In the past two weeks of AP, I've actually learned a lot about American Indian culture. Because of reading Ceremony we've been discussing it a lot in class, and also I was in the group that read two essays on culture for the forums (technically one was the Silko Essays, but really it was just a lot of cultural background). One thing I found really interesting (as I'm sure many others did, seeing as it's an English class) was when Ms. Holmes told us the American Indian languages are verb based. It was hard for me to even imagine that, and when Ms. Holmes gave us an example, I still couldn't get past it, but at least now I understand what she meant.
The discussions we have in class are amusing and informative at the same time, for example in my hour we really like discussing the color yellow and male pregnancy. It's taking us forever to get through our sections (we just started going through the second group's section) but I know that we're really going in depth in the novel, and I'm glad that we are. Discussions have gotten a bit less hostile, and people are actually listening to others more now, so that's always a good thing. Well, I've never known how to end these posts, so bye everybody.
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