Project Progress

Even though I am done with my project, I am certain there is more that could be done to improve it. Like Dr. Preston said, even if you feel you are done with it, it could just mean your work is mediocre. There are things that I can improve on like making the blog more of a personal experience than merely trying to sell the college. Everyone is trying to put information up about the college, when most merely want your thought and experiences with the college issues.

Project Progress

I have recently made the college blog, and am in the process of gathering the information for the posts. I want to keep it in a timeline form, step by step form. I still have to put all the posts on it, but I have them together. I'm sure this will help others, and will be interesting because it it a good comparison to someone's blog who is going straight to a 4 year.

mission- college blog Vision- to help other following in this path Objectives- get together with others doing the similar blog Key responsibility areas- create the blog, and gather all the facts

AP Test study

Today, I tried studying with a partner. I found it easier collaborating with someone else to prepare for the test.

AP Test Studying

Today, I review essay prompts. I thought through how I would structure my intro paragraph, and overall essay.

AP test Study day

Today in AVID, a group of us worked on AP test materials. We helped each other with li. terms, multiple choice questions, and understanding prompts.

AP Test Study Day 2

Today I studied old questions from the AP English Language Tests online. I feel like this is a very good strategy to use to prepare for the AP test. Though I am not taking the test, I feel this will also prepare myself for the upcoming final that is ahead.

AP Test Study day 3

Today I found a website online like college boards which has 10 minute segments that address some of the sections on the AP test. Mostly review of how the AP test works and concepts and adresses prompts.

A Reflection on Unstructured Learning

In the text, The Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, I found a theme that really stuck out at me. The theme I discovered was self-doubt. The speaker, super hero, doubts himself and struggles with his confidence to continue in his path. This is quite irnic since him being a super hero, would lead us to think he would have everythihng set and the most confidence out of anyone. He looks to excuses such as coming up with a name, so he is able to put off coming up with a costume. Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! -Fyodor Dostoevsky You have to be able to take charge and be confident in the decisions you make. This hero, was indecisisive and alas, he was left with things that were unfinished.

AP exam study journal

Today, I am continuing my review with Lit terms. I find memorizing terms to be a tedious way of getting to learn the well needed terms, but it is something that needs to be done. I feel if I get the memorizing terms over with, it should be down hill from there. With constant usage of these words and recent review of them all, these words are becoming familiar. I am confident that by the time the test comes or whatever event that needs these words, it will have come in handy.

Possible Essay Prompts

Essay Prompts:

·  Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response. 

·    Critic Roland Barthes has said, "Literature is the question minus the answer." Choose a novel or play and, considering Barthes' observation, write an essay in which you analyze a central question the work raises and the extent to which it offers any answers. Explain how the author's treatment of this question affects your understanding of the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary

·        Prompt: In the soliloquy, King Henry laments his inability to sleep. In a well-organized essay, briefly summarize the King's thoughts and analyze how the diction, imagery, and syntax help to convey his state of mind.

Plan for AP Test

My plan to prepare for the AP Test is to

• Review old tests
• actual test practices
• review vocabulary
• review some current events happening in the world

Macbeth Lecture Notes

RISE AND FALL OF A GREAT MAN

outline:
Act I-prophecy
Act II murder of Duncan
Act III Becomes King
Act IV Humanity deteriorates
Act V Replaced as king

Murder of Duncan
-Flaw: ambition
• Macbeth is ambitious
-Thinks of surface impression. Not of why
-Macbeth does not blow it off
• Many say because that’s what him and Lady Macbeth wanted
• Macbeth is not a hypocrite: he knows there will be a price to what he wants
• “But in these cases we don’t have judgements..”

Lady Macbeth
• Pure evil
• She tempted  and taunted Macbeth to be King
• She’s animus
• She taunts Macbeth to keep the dream alive
• Anima: Connection with other people , war-like heroe
• Animus: maternal quality

What makes Macbeth heroic?

• politically savvy,
• never evades conversation,
• has a sense or right and wrong
• no hypocrasy in him

Macbeth test answers

Part I
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
6. B
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. B
11. He was a good man, but suddenly after given Thane of Cawdor he became corrupted
12. Give the Thane of Cawdor
13.  Tell the futures and taunt
14. Macbeth asks for more and Banquo is indecisive

Part II
1. B
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. B

Literature Analysis (Reading Notes)

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


Setting:

•  1770s-1802
• Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange
• Yorkshire moors
•  in or around two neighboring houses

Protagonist:

•  Heathcliff
• Catherine

Point of view

• Mainly through the voice of Nelly

Tone

• Has taken on a melodramatic tone
• The lost love had been a tragedy

Macbeth Notes

The Real Macbeth

• Originated from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles
• Means "son of life" (Christian name rather than a patronymic)
• Father was Findlaech who wasruler of Moray
• Mother's  unknown, but  said to have been the daughter of King Malcolm II

The Play

• Written in 1527 by Hector Boece
• Main source for Macbeth was Holinshed's Chronicles
• Based his account of Scotland's history
• formulated several conclusions
• Reason: dramatic purposes, creating a more complex characterization of Macbeth, and the political purposes with King James I in mind.

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The Great Gatsby-F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby on Prezi

Socratic Seminar Notes

Will there be any more Albert Einstein, Picasso, or Shakespeare in our generation to come?
- We must break the routine before we can move on
-You have to be able to do things you don't want to do
-Unable to think beyond the routine anymore
-When you aren't given a specific outline of duties, the work is tainted
-Everything you do or love will eventually become work

What does it take?
-Be able to question everything
-And not be afraid of the answer
-Be open minded
-Look to find the answer to your questions rather act like you know all the answers
*Adults don't like to look like they don't know something which is why children ask triple the more questions a day than adults.

"Play leads to new approaches"
-Leads to the imagination and creativity

The Lamb

The lamb - William Blake
Little Lamb, who made thee
Does thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing woolly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice.
Making all the vales rejoice:
Little Lamb who made thee
Does thou know who made thee

Little Lamb I'll tell thee,
Little Lamb I'll tell thee;
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by His name,
Little Lamb God bless thee,
Little Lamb God bless thee.
1. Not knowing who made it
2. Structure: every two lines is a rhyme
3. Theme: knowing ones origins
4. Grammar: old English
5. Images: The lamb
6. Diction: simple
7. Tone: curious
8. Lit. Techniques: personification and reputation