"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.

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Poem Recital By: Erica Marquez

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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