Monday, May 20, 2013

Brag Sheet

- always had above a 3.0 gpa
- honor roll since 3rd grade 
- two warrior of the month awards from Righetti 
- academic award while playing a sport with a 3.5 gpa

- played soccer from age 5-13 ages
10-13 on a club team 
- played softball from ages 5-16 
8-16 travel teams 
Freshman and sophomore year at Righetti while playing travel 
- track junior year 

- worked at fundraisers (hostess at a restaurant) 

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Johnny Cyberpunk

This short story by William Gibson is about a guy who has put a data system in his head and it lands him in trouble and realizes that he needs to take the data out of his head because it doesn't lead to good situations. This short story is postmodernist because it blends non fiction with fiction. The shirt story is cyberpunk because it uses science fiction to mix high tech and low life. 

Best of American Lit

I myself feel like this year I really got to understand more of the concept of collaborative thinking and using the Internet to show more and learn more. I feel like this year I was able to understand essay writing and do a good job on them when I fully understand the topic. I feel like I was able to practice something that a the other English classes weren't able to go over. 

Postmodernism Project preview

Monday, May 13, 2013

My Review of The Great Gatsby Movie

This weekend I went to see the movie The Great Gatsby with my mom and sister. The movie was very helpful for my understanding of the book. The movie was full of like and captured everyone's personality way better then I was able to with the reading. In my opinion being able to see a visualize to the characters in the story I'm reading lets me understanding way better. I would definitely recommend anyone who was thinking of seeing the movie definitely should. 

Future Me

 The letter I wrote to myself to be able to open 4 years from now to help me remember what I wanted to tell my future self. 

Thursday, April 25, 2013

THIS IS ABSURD

Definition of Absurd:
1) ridiculously unreasonable, unsound
2) having no rational or orderly relationship to human life : meaningless

Something that I find completely Absurd in life is BAD MANNERS. When people don't have good manners I think it is so absurd. I feel like good manners is common sense and makes the world a better place if everyone had them.

I also think that bombing innocent people and being able to purchase or make weapons is absurd. There is no reason why an untrained person should be able to get ahold of that kind of power.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Essay Reflection

I think what I did well on my essay was knowing the differences between the groups in the new world and how the lower groups made the higher groups look like a higher society.
What I could've done better was organize my thoughts and planned a better thesis to base my essay on.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

MAPLAN

Today in class I figured that I would do a mind map. I plan on including the authors background in greater detail. I also hope to find video that will make my presentation more interesting and I am hoping it helps everyone understand the author better in a way they can relate.

Monday, March 4, 2013

Vocab March 4

Chronic- constantly reoccurring
- Class is a chronic part of my schedule.
Sentiment- an opinion
- My sentiment of school is strong.
Morality- distinction between right and wrong
- Making the right choices is decided by my morality.
Remorse- regret or guilt
- I had a remorse for the bad way I handled the situation.
Defect- imperfection or lack
- The broken toy had a defect.
Acquaintance- a persons knowledge or experience of something
- Meeting the new person was a new acquaintance.
Sanity- ability to think and behave in a normal and rational matter
- People in insane asylums have no sanity.
Implication- conclusion that can be drawn by something
- After hearing her side of the story she had the implication she was right.
Alternative- another possibility
- She had an alternative choice.
Savage- fierce, violent, and uncontrolled
- Wild animals can be savage.
Phenomenon- fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
- Winning the race is a personal phenomenon.


Map 1: Introducing Elizabeth Bishop

1) Her lesbian relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares gave her life stability and love

2) Bishop often spent many years writing a single poem, working toward an effect of offfhandedness and spontaneity

3) Bishop came to see poetry as an available, viable vocation for a woman

4) Bishop won the Lucy Martin Donnelly Fellowship from Bryn Mawr College in 1950 and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

5) In the last decade of her life, Bishop traveled in South America and Europe and taught at several universities, establishing a permanent relationship with Harvard

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Applied Modernism

Essay Pre-write (Richard Cory)
• people thought of Richard Cory as a thing not a person
• disruptive rhythm
• difference between inner and outer world
• deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths

"Richard Cory" Essay

In the poem "Richard Cory" uses many Modernist thoughts and ideas of ways of writing. Modernists used the idea of modernism which was what they thought would be the vision of the future. The author of the poem "Richard Cory" included in his writing the characters inner and outer world, disruptive appearances hiding some difficult truths, and disruptive rhythm to his poem to make people think outside of what people had always thought.

In the poem this Modernist author used the main characters inner and outer feelings to show how what we think in our own thoughts can be drastically different from the thoughts of outer people. He uses this when he talks about the outer thoughts of all the other people in town thinking that Richard Cory was a high class man. Then at the end of the poem the author reveals the truth about Richard Cory.

The author of this poem also uses deceptive appearances to explain the man who was a person the town looked up to. This use of modernism I very similar to inner and outer strategy. Although, it is slightly different because deceptive appearances hiding difficult truths is how the town thought of him before and how they thought about him after. The author uses this to explain the ideas of modernism as other people finding out people's true selves.

Lastly, the author also includes the thoughts of the imagists which used un-rhymed strategy. Although the authors poem wasn't all un-rhymed he uses disruptive rhythm to make it catch the reader to see if they could notice it. The author uses this to include imagist movement to make modernism more interesting by including more movements from that time period to make readers think more closely to the writing.

Modernism occurred during the early 1900s to the 1960s and brought many new ideas to the "low art" which was the majority of people in that time bring out ideas from their inner thoughts and spread their vision of the future to everyone.


Tuesday, February 26, 2013

My Modernist

I chose Elizabeth Bishop as my modernist. I chose her because she is a poet and I enjoy poetry. I also chose her because her poems were about simple things but could contain more meanings than you would think.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

"The First Seven Years" response

After reading this story I was definitely shocked with how it ended. I enjoyed the amusement of Miriam's father Feld trying to get her and the boy together when that isn't the fathers place. I also liked the ending because it gave the story a twist and it also allowed the whole story to come together. It let us know why Sobel was such a trustworthy hard worker and why he was upset after Feld talked to the boy. The author also left me wondering if Miriam and Sobel would end up together.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Spring Vocab #5

Brouhaha- over excited reaction to something
- There was a brouhaha at the new store opening.
Cloy- discussed or sickened
- Everyone was cloyed after getting food poisoned.
Demeanor-outward behavior
- Stealing is a demeanor.
Deference- humble submission or respect
- The students gave deference to the teacher.
Enigmatic- difficult to interpret or understand
- Sign language is enigmatic.
Definitive- conclusion
- We came up with a definitive answer.
Bumptious- proud to an irritating degree
- The straight A student was bumptious when bragging.
Choleric- bad tempered
- The teacher was choleric when the students didn't do their homework.
Bulwark- a defensive wall
- The shy girl didn't talk because she had up a bulwark.
Curtail- reduce in quantity
- When we ran out of clothes there was a huge curtail.
Adamant- refusing to be persuaded
- The girl was adamant about changing her mind.
Profligate- wasteful in use of resources
- The students were profligate with the tools the teacher gave them.
Mawkish- sentimental in a feeble or sickly way
- The couple was mawkish in the halls.
Thwart- preventing someone from accomplishing something
- The kid with no computer had a thwart.
Onus- used to refer to something that is ones duty or responsibility
- My job is my onus.
Requisite- made necessary by particular circumstances
- My job is my requisite for getting money.
Mollify- appease the anger or anxiety if someone
- My mom had to mollify my dog who got mad.
Sartorial- relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress
- Fashion these days are different from the sartorial in older days.
Presentiment- intuitive feeling about the future
- After I turned in the test I had a presentiment.
Impromptu- done without being planned , organized, or rehearsed
- A surprise is an impromptu.
Forbearance- formal patience or self control
- When teachers make me mad I have to have forbearance.
Remit- refrain from inflicting
- When two guys get in a fight girls have to remit.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Essay Post Game Analysis

I feel like on my essay I did we'll in explaining the literary techniques when talking about how the relate to the theme. Next time I feel like I could better map out my ideas and make sure they are clear so people will know what I'm talking about. I would give myself a B because I answered the essay questions the best I could by what I remembered from the book but could've made it more clear.

Monday, February 4, 2013

The Time of My Life

Friday in class I worked on trying to review what I still needed to include on my blog and studied for the vocabulary test which helped me a lot. I also went over the book a little with my group.

SPRING VOCAB #2

Suffused- Gradually spread through or over
- I suffused posters at school.
Centrifuge- Machine that uses force to deprecate a substance
- The man got killed by the centrifuge.
Sieve- A utensil consisting of wire or mesh
-She's got a mind like a sieve.
Dentifrice- Paste or powder for cleaning teeth
- My grandparents used dentifrice for their teeth.
Leisure- use of free time for enjoyment
- Summer is student's leisure.
Patronage- the power to control appointments to office or The right to privlages
- Our principal has patronage over our school.
Saccharine- excessively sweet
Saccharine is favorable for children.
Phonograph- A record player
- My grandparents owned a phonograph.
Profusion- A large quantity of something
- I have a profusion amount of homework.
Cadence- a modulation or inflection o the voice
- When I'm sick I have a cadence when I talk.
Vessel- Ship or large boat
- The marines have many vessels.
Praetorian- Having power
- The instructor was the praetorian.
Delinquent- Failing
The teenager broke the law and became a delinquent.
Gibbering- talking non-sense
- The little boy was gibbering from excitement.
Insidious- treturous/ desietful
- The killer was insidious.
Strewn- scattered randomly
- The stack of papers were strewn across the room.
Veiled- bridal veil
- The bride was veiled walking down the isle.
Harlequin- classic comedian
- My uncle is a harlequin.
Toil- work
- Not all students toil at school.

SPRING VOCAB #1

Proboscis- any long flexible snout.
- The elephant had a proboscis.
Pantomime- dramatic entertainment
- The play showed great pantomime.
Proclivity- tendency to choose or do something regular.
- Biting my nails was my proclivity.
Centrifuge- machine using force for separating substances.
- The machine tore the man apart.
Odious- arousing or deserving hatred
- After the boy lied the girl felt odious towards him.
Jargon- confused unintelligible language
- Spanish is jargon to me.
Ravenous- very eager for food
- After not eating all day I was ravenous when I got home.
Parlor- room used for conversation or resection of guests
- Parlors where very popular in the olden days.
Stagnant- not flowing in a current or stream
- The ocean is a stagnant.
Cacophony- harsh sound
- The thunder gave a great cacophony.
Tamped- to put check on
- My moms friend tamped me when I went out.
Flourish- to grow luxuriously or thrive
- My plants flourish in the spring.
Plateau- extensive land area with level surface and raised sharply
- The grass land was on a plateau.
Rollick- to behave in a joyous manner
- The kids were rollick at recess.
Asylum- place of refuge and protection or giving shelter
- American Horror Story: asylum is the best show Ever.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

FAHRENHEIT 451

1) Bradbury says the novel isn't about censorship.

2) The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of book paper.

3) The book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature.

4) The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

5) François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

My plan for this semester is to try and figure out a career or job field that I would like to have when I am older with a family. I would like it to be something that I can enjoy doing everyday and something that I know I will be able to excel in and be able to provide for a family one day.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE

- I think that based on the definition that I found for literature that music is definitely considered literature because literature is known for being a writing that uses verses and expresses ideas in new ways.

- I think we define literature as being a form of writing in a certain language or time that expresses thoughts and experiences.

- The difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony is the genre and the specific way each author uses words, writing, and rhythm to to show their personal style for all different people to enjoy and understand who the author really is.