This week could be considered to be a very easy and fun one. The main activity was watching our Shakespearian movie, Macbeth in my case. This means that the day was pretty open and shut. Show up, read/write for 20 some minutes, then watch the movie. At first glance, this would suggest that we didn't learn anything this week, but watching the movie was supprisingly tasking. Since the movie used the exact diolage from Shakespear, it was very hard to understand what was happening. I personally used Sparknotes whenever I felt unsure of what was going on (aka most of the movie). It also wasn't just a simple viewing of the play, as we had to focus on our critical theory. My group chose to do psychological, so I tried to really pay attention to why characters would to choose to do what they would do. Since I wasn't too sure what the characters were saying half the time though, it was a very difficult task. While I definetly didn't get all the usuable information, I feel as though I did good enough of a job to be able to start working on the next part this unit. I also feel prepared, since there's more than just Macbeth to anaylze psychologically. Lady Macbeth is a character who functions very differently than Macbeth, so her actions can also be noted. This will definetly help with writing the essay.
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This week started out with going back to an old activity of Poem of the Week. I was definitely excited to start doing these again, as I felt like I needed more practice on these. I wasn’t the best at them earlier, so now is a good opportunity to get better. There is a difference from other Poem of the Weeks we’ve done, as we were given two poems this week. It was concerning to hear that we were going to ramp up the difficulty after such a long break, but it’s been easier than I thought. Once we got going, I found a lot of the previous information returning to me. It also fun to have two poems, as you can start to see similarities of both. I think I’m in a good position for analyzing poems, as I was able to understand both without too much outside help. I’m a little nervous to write the timed writing, as it’s the first time we’ve written on two poems, but I think I can do it. We also started our Shakespearian Unit this week. So far, this has consisted of writing about our chosen critical theory. I thought this was a little weird at first, as we hadn’t even read the play yet. However, it made more sense as we studied our critical theory in depth. It’s not a surface level idea, but one that you have to really dig into in order to understand. The theory is well explained at this website. By preparing first, we can know what to look for when we actually watch the play. I’m looking forward to actually put the information we gathered to work. This week was the start of a new trimester. As in most classes, this meant that we changed that standard flow a little bit. Instead of reading any literature book, we're going to read two books with a similar theme over the whole trimester. This sounds very exciting to me, as it allows us to get a closer examination of ideas of different authors. By finding out what's the same, we can better understand what is universally true about that theme. We also have to do a presentation over the books. It will be a PechaKucha presentation, which will definitely be a change of pace. Because of the time limit on the slides, we will have to know our presentation well and be very concise with our speech. This scares me a little bit, as I normally don't like to follow a script when I present. The difference in style will force me to think and prepare in new ways though, so I think it will be a good experience for me. The other thing we did this week was to take a practice AP test. The test went well for me, and (more importantly) it gave me insight into what the actual test will be like. I want to say that I now know where the holes are in my English knowledge, but it’s not that simple. Out of the questions that I got wrong, many were due to simple misinterpretation. This scares me, as I don’t know how to stop that if I take the actual test. Hopefully doing more Poems of the Week will help to increase my interpretation skills. I did find a few knowledge holes that I can fill. There were a few different words that appeared multiple times on the test, most being figerative language terms. I looked up the definition of these words, and found this website. Having learned this, I should be a little more prepared for the next test. |
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