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[alexa-hill]

Research 2

LOL at my life. I just typed this long thing out and it got deleted... no idea how. But here I am again, ROUND 2. 

So... I didn’t realize how behind I was but all of a sudden it hit me and I had to make mature decision to take a week of softball off. Now that may not sound like a big deal, but to me it is. I love playing this sport and it’s my senior year(last year playing) with a team that I love to be around so it was a hard decision but I knew I needed the week to work on this project.

It’s so weird having so much time to do something, once I focused solely on this project I got so much accomplished in such a short period of time I am so proud of myself honestly. It taught me not to procrastinate and even when you do how to get something done in a short amount of time and still turn in quality work!! Overall, looking back at this I am so proud at what I accomplished and made. My research and writing skills both improved and those two fields are always available for improvement. I think this was a great way to develop myself as a writer.  This really wasn’t THAT BAD.... 

[alexa-hill]

RESEARCH 1

WOW.... I am just now getting to this because I was so stressed out during this whole process and honestly deeply concerned and scared that I wouldn’t finish it so this was put on hold. Now that I can reflect back, I would like to punch myself in the face for not knocking this out when I could have! IT WAS SUPER ANNOYING AS TESSA POINTED OUT THAT WE HAD TO READ DORIAN GRAY DURING THIS STRESSFUL TIME, but I still could have managed my time better!! I ended getting my abstracts super late which caused a lot of my project to be rushed and I did things out of order. Procrastination will be the death of all of us one day.... ‘

Honestly, I know some of you may hate me for saying this but once I really started doing the project it was decently easy and some parts were... FUN. So after all the complaining I think my writing developed more and my research skills definitely did! 

Kaitlyn and I had many adventures at the OU library and trying to get there. First I forgot my license so I could not get a guest pass and had a little bit of time before I had to be home so I used my neighbors login who goes there but I didn’t have enough time.... THEN the next time we tried going we got into a car accident... so yeah. But don’t worry, we made it eventually!! And when we got there the librarian was extremely helpful, so it was worth it! :)

[alexaaalonso]

Introduction

Writing my general introduction was actually easy. Doing all the research on the book, such as the abstracts/criticisms, annotations, and background sources, really helped me figure out what I wanted to write about. Madame Bovary was a monumental novel at the time it was published, and this was something I knew I should include in my intro. I also knew there was a lot of controversy surrounding the book, so I added that in there too. Finally, I added the book's relevance to today, because a lot of the same themes that I found in the book are also found in today's society. The book also started the Realist movement so that was important to put in my intro as well. I think my introduction was interesting and contained a lot of good information. Overall...the research for this project was relativity easy. I think I picked a good book for the project because there was SO much information on it, and the themes were interesting/good to write about.

[mariyaaa786]

DONEEEE

OMGGGG Feels goood to be done! Th eamount of stress lifted off my shoulders from finally finishing this project has made me so happy. Tbh it wasn’t as bad a people said it was and I can’t believe I’m officially done with AP Lit :( 

[alexaaalonso]

Annotations

For my annotations, I picked three passages that characterized the main character, Emma Bovary. Since her character/development of her character was so vital to the book, I thought these would be good passages to annotate. I also thought that these passages would help me get a greater understanding of the book (and they did!) I was able to draw in my abstracts, as well as my own knowledge, when annotating and doing the introduction to my annotations. Once I started annotating, it wasn't too hard to write. After you checked them, I realized I had to focus more on how the author, Flaubert, and how he used his language in the passages to help the character develop. After I fixed this, the annotations came easy. It was kind of hard to get two pages for my intro to my annotations, but after really looking at it, I ended up getting it to two pages.

[zahraaalfashkhi]

That’s the librarian and I at OU, I clearly have my backpack on too which means I clearly did my work. 

I read a lot of different criticisms on the book till I found the three that I wanted on this day. So it was productive

[zahraaalfashkhi]

I spent a whole week in the library with Claudia, and no we weren’t productive the whole time, but that’s where I got almost all my papers done. It was fun, and I enjoyed the project and doing the research because Atwood is such a great author and I was in love with the book in general.

[alexaaalonso]

I started my research with getting my abstracts. When I first went to the OU library and got my abstracts, I was prepared to fail this project. I was so confused and just got three criticisms not knowing if they were good or not. But then, I showed my criticisms to Mr. Kreinbring and he said they were good. So then I began to attempt to read them. They were long and seemed confusing at first, but after I spent time annotating them and closely reading them, I realized they were not hard at all. They actually really helped me understand the book. Writing the abstracts was also easy. The criticisms were super helpful in understand Emma's character, and this also helped me write the other parts of this project. I could bring in parts from the criticisms to help support my other arguments.