Review

Although i am not caught up on the activities in Blackboard, i feel as though they have deepened our understandings of not only our novels but 19th Century British Literature as a whole. I have learned about

capitol R Romanticism and Victorian era Literature. The activities that we are supposed to have been doing, even though i haven't completed them yet, keep me on track. Like, at least i know what i need and how to keep going when I'm in class just kind of sitting there. They provide me with a way to move forward. Blackboard has been a very efficient way for me to learn about all of the aspects of the 19th century British literature while not reading a piece of all of them at the same time. I am able to read what others wrote and respond to them and ask questions about things i do not understand and it has helped a bunch. It is just a really great medium to learn through. 

I feel that the Blackboard activities have helped us by allowing us to communicate our progress using a medium that allows everybody to see everybody else's work and comment on it. Also, reading the Q&A board cleared up a few things that i was not clear on. The book questions are another way that blackboard has helped us learn more about the book more efficiently. Because aside from your own answers, you can read others' and comment and they can comment back and doing that you learn so much more than just answering the question and moving on. Through the activities that we have done with the novels in class, i feel like i have done a better job of analyzing what i read than i did while ii was reading. I didn't do much marking when i was reading because i don't like what it does to the experience of reading so what we did in class really helped me out.