Recommendations for projects

Emily- Draw more attention by adding more personal experiences with the school and administration
Marie- Add a list of helpful administration to go to for help overall
Gilbert- Make it stand out by adding why you choose the school and what you liked or didn't about it

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Project Progress

1.I have started finding information about Fresno state college and have been putting together different information that I find would be intresting for students interested in Fresno. I have also been looking at different online websites to create my scrapbook. 2.I still have to put all the information together on my blog to create the college blog along with the final touches of my scrapbook. 3. The college blog is exactly what every high school student looks to find non confusing and straight out information on the campus and the experiences that can be found. The scrapbook is something more personal that cann allow people to know me more to depth and identify what I enjoy to do and why I do some of the things I do.

Blog college project

I have decided to do a blog about the college I will be attending which is Fresno state. I want to inform not just current seniors but high school students about the process of applying and the extracurricular I have done that has been a great help to attending college. I plan to continue with my blog my freshman year to show the struggles and hardships of my first year there. I hope to have other current students at Fresno commenting and viewing my blog. I will be showing my classmates my blog by talking to them about visiting my blog and commenting to things they have questions or they think is helpful to know.

study progress

I have reviewed all the lit terms and started writing practice essays on different pieces of literature we have read. I am still having trouble on writing the introduction paragraph. As well as how to first introduce the topic. I don't understand how to connect the needed lit terms in the essay so it doesn't just sound likea list of things but a productive essay.

"A Reflection on unstrctured Learning"

The passage given by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons uses imagery to provide structure and meaning to it. The main theme of the passage is that of hiding behing something that you wish to be but are not. The purpose of the text was to provide actual examples in which humans can relate to today. Those which deal with confusion and a place of belonging in society. A part of a whole in which one can relate to. The theme emphasized on the main character wanting to find a costume into which he would fit into. A costume of which it would be a mask into society. A longing of fitting in and being someone in the world. In which it can as well be related to a hero who with his costume is adored and famous but without it blends in with hoi poi. The main character wanted to become something more and once he found a name that fit wanted to transform into that. A name that was given by another that merly completed his way of life. At which the main character looked to the outside world to define who he was without looking to himself for answer. The answer which he had in front of him all along but needed another to point it out to be able to understand it himself.

Essay questions

1."Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749): Analyze the techniques that Fielding employs in this scene to characterize Mr. Allworthy and Mrs. Deborah Wilkins" 2."Ann Petry’s The Street (1946): Analyze how Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting through the use of literary devices such as imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language." 3."Two funerals: Compare the different authors’ attitudes by examining diction and choice of detail; also discuss their effect on the reader"

ap test plan

1. Comphrehend lit terms and be able to apply them to the practice tests. 2. Evaluate a structure of essays and identify weakness 3. Go over grammar and mechanics 4. Be able to point out key words or lit terms used in texts 5. take several practice tests and expand knowledge on what test will look like

Macbeth Notes part 2

After the murder of Duncan: -Macbeth feels guilty -do watever is necessary to gain power -using murder as emotional addiction to killing Banquo and Flanece -hasn't lost sense of whats right and whats wrong -begins play as hero and ends up being a killing machine -becomes king -finds no point of life or motivation to living When he finds his wife dead: -"She should have died hereafter...." -isn't very emotional about death Witches: -Banquo doubts witches while Macbeth goes along with what the witches tell him -Witches never told Macbeth to kill all the ppl he killed but however still didi it -Finding a motivation in the witches phrophicies to become king -they signify the constant reminder of evilness of life -they represent an opportunity for Macbeth doing what his emotional disturbness tells him to do INCITMENT; action of doing or saying something and having and immediate consequence

Macbeth lecture

-macbeth is closest to Hamlet
-rise and fall of a great man
scene from porter
Macbeth
-tragic character=flaw
-by end of play he is completely alone w/ no place in society
-everything that made him a great man is destroyed
-he does it all tohimself=nothing was forced upon him
*the more he agravates
-Shakespeare is powerful author because he draws us in.Reminding us of someone in life.
AMBITION- bad/sin morality play-Macbeth is ambitious about becoming king
-Macbeth's reaction to witches:
1.doesn't question witches
2. Lady Macbeth and him have discussed desire for Macbeth to become king
*tension of seeing himself as king and morality of wats right and wrong
-Tries to get rid of crime blaming Lady Macbeth
-Knows he has to pay for crime
-Macbeth knows he is mirror to community
BANQUO:
-tempted by witches
-question them
doesn't obsses over phrophicies
LADY MACBETH:
-keeps fire going inside Macbeth
-pure evil/tool of destruction
-encourages Macbeth and supports bad action
*Goes against fundamental role of mother and talks Macbeth to be more manly
ANIMA-female physcology
ANIMOUS-male physcology
*can't blame Lady Macbeth for Macbeth's actions
-Macbeth halucinates a dagger before murder

Animal Farm

1.The setting takes place in a farm where the working class which are the animals uprise against the farmers and taking control after old Majors speech of gaining control over the humans. Soon the pigs are on top of the pack and treat the other animals unfairly saying that they will be the ones to rule the "animal Farm" as they had named it. The pigs slowly start to act and behave like human beings and taking less part in an actual animal like way of living.
2.The theme is to keep true to yourself and always remeber who you are and where you come from.
3. The tone of the book is angered and rebellious.
(1)“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
(2)“If you have your lower animals to contend with,” he said, “we have our lower classes!”
(3)"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
4. The literary techniques that help identify the theme and tone of the book are symbolism,characterization, the setting, diction and personifacation.
"No animal in England is
free." The symbolism described shows future events of why old Magor had propsed his dream to the farm animals.
"Old Major (so he was always called,
though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty)
was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose
an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say." the characterization of old major helps describe the animal farm and who they sought to leadership for.
"Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but
was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light
from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard,
kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer
from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where
Mrs. Jones was already snoring." The setting helps identify in what type of enviroment the animals lived in and why they would want a change.
"Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life
of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings? " the diction of most of the phrases said by old Major play a great role in shaping up the events of the animals wanting to take over the farm.
"Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time. " The personification used helps describe old Major and what he intended the farm to become.

Macbeth

SITE 1:
tone- sinister,bloody events
central characters- evil, witches, super natural
Macbeth-1606 Shakespeare
-King James symbolized union of the scottish and english crown
-1st performed in Hampton court
-real macbeth rules scotland 1040-1057
-10/14 kings between 943-1097 were killed
Macbeth ruled wisely for 17yrs: North and south Scotland were united for the first time under his rule
-Malcom 3rd defeated Macbeth with the help of England and killed all memebers of the family to assure his throne
SITE 2:
Raphael, Holinshed chronicles= real story
-population pressures made war and slaughter era of community
-survival= warlord to protect life, property, enemies, killing less capable family memebers to assure strong ruler
-Macbeth-"Son of life," christian name
-Father of macbeth= Findlaech ruler of Moray in Scotland, killed by Gilllacomagin
Banquo and Fleance= never existed
-3 witches- fate
-Macbeth's beautiful castle: Nothing is what it seems like
"Maybe destiny will make me king without murdering"
-Macbeth killed Banquo
Macbeth was written to please king James 1
-play has double meaning, ambiguity, phrophicies,
Theme= dog eat dog?
SITE 3:
-every king used history to hold on to power
-holinshed Chronicles of Scottish History=loose collection of tales gossip and fantasies
-Stuart kings were longest generation of family to rule Scotland
-phrophicy tht Stuaart's would some day rule Scotland were told= made up
-gunpowder plot=catholic extremists planned to blow up house of parliment
on ocasion of speech by the king to parliment
SHAKESPEARE;

1. Duncan=saintly
2. Banquo-innnocent of murder
3. Malcom= friend of England
4. prediction of Scotland from witches
5. murder of Duncan
HOLINSHED;
1. Duncan-bad
2. Banquo= part of overthrowing Duncan
3. Malcom= not friend of England
4. mystic godess gave predictions
5. Duncan was kille dinbattle

-shortest play of tragedies
-focus on psychological effect of crimes upon /macbeth and nature of relationship of lady and mr. Macbeth
SITE 5:
contributers;
Southern History, 1527=Hector Boece
Discovery of witchcraft, Rheignald Scot
Daemonogie, 1599 king james 1
-Changes of Shakespear
-dramatic purpose porducing more exciting story, Thematic purpose of crearting more complex characterization of macbeth
Holinshed chronicles- Macbeth=valiant gentlman
Shakespear= macbeth sent king Duncan to crush rebellion
-altering Macbeth's bravery in defeat of Macdownald
- presents Macbeth as gentle, thoughtful
- 3 sisters into ugly, hags, sinister
- presenting evil
- presents Banquo as kind, honorable,
- Changes Duncan into a respectful ideal leader
- changing events of Duncan's death
- Duncan death allows Macbeth's feeling to develop

1.http://afrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ (Ariana Farmer)
2.jhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com (John Hofman)
3.narhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com (Nicole Anderson)

Mind map

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Discussion Notes

What is dropping knowledge? (video)
.how do you percieve the world?
.poverty, climate, change, history, globalization, genocide
.Bianca Jagger= need internet for interaction to learn abt our cultures
.Cesar L.McDowell= "every effort to change the world starts with people asking questions."
-What caused differences in belief and values, morals
.Johnathon Granoff= "Some brands are gov't"
Serious Need for Play (article)
Childs need; stable family, playing( free-play)
.Brown=free-play is critical w/coping stress, cognitive skills
.Pellegrini= No rules are better for building creative minds
-learn to share, communicate
.Gordon Burghardt= found that child play have no clear goal
.Joak Panskeep= play is major mechanism, higher regions of brain interaction
#1 These tools will enhance our learning when grades don't matter anymore because it will help us interact and do things of our own without taking grades in mind. In which the knowledge and profit we achieve from it will be for our own good and not for what is expected of us. I understand that most kids from a young age are built to follow rules and do just that. In which they aren't able to build characteristics of their own. Having no opportunity of deciding for themselves. These skill of opening up and having free-play will help identify ourselves and get to know what we really want from ourselves.
#2 These concepts can help for the Ap exam in which we look for answers more into depth than just what the teacher has said. Along with not just knowing the answers but understanding why that is the answer. This can inspire others to do the same because nobody has done this before and don't understand the true meaning of free-play when grades don't matter anymore. It would be like a challenge to prove that you can break the rules and follow your instincts.

REMIX

The true story behind Dickens character was not that he was self motivated in life to progress but the two obstacles that he was faced with that needed a new found solution. There was France on one side and then there was Britain in the other. He lived his life with obstacles that he could never overcome and instead creating new route ways into different paths that led him to become the great writer he was. On which a great writer I would not call but instead a creater of trickey he was. Making stories that he never dealt with and only knew and viewed from afar. He wrote on what he saw creating it into a life experience that was never there. The obstacles that he wrote about were some of his and some borrowed. Yes he was poor and yess that created challenges in life. However he never did become that famous writer he expected to be. Only writing that which was able to be viewed and keeping the rest a secret.

The Scarlet Letter

1.The plot takes place in seventeenth century Boston in a Puritan community, where they set up stricts rules of which are to be followed. In which Hester Pyrne a woman of the puritan settlement dishonors the rule and concieves a baby while being married with another man. She goes through hardships in trying to keep this man a secret and being able to keep her baby Pearl.
2.The theme of the novel is sacrificing what one loves the most for love.
3.The author's tone is that of pain and hurt.
(1)"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison."
(2)"On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itse"
(3)"Measured by the prisoner’s experience, however, it might be reckoned a journey of some length; for, haughty as her demeanour was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon"
4.Five literary techniques used was tone, diction, foreshadowing, characterization,and symbols.
(1.)“Make way, good people, make way, in the King’s name,” cried he. “Open a passage; and, I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel."
(2.)"In Hester Prynne’s instance, however, as not unfrequently in other cases, her sentence bore, that she should stand a certain time upon the platform, but without undergoing that gripe about the neck and confinement of the head, the proneness to which was the most devilish characteristic of this ugly engine."
(3)"Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public ."
(4)"She saw her father’s face, with its bald brow, and reverend white beard, that flowed over the old-fashioned Elizabethan ruff; her mother’s, too, with the look of heedful and anxious love which it always wore in her remembrance, and which, even since her death, had so often laid the impediment of a gentle remonstrance in her daughter’s pathway. She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it."
(5)"It was carelessly, at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind. Very soon, however, his look became keen and penetrative. A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight. His face darkened with some powerful emotion, which, nevertheless, he so instantaneously controlled by an effort of his will, that, save at a single moment."

poem with nine elements

Dramatic Situation: The speaker is speaking to the public in general about the feeling of love.
Structure of poem: The structure of the poem is that of complete thoughts marking the start of a new thought.
Theme: The theme of the poem is love and the feelings that love brings forth.
Grammar: The poem expresses a different set of thoughts by the stanzas.
Images: The images of holding hands presents thought and emotion of what love makes the writer feel like.
Diction: The writer uses words that are simple to identify but present a deeper meaning because it is realated to the feeling of love.
Tone: The tone of the writer is calm and relaxed.
Prosidy: The poem throughout flows from a starting feeling to other examples of the emotions of love.

Charles Dickens

I believe that Charles Dickens wrote the novel of the Tale of Two Cities because it was an escape to what waas surrounding him at that time period. In which the people were poor and many were almost starved. While they saw no hope and Lucy to them was the only light thay would provide comfort or a sign of progression to them. Charles foreshadowing of events soon to happen provided me with clues of what it must have been to be in the shoes of someone living in a time as diffucult as that. Along with the tone and mood of the setting in which it was dark and abstract to that of Lucy's character. While the main character Mr. Lorry has an internal conflict in which he shows no emotion and takes everything ona professional side.

"Tale of Two Cities" summary ch's 1-3

The story takes place in the year 1775 in England and France. At the beginning of the story three pasangers on a coach ride end up stranded and recieve a letter,in which they are confused about and it's message is unknown. Throughout the second chapter there is a qoute that foreshadows part of the meaning to ones secret,"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. . ." This quote foreshadows what events and the letters true meaning.
In chapter three Lorry ends up in a sort of trance believing that he has been buried for eighteen years and that all this is part of his imagination and is only been given a second chance in life.

BQ Introduction

edith bq -

The Tale of Two Cities

The title of the book I'm reading didn't soundlike much at first. However,as a paid more attention to it I started realizing that it could mean anything from a story of how two towns came to be or a persons memory of two different places he or she loved. I however. came to the conclusion that the book I was about to read was just as its title a tale of two cities.

The House on Mango Street

1."The House on Mango Street" is about a young mexican girl with the name Esperanza who struggles in her neighborhood trying to become something more of her life. She dislikes her old broken down house and sees it only as temporary and that some day she will move out to a nice big fancy house.
2.The theme of the novel is self definition of the characters.
3.The author's tone is that of hope and wonder.
"I knew then I had to have a house.A real house. One I could point to."
"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."
"Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor."
4.Five techniques used in the novel was symbols,metaporhs,simile,climax and denoument.
"No, this isn’t my house I say and shake my head as if shaking could undo the year I’ve lived here. I don’t belong. I don’t ever want to come from here."
"Sally, you lied, you lied. He wouldn’t let me go. He said I love you, I love you, Spanish girl."
"No, this isn’t my house I say and shake my head as if shaking could undo the year I’ve lived here. I don’t belong. I don’t ever want to come from here"
"In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting."

Love Poem

Your lips speak soft sweetness
Your touch a cool caress
I am lost in your magic
My heart beats within your chest

I think of you each morning
And dream of you each night
I think of your arms being around me
And cannot express my delight

Never have I fallen
But I am quickly on my way
You hold a heart in your hands
That has never before been given away
- Rex A. Williams -


I chose this poem because it describes a special time period in one's life when strong feelings grow towards another human being.

Research section one

Is the American justice system equitable? It is a matter of people's background knowledge on our justice system. Equitable which is dealing fairly and equally with all concerned is viewed in very different portals in the way our justice system is organized.our justice system started off in the colonial era by using harsh corporal punishment. However, around the 1950's the state became united in bettering our system making changes that were not based on skin color, social class etc. It is important to know how our justice system has shaped up since the beginnings of time and how it has progressed. our justice system now in the twenty first century has been influenced by the media and has taken a different route since we first established the justice system. We have taken a new stand and logic on the way the media has influenced us to believe in our justice system or the way we critique it.