Sunday, June 7, 2015

Final Essay


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Hannah Hurd
Dr. Preston
AP English Literature and Composition
7 June 2015

Open Source Learning 2015
            I heard stories of how this course was going to be, but in the end it was an experience that I couldn’t have prepared for. I was scared there was going to be homework up to my neck and it was going to be hard to balance between all my other classes that I was taking, but I was wrong. AP English and Literature is like college in the sense that you get out of it what you put in it and it’s an experience that is personal to everyone and not the same for any individual. In this course I along with everyone around me including Dr Preston had a lot of trust and we all deserved that trust for the most part, but sometimes there was lapses in our judgment. Sometimes students get lazy and want to rebel or not do the work and teachers can get discouraged by that attitude and it’s a hard relationship to balance and sometimes the students I think took advantage of certain situations, like any would do.
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Throughout the course I didn’t learn how to better use my time and technological skills because before I had no idea how to make a blog post or write an essay in pictures and I think that creativity is important for the future. The Canterbury Tales was piece of fiction that resembled the idea of our education system. We mock education and don’t take it as seriously as we should and in America we pass judgment based on education and in school it is many different backgrounds coming together and many different stories that are intertwined for the sole purpose of graduating or the “end goal.” Hamlet was a fiction piece that resonated with me as well because I am very indecisive and it’s hard for me to feel like I am doing the right thing or what the right thing is to do. I know I need to grow up sometimes like Hamlet and in order to do so I need to learn how to think and do things fro myself. The last piece of fiction that we read in class that jump started my idea of the course was The Poisonwood Bible because it dealt with alienation and feeling alone at times even when there was a family around you. Sometimes life gets lonely and I know I have felt alone at times and that people don’t really understand or “know” me to the extent that I want them to and its hard to communicate what you are feeling to those around you and that is isolating. When reading these pieces of fiction and throughout the course I think I really found that I like being a kid and not taking things to seriously. This year was a lot of work and it’s important to find the fun in any situation and I think with that idea I am going to move forward in my education and try to continue the idea of balancing fun with school n integrating the
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two because as weird as it sounds I do like school and I want to make the stereotype of school something positive.
            The best times in AP English Lit and Comp were when we would have discussions as a class and the comments made about a video or a story we made and they were purposely made to be funny. The times when we watched the giraffes jumping in the pool was pretty funny and it made me giggle because it was so awkward yet cute and funny and I had never seen anything like it so I enjoyed it very much.
            During the masterpiece presentations I think a common them throughout many was the idea of connecting people whether that be the same age to the same age or old to young or just spreading a message to get people aware of the world round them. In Noah and Alec’s presentation they were all about connecting with the youth and giving themselves a voice to help others, that is directly connected to mine Judith’s and Sierra’s presentation because we wanted to be role models for the next generation. Imanie’s presentation as about educating high schoolers on what high school is all about and showing the older generations how school actually is and what’s its like to be loaded with as much work as we have which corresponds to the idea of connecting the youth with the youth as well as the older generations. Matt H’s and Ashlyn’s presentations were about connecting people with the world around them and showing the students how other people see life through their eyes

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and learning about different cultures and conditions so people are less sheltered to the things in life that we can’t see.
            In the end I don’t think I am a hero to others, but I am a hero to myself. I set a goal and I accomplished it. My goal this year was to get a 5.0 and finish high school with all A’s and make myself feel like I deserved it and I think I accomplished that. Looking back at my 4 years at Righetti I can honestly say that I worked hard every day to accomplish something whether I knew it or not. I stayed true to who I was and I think in the end I have a better understanding of what I want o do and how I want to do it. I wish I had found a mentor that was someone I didn’t know so I could pick their brains and really understand something that I didn’t know so I think that is something I am going to do in college to better myself and complete my hero’s journey to the full extent that it deserves. My life is a flower and I am merely a bee that spreads it further.


(I wrote this on word so the page break up is where my pages were broken up on the word document) 

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

We'll go no more a-roving by George Gordon bryon

Will stop going out at night even though it was made for having fun and seeing the light if the moon and it's beauty. All these abstract things limit is and keep us back from want we want to be doing but we need our bodies to rest so we can do the things we love with our best effort. Even though the night was made for adventures and having fun you need to rest and won't go out. Simple diction and short sentences with medium length sentences. Metaphor to sword and sheath? Second stanza is giving examples as to why we need to rest our bodies and tied to the theme of having limits that stop us from what we want to do. Shift at "yet" in second to last lie that reiterates the idea if stopping which congrats with the lines above that explain the reason why we should go out and adventure in night. 

Life by Charlotte Brontë

This poem reminds me a lot of Hope by Dickinson because it talks I the forgiving nature of things. It resembles the Shakespearean sober we read in class because it also congrats the good with the bad but with the over arching theme that those bad make the good. The diction is informal and it reads as if you are talking to someone describing a day they had or just a self revelation. The syntac is shirt sentences with single worded sentences to express action or a feeling/expression. It's telling readers to be grateful for what they have and to not take advantage of the time they spend and to forget about what the present bad brings. But focus in what the future brings. Poem has a shift at "yet" that transitions the poem from the contradictory things of life to the personified triumphant spirit of hope and life that reiterates the theme of encouragement. 

Shakespeare sonnet notes

14 lines in sonnet
- Petrarchan: classical, before Shakespeare, shift after 8 lines, 
- couplet at end. Two lines at end that have change in tone =Shakespearean poem
- shift, 
- look at tone 
- support text with whatever tone you choose 
- Shakespeare realist 
- make fun of love poems and deeper meaning when insult because the truth 
- indirect characterization and narrator for tone questions 
- attitude questions 
- figurative language things that make things more relatable to reader 
- ask about language use diction and syntax 
- style: diction, syntax, figurative language, 
- differentiates : compare and contrast 
- title paraphrase connotation/diction attitude tone shift theme 
- intending on us to be moved authors diction is simple 
- yet however nevertheless but are shifters 
- experience from hope and last part is hope experience from other people And establish as a relationship 
- relate shift to theme of poem 
- see not just abstract idea, characterize as relationship and solid 

Monday, April 27, 2015

Act 5 study questions

5.1 
1. Gentlewomen has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalk. She doesn't want to lie and wants the speech to be justified so the engle woman doesn't get in trouble for saying something wrong that lady Macbeth didn't say.
2. Lady Macbeth reveals her guilty actions of murders she has done. Subconscious will let out the guilt she feels when she cannot let it out consciously. He thinks he knows what she has done but he will not speak of it because it is based in assumption. 

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Act 4 Study Questions


4.2
1.  There are 3 witches in this scene.
2.  The first apparition says to be wary of Macduff and careful of him.  The second tells Macbeth he should be a strong willed ruler- bold and brace.  In other words he should not accept defeat.  The third warns of attacking armies coming, and tells Macbeth he won't be defeated until the kingdom of Norway attacks.
     Macbeth doesn't feel safe after the apparitions.  He has worries about Macduff's intentions and the possibility of an oncoming attacking army.  Yes he should feel unsafe because he is in a very precarious position.
     After the fourth, the line of kings, Macbeth is terrified.  He saw the ghost of Banquo at the end, whom he killed.  This frightened him as well as drawing out his guilt.
3.  In line 158 Macbeth learns from Lennox that Macduff is running away to England.  In response Macbeth decides to send someone try to kill as many of Macduff's family members as he can.
4.2
1) Lady McDuff seems to feel betrayed and angry at McDuff because he left them (her and her son) to die. She was advising her son to dislike his father because he fled when he discovered that Macbeth is planning to kill him.
2) The purpose of the scene between Lady McDuff and her son is to have his son have false impression about his dad. Also, the scene assists in the growth of the theme : fair is foul and foul is fair. This is because Macbeth is willing to kill McDuff in order to achieve what is"rightfully" his and McDuff fled, afraid of Macbeth's actions towards him. It also shows how McDuff's son refused to believe that his father left them to die, showing devotion, faith, and trust.
3) The entire McDuff family ends up being killed by Macbeth.
4.3
1. Macduff's family has been killed. 
2. Malcolm doesn't want to go home because he's afraid of judgement since he ran away. Malcolm is suspicious of Macduff bc Macduff has his own personal agenda. He might be secretly working for Macbeth since he left his family. Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to him and he passes. When Macduff starts to leave Malcolm takes back the lies he's told and trusts Macduff now- they're now allies. 
3. Malcolm says he's a bad king but Macduff says Macbeth is a way worse king and that he needs to return to restore peace and justice. Avarice bothers Macduff more in a king, it sticks deeper with kings in the terms of greed and lust. 
5 coming soon...
6. Ross tells Macduff that his family is dead, it takes him a while to tell him. Macduff says they must save their grief for later and Malcom says to turn their revenge into a medicine for their grief. Macduff says "he has no children" and he is referring to Malcom because he says he needs to mourn and "feel like a man" when Malcom tells him to dispute it like a man. To be a "man" in this play means to have feelings and don't hide but don't let them cloud your judgement.
7. Malcom, Macduff and Ross are ready to attack Macbeth's castle, they just need to go there.