AP Lang students were given a project involving the book, Their Eyes Were Watching God. This project required the students to compose a journal, while reading the book, of either a dialectical journal or a graphic organizer. Some of the students were not stressed at all, though, about completing the project.
“I paced myself so I didn’t procrastinate,” said junior Megan Bergevin. This timing appeared to end up being helpful to the students, though, because of all that the project asked for.
“We had to read the book and take notes about quotes,” said junior Tyler Bird. These notes and/or annotations had to be thorough reflective notes about major points and events that took place during the book.
When asked if the project was helpful to understanding the book, junior Tyler Bird said, “Yes, because it showed me things that I din’t see when I was reading it.”
So, in the end, the project’s purpose of analyzing the book by using new reading strategies proved helpful, as brought out by junior Tyler Bird.
