This week, we spent all of our time watching movies. My group decided to analyze the play Macbeth, so that is what we got to watch. When I heard we were watching the film instead of reading the book, I was really excited because reading Shakespeare can be difficult. As it turns out, I think I would have preferred to read it. The movie was placed in a more modern setting, but still used the old language, which made it harder for me to understand. Plus, the movie obviously goes quickly, while I could’ve slowed down and reread passages with a book to make sure I was following the plot correctly. Regardless, the movie was still good, even if it was slightly creepy at times. I’m really excited that we picked the feminist criticism because there is so much material to work with in this story. The movie really showed how much of an influence Lady Macbeth had. She was constantly hovering over Macbeth and persuading him to do things. The movie allowed us to see her subtle influences, like when she would make noise to distract everyone from what Macbeth was saying. The three witches were also fun to watch because they were way different than I imagined and were lurking in the background for most of the big plot points. Before, trying to understand what we were doing with this project was hard because we didn’t know what the play really consisted of, but now that we know more details, I can see how our project will start to come together. Even though we only have three days next week, it will be cool to get a start on our ideas. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079499/?ref_=fn_al_tt_6
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This week, we continued with my favorite thing - poetry. Okay, maybe I’m being slightly sarcastic. To be honest, we did something new this week which made it much more tolerable. We looked at two different poems, Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sonnet 146 by William Shakespeare. Having two allows us to compare and contrast their similarities and allows us to think of the overall meaning in a new way. Writing the essay at the end of the week was slightly different, in both a positive and negative way. Comparing the poems allowed me to have a really solid extension of my thoughts as I could use multiple sources, but it made it harder to describe each poem individually. I know that poetry is still my biggest challenge in this class, but hopefully I will get better as time goes on. Speaking of Shakespeare, we started our new unit this week, which consists of our Shakespearean Drama Project. I chose Macbeth as the play I wanted to look at, along with Christina and Lindsay. We haven’t started reading or watching the play yet; we have only began understanding our critical theory lens. My group picked the Feminist Criticism as the lens we wanted to study, and I am really happy with our decision. Obviously, things have changed a ton for women throughout the years, so it will be extremely interesting to compare how the women of Macbeth are treated compared to now. While I don’t know much about Macbeth in general, I have heard a lot about Lady Macbeth. I know it will be very fun to analyze her actions and see how things may have been different if this play took place in present times. Here is an overview of her character http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/canalysis.html The first week of tri 2 was pretty simple, which was a nice way to come back after the intensity of the tragedy blogs and the reflection paper. We started by learning about our upcoming SSR project. When the project was first presented, I really didn’t want to do it, simply because I was overwhelmed by the idea of it. I do this frequently; I am told to do an assignment that is unfamiliar, and I shut down, assuming that I can’t do it. So far, everything that has been thrown at me has been accomplished, so I need to get over being scared of unfamiliarity. After the initial panic, I began to think about the multiple things I could do with the Pecha Kucha presentation, and began to get very excited. I picked two novels related to race and identity, and I think that I will be able to do something great with this project, even if it will be challenging. The second part of this week centered around the practice AP test. After getting my score back, I felt pretty okay with where I am. I answered 32 out of 55 correctly, which obviously isn’t great, but it was much better than I thought I was going to do. When analyzing our results, it was amazing to see how my correct answers correlated with how I understood the piece given to us. If I really connected with one of the selections, I generally did pretty well on the questions. There was a portion of the test where I got six wrong in a row, which was because I really didn’t understand what that story was saying. I know that we have no control over what the AP test stories will be, so I will need to work on being able to analyze the pieces that aren’t as interesting to me in the future. Here is a link to some tips on taking the AP test. https://www.albert.io/blog/ap-english-literature-tips/ |
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