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We are finishing are we believe essays. My essay is down but now i just need to record it but it has shown a lot more about me trying to dig into my core and figure out the reasons why i believe the way i do. It was funny because after i got all of my idea down and was already writing the ideas just started flooding my head. But it really does make me appreciate what i've been though and ended up how i am today. What i believe is that patience and just a good heart can get you are in life. If you just put others first then people will normally have more respect to you. I put others lives higher than my own even to the point of hurting my self in the process sometimes. Then i also feed off of other people energy. So if i'm hanging with happy people then i'm happy but the opposite can happen. This week has a really interesting Project we got to do. We have to pick a topic that we believe in and explain how it affected us to now believe a certain way. this was a really big struggle because i learn a lot from other people and seeing how it works out for them so it took me a while to pick something. I picked back when I first started at this school. It was a struggle for me. I was all alone and had no one, but then someone came out and excepted me from the crowd. now its the reason of me not always pushing people away and accepting them as who they are. I didnt realize this untill i really started thinking. Then we also got a lot of different feed back on are poam It was very interesting i personally though that it was a great memory about a kid and his father but others though it was abuse. so it really intrigued me about that on how people could get completely diffrent things off of just one poem. This week we have been working on are group project. We have been looking up stuff like pictures to keep the classes attention. Trying to go for more of the funny side, but still get the point out without to much of a distraction. We are also trying to get are ideas together and figure out are person to follow which we picked lady macbeth. She seems to have the most noticeable change in her mentality which goes with are topic. We got the idea now and the video with music thats part of the project almost done but now we almost got the slide show done. We are starting to wrap it all up in a nice pretty bow. We also got some really good poems of the week. Its about diving deeper into the thought of summer with nature and how that effects everything and how it can be tied with us using personification and attraction it to human interactions. It really gets you thinking about it and adds some twists to you thoughts about he subject. I think im going to like this poem of the week essay. This week we have been ether learning about Macbeth or King Lear. My group picked Macbeth, i am liking it so far you get to see the people change in it which is good because that is part of are project is to see the mental growth and progression. Macbeth changes a lot, you would think that he is very normal but just is like a Governor but as soon as the witches tell him the prophecy. he starts getting paranoid. he kills the king and then he becomes king and then he kills everyone who he thinks will get in his was. he even goes as far as to kill his best friend. He just keeps getting worst and more and more paranoid. He just loses it and loses his humanity thinking as if hes immortal, since the witches said he can not be kill by a man born or woman. So he gets to proud of him self so much he becomes blind to his arrogance and it leads to his demise. it shows a lot of oedipus in it where power gets to your head and makes you blind to how you are affecting the ones closest to you. his wife dies and same with his best friend that he kills. Shakespeare is the most known poet and poam writer in the history. This week we gone over a couple plays. One is Macbeth and the other is King Lear both of these are plays that where done by Shakespeare. We are going to be studying macbeth with are group. we also learned about critical theory and how it applies to the story we picked, which it Macbeth. we have to look at the story with a critical theory lens on and our group chose the Psychological Criticism critical lens. This is all new to me. I had no idea about all of these different lenses and the names of the different ways to look at things but we are looking into why they chose what they did and really getting into the minds of the characters. We are also looking into the motive and needs of the character. This was enlightening because I kinda knew about Psychological Criticism, but I didn't know nearly as much as I do now and tall the research has been helpful. Well This is the 2nd trimester into it now. Hopefully I can make this one better then the last. This week we got to see a preview if the questions on the AP test. lets just say its intimidating. Those types of question are not my strong point in English. It was very helpful though. It gave me a idea of what I need to work on and it also showed me how its graded. With how it is graded I can bomb it but if I do I have to do great on my essays. which I don't feel to bad about. I still need to practice it because the more you practice the better you will get at it. I need to try my best and absorb all that I can about the literary devices, and how they are setting up the environment. I will be honest after taken that, I almost didn't want to take the actual AP test because I would have no chance. Now I know what I got to do and that is pass the test. This week has all been about tragedy. We keep getting newer ideals of tragedy. Like this week i found more Information about what real tragedy is. Tragedy isn't real tragedy unless there's some type of learning or improvement from it. I didn't know this and it makes sense, even the most tragic play has some type of happy ending. Its either the town is saved. like in Beowulf how gendel is attacking the town so he when off to kill him. Then grendel's mother gets mad and sends a dragon to attack him. The dragon kills him but then the town is saved because he did get the final blow on the dragon. So it tragic how a hero got killed but it isn't a tragedy if the town wasn't saved after all that he did. This weeks been fun we have gone to Greek mythology. I love Greek mythology. We are learning about Oedipus and Sophocles who were back in the Greek dramas. I personally never heard of them before so that was new to me. This week has been more about Oedipus. I learned he was a king but when he was younger he went to the oracle and she said that he will kill his father and marry his mother. That's exactly what happened even though he didn't know that at first. I learned that most times in Greek mythology the oracle is always right. No madder what you do it will come true. They often used the oracle for the base of the tragedy so the reader/ audience knows whats going to happen, even with this, the character is so blinded trying to not let it happen. That they don't see that they are just heading down that road faster. Even back at this time they were using tragedy to influence the audience. We have also been doing blogs about Tragedy and tieing it up with story's with it and its helped me get a better feeling about what i'm doing. |
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