Introduction to my blog

I am in an AP english class and have found out that reaching out to helping others prepare for the AP test will benefit many.
I hope you take this blog in serious consideration if you are preparing for the AP english Language and composition. If you have any questions please comment and I will be sure to get back to you.

Friday, March 30, 2012

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

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mind map

brain://F088180E-3B2C-05E7-39E2-4B289581EC30/68D24BA7-CD3B-62E0-19A0-0A6A45A113BE

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

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.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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."