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