Social Learning

This past week, I was able to give several literary recommendations to friends and acquaintances as to contribute to Learning Outcome # 4.  On Monday, I went to the library to check out a biography on Francesco Petrarch, whom I adore.  Humanism is one of my favorite philosophical movements, so humanist ideas mixed with love poetry = me loving it.

The person I was sitting with then asked me what the book was and I explained to him who Petrarch was.  He did not seem amused.  Feeling the need to defend the poet, I went on a tangent explaining what he wrote about, why it is so beautiful, why it would speak to him if he were to read it, etc.  Then he seemed convinced and I think accepted Petrarch as reputable.  JOB DONE.

A few minutes later, I went to the help desk where my friend was working to check out the book.  He, as well was unfamiliar with the 14th century writer so once again, I happily gave a brief background and told him that he should check his work out.  TWO in one day! I left the library satisfied.

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OH How the Time Flies

Time Flies when you're having fun, right?! Err, or rather learning? Either way, the time has indeed flown by.  I started out this expedited semester with eagerness to learn and also fear for what was to come.

And 3 weeks later, I have to say I have learned loads of new interpretive methods, and have also overcome many loads of fears. Do you see the repetition there? Just one of the many literary methods.

My first reference to the five learning outcomes in a blog post was through a philosophical analysis of literature where I discuss "explor[ing] the evolution of literacy and literary formats," or the fifth learning outcome.  Next, I discussed the analysis of poetry and putting the intimidation behind me in this post.  This was my learning plan on how to move forward despite my fears and hesitations.  I again discuss overcoming my poetic fears in my personal literary narrative, and I feel that you can see my forthcoming analysis skills, obviously with much more learning to be learned.