Having finally gotten a full week of school, we used the opportunity to finish and present our Shakespeare presentations. The first few days were hectic, as we tried to put the last touches on the slides. Then came actually figuring out what to say, which is always a little harder than what you expect. My group decided that it would be easiest to assign everyone a slide to speak to. This was a really good decision, as our we had three different psychological perspectives to present, and there were three of us. It was also nice, as it allowed us to pick art and music that we could each feel confident about explaining. Our presentation went well, without any major hang ups. This project has taught me much more than I thought it would at the start. It obviously was a way to learn about the story of Macbeth, but it was more than that. Since we did psychological theory, we spent a fair amount of time looking in to the history of psychology. Getting to look at websites like this was really fun. This was especially fun since I have a psychology class this trimester. It was cool to be able to apply information I learned in that class to what we were doing into this class. The biggest thing this project taught me though, was how to work in a group. Plenty of other projects in this class have had me working with others, but this was the first where things didn’t go smoothly the entire time. We didn’t agree on all the ideas, and there were some parts of the project that no one really wanted to do. We worked it out though, and it’s taught me a lot about working in teams.
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This was the first week back from winter break, but that didn't stop us from moving forward in the class. Before break, we started the Shakespeare project. We had gotten through watching Macbeth and writing our proposals on it. We came back from break and started working immediately on the next step: a presentation. My group finished the majority of the presentation, and that is probably because we used what we learned from the last presentation to do it. We made a basic outline for the presentation, filled it in with short bullet points, and added plenty of visuals. We felt very prepared for this. The next step in the project would be to write the paper, which scares me a little. The paper is the longest paper we've had to write in this class, and it's also the one will the least amount of guidelines. This makes sense, as the papers should get more advanced as the year goes on. I feel like we will definitely need to use the skills from the previous papers we've written to complete this one. We also started two new poems for Poem(s) of the Week. It felt like the poems this week were harder than normal. This is probably because one of the poems was very negative towards spring. It really threw me, since spring is supposed to be the symbol for rebirth and hope. I feel as though it was a good poem to analyze though, as it was a good reminder to not take everything the poem says at face value. It was also nice to have two poems that had opposite tones. The last two poems we studied (Ozymandias and Sonnet 146) had similar ideas of fading into time. This week’s poems thought very differently of spring though. It was definitely a good learning experience. |
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