THEMATIC ANALYSIS IN ENGLISH CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

PORTFOLIO LOG-BOOK

STUDENT NAME Ainun Najmah Alhadid

PROJECT TITLE Saudade for the Unknown

Week 3 Week 5 Week 7 Week 10

TUTOR NAME & Review Review Midterm
Review
CHECKLIST

Week 10 Week 12 Week 14 Week 16

 Review Final
Review Review

PROJECT LOG-BOOK

Make a list of 5 to 8 issues related to the main issue of the project that you have chosen. List the
activities that you do every week in detail. If links to the materials are available, please include the
links on the list.

PROJECT TITLE: Saudade for the Unknown

WEBSITE LINK: https://saudadeforu.carrd.co/

Week Identified Issues Activities Links to the Materials

Initial information 1. Making sure we all understood the

about the project, tasks.
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forming group, first
group discussion.

Reporting the broad 1. Deciding to choose Mental Health

topic, choosing as our broad topic.
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individual topic,
2. Deciding on each subtopic.
deciding on two pieces
of literature. 3. I chose All The Bright Places by I only have the physical copy of the
Jennifer Niven (the novel) and novel.
Three Days of Happiness, a novel
by a Japanese author (translated)
as my first literary works.

Deciding which website 1. I decided to use

builder to use, starting the wix.com as the
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website building. website builder.

2. I added two poems, 1. “The Journey”:

The Journey by Mary http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/
 Oliver and I Go Down To thejourney.html
The Shore by Mary Oliver.

2. “I Go Down the Shore”:

https://www.bookroom.stpeters
down-to-the-shore-by-mary-oliv

3. I dropped the 1. “The Summer Day”:

translated work I chose https://www.loc.gov/programs/
the previous week for a oet-laureate/poet-laureate-proje
poem by Mary Oliver, The poems/item/poetry-180-133/the
Summer Day.

4 Adding a couple of 1. I created the content

section, that is About Me,
Introduction, Literary
Works, Secondary Works,
and Reference.
for About Me section.
2. I decided to stop
using wix.com and
use carrd.co
instead.

3. I reviewed the
poem “Life is
Fine” by Langston
Hughes and “All
the Bright Places”
by Jennifer Niven.

5. Finished working on two 1. I received feedback

literary works analysis. for my reviews.

6 Improving the website’s 1. I changed the layout

display, revising literary of my website, almost
works analysis. completely anew

2. I dropped “Life is Fine”

since I found out it was an
old poem. I changed it to
Mary Oliver’s “The
Summer Day”. I am in the
process of writing the
analysis.

3. I changed the font size

 of the website.

4. I created new buttons

for navigations.

5. I decided to section my
analysis into the
existential crisis into
different age ranges to
show that it can happen
to pretty much everyone.

7 Adding two more 1. Adding one poem by Leony I read the physical copy of “The Moon
analysis texts, still Jardine to the roster. and Her Secrets” by Leony Jardine
working on revising
2. Adding the play “Every Brillian
them.
Thing” by Duncan Macmillan
Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan
Macmillan:
https://www.scribd.com/document/5
12479535/Every-Brilliant-Thing-
Duncan-Macmillan#

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