Cat's Cradle Analysis

I believe I am beginning to get into the flow of Potts English II. Each night we are assigned an amount of homework, often including reading, and the following class, we reflect on it and progress forward with the course. Currently we are reading Cat’s Cradle, which is an obscure book with many different threads that all connect back to each other, much like our current curriculum. While we are using our pre-existing analysis skills to Cat’s Cradle, we are also incorporating the lenses of beauty and truth when we try to make sense of the occurrences in the book. The focus of our course this year is truth, and by extension, beauty. We have examined the different types of truth and beauty, and how truth and beauty overlap. When we write, we are currently focusing on getting our ideas out on paper or pixels. Revising will come later when we will use our new and improved knowledge of grammar and beauty to transform out writings into beautiful works. This course of action makes sense with how the material is being taught. We were told at the beginning of the year that we will be taught to think, not how to think. I feel this is very important because if we can think for ourselves and understand how we think and write better, it will have a greater impact than regurgitating whatever a teacher wants you to do with your writing process. A

The things that we are learning have a real-world application outside of the classroom. Cat’s Cradle, while confusing at parts, works as an example as to how you can look at a problem from a different angle and understand different patterns and meanings from the same evidence. The focus of the classroom now is centered on learning and improvement. If you don’t understand a concept or part in the book, that’s fine, you should ask questions in class so you can better comprehend the material and continue on with learning. Everything we do related back to another topic we have covered in the