King Lear turned out to be very different than I expected it to be. It was like they had two different time periods going on with their elizabethean style clothes, and their guns. Once I got over that, It was just trying to understand what they were saying and watch the characters interactions that was a little tricky. I was trying to watch the movies, understand it, analyze it, and then relate it to the deconstruction theory. However, I think that when we take our notes on the movie and put them with our notes on our theory they'll contect better; especially after we've had a week to digest what we watch. I'd like to take this time to have a funeral my dude the fool, his death came out of nowhere. These men barged in, the noose came out, he failed and was dead. His death is the one that impacted me the most. He was the only one who was truthful to the king, and he did it in a hilarious way (although the head on a stick was a little creepy). Next on the list to dicuss is Glouster. First of all, I want to mention that if someones eyes were ripped out of their head, I'm pretty sure they would die or at least pass out from pay. Whatever though. Glouster got screw over by his some, But I guess that's what you get when you say the only good thing about him was the sex glouster had when he was received. He trusted his son to not tell the daughters that he was aiding the king. But good ole Edmond went and told them because he wanted to marry them to gain power; Overall; the whole play boils down to King Lear trusting the wrong daughters which leads to everyone he cares about dying. Modern Text
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Deconstructing was the theory my group chose to do for our shakespeare project. And after researching information on it, I think I have a pretty good understanding of what it is; but I think we'll have to wait until we try to apply it to King Lear to really see if it sunk it. So far I gather that deconstruction is all about breaking the story apart and looking deeper into the meaning it. Especially looking at the author's intention of writing the way he did. The thing is, is that Shakespeare probably didn't write down what he made cordelia refuse to play her father's game of "how much do you love me", and that could maybe do a good thing or bad thing, I haven't decided yet.
In addition to that project, we also had to poems of the week. Both sonnets and both pertaining to life after death and what's important for you to leave behind. Shakespeare's poem went right over my head the first time it read it. But after talking it over with my group, I started to understand what he was trying to get at. Basically, don't waste your life collection material things and focus more on your character because that's what lives on after your bodies in the ground. Ozymandias on the other hand was a little easier to understand of the first read; however, everything is better after discussing it with my table. So this dude Ozymandias was not a very nice dude, but he was a really powerful leader, the "king of kings" as he called himself. But here we are a long time later and his statue is crumbling in the desert. Moral of the story: be nicer to people and maybe your legacy will live on a little longer. I was presently surprised at whole easily my PoW flowed out this week. Although, I'm still a little unsure of the style and such the college board is looking for on these types of writings. Deconstruction This week in general is a struggle-new class, food coma hang over, and the first full week of school in a long time- so it was very nice that we took it easy in this class. I am excited to see what everyone;'s topic are for our SSR projects. I chose the topic of love at first sight and how it changes people. My books are Pride and Prejudice and A Winter's Tale. I was drawn to these books because of the time eras they were written in. I love the victorian age with all of the balls and odd social norms that occurred, and also the 1920's with the flappers and secrecy. I think it will be very interesting to work on the presentation since it is in the pecha kucha style, it will take some practice to get the point across in the short 20 seconds per slide.
In addition to the SSR projects, the AP practice test was quite a surprise; it wasn't like I expected. I got frustrated on some of the questions because it was asking how I interpreted the literature, I thought this was strange because people can interpret things in all different ways. I think I had beginners luck in this practice test because I made quite a few educated guesses and get a pretty decent score.My favorite poem from the test was the one about the war survivor visiting the memorial. I understood the poem at face value and on a deeper level, which is a rarity for me. I think I had beginners luck in this practice test because I made quite a few educated guesses and get a pretty decent score. AP TEST STRATEGIES |
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