Henry V speech

 

This is me reciting the speech of St. Crispins day. I totally messed up the last few lines but I did this my memorization and my classmates who recited it in class only got one shot so I only recorded myself once.

Spring Semester Plan 1

Begin reading.
I have choosen my first Lit. Analysis book for class on Monday. The book I choose is The Shack by WM. Paul Young. In order to reach my goal of becoming a better reader/writer I will begin to read this book everyday before I fall asleep without any distractions.

What is in this for me?

During this semester I hope to become a better reader/writer. Finishing a book for me is hard work and my mind always seems to dose off when I get bored. I do not think that I am the best of writers either. Through this semester I hope to be a good enough writer for the AP Exam in order to pass. By becoming a better reader and not making reading so hard for myself I hope that this will follow me into college where I must read a lot on my own and even in other classes.

Fall Semester Reflection

Do you read your colleagues’ work online? How often? What is it like to read their work? How does being able to see everyone’s work online at any given time change the way you do your work?

 I do read my colleagues work maybe once a week. Reading their work makes me see what type of person they are and the way they think of things. Beign able to see other peoples work online  changes the way I do work mostly in the way that things are formatted and certain words used to describe something.

How has the publicly and always visible course blog made this course different from one without a blog? How would the course change if the course blog disappeared tomorrow?

This blog always when I have missed class for one day or forgotten the homeowork for the day. It is very easy to just be able to look at this blog when I have questions. If the blog disappeared I would most likely be lost.

Has publishing your work for the public to see changed your approach to completing an assignment? How so? How would your feelings about the course change if you couldn’t publish your work that way?

I am very self-conscious in the work that I write. So this being for the public view makes me feel as if people were judgeing me. My feelings would be relieved because then I would not have to worry about other people thinking I am dumb.

Has your experience of the physical classroom changed because of the open & online aspects? Where does your learning actually happen? 

I feel like my learning happend both online and in the classroom. Being face to face with someone is a lot better in understanding what they are trying to say to you then online.  

You were described in the Macarthur Foundation/DML interview as “a pioneer”-- how do you describe the experience on the edge to people who haven’t been there (friends and family)?

The expierence of this class is different but I aslo feel as in insight onto what future class would look like as to the online working.

How do they respond when you describe the brave new world in which you’re working?

Many people think it is cool that people are able to have their own blog but also they think it is hard to keep up with technology espically when they are older.

What do their responses mean to you? What effect(s) (if any) do they have on you?

They do not relly have any effects on me becuase the people outside of this classroom that I talk to face to face for example family to not read my work online.

Literary Analysis #4 Great Expectations

1.       A quick summary of  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is that it is a story about a young boy named Pip. His parents are deceased and is living with his sister and her husband. At the beginning of the story his attacked by a convict; but soon after the convict is picked up. Then Pip is taken by his uncle to Lady Havisham who is quite her own character. There he meets a young girl named Estella. There Pip falls in love with her but she treats him horribly. He still continues to love her in hops that he will become a gentleman that will be able to marry her. Miss Havisham has a different plan for him to become a common laborer. Pip then works for his brother-in-law who is a blacksmith.  Then he hears great news that there is someone in London who wants to help him become a gentlemen and send him to school. In London he continues to go to school and befriends Herbert Pocket where the run up a lot of debts while in London. When he reached 21 he finally began to receive his fortune. Then his sister dies so he returns home for the funeral. Where the convict returns and tells him that he has been the supplyer of his money. Later on he finds outs that the convicts name is Magwitch and that his daughter is Estella and she has been raised to hate young men and break their hearts.  As time goes buy Pip find outs that Estella is to get married and that Miss Havisham has set herself on fire.  Then Pip tries to help Magwitch escape but he fails in the attempt and sentenced to death.  Soon after he discovers that Estella’s husband has died and when they meet and talk about the past they end up walking away hand and hand.

2.       I believe the theme of the story has to do with social class. Throughout this whole story it had always been a basis of a social class. Pip was a commoner who wanted to become a gentlemen to show that he was worth something in order to marry Estella. Miss Havishman was of a higher class. Although she despised men she still did not care about what Pip wanted but helped him stay a common laborer.

3.       The author’s tone is a bit hopeful. Though out the story Pip hopes that he can become a gentleman is order to be worthy of Estella. Miss Havishim hopes that she can raise Estella to hate men and break their hearts as she got her heart broken.  Magwitch hopes that he can finally escape.

4.       Metaphor-"... think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

Setting- "As I was looking out at the iron gate of Bartholomew Close into Little Britain, I saw Miss Jaggers coming across the road towards me."

Point of view-"I looked all around for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him."

 

1.       An example  of direct characterization is “ a man in all coarse gray” and an example of indirect characterization is when Miss Havishim is describing Pip it reveals that she is a very sour lady.

2.       I think he changes his syntax when he focuses on other characters.

3.        Pip is a round and dynamic character because he changed from becoming a hard worker to a gentlemen.

4.       After reading this novel and basing it on my final presentation I think I felt connected to Pip.  Pip is genuine guy. He is very nice and caring especially when he forgives Estella.  

Lit Analysis #3 No Exit

1.  A summary for this would be about people who are totured with limits and the concept of people' hell.

2. I believe the theme is that people can put limits on us and we need to be able to comtol our own limits.

3. The author's tone is mean. He sets three people in a room together with no way out. When you are in a room with the same thing for days it is hard to not be in hell. He is seems a bit harsh when writing this.
4. One element is dialogue. The charcters speak to eachother to show what each of them is thinking. Another element is symblosim for example the place that they are set is a hell to the audience or the readers. But to the characters it is the time, people, place, and mindset that create their hell.



1. Two exampls of indirect characterization is the room itself. It is never directly told to being hell. Another belongs to all characters. You can see the annoyance they have with eachother in the way that they speak. An example of direct characterization is that Inez admitting that she is cruel and Garcin admits that he is disgusted by the two girls.

2. The diction changes when Estelle talks to Garcin because she likes him. She is a lot nicer to him and not as mean.

3. The protagonists are static because they never change. They completey stay in the same mindset.

4. I felt like I had them because it shows that the longer you know someone you begin to see their true colors.

Thinking Outside the Box

Plato and Sarte each described a place that can be considered hell. While Plato intended it more to be stuck in one place knowing only one thing without any education at all. Sarte made each charcter to have a corrupt sense of truth and what was realiable. They each showed the ignorance that people have. Although the characters from No Exit expirenced a sense or reality unlike the prisoners they each witnessed it different in the way they interpreted what they thought.This goes back to what Plato also conveyed is that we are stuck in our mindset and that even if we are led into the light we have to change  our mindset in order to contiue and not return to the cave. I believe both authors are right when diplsying their allegorys. Each has a differemt point of view. It is up to every reader to determine what point they will bring out of it. Each person will read and comprehend it differently but many will come out with the same sense.