Project Proposal

Although I have not fully committed to this idea, I am pretty sure I will be writing a literacy narrative for my final project. My literacy narrative will probably be a chronological recap of my semester in this class. I think the easiest way to do this will look back at the syllabus and my previous work, and talk about my original thoughts about everything, my doubts and how I overcame those, along with my struggles but also my success with this class.
I originally signed up for this class just because I figured it was an English class, and couldn't be too difficult. The course name "Literary Interpretations" made me think that we would be reading novels, and then writing papers on them. It never occurred to me that literature included many forms of writing that could all be analyzed...haikus, plays, longer poetry, short stories, memoirs. I still struggle with finding a purpose to picking apart and analyzing some forms of literature, which I will hopefully make more sense of and talk about in my final paper. Right now all of my ideas are scattered about my thoughts and feelings about literature, analyzing it, finding themes, writing poetry etc...but once again, hopefully it will all come together and I can make more sense of it in my final paper.
The literary texts I will use in my paper are probably the ones that were the most interesting to me, or ones I never really thought I would enjoy. I liked Sonny's Blues and my blog for it because it was personal to me, and reminded me of my brother. I also want to somehow include The Interpreter of Maladies, because I wrote my first literacy narrative on it and got an A on that. I was surprised that I was able to get at least two decent creative blogs out of this blogging, because at the beginning of the semester I thought it was going to be impossible. I had fun writing the How To, and my most recent Haikus, so I will also try to incorporate those, and the process of writing them, into my narrative.