Presenting my Scrapbook 2.0

Scrapbook 2.0: My Life

Scrapbook Schedule

This week: I plan on uploading the rest of the pictures and adding the captions to it.

Next week: I plan on trying to add the music to the video. If I have difficulty with it I will reach out to some of the students that are good with technology for help.

·         I plan on finishing the video by the end of next week or hopefully sooner.

·         I will present it on the day of our final and it will be less than 6 minutes.

Progress on Scrapbook 2.0

·         So far I have completed over four minutes on my scrapbook 2.0. I have included pictures up to about junior year in high school.

·         In the next two weeks I will have to add the music to the video and the pictures from senior year as well as my future.

·         This project will benefit others by giving them a little bit of insight into my life. It serves as a way of people getting to know where come from.

Plan for Scrapbook 2.0

Resources: Tech support from a classmate and video editing tips

Vision: I plan on making a timeline in which people can get to know me more through it. As well as make it enjoyable for them to watch it.

Mission: To make a video where my life is shown through pictures and music that represents those life moments.

Goals: I need to pick out the pictures that will properly represent my life and the changes in it. I need to scan the photos and upload them to my computer. I will need to prepare the video and add the music to it. I will have to find pictures online that represent my future the way I envision it.  

Key responsibility areas: The pictures need to be chosen and the music must be added. The video must be organized in a way that can be self-explained.

Presentation: The video will be available on my blog upon completion; it will be available for anyone interested to look at it.

Progress

Today I reviewed my essay and I began to write it again. I asked a couple of my peers to check it for me and tell me what to improve. I feel that the best way to imrove my essays would be to receive feed back and to just keep writting more. I also studied some of the Lit Terms because I feel that the quiz today showed me how much more I needed to study.

"Reflection on unstructured learning"

This text contains both universal and specific themes for the situation. To me the theme seems to be more universal than anything because it can apply to almost anything. The theme appears to be to take advantage of everything around one. I saw that this theme applied to out English class, especially now that the AP test is approaching.

          Doctor Preston has provided a lot of resources for us. It is now up to us to take advantage of them and use them wisely. We have been more fortunate than other classes because we have had the opportunity to talk to people who know their material. Our classroom is also full of many students willing to help us for the exam.

Progress

This week I have not gotten much work done. The testing schedule threw me off a little bit. The most I have done this week was study the Literary Terms but I plan on doing more work this up coming week.

Macbeth Essay Questions

1975    Lagerkvist’s The Marriage Feast:  Define and discuss the subject of the story.  Direct your remarks to the significance of the events described.

1977    No prose selection (instead, had the following prompt:  A character’s attempt to recapture or reject the past is important in many plays, novels, and poems.  Choose a work in which a character views the past with such feelings as reverence, bitterness, or longing.  Show with clear evidence how the character’s view of the past is used to develop a theme in the work.)

1976    Work/author unknown:  Characterize briefly the world and way of life described in the passage, discuss the effect of the passage as a whole, and analyze those elements that achieve this effect.

Plan for AP Test

• I plan on doing a practice test every other day of the week, including weekends.
• I will work on the test with a partner in order to make it easier.
• I will memorize all of the Lit Terms by heart.
• I will go over the Vocab List from the entire year.
• I will have at least two group studies in which we will answer one anothers questions.

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Macbeth Lecture Notes

Macbeth Lecture Notes

Main Plot: Rise and fall of a man

Beginning: Everyone like Macbeth and respected him

End: completely alone, no friends, wife dead, and hated

·         He caused his own death and tragedy by making the decisions he did

·         The story continues to worsen and then reaches a tragic end

Characteristics: ambitious, not happy, doesn’t make excuses about life or his decisions

·         Banquo questions/doubts what the witches say opposed to what Macbeth does

·         Macbeth tends to look at both the pros and cons about life

Lady Macbeth:

·         Doesn’t go by many morals

·         Willing to do anything to ger things her way

·         Urges Macbeth to be more “manly”

·         Aminus (Masculine)

*Macbeth hesitates to kill Duncan, questions himself constantly

As King:

·         He can’t stop killing people

·         Does anything to gain more power

·         Suffers from his conscious (feels bad)

Wife:

·         Can’t take all the torments and guilt and commits suicide

·         Bad things always happen when she is around

Lady Macbeth:

·         Evil, manipulative, self-centered

·         Drives Macbeth to Power

·         Her guilt drives her crazy

*Macbeth knows and acknowledges what he has done while his wife thing thery can pretend like nothing happened

Marriage:

·         Their relationship is descent at the beginning but after crowning they do their own things

Macbeth:

·         Hasn’t lost sense of right and wrong

·         Thinks of the world’s future

·         Worried about maintaining all the power he has killed for

*murders his way to power

·         Gets what he prays for

*When he finds out his wife died he has a low key response (Weird)

Witches:

·         Symbolize bad things that can happen in life

·         Give Macbeth ideas and he forms his own future

·         Represent Faith

Role of witches:

·         Why are the witches always woman?

·         Are both natural and unnatural characters

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Macbeth Notes

Act One:

• 3 creepy witches, they plan to meet up with Macbeth

*The witches= foreshadowing

• Character and personality is given through others’ opinions.  Macbeth is courageous and isn’t afraid to kill someone very gruesomely

•Macbeth and Banquo have an encounter with the witches. They tell him that he will be king. (they don’t believe them)

•Ross and Angus and tell Macbeth that king has made him thane of Cawdor, as the former thane is to be executed for treason

•Conflicts arise, Duncan wants his son Malcolm to be the heir to the throne, but Macbeth stands in between Malcolm and the crown

•Duncan arrives to Macbeth’s castle (Lady Macbeth is being fake)

•Macbeth has a moment to himself and questions himself on the murder of Duncan

·         He is somewhat reasonable because he knows there will be consequences

• Lady Macbeth’s crazy side shows. After Macbeth decides not to kill Duncan,

·         She is sly and convinces him to murder Duncan. (She’s the master mind with the idea)

Act Two:

• Macbeth’s mind is going crazy. Has weird hallucinations and continues worrying about his soon to come bloody work

·         (He ends up killing Duncan)

•Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth a coward and gets angry

•Macduff comes (still late in the night) to see the king

·         from there everyone sees what happened to the king

·         Lady Macbeth- was scandalous in order to seem appalled by what happened under her roof

•Macduff tells Ross that Macbeth has been made king by the other lords

·         Then suspicions fall on Malcolm and Donalbain because they fled the scene (which was only for their own safety)

Act Three:

•Banquo ponders about the witches prophecies and questions if the second is going to come true. A lot of self-questioning is seen throughout the characters

• Macbeth begins a soliloquy(when everyone leaves). He also wonders if the prophecy of Banquo’s son will come true

*He hires murderers to kill Banquo and Fleance

• Plan failed because the murders let Fleance escape

*FORESHADOWING when Banquo tells his son to get revenge

   *Macbeth’s conscious causes him to see Banquo’s ghost and he goes crazy ruining the feast

•Hecate is the goddess of witchcraft who scolds the witches for meddling

•Lennox and Macduff suspect that Macbeth killed Banquo and Duncan

Act Four:

•Macbeth has a crazy encounter with the witches

·         This leads him to order Macduff’s capture and his family’s murder

•Wife and son are killed after being told that Macduff fled

• Malcolm question Macduff’s loyalty

• Ross tells Macduff the news of his children, after Malcolm makes Macduff change his sadness to anger. With an army

* plan to go to war with Macbeth and kill him

Act Five:

•Lady Macbeth’s madness is seen again with illusions

•Macbeth prepares for the battle

*while trying to have his wife cured of her madness.\

• Macbeth remembers the prophecy and realizes he will die fighting, after wife dies

•Techniques are being discussed and Macbeth murders Lord Siward’s son

•Macduff is crazy looking for Macbeth to seek revenge during battle

*The prophecy about Macduff was wrong so Macbeth freaks out

•Macduff is found holding Macbeth’s head by Malcolm and Siward

·         Who murdered Macbeth?

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Literature Analysis "Of Mice and Men"

Section 1:

·         Setting is in a riverbed in rural California

·         Describe George who is small and wiry

·         Lennie who is large and awkward

·         It is clear that Lennie has mental problems and that George looks after him

·         They are on their way to a ranch to begin a job and George remains Lennie that he must be on his best behavior

·         Lennie is holding a mouse in his hand which he killed

·         George is mad and throws the mouse across the river

·         Got kicked out of old town because Lennie was accused of touching a young girl though he was just feeling her soft dress

·         They talk about their future which is to buy their own ranch and live off of it

·         George tells Lennie that if while working he encounters any problems to go back to the clearing and stay there until George comes for him

Section2:

·         Next day go to the farm and meet Candy who introduces them to their new home\

·         They meet the boss and he is a bit suspicious of them

·         George answerers all of the questions that they are asked

·         Tells the boss that Lennie is his cousin and that he was kicked in the head by a horse when he was younger

·         They work in the grain team with a man Slim

·         Candy has a dog who is very old and accompanies him everywhere

·         Curley walks in and immediately picks on Lennie, he likes to pick on big men since he is so small

·         Married Tart who flirts with all the ranch men

·         Tart walks in soon after and flirts with the men, Lennie things she is pretty but George tells him to stay away from her

·         George doesn’t like Curley and knows he is up to something

·         The men want to convince Candy to kill his old dog and raise one of the new puppies

Section 3:

·         George convinces Slim to give one of his puppies to Lennie

·         He tells him that they became friends when Lennie’s Aunt dies and George looked after him

·         At first he made him to ridiculous things but them began to feel bad for him and looked after him

·         Lennie takes the puppy from the mother and George makes him take it back

·         After dinner all the men tell Candy that he should take the doing out of its misery

·         After all the men telling him this he gives in

·         Carlson takes the dog outside and shoots it Candy just turns away

·         The men discuss how Tart is going to cause trouble for someone

·         George is invited to a whore house but says no because he wants to save his money

·         Curley walks in looking for his wife again and asks about slim

·         They tell him that he is in the barn and Curley rushes off to the barn

·         As George and Lennie discuss their future ranch Candy hears and wants to join

·         The men agree that after a month of saving they will have enough to move

·         Slim and Curley return with Curley apologizing for his suspicion

·         Curley picks a fight with Lennie and Lennie fights back breaking his right hand

·         Lennie tells George that is want his fault and is concerned with not being able to tend the rabbits  

Section 4:

·         Crooks, a black man, likes to spend most of his time reading

·         Lennie goes into his room and stands at the door Crooks tells him to go away but after Lennie insists he invites him in

·         Crooks tells Lennie about his childhood and how his family was the only black family for  miles

·          He says how lonely he felt even when other children would play with him

·         Crooks tells Lennie that George isn’t coming back and Lennie gets mad and starts yelling Crooks quickly assures him that he will return and continues talking about his farm to calm him

·         Soon Candy joins them and they talk about the farm

·          Crooks continues to bring them down but Candy says they already have the land and almost all of the money

·         Crooks then timidly asks if he can join but are interrupted by Curleys wife

·         She won’t leave the men alone and talks about how lonely she is and how horrible her marriage is she asks what happened to her husband’s hand and they say it got caught in a machine but she knows the truth

·         She leaves when Candy says he hears the men coming but she tells Lennie she’s glad he broke her husband’s arm

·          George gets mad for talking about the farm in front of people

·         Crooks decides he doesn’t want to go with them after all

Section 5:

·         Lennie sits in hay stroking the dead puppy

·         He tries burying it but knows George will find it, angry he throws it across the room but then thinks that maybe George won’t care or get him in trouble

·         Soon Tart joins him and he tells her he can’t talk to her

·         She says it’s okay and then starts complaining about her life and marriage

·         ‘she tells him hoe she was going to go to Hollywood but at the end married Curley who she doesn’t like

·         He says he likes to touch soft thing and she lets him touch her hair

·         He starts to hold it too tightly and ends up breaking her neck

·         Candy soon finds the body and calls George

·         George immediately new what happened and Candy realized the idea of the farm was now impossible

·         George says he knew it would never happened but believed in it so much because Lennie did

·         Candy and George agree to make it seem as if George knows nothing

·         Candy curses at the dead body for ruining their dream then he tells the men

·         Curley orders for Lennie to be found and killed

·         They notice a gun is missing

Section 6:

·         Lennie remembers to go by the riverbed’ soon George joins him and does not get him in trouble instead he comforts him

·         He begins to tell Lennie about their farm

·         He tells him to take off his hat and look across the riverbed

·         He then shoots Lennie in the back of the head and then sits there

·         All of the men go to the sound of the shot

·          George tells the men that he wrestled the gun away from him and shot him

·         Slim understands what really happened and says that he had to

·          Slim helps George walk as he is in shock

·         Curley and Carlson wonder what happened

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The Bluest Eye Notes

The Bluest Eye

Chapter 1:

·         Claudia and Frieda McTeer are expected to pick up coal from a fallen train

·         Live in a spacious, old, drafty home

·         Henry moves in with McTeer family and the kids immediately love him

·         Pecola Breedlove lives with them temporarily because her father burnt their home

·         Claudia explain that Pecola always hated Shirley Temple and destroyed her doll

·         Pecola starts her period and Mrs. McTeer trues explaining what happened to her and gives her a pad

·         Pecola asks Frieda how babies are born and she responds by saying you must find someone to love you first

Chapter 2:

·         Once Cholly Breedlove, Peocla’s dad, gets out of jail the family moves into a home that was once a store

·         Was a home of a gypsy home then a Hungarian bakery and then a pizza parlor then store then their home

·         Has a bedroom where all the beds are and then a kitchen which is a back room

·         Narrator focuses on the furniture

*feels it’s all meaningless except for the couch that has a split, makes the owner mad

·         The coal stove only works when it wants to

·         The fire would never work in the mornings

Chapter 3:

·         The Breedloves live in the store front because they are black and poor

·         They believe they are ugly but have some nice aspects

·         Mrs. Breedlove is making breakfast and wakes Cholly to fetch coal but he refuses

·         She says that if she sneezes whole getting the coal he is in trouble

·         Mrs. And Mr. Breedlove need each other, he uses her to take all his painful memories away

·         Their fights have a usual routine, Sammy her brother either joins the fights or leaves home

·         Mrs. Breedlove sneezes and she knocks Cholly out then Sammy urges her to kill him

*She quiets Sammy

·         Pecola feels sick and wants her body to dissolve

·         She always hopes for blue eyes because she feel all of her problems will disappear with them

·         She goes to the grocery store to buy a candy and the owner speaks to her harshly

·         She walks home ashamed of how she looks

·         Pecola visits the “whores” who live above her

·         They tell her about their “boyfriends” Clients and that makes her wonder what love truly is

Chapter 4:

·         New Girl named Maureen Peal joins the school, she is wealthy and light skinned

·         Claudia and Frieda dislike her and they look for flaws in her

·         Claudia, Frieda, and Maureen walk home together and they find some boys picking on Pecola

·         They try to help her and the boys leave when Maureen joins because they don’t want to fight with her around

·         They go out for ice cream but Maureen only treats Pecola for ice cream so Claudia doesn’t get any

·         Maureen asks Pecola if she has seen a naked man and Pecola says no

·         Maureen tells them that they are black and ugly

·         Henry gives Claudia and Frieda money to go but candy and when they return they find him with prostitutes

·         They decide to keep his secret and not tell their mom

Chapter 5:

·         They talk about a black woman that lives in a  rural area of town and takes good care of herself

·         She marries a man and bares children

* She does not enjoy sex and is only passionate about her cat, not her family,

·         Junior, Gerdalines son, picks on Pecola at the park

·         He lures Pecola into his home and throws a cat at her

·         She is frightened at first but then plays with the cat, and he gets jealous

·         He then throws the cat and kills it

·         His mom walks in and he blames Pecola for the cats death she yells at her and makes her leave

Chapter 6:

·         Claudia gets a home and finds her mom singing and repeating the same chore twice

·         Frieda is upstairs crying because Henry touched her breast

·         The McTeers attack Henry when he returns home and a neighbor hands Mr. McTeer a gun

·         A neighbor suggest they take Frieda to the doctor because she might be “ruined”

·         Frieda and Claudia think that whisky will help her jot be ruined

·         They go to Pocola’s home to ask her to get some from her dad but she isn’t home

·         One of the “whores” throws soda and them, because they tell her she’s ruined

·         They find Pecola working in a white neighborhood and her mom days they can wait for her to be finished

·         Pecola ends up dropping a pie and her mom beats her and sends the girls away

Chapter 7:

·         Mrs. Breedlove grew up in Alabama and she walks with a limp because when she was younger she stepped on a nail

·         She raised her younger siblings in Kentucky and enjoyed it

·         At the age of 15 she dreamt of a stranger coming to rescue her

·         Cholly falls in love with her

·         They get married and move to Ohio where the woman who live there are not nice

·         Soon they argue about  money and his drinking becomes a problem

·         She gets her first job as a housekeeper

·         Cholly shows up to her work drunk and the boss refused to pay her until she leaves Cholly but she doesn’t wan to leave him

·         She becomes pregnant and marriage improves for a while

·         Baby doesn’t fill the hole in her heart and they have a second (Pecola)

·         She knows the baby is ugly

·         Obtains a job with the Fishers and she loves it because they appreciate her work

·         She begins to neglect her own family and things are not the same with Cholly

Chapter 8:

·         Cholly was abandoned by his mother at 4 days old

·         Aunt Jimmy saves him and beats his mom who leaves

·         He obtains a job and meets Blue Jack who is very kind to him

·         Aunt Jimmy gets sick but is cured for a while until she eats a Peach Cobbler

·         Everyone is kind to him during the funeral and it is planned that he will now live with Aunt Jimmy’s brother

·         Tries impressing his older cousin by taking him to girls

·         They both get girls to walk with them

·         He ends up having sex with Darleen and white hunters see them and force him to keep going while they watch

·         He grows anger towards Darlene instead of the white men

·         Thinks Darlene might be pregnant so he ;leaves town to find his father

·         When he finds his father he curses at him and rejects him

·         Cholly ends up loving g and beating woman, taking and leaving jobs, and killing three white men

·         Likes Pauline’s sweetness and innocence but feels trapped din marriage

·         Cholly comes home and rapes his wife, she faints and wakes with her mother over her

Chapter 9:

·         Soaphead church- reader, adviser, and interpreter of dreams

·         Mother died when he was born and family is mixed in race

·         Soaphead married Velma who left him two months after

·         Then goes into ministry but it isn’t for him

·         Moved to Lorain and rents a room with an elderly lady

·         Pecola asks him for blue eyes and he says if she gives the dog meat “poisoned” her dream, will come true

·         The dog dies and she runs away

·         Writes a letter to god where get shares he is sad that Velma left him, feels rejected

·         Talks about his love for young girls, he is a pedophile

·         Lady discovers dead dog while he is asleep

·         Pecola will not have blue eyes but she will believe that she does

Chapter 10:

·         During summer time Claudia and Frieda sell marigold seeds to raise money for a bike

·         Go door to door and when invited in overhear adults conversations

·         Discover that payola got pregnant from her dad and he has run away

·         Mother beats her almost to death when she finds out

·         Pecola believes the baby will be beautiful

·         Claudia and Frieda want to help her by praying and planting the money they earned by her home

Chapter 11:

·         Pecola and her imaginary friend are talking and the voice judges her constantly for staring at herself

·         Pecola admirers her blue eyes

·         Imaginary friend accuses her of liking sex with her dad which happened multiple times

·         Pecola continues to bring up her eyes and wonders if anyone gas blue eyes

·         Her friend gets annoyed and leaves

·         Pecola goes crazy and her baby dies prematurely

·         Cholly dies in a work house

·         Mrs. Breedlove and Pecola move to the edge of town

·         Everyone feels ugly now that Pecola is gone because they would compare themselves to her

·         Claudia and Frieda feel like failures because their plans never grew