I enjoyed listening to the different perspectives of my peers during today's presentations. I often do not gravitate to mystery stories, therefore it was interesting to read the story and look at the images associated with it. One interesting thing I noticed was how Sidney Paget often used his images to express ideologies within their society at the time.

I enjoyed doing the annotations on content and craft last week, but I felt as though doing them for “The Lady of Shalott” proved to be very helpful. I often struggle to understand poetry, therefore it was helpful to have the opportunity to take a close look into the text. I also enjoyed listening to what my group members had to say, but also being able to see what other students wrote for the parts we were not assigned to. We were assigned the first image by WHH, therefore there were a lot of details that I did not notice.

I really enjoyed the annotated exercise because it was interesting to do a close reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. I feel as though when I am required to read a text for class, I try to get through it as quickly as possible. Therefore, it was helpful to be able to do a close reading and dive into different words and phrases that were more complicated to grasp. I decided to write on the word “bore” for stave four. I decided to do this word because I realized that while encountering the sentence I didn’t know what the word meant, and I skipped over it and continued.

I don't know much about Victorian literature, but when I have been exposed to it I have always found it very interesting. I think I will enjoy it even more with illustrations, and having the opportunity to see how words and images work together to create a larger meaning. I am a little nervous because I feel as though a lot of my peers are already familiar with some of the texts we are readings, while they are all very new to me! The most familiar text was "A Christmas Carol", but only because I've watched Scrooged (starring Bill Murray) 100 times.