"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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