fight to figure out which race he belong to. I truly have no idea about the heaven part though.

            Week one and two of English 102 was a success. I enjoy class discussion and I also thankful for them. I am thankful for them because they give better understandings of the stories.