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Senior Scrapbook

1. I will be finished with my project in about a week. 2. The end product will have 8 pages, and will look exactly like a real life scrapbook, only it's virtual instead. 3. During dead week or finals, I will present my scrapbook by showing it online.

My Progress

1. So far, I have made an account on myscrapnook.com. I have also chose what pages I will be including, and chose some pictures im going to use. 2. I still need to accomplish how it will all come together and the order. 3. My work will benefit myself and others because it will remind us of all the memories we've made.

My Plan

1. My goal is to make a scrapbook of my most memorable and favorite high school memories.
2. Materials that will be needed are a computer, and pictures
3. So far, I have made an account on MyScrapNook. com
4. I will present my scrapbook to my colleagues by posting it to my blog.

AP Progress 3

Today I have been studying the lit. terms list. The words I have the hardest time memorizing are the words in the middle. I know the words near the beginning and the end of the pack well. By the time the AP yet comes, I will know all the words.

AP Progress 2

This week I have been looking over and answering some of the analysis questions.  It seems I have the most problem with questions about the work as a whole, but not as much about answering questions about a certain line, phrase, or word. 

AP progress

Over the weekend I have been looking at some of the essay questions. The essays are the most challenging part for me because I always run out of time. I am trying to train myself to be able to quickly organize my ideas and get them down on paper.

Journal topic

I reviewed one of the open essay prompts about a character that had made little or no appearance in a novel or play, but was still an unimportant character. It took a limitless time for me to come up with a character, but I chose hamlet's father's ghost from the play hamlet. It took me about 5 minutes to get all my thoughts organized intoa plan. Which is always the hardest part of writing an essay.

A Reflection of Unstructured Learning

The themes of the text are preparation and fate. The man had spent everyday focusing and preparing for his journey. "I wanted to spend as much of my evenings working out in the Police Gymnasiums as possible, after which I'd usually go to bed around nine o'clock and sleep through until five the next morning." Fate was also a theme is this excerpt because although he had spent hours trying to come up with a name, a name was presented to him when he wasn't searching for it.  "Eventually, a suitable handle was provided inadvertently by one of the other cops."

1. In retrospect the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces some of the major themes of the book. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama in which you explain how it functions in this way. Do not summarize the plot. 2. 1979 Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of recognizedliterary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone, beconsidered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and whythe full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. 3.1982 In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a work of literary merit that confronts the reader or audience with a scene or scenes of violence. In a well-organized essay, explain how the scene or scenes contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Avoid plot summary.

My plan

Each night, I will look at one of the resources Dr.preston has posted. I'll look for tips, strategies, and how to make quicker decisions because I struggled with time last year on the AP test.

Poem Recitation

Recorded by Alexandro Rae Contreras

MacBeth test notes

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. A
9. C
10. A
11. Macbeth started off as a good man. When the desire for power overtook him,beginning wih r witches' prophecies, his character began to change. At first, he didn't want to kill Duncan, but by the end, he killed anyone necessary to keep tr throne, ad didn't think twice.
12. What motivates him is the desire for power.
13. Te witches cause Macbeth to act anyway they goose, he holds everything they tell him as truth.
14. Macbeth became obsessed Wth the prophecy, and dwelled on it. Banquo was not as interested, and didn't delight in it as much either.
15. Their relationship is lady Macbeth telling Macbeth what to do. Many of the evil things he did was because she told him to.

1. B
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. A
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. B
10. C
11. This quote signifies that distinction between right and wrong has disappeared. There is no longer a right or wrong.
12. Macbeth functions as a morality play because it deals a lot with death.
13. Dramatic irony in Macbeth is used to develop characters and the plot.
14. Lady Macbeth persuades him by saying he is a coward.
15. Macduff was very sad, and planned revenge. Macbeth was indifferent to her death.

MacBeth Notes

Act 1
- begins with three witches saying they will meet again
- Irish invaders led by Macdonwald
- MacBeth/Banquo Scottish hero generals
- Norway defeated, MacBeth will take thane of Cawdor's title
- witches tell MacBeth he will be king, and Banquo won't be king but his children will
- Duncan declares Malcom will take throne
- Lady MacBeth tells MacBeth to do what is necessary to seize crown
- MacBeth decides not to kill Duncan, but Lady MacBeth calls him a coward
- he agrees, plan: make chamberlains drunk, kill Duncan, then smear his blood on sleeping chamberlains

Act 2
- MacBeth has vision of dagger (tip- duncan, handle- hand), tries to grab,fails
- Lady MacBeth will ring Bell to signal chamberlains asleep
- Lady MacBethe couldn't kill Duncan he resembled her father
- MacBeth sid he heard chamberlains wake but said prayers and went back to sleep
- couldn't say "amen" with them
- "Sleep no more, MacBether does murder sleeep."
- Lady MacBeth takes dagger into room, MacBeth forgot to leave it with chamberlains
- They hear knocking, it's Macduff
- Macduff goes to see king, finds him dead
- The king's sons Malcom and Donablain flee because they fear they are in danger
- Suspicion then falls on them
- Strange: its daytime, yet dark.  Owl killed falcon.   Horses ate eachother.
- Macbeth travels to Scone to be crowned

Act 3
-MacBeth fears prophecy of banquo is true, and that Bangquo will overthrow him as well
- MacBeth gets two assassins to kill Banquo, saying banquo murdered King Duncan
- Fleance escapes, Banquo is killed
- Banquo's ghost is sitting in Macbeth's dinner chair
- They speak, only MacBeth can see him
- Witches meet with Hecate, and say htye must give MacBeth false security
- Lennox blames MacBeth fro murders and calls him a tyrant
- MacBeth hears of this and he prepares for war

Act 4
- MacBeth goes to witches for predictions
- Floating head said beware of Macduff
- Bloody child said none of women bron of him shall harm MacBeth
- Cornwed child holding tree said he's safe until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill
- sees 8 crowned kings in line, Banquo at end carrying mirror
- MacBeth sends murderers to capture Macduff's castle and kill family since Macduff has fled
- Malcolm will return to Schotland only with 10,000 soldiers
- Ross tells Macduff about his family, and he plan to get revenge on MacBeth

My Top 3

http://kmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/#!/2012/03/la-video.html

http://sfrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/analysis-remix-of-lord-of-flies.html

http://jprrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/2012/03/help-by-kathryn-stockett-remix-video.html

LA Remix

Mind Map

http://www.mindmeister.com/148779450

LA #2- Animal Farm

1. This novel begins with farm animals wanting to revolt against human control.  This rebelliousness is started by a boar named Old Major that gives a speech to all the farm animals.  They devise a plan to overtake the farm and gain control of it.   Their plan works, they drove away all human contorl, and all is well for a while on the farm.  However, a particular pig Napoleon becomes power hungry, and suddenly his whole objective is to have complete power over the other animals.  He succeeds in brainwashing the animals, and becomes a tyrant, keeping a few pigs in his circle to justify and carry out his every ideal.  The rest of the animals are neglected by him, being overworked with little food.  As time passes by, the animals start to become more and more human like.  By the end of the novel, when the animals see Napoleon and his minions dining with his human neighbor, they cannot tell the difference between the humans and animals.
2. The theme of this novel is the corruption of power.  While the pigs may have had good intention in the beginning, their desires soon changed.  When someone is given total power, it never ends well.  Napoleon become ignorant to anyone else, only doing things that benefitted himself, and that would keep him in power.
3. The author's tone is pessimistic.  This is demonstrated throughout the novel with the constant misfortunes in the novel.  Examples include when Old Major dies, when the animals become extrememly unhappy and devalued, and when Napoleon kills anyone that defies him.
4.        ~Imagery
- "It was given out that the animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common."
- "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring."
- "The tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon's feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones."
      ~Diction
- easy to understand, not too formal:
- descriptive: "red- hot horseshoes"
- action words: " tortured"
       ~Allegory
- Napoloen represented Stalin
- Old Major represented Lenin
- Spuealer represented Russian propaganda
       ~Symbols
- the windmill: how overworked the animals were
- the barn: the center/beginning
      ~Repetition
- "Napoleon is always right."
- "I will work harder."
- the seven commandments

Socratic Seminar Notes

• Mistakes
- children need to make mistakes
- example: even though the child might spill the orange juice, the parent needs to let them learn how to do it. Or they will never learn.
- A person must learn through experience, not just by being told
•Instruction
- if kids are always being told what to do, they will suffer creatively, emotionally, and socially
- free play helps us use our learned ideas
•How do you remix ideas to make them relevant to your life?
-People in school are being taught how to take tests, not how to actually use that information to help them in the real world.
- Makd ideas into something that will interest you, then you won't have to be forced into it.

1a. These concepts can enhance my learning when grades no longer matter because I understand I need to keep growing, stretching, and challenging my mind in order to continue to develop my skills. Just like young children must develop creativity, older people must as well. Perhaps that's why people say adults have no imagination; they no longer had "free time."
1b. These concepts can enhance my ability to master content for the AP exam by seeing the exam as something enjoyable. Rather than having a negative attitude about it, I can choose to enjoy it. Which will make spending time with the material and mastering it much more easy.
1c. I can use these concepts to collaborate an inspire others by doing both previous techniques. Instead of posting an article, I could post a video so it would be enjoyable and then others would be more willing to spend time with it. Also, by sharing ideas we will be developing our creativity together, instead of keeping the information and experiences to ourselves.