My favorite English memory from freshman year is the Great Expectations discussion that we did. I am definitely not saying that it was my favorite assignment. I am not saying I loved sitting and trying to think of questions or loved reading the book. I do think, however, that I put a lot of time and effort into this project. The hours that I spent thinking of evaluative and in-depth questions really paid off in the end, and I think that my well-thought-through comments contributed to the discussion. I also felt like, in that discussion, I asked a lot of questions and really got my ideas across.
The gist of the project was having to come up with 10 interpretive and 5 literal questions about Great Expectations and provide answers that were about a paragraph in length. Being the lengthy, rather intricate novel that it is, I found it hard to come up with interpretive questions that I could answer myself. After all the questions were written, we had fishbowl discussions where we asked and answered each others questions. Though I found this assignment to be a more difficult one, I enjoyed the challenge, and I feel like I did a good job overall.
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