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Annotated Bibliography by Kristyn Slater

Bloom, Harold, Ed. __Modern Critical Views: Willa Cather__. New York: Chelsea House PublishersCo. , 1985.

I found that the book __Modern Critical Views: Willa Cather__ by Harold Bloom was a very well written book with lots of information on Cather. It was organized throught chapters, Some of them were about her books, and others were about her childhood. In general the book covered a very wide range on Willa Cathers life. It even had a chronological time peroid of her life, which I plan to use on my timeline. Even though this book was filled with information, I wouldnt reccomend it to fellow students. There was lots of text, and long paragraphs which makes things difficult when you are looking for specific facts and events. In conclusion, this book did help me out with the timeline and events, but really didnt help me understand the outline of my author because it was hard to stay interested in the text.

Bloom, Harold.Ed. __Willa Cather.__ Broomall: Chelsea House Publishers, Co., 2000.

The next book I used, __Willa Cather__ also by Harold Bloom, was like the previous Willa Cather book published in 1985 only, a lot was cut out making it a lot easier to follow. This book really concentrated on the novels Cather had written in her life, which was very helpfull in understanding Willas style of writting. I found out that she has a very soft romantic style of writting, and is often using strong male nararators with lots of female characters. After reading about her books, I really had a better understanding for what kind of a person she was. I plan on using this on my Creative Genre, because in order to write things from her point of view, it's important to understand how she viewed things, and how she felt throughout her life. I would recommend this book, only for the students trying to get summarys of her books, and for a breif explanation of her life.

Cather, Willa Sibert (1873-1947)." Disc//overing Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/. 23 May. 2008 <[|http://www.galenet.com/servlet/srcx]>

This online database was probally one of my main sources for this project. Even though it was a lot of text, it was to the point and every sentence was filled with important information. It was organized chronologicly from the beginning of Willa Cathers life, till the very end. The refrence sight walked us through her life explaining the before and after effects of important events. I used this information on the timeline, to explain why the events were plus or minus and how they effected cather. This site was quite helpfull, and I would deffidently tell other students to check out this refrence site, for a goldmine of information.

Welty, Eudora. "The House of Willa Cather." //DISCovering Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/. 23 May. 2008 <[|http://www.galenet.com/servlet/srcx]>

This reffrence site written by Eudora Welty, broke down the structure of Willa Cathers novels. I actually found it very helpfull because, now I understand the revolutionary style of writting behind Cather. I found out that she sought to explain, and or find the principal of life in her novels and teach meaningfull lessons. Most of her characters had deep roots in our physical word, most of them were rebellious, trying to get the message out that youth and individuals can make a diffrence in the evergoing world. This information is only going to be used on my Creative Genre portion of the project, however it was probally my favorite source. It's had to understand the works of an author without actually reading their books, and this site really hit the spot. I felt as though I was a Willa Cather expert, just by reading this page. I wouldnt reccomend this page if a student was procrastinating and trying to find hard facts and events about Cather. However I would reccomend it to a student that was really serious about learning the creative writting techniques of Willa Cather.

=Creative Genre Project= write song lyrics about your character (rapped to the melody of the "colt 45 chorus"..kinda)

Well my authors name is Willa Cather Born in Black Creek Valley She had a knack for writting, she was real inspiring and got into a University But if you go a little back, before that time you'd find out somthing real weird She changed her name, changed her clothes and started going by "William" Now--Hows--That--for--Interesting thats just plain un-normal

But after a year, her friends complained and she went back to her real gender. Years went by, her talents grew And ended up with her own article So in 1906 she packed her gift and took it all the way to N.Y She joined McClures staff in 1908 and became a managing editor And--Then--She--Met--This--Chick her name was Sarah Orne Jewett and told her to stop waisting her time She said, short stories aint getting you jack Time to step it up and move on up Cuz Books are where it's at,

She took her advice and wrote killer books and became a ballin' author In 1922 She wrote this Novel The tittle is known as "One of Ours" It was a hit, it was a smash you wanna know how I know? Cause in 1923 she was known to be the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. But--then--things--started--to Take a turn for the worse Critics tore her up, she lost her spirt and went into a depression spiral Things never went back up she just lived her life, and never gave up on her thang But then in 1947, it was her time she died of a nasty hemorrhage So--Today--She--Lives--On Through her famous novels Willa Cather, and this aint no lie she was one really cool cat

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=Reflections Part 3= Throughout this project, I have learned that I am a good student and that I have good thoughts, but can deffidently be a slight bit lazy. I felt as though the online wiki and annotations were kind of tricky, and I had a harder time comprehending the whole process. The similarities are that, you have to reserch and site it, and you have to put all your newly learned information to use. And the diffrence is that in a research paper, it's a lot easier to just put all your information down in paragraph form, but with the annotations, it was kind of difficult to express that we really did learn things, because I feel as though we are striving to put together sentences to make up paragraph long annotations when we learned most of the stuff from the first resource. The coolest thing about my character is that she went thought a crazy gender "questioning" at 13 and was very masculent durring a time of feminet women. The easiest part of the project was the time line, because the information is in the books and all I have to do is put it down, and make the timeline look pretty. And the hardest part of the project was keeping my motivation and remembering what all was due. For my creative genere project I chose to do a song/ rap, I actually wasnt going to do that one at all, but then it just kinda came to me, and I decided to just go with it, I like comming up with unique little "tid-bits" so it was kinda fun after a crammed night of school projects and work. If I could go back, I would fix my inability to get this project in on time, and really work on not procrastinating so much. I feel like this particular style of projects, is a little difficult all on it's own, so I'm not sure what you could do to make it easier. Maybe if we talked about doing Citations in the classroom before going into the media center, so that everyone isnt all distracted, because I know many people who still had a problem understand Citations on the last few days, and most of them felt intemidated to ask you questions about it. I dont nessesarly think that I understand my author any more than if I was doing a research paper, but I guess I dont understand them any less, it was pretty equal on reserching and gaining information. In conclusion, I didnt think this project was too hard for the "standard 11th grader" but it was a bit confusing, and these wiki spaces really had me stumped, however I liked that we could turn it in by midnight, so that way I actualy had a chance to turn this in on time =).