tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46469713065168287502024-02-07T21:11:53.007-08:00Meghan Martella's Blog Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-22561355924260349282014-06-01T10:52:00.000-07:002014-06-01T10:52:09.446-07:00OUR MASTERPIECEFor my Masterpiece, I worked together with <a href="http://tduguranrhsenglitcomp13.blogspot.com/">Taylor Duguran</a>, <a href="http://hsavasorhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/">Hannah Savaso</a>, and <a href="http://ksagisirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/">Kylie Sagisi</a> to create a project that fully covered our "Senior" experience and how we worked together, and with other peers, to finish off our high school experience with as much positivity and adventures as we could.<br />
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Here is a link to our blog:<br />
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<a href="http://theadventuresofusproject.tumblr.com/">http://theadventuresofusproject.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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Here is a link to our Prezi which we used to showcase our experience to the class:<br />
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<a href="http://prezi.com/mjtsoqri3odi/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy">http://prezi.com/mjtsoqri3odi/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy</a><br />
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And finally here is a link to our Youtube video that we put together (with major thanks to Taylor!) to really sum up what we learned from our experience:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvIgZJXcPI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvIgZJXcPI</a><br />
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If you have a chance I would recommend checking out our Masterpiece, especially the Youtube video link!<br />
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<br />Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-77288972546360563222014-04-16T20:57:00.000-07:002014-04-27T21:08:27.214-07:00Active Reading Notes of ACT V (MACBETH)<b>Scene i:</b><br />
-The Doctor and a maid watch as Lady Macbeth sleep walks and talks to herself<br />
- They can tell that Lady Macbeth is troubled and feels guilty, and how she continually tries to wash her hands of "blood"<br />
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<b>- </b>The Scottish lords prepare for battle and talk about the approaching <span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">English army, led by Malcolm, who will meet the Scottish army near Birnam Wood</span><br />
- Macbeth is fortifying troops at <span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Dunsinane Castle</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iii:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth and his men are confident going into battle because </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">“none of woman born” can harm Macbeth</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- Seyton, his servant, confirms that an army of 10,000 are approaching the castle, and Macbeth wears his armor though the battle is not for a while</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iv:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">-Near Birnam forest Malcolm prepares his men, saying that they should hold a bough in front of them to throw off the Scottish about their true numbers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene v:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>-</b> Macbeth is confident until he hears news that Lady Macbeth has died</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- He goes into a panic when he hears that "Birnam wood is advancing too Dunsinane," which in the prophecy is when he will fall</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth accepts what will happen in the battle</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene vi:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Preparing for battle</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene vii:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth is confident in battle and slays Lord Siward's son</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene viii:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: LFT-Etica-Web, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">- Macduff searches for Macbeth in the fight</span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-18844411784036926212014-04-13T22:28:00.000-07:002014-04-27T10:45:19.470-07:00Active Reading Notes of ACT IV (MACBETH)<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Scene i:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- The three witches are mixing the cauldron when Hecate stops and congratulates them on their work</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- A witch warns <i>"something wicked this way comes"</i> and Macbeth appears, demanding to hear a prophecy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- The first one is of a head warning him against Macduff, which he says he already knows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Second a bloody child appears and says <span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><i>“none of woman born / shall harm Macbeth”</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">- Third a crowned child holding a tree tells him that he is safe and secure until <i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><i>Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill"</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Fourth a line of 8 kings walks by, with Banquo in the end and carrying a mirror. Macbeth demands to know </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">the</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> meaning but the witches do not give him any hints</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- The witches vanish and then Lennox </span></span><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">appears, telling Macbeth that Macduff fled, whose castle Macbeth plans to attack and kill his women and children and anyone else</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene ii:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 24px;">- In Lady Macduff's castle, Lady Macduff asks Ross why her husband has fled, which he responds that she needs to just trust his judgement</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Lady Macduff does not respect this response, and after Ross regretfully leaves asks her son how he will live without a father. The son is clever and knows that his father is not dead, and answers this</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- A messenger enters and tells Lady Macbeth she needs to flee, but she refuses to, saying that she has done "no wrong"</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Murderers enter and ask where Macduff is and Lady Macduff </span></span></span><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">answers <i style="background-color: white;">"</i></span></span><i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">I hope, in no place so unsanctified/ </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">Where such as thou mayst find him."</span></i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>- </i>One murderer insults Macduff and his son stands up for him and gets stabbed and begs his mother to run away</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Scene ends with Lady Macduff running from the murderers</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Scene iii:</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Malcolm tries to test Macduff's loyalty by telling him every reason that Malcolm feels that he himself is unjust to govern Scotland, saying that he is even worse then Macbeth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff first disagrees with him, saying it is not possible for anyone to be more evil then Macbeth but eventually cried "</span><i style="line-height: 21px;">O Scotland, Scotland"</i><span style="line-height: 21px;"> after Malcolm continues to list his vices</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- He says that Malcolm is not fit to govern, or even fit to live</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff's loyalty to his country makes Malcolm trust him and he no longer fears that Macduff was secretly working for Macbeth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Ross arrives and tells them of the state of Scotland, saying it gets worse every minute because of Macbeth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- When asked, he tells Macduff that his children and wife are well, but later goes back on his word and tells Malcolm and Macduff that both their families have been slaughtered by Macbeth's men</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff starts to greatly grieve and Ross recommends that he turns his grief into violence so that he can take down Macbeth</span></span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-24326480146774084692014-04-09T17:58:00.000-07:002014-04-16T22:27:16.618-07:00Active Reading Notes of ACT III (MACBETH)<b>Scene i:</b><br />
- Banquo notes that so far the witches prophecy has been correct, but fears that some foul play has been involved<br />
- He next wonders if because the first part became true, if it will be true that his son will become King<br />
- Macbeth and Lady Macbeth invite Banquo to dinner that night, and he says he will be horseback riding before<br />
- We learn that Macbeth feels that Banquo is a threat to him and that Macbeth wants to kill him because Macbeth feels guilty and is slowly loosing his mind. He is also jealous that Banquo still has a clear conscience<br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Macbeth now seen as a bad/diseased person who sees the world with violence that is not there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Macbeth hires murderers to go after Banquo, trying to bring them to action by telling them wrong doings Banquo did against them</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Macbeth sends the murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance </span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Scene ii:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- During a talk between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Macbeth says that he is still not content with their work because there are still threats to eliminate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">- Macbeth states that <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">he has planned “a deed of dreadful note” for Banquo and Fleance and tells his wife to be jovial with Banquo at the feast to he slips into a false sense of security</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iii:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- The murderers wait outside the castle walls for Banquo and Fleance and are able to kill Banquo, but his son escapes</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- As Banquo dies he yells for his son to avenge his death</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iv:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth and Lady Macbeth enter the hall and Macbeth hears from a murderer that Banquo has been slain but his son escaped</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- This sets Macbeth into a type of frenzy because he feels even less secure; the word "safe" is used repeatedly to mean "dead"</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth enters the feast and is the only one that sees Banquo's ghost in his seat</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- He makes such a scene that Lady Macbeth is led to insult him by asking him if he is a man</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- It is Macbeth's guilt that leads him to see Banquo, for he says "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!/ </span></i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;/ </span></i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ </span></i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Which thou dost glare with!"</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Lady Macbeth encourages Macbeth to go to sleep and he promises in the </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">morning to find the three witches and learn more about his future</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Scene v:</b></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, comes to scold the witches for making contact with Macbeth, saying that they did not show him the full potential of their power, but plan to the following day when they know he will come to visit them</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- In Hecate's speech you say that there is a rhyming scheme where the last word of two lines at a time rhymes</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Scene vi:</b></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- Lennox and a lord talk about the status of the Kingdom</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- Fleance has been blamed for his fathers deaths, but Lennox feels that Macbeth may be guilty for both Banquo and Duncan's deaths</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff and Malcolm, Duncan's sons, have gone to the King in England and requested help for defeating Macbeth, which has led to Macbeth preparing for war</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-67669566346495611942014-04-07T20:06:00.001-07:002014-06-01T10:52:29.898-07:00LITERATURE ANALYSIS #6The book I chose to do my literature analysis on was <u>The Joy Luck Club</u> by Amy Tan.<br />
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1) This book is divided into four different sections with women from four different families narrating a chapter in each section. In the first chapter of section one you learn about the origin of the Joy Luck Club, which was started by Jing-Mei Woo, who is planning on going to China to meet her half-sisters. Next, you meet An-Mei Hsu who stays with her grandmother after being abandoned by her mother. Her mother returns only to leave again because she is unwelcome. Next, there is Lindo Jong who is at a young age given to another family so that she will marry their son. After getting married, Lindo manages to break up the marriage and escape to America. Next is Ying-Ying St. Clair, who attends the Moon Festival as a child but falls off the boat. In the next two sections you meet these four women's daughters, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair, Rose Hsu Jordan, and Jing-Mei Woo. You learn about how Waverly was a chess master as a young girl, but abruptly quit after too much pressure form her mother and about her struggle to share with her mother her new relationship with a man named Rich after her failed first marriage. Lena has to cope with her mother's failed pregnancy and high tension level in the family following, along with a controlling husband who does not treat her as his equal. Rose must deal with the tragedy of her younger brother Bing being swept into the ocean, and later with a divorce suggested by her husband that she later realizes is because he has a new woman in his life. Jing-Mei deals with her over-bearing mother who tried to force her into learning the piano and later in life with her general feeling that she is a failure. In the last section we learn about the mother's perception of the events going on in their and their daughters lives, as well as what happens when Jing-Mei goes to visit her half-sisters.<br />
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2) The theme of this novel can be identified as "The Challenges of Cultural Translation."Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-85918255327326926882014-04-03T14:14:00.000-07:002014-04-16T22:27:02.631-07:00Active Reading Notes of ACT II (MACBETH)<b>Scene i:</b><br />
- Fleance and Banquo are walking around the castle at midnight, because Banquo can not sleep, when they run into Macbeth<br />
- Banquo says he dreamed that the witches "revealed some truth" to Macbeth but Macbeth claims to not be in contact with them, and they agree to discuss the witches at a later time<br />
- Macbeth sees a floating dagger appear in the hallway pointing towards Duncan, but comes to the conclusion that is it a figment of his imagination saying <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>"<span style="line-height: 21px;">A dagger of the mind, a false creation,/ </span></i></span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"</i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Scene ii:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lady Macbeth takes pride in her part of the murder (she laid out the daggers) and says she would have done it herself if the sleeping King hadn't "looked like her father"</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Macbeth kills Duncan and comes out of his bedroom nervous and fearful, holding the daggers and with blood on his hands</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- He claims to have heard a voice say<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i> "</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>'Sleep no more!/ </i></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><i>Macbeth does murder sleep'</i> "after killing Duncan</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Lady Macbeth chides Macbeth for not leaving the daggers next to the </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">watch guards</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> and goes to do it herself, exiting the bedroom saying "</span></span><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">My hands are of your colour; but I shame/ </span></i><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">To wear a heart so white"</span></i><br />
<i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">- </i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Macbeth and </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">Lady</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> Macbeth hear a repeated knocking and decide to go to bed to escape suspicion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Scene iii:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff and Lennox enter the house late at night by the Porter, and Macduff asks to go see Duncan</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Lennox makes several comments to Macbeth about how bad the storm was that night, and </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">Macduff comes rushing out of Duncan's bedroom saying he has been slain</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- The rest of the lords are awoken and Duncan's sons (Malcolm and Donalbain) arrive</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macbeth claims that he killed the two guards, who had the daggers, in rage, which Macduff finds suspicious</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 21px;">- <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Macbeth says <i>"</i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Had I but died an hour before this chance,/ </i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,/ </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">There 's nothing serious in mortality:/ </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;/ </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;">The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees/ </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">Is left this vault to brag of" </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">toward the event</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;">- Duncan's sons make plans to flee, fearing that they will be targeted next</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"><b>Scene iv:</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Ross and an old man talk about the strange </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">occurrences</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> since the King's death</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- Macduff arrives and shares how Macbeth has been </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">chosen</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> to be King, and that there is </span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;">suspicion</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"> that it was Duncan's sons that hired the guards to kill Duncan because they fled after</span></span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-14872658998700362342014-04-02T22:16:00.000-07:002014-04-05T22:16:44.066-07:00WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?I feel that in the last two weeks my group and I have really started off our Masterpiece project off strong. We created a blog on Tumblr ( theadventuresofus.tumblr.com ) and already have 50+ posts, most of them pictures and quotes of past memorable events in our lives, but as time has been progressing our posts have became a lot more current. We are yet to meet together for one of our planned activities, but I am hopeful that we will in the distant future. Though we are really starting to get together the content and posts for our project, I hope that soon we will be able to take the next step and plan out "adventures" together, while influencing the community positively.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-38728189746449832202014-04-01T22:55:00.000-07:002014-04-16T22:27:37.920-07:00Active Reading Notes of ACT I (MACBETH)<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scene i:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Three witches appear and plan to meet again to discuss Macbeth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leave with <span style="background-color: white;"><i>"<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / </span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">Hover through the fog and filthy air."</span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><b>Scene ii:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">- At a military camp </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">King Duncan of Scotland</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> asks wounded solider about battle</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Soldier says that </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">Scottish generals Macbeth and Banquo fought with great courage and violence, and goes into detail how Macbeth violently killed the traitorous Macdonwald</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">- T</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">he thane of Ross enters and tells the king that the traitorous thane of Cawdor and his Norwegian arms have been defeated </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Duncan decrees that the thane of Cawdor be put to death and that Macbeth given Cawdor’s title</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Ross leaves to deliver the news to Macbeth.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iii:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Three witches meet near battlefield, meet with Macbeth and Banquo</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- They declare Macbeth the thane of Glamis (</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">original</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> title) and thane of Cawdor, which </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">surprises Macbeth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Also declare that he will be King someday</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Banquo asks for fortune and witches tell him that he is </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">“lesser than Macbeth, and greater,” and “not so happy, yet much happier”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Also tell Banquo that he will never be king but that his children will</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ross arrives and tells Macbeth about his new status as thane of Cawdor</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Macbeth and Banquo are skeptical of their prophecies and promise to discuss them later</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene iv:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- When Macbeth returns to the kingdom he is greatly thanked by Duncan for his </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">heroism</span><span style="line-height: 24px;">, and invites him to have dinner at his castle</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene v:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- In the castle, Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth talking about his new position and the witches prophecies </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- Lady Macbeth fears </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Macbeth is too full of “th’ milk of human kindness," though she knows he is ambitious, and decides to take whatever steps she must so that Macbeth gets the crown</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">- </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;">She makes the comment that “you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty,” so she can become less feminine and take the necessary steps for Macbeth to become King</span></span><br />
<b style="color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scene vi:</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">-Duncan arrives and comments positively on the castle and Macbeth himself</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Scene vii: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: #424242;">- Alone, Macbeth ponders the idea of killing Duncan saying </span>"</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">He’s here in double trust:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">Who should against his murderer shut the door,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;"> / </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">Not bear the knife myself."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px;">- </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Macbeth realizes that his actions would set off a terrible chain of events, and really only driven by his </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">ambition</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- When Lady Macbeth enters Macbeth says he calls off the plan</span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lady Macbeth reacts negatively, saying he is a coward</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">- When Macbeth</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"> asks her what will happen if they fail she promises that as long as they are bold, they will be successful. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lady Macbeth says her plan is that while Duncan sleeps, she will give his guards wine to make them drunk, and then she and Macbeth can slip in and murder Duncan. They will smear the blood of Duncan on the sleeping guards to make them appear guilty</span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-73227195478478433452014-03-31T21:37:00.000-07:002014-04-05T21:37:58.909-07:00MEET MACBETHMacbeth is indirectly/directly introduced through two men talking about his actions during a battle. They talk about his violent actions and the brutal way he finished off his enemies, but use a positive word, "brave," to describe him. Later when Macbeth and Banquo are greeted by the three wishes is Macbeth more indirectly characterized as hesitant and unwilling when greeted with his new future as a king. Shakespeare's characterization of Macbeth sets an untrusting and dark tone to the play, along with the witches hint that "Fair is foul and foul is fair." From Macbeth'd conduct you get the idea that he may he unwilling to carry out his fate and more soft-hearted and repenting than his character is initially introduced to be.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-46619495032188676022014-03-27T20:41:00.000-07:002014-04-05T21:41:45.736-07:00SEEKING MENTORI think it would be most beneficial to my Masterpiece and myself to ask my mentors more questions about what exactly it is they specialize in. All of my possible mentors have field that they excel in, like knowledge about hiking or putting events together, and hopefully they will pass on their knowledge to myself and my other group members so that we can put our Masterpiece project into full swing.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-35017793008297433942014-03-26T21:49:00.000-07:002014-04-05T21:49:41.410-07:00MY MACBETH RESOURCES1) <b>Sparknotes </b>as an easy outline to follow<br />
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/<br />
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2) <b>Shakespeare online</b> with helpful analysis<br />
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbethscenes.html<br />
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3) <b>Shmoop </b>with a modern-day approach to the information<br />
http://www.shmoop.com/macbeth/<br />
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4) <b>Macbeth Unplugged</b> with a very in depth look at the play<br />
http://library.thinkquest.org/2888/<br />
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5) <b>Shakespeare on About.com </b>with what people usually come away with when looking at the play<br />
http://shakespeare.about.com/od/macbeth/a/Macbeth_Character_Analysis.htmMeghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-85909764061322910582014-03-18T18:06:00.000-07:002014-03-20T00:22:49.736-07:00Essay Brainstorming<i><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">PROMPT</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">1979</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">recognized literary merit who might, on the </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">basis of the character’s actions alone</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">,</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;" /><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">be considered </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">evil or immoral</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">. In a well-organized essay, explain both </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">how and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;" /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">why</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"> the full presentation of the character in the work </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">makes us react more</span></span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">sympathetically</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"> than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary</span></i><span style="background-color: #fff9ee;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">The # 1 step for developing a good essay is to look at the main ideas/words of the prompt, which I highlighted. I decided that the character John Savage from <u>Brave New World</u> would best fit this prompt. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">ACTIONS ALONE:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- He whips/ punishes himself</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- He doesn't believe in </span><span style="line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">premarital</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"> sex or the </span><span style="line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">in-taking</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"> of soma</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- He is isolated</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- He reads</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">IMMORAL:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- You get this from the other character's responses to him</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- Even called 'the savage'</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- Starts a free soma riot</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- Hangs himself</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">SYMPATHETIC:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- Readers own personal morality aligns more with John then the rest of the society</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- John is persecuted/ made to feel bad, sets in instinct to root for the underdog</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- Transparent thinking</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">- He reads what we read (Shakespeare)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Some literary techniques I could apply to these three basic categories would be:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">1 - Indirect characterization, point of view, tone, figurative language</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">2 - Indirect characterization, doubleness of character, chiasmus, juxtaposition, cognitive characters, dissonance, conflict</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">3 - Connotation, allusion, foil, wo/man vs. society, mood</span><br />
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2) What do you recommend to those wanting to pursue a project in _______?<br />
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3) What are problems you encounter?<br />
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4) Is it passion or a desire to succeed that drives you in this field? (Or both.)<br />
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5) Do you feel that what you know in this field is applicable to what you envision yourself doing as a career?<br />
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6) Do you find it rewarding to work in this field?<br />
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7) What advice could you give me for pursuing a project in your field?<br />
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8) What is it that you wish you could do more of in this field?<br />
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9) What kinds of project do you feel could make the most impact?<br />
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10) What types of things can you think of that could make changes to everyday life in this field?Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-13320843032156929252014-02-28T13:34:00.000-08:002014-04-06T13:35:59.440-07:00LITERATURE ANALYSIS #5<span style="font-family: inherit;">I chose to do my literature analysis on Aldous Huxley's <u>Brave New World.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1) The exposition of this novel starts with developing the World State, a society in the future where there is no families or love, and humans are mass-produced and assigned to different ranks. The novel starts with a group of students touring the Hatchery, where the humans are produced. We are introduced to Lenina, who having relations with a man named Henry Foster. Wanting to explore other men, Lenina accepts a man named Benard's invitation to go to a Savage Reserve. When Benard goes to ask the Director for permission to visit the reserve, the Director tells him a story about a woman that he lost while he took a trip there. On the reservation, Lenina and Bernard encounter Savages, whose life-styles vary widely from theirs. They meet Linda, the woman the Director had relations with, and her son John who they bring back to the World State in an attempt to embarrass the Director. The society finds Linda a disgust, but John mildly amusing, though he grows to hate the society's morals and ideals. Lenina begins to develop feelings for John and attempts to seduce him, but John is so digested by her actions and her willingness to engage in premarital sex that he chases her away. He runs to the hospital, where he watches Linda die from her continued overdosage of soma. He becomes furious, especially because no one seems to care that Linda has passed, and holds a free-soma riot along with Bernard's friend Helmholtz, which lands them all, including Bernard, in the Controller's office, enemies of the State. John and the Controller debate the state of the society and John chooses to not follow Bernard and Helmholtz to the island they are sent to. He instead takes refuge in an abandoned light house, where he is free to take part in the rituals of his old life. This fascinated the World State members, who come to watch him and eventually push him towards suicide, ending the novel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2) The major theme is "<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The Incompatibility of Happiness and Truth." This theme majorly becomes evident through the Controller and Johns debate about the problems of the World State's ideals. In creating humans, the top leaders program the children so that they do not fully experience emotions, both the positive and negative sides of them. They are not taught how to love, but instead taught to pleasure themselves through as many sexual partners as they please, saying "Everyone belongs to everyone." The Controllers do this because they have realized that when people are aware of suffering and aware that they could be "something more," they will never truly be happy. By developing people to want nothing more then the social class they are assigned to, people don't know that </span></span></span><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">there is more to life than what they know, and therefore are content.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">3) The tone of the novel is Dramatic/ Parodic. Certain scenes of the novel are very dark and intense, but at the same time in a sense mocking our society. Many of the ideas/ concepts of the novel are so ridiculous you almost can't help but laugh, though in the novel there is no humor in their context. In part 2 of Ch 5 (Page 85) Bernard takes part in a "Orgy-porgy," which is so ridiculous you have to laugh. </span><i style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">" 'Orgy-porgy,' the dancers caught up in the liturgical refrain, 'Orgy-porgy, Ford and fun, kiss the girls...' " </i><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Another example in Ch 13 is when Lenina makes a mistake when developing the embryos and the text reads </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"Twenty-two years, eight months, and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis." </i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">A last example is Ch 2 when the Director talks to the new students about mothers. </span><i><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">" 'Humans used to be...' he hesitated; the blood rushed to his cheeks. 'Well they used to be quite viviparous.' "</span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">1. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Allusion: </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">There are a few examples of allusion in the novel. Many of the slogans implanted on the citizens minds are corrupted versions of things said in society today. Examples would be “A gramme in time saves nine,” or, “A doctor a day keeps the jim-jams away.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">2. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-indent: -24px;">Satire: </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px; text-indent: -24px;">Satire is doubtlessly the most prominent literary element in the novel. The entire premise for the plot is a criticism of values that Huxley observed society of his time was heading towards. Huxley sarcastically addresses the consumer-driven world of today, saying “Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It’s madness. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-indent: -24px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">3. Setting:</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">“A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.” Through </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">the</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"> harsh description of the setting of Brave New World comes to characterize the surrounding World State society as well as its values of: COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 26px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">4. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18px; text-indent: -24px;">Rhyming scheme/Free Rhyme verse</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-indent: -24px;">: </span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;">“Bottle of mine, it's you I've always wanted! Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted? Skies are blue inside of you, The weather's always fine; For There ain't no Bottle in all the world Like that dear little Bottle of mine.” Not long enough to qualify as a sonnet, the rhyming scheme however cleverly creates a catchy means by which readers can get the </span><span style="color: #444444;">sense</span><span style="color: #444444;"> that even their “folk-songs” are merely propagandist spirituals.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;">5. </span></span><span style="color: #424242; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Figurative Language:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Throughout the novel Huxley uses animal names to refer to the members of the World State, which you can take to mean negatively. He uses the names of birds and insects to get across the idea that, like animals, the people have no feelings or compassion that drive them, only instincts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">6. Connotation:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">The connotation of the morals and ideals that we see in different charters in the World State helps readers to understand which of these characters would be found socially acceptable or not. We agree more with John's ideals, but in the World State the connotations of his beliefs lead him to be an outcast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">7. Foil:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">In many ways John acts as a foil to Bernard. Though they both question the social norm, Bernard is all talk and thoughts while John is all action. Bernard is intelligent and can change himself to fit into the World State, while John is all emotion and passion and can not seem to change his ideals so that he is not an outcast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">8. </span></span><span style="color: #424242; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Point of View:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Depending on your point of view, you also can see the main characters like John and Bernard in several different lights. John can easily be seen as a heroic fighter for morality and compassion, as well as an emotional idiot who has the right ideas but the wrong ways of making an impact with </span>those ideas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">9. Personification:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; text-indent: -24px;">“The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters.” Huxley at times engages in beautiful bouts of imagery laden figurative language to juxtapose the otherwise cruel and grey atmosphere of the novel. The personification in this passage with the soliquizing flowers and drowsy air, creates a mood contrasting with the overall foreboding feeling of oppression prevalent in the book.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-indent: -24px;">10. Tone<span style="line-height: 18px;">:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: -24px;"><span style="color: #444444;"> “The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Cold, clinical the tone of Brave New World is sterile in it’s diction, even the similes/figurative language set an </span><span style="color: #444444;">overall</span><span style="color: #444444;"> mood of a dead </span></span><span style="color: #444444;">humanity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: #424242; font-size: 15px;">1)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Direct Characterization for Bernard: "The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects." </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">Direct Characterization of Helmholtz "...Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his difference from the people who surrounded him." </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both Bernard and Helmholtz are directly states as outsiders, which gives readers the lasting impression that they are different from the other members of the society.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Indirect Characterization of John the Savage takes place when he </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">rejects</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> Lenina's </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">invitation of sex, which shows he is truly against the morals of the society, even the things that appeal to him on even a physical level.</span> <span style="line-height: 19px;">Indirect Characterization of Henry takes place when he flies extremely close to the ocean, which shows that he is deep down against the World State ideals as well, but </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">does</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> t have the right outlet for his feelings and is </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">afraid</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> to truly show his ideas and be punished.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><b style="line-height: 19px;">2. </b><span style="line-height: 19px;">"Anywhere. I don't care. So long as I can be alone,"</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, i want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin,"</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">In these two examples we see a shift in the syntax of John the Savage's speech. Instead of speaking in eloquent sentences, his speech becomes short and almost exasperated. It conveys a quickened pace and it almost seems as if he is out of breath. It strongly reflects the idea that there is so much running though his mind and that all of his senses are overloading and becoming too difficult to process.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3) It could be argued that there is several different protagonists to this play, but the major one would be John the Savage. John grows up on the reservation, and therefore has certain ideas about love, sex, religion, compassion, and what his meaning in life is. I would argue that John is in some ways a static character because though he is opened up to many different ideas through his time in the World State, in the end he has the same ideas about what is right and wrong.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">4) At the end of the book I mostly came away feeling like I met characters because what takes place in the book is so far-fetched its really hard to imagine anyone thinking and feeling that way, though Huxley does a great job of making it realistic. An example is the conformation between Lenina and John, where she is desperately trying to seduce him while he violently tried to fight his urges.</span></span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-66092883324524602102014-02-26T14:45:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:40:25.493-07:00MY TEAMRight now my team consists of Taylor Duguran, Hannah Savaso, Ian Stellar (?), and Kylie Sagisi, who is in the 5th period class. Today we spent a lot of time talking about what exactly it is that our project should be, and brainstorming events that we could easily and cheaply put together. We came up with hikes, making lunches for homeless people (in SLO), a bonfire at the beach, movie nights, and possibly a camping trip. Together, we all looked over our schedules to see which weekends or week days would work best to hold the events on.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-63071248634571254872014-02-24T21:11:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:31:18.844-07:00I, JURYWhat I found form my peers essay responses was that they possibly did not completely understand the book, or maybe just had not been given enough time to finish it. A lot of the essays seemed to have a broad idea of what Huxley was trying to say through Brave New World, but few had specific examples of details to support their statements. I know there is very strong writers in this class and given more time to talk about and complete the book will probably bring better responses from my peers and myself.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-64263921911877669162014-02-20T14:27:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:27:20.316-07:00BRAVE NEW WORLD ESSAY TOPICOne essay topic that I found and really liked was this:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;"><i>"How does Aldous Huxley incorporate his views of history (that men do not learn enough from history) into Brave New World? Do people, in general, learn enough lessons from history? Furthermore, examine the role the future plays in Brave New World. Consider the following: If individuals have knowledge of future events, do they have the same responsibility to the future as they do to history? Finally, what lessons might readers take from Brave New World? Should society be more affected by knowledge of the past or of the future?"</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">This prompt was posted on a Yahoo answers page from this link: </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 16.25px;">http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100122204636AAacFhN</span></span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-53737890262815708382014-02-19T18:07:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:24:32.441-07:00I AM HEREAt this moment in time, I am not completely sure what it is that I will create as a Senior Project. I am leaning towards an area that, in an offhand way, relates to my Big Question, which was about whether or not "goodness" can win over all the bad that their is in life. There is many ways I could go with my Senior Project, but I want to dedicate my time to building some kind of online scrapbook with my friends while also trying to make a positive impact on people. I would love to combine these two elements, but am unsure how to exactly.<br />
If I stuck to this general idea for a project, I could also try to combine elements of the Collaborative Working Group idea I created in the beginning of the semester, but failed to carry on and actually create. My idea was to travel to different sights and trails around the Central Coast and document my experiences on a blog. My hope was that I would be able to take time to appreciate the beautiful area we live in and also possibly direct others toward some sights they might not have previously known of.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-57705750972551972602014-02-19T17:02:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:10:31.800-07:00BOB I<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">Ranks of my period's blogs best to worst in a hard copy.</span>Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-33991321805522743392014-02-13T20:03:00.000-08:002014-03-10T13:53:11.604-07:00LIT TERMS: LIST 6<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: .25in;">
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Simile</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb
such as like or as.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Soliloquy</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in
the play when the character believes himself to be alone. The technique frequently
reveals a character's innermost thoughts, including his feelings, state of
mind, motives or intentions and provides necessary but otherwise inaccessible
information to the audience.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Spiritual</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">a folk song, usually on a religious theme.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.25in;"><b>Speaker</b>:</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.25in;">a narrator, the one speaking.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Stereotype</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal
that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type,
gender, class, religious group, or occupation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Stream of consciousness:</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> Writing in which a character's
perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form,
without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax. Often no
distinction between various levels of reality--such as dreams, memories,
imaginative thoughts or real sensory perception.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Structure</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">the planned framework of a literary selection; its
apparent organization.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Style</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The author's words and the characteristic way that
writer uses language to achieve certain effects.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Subordination</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">the couching of less important ideas in less important
structures of language.</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Surrealism</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: An artistic movement doing away with the
restrictions that might be imposed on an artist. Artists sought to do away with
conscious control and instead respond to the irrational urges of the
subconscious mind, which resulted in the hallucinatory, bizarre, often
nightmarish quality of surrealistic writings.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Suspension of disbelief:</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> Temporarily and willingly setting
aside our beliefs about reality in order to enjoy the make-believe of a play, a
poem, film, or a story.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Symbol</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A word, place, character, or object that means
something beyond what it is on a literal level.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Synesthesia</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A rhetorical trope involving shifts in imagery
or sensory metaphors. It involves taking one type of sensory input (sight,
sound, smell, touch, taste) and comingling it with another separate sense in
what seems an impossible way. EX: How a color sounds, how a smell looks.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Synecdoche</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A rhetorical trope involving a part of
an object representing the whole, or the whole of an object representing a
part. EX: "Twenty eyes watched our every move," meaning that ten
people watched the group's every move.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Syntax</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The orderly arrangement of words into sentences to express
ideas." EX. The standard word order and sentence structure of a language.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Theme</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A central idea or statement that unifies and
controls an entire literary work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Thesis</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: An argument that a writer develops and supports.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Tone</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The means of creating a relationship or conveying
an attitude or mood.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tongue in
cheek</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Tragedy</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: A serious play in which the chief character, by
some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading
to a final, devastating catastrophe.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Understatement</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The opposite of exaggeration.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Vernacular</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The everyday or common language of a
geographic area or the native language of commoners in a country as opposed to
a prestigious dead language maintained artificially in schools or in literary
texts.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Voice</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The narrative or elegiac voice that speaks of his
or her situation or feelings.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Zeitgeist</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: The preferences, fashions, and trends that
characterize the intangible essence of a specific historical period.</span></li>
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Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-16485012148845147982014-02-13T17:39:00.000-08:002014-03-10T14:06:07.921-07:00WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITYI am sharing a project with Hannah Savaso, Taylor Duguran, and Kylie Sagisi, where we plan to schedule events and outings for us and others of our friends to participate in. During the event we will take pictures and videos that we will end up posting to a shared blog. We are focusing on the relationships we have established and developed over the last four years, or even longer, and how we can simultaneously build our friendship, create a database of memories to be able to enjoy after high school, and spend time helping out our community. An example of an event we came up with was to go on a hike with friends and document it while also picking up trash along the trail.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-67861519832552095182014-02-11T22:53:00.003-08:002014-02-11T22:53:59.170-08:00HAFTA/ WANNAI feel that nothing after high school will change as suddenly and drastically as we have been led to believe. For myself and some friends of mine, responsibilities will not be a <i>completely </i>new thing. A lot of us already have jobs, own cars, and pay for some of our own expenses like car insurance and phone bills. Just like how you are no different on January 1st compared to December 31st, no one will wake up June 7th feeling like a whole new person. For a lot of my friends and I, life will stay somewhat the same as we spend our last summer together in our hometown before leaving, or possibly staying, to college in the fall.<br />
I think what will bring one of the most dramatic changes after high school is finally setting off to live by ourselves; whether it be in an apartment or on-campus housing. That's when I feel like we will truly be "adults." Though obviously we can't do <i>whatever </i>we want, not living under our parents' roof anymore will bring all new kinds of freedom. I feel that that freedom will either make us or break us. In college we could skip class every day, spend zero time studying, and party into the early morning every chance we get and almost no one would know.<br />
This year I have really struggled to have the motivation to complete all of my homework every night. I mean I already <i>got </i>into a couple colleges, as far as I'm concerned I could just keep my grades to a C- or above and not seriously mess up in any way and still be attending college next fall. What does stop me from failing to do anything <i>at all </i>is mostly my awareness that the major I'm going into (civil engineering) is actually going to be pretty tough and that it might actually help knowing some stuff from the Physics and Calculus classes I'm taking this year. And on top of that, not having to pay for certain courses if I manage to pass the three AP tests I'm taking would be nice as well...<br />
My hopes are that in college I am able to find a happy medium of getting my work done, while also exploring what else that it is I want to do in life besides working, and making some good memories with good friends along the way.Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-77789332176566862562014-02-07T19:08:00.000-08:002014-03-10T13:56:36.767-07:00LAUNCH DRAFT- What am I passionate about? What do I want to do?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Right now I am starting to think that I may not exactly know the answer to these questions, or at least that the answers change day to day. I would really love to look more into engineering and architecture, but what I really would love to do is work with children. And some days when neither or those options sound good I feel that I would really love to learn more about photography because I would really love to capture some of the places around on the Central Coast that my iPhone camera does no justice to.<br />
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- How can I use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I can use the Internet in general to make connections with people and learn more about what topic I choose to focus on.<br />
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- What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Again, there is a lot of different ways that I could answer this question. Honestly, I feel that the best way to feel no regrets in June is to spend as much time as possible with the people I love and have a positive attitude.<br />
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- What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In my field, hard work, dedication, and assertiveness, especially because it is so male-dominated. In just life in general, I feel that honesty, sincerity, compassion, but enough self-assurance to not let anyone walk over you is what is going to make people want to trust you and listen to what you have to say.<br />
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- How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I’m still not sure what the “idea” is honestly… So that would be the first step.<br />
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- Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I’m sure teachers and peers will be what I will focus on as my personal learning network.<br />
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Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-5896842101528167312014-02-06T16:00:00.003-08:002014-02-06T16:00:36.279-08:00LIT TERMS: LIST 5<br />
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<li><b>Parallelism: </b>When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. EX: "King Alfred tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable."</li>
<li><b>Parody</b>: Imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work in order to make fun of those same features. EX: Using the elaborate, formal diction of an epic to describe something trivial like washing socks.</li>
<li><b>Pathos: </b>In its rhetorical sense, pathos is a writer or speaker's attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience. EX: Evokes a deep feeling of suffering, joy, pride, anger, humor, patriotism, etc.</li>
<li><b>Pedantry: </b>Rigid to book knowledge without regard to common sense.</li>
<li><b>Personification: </b>A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions. EX: The moon "is a face in its own right, / White as a knuckle and terribly upset. / It drags the sea after it like a dark crime."</li>
<li><b>Plot: </b>The structure and relationship of actions and events in a work of fiction that starts with a catalyst. Focuses on how events relate to one another and how they are rendered and organized so as to achieve their particular effects. </li>
<li><b>Poignant: A</b>ffecting or moving the emotions.</li>
<li><b>Point of view: </b>The way a story gets told and who tells it. EX: First person, third-person narrative, dramatic third person, objective, omniscient, limited, unreliable.</li>
<li><b>P</b><b>ostmodernism: </b>A general label referring to the philosophical, artistic, and literary changes and tendencies after the 1940s and 1950s up to the present day. (1) a rejection of traditional authority, (2) radical experimentation, (3) eclecticism and multiculturalism, (4) parody and pastiche, (5) deliberate anachronism or surrealism, (6) a cynical or ironic self-awareness.</li>
<li><b>Prose: </b>Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. EX: Short stories, novels, letters, essays, and treatises.</li>
<li><b>Protagonist: </b>The main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention. EX: Harry Potter.</li>
<li><b>Pun: </b>A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning. EX: "Thou art Peter [Petros] and upon this rock [petra] I will build my church."</li>
<li><b>Purpose: </b>The reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.</li>
<li><b>Realism: </b>(1) Generally to any artistic or literary portrayal of life in a faithful, accurate manner, unclouded by false ideals, literary conventions, or misplaced aesthetic glorification and beautification of the world. Written to depict events in human life in a matter-of-fact, straightforward manner (as it actually is.) In general, realism seeks to avoid supernatural, transcendental, or surreal events. It tends to focus as much on the everyday, the mundane, and the normal as events that are extraordinary, exceptional, or extreme.(2) Refers to a literary movement in America, Europe, and England that developed out of naturalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.</li>
<li><b>Refrain: </b>A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem or song (these lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas or sections of the same work.) EX: "With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino" in the song from As You Like It.</li>
<li><b>Requiem: A</b>ny musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead.</li>
<li><b>Resolution: </b>The outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot.</li>
<li><b>Restatement: </b>To repeat something again or in a new way. </li>
<li><b>Rhetoric: </b>The art of persuasive argument through writing or speech.</li>
<li><b>Rhetorical question: </b>Question that implies an answer, but usually does not provide one explicitly.</li>
<li><b>Rising action: </b>The action in a play before the climax.</li>
<li><b>Romanticism: </b>Artistic philosophy prevalent during about 1800-1830. Rejected the earlier philosophy of the Enlightenment, and instead asserted that reliance upon emotion and natural passions provided a valid and powerful means of knowing and a reliable guide to ethics and living. Typically asserts the unique nature of the individual, the privileged status of imagination and fancy, the value of spontaneity over "artifice" and "convention," the human need for emotional outlets, the rejection of civilized corruption, and a desire to return to natural primitivism and escape the spiritual destruction of urban life. </li>
<li><b>Satire: </b>An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards.</li>
<li><b>Scansion: </b>The act of "scanning" a poem to determine its meter, or which syllables have heavy stress and which have lighter stress.</li>
<li><b>Setting: </b>The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs.</li>
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Meghan Martellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07981206872274807664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4646971306516828750.post-62964387891039160952014-01-30T17:41:00.005-08:002014-01-30T20:01:01.694-08:00LITERATURE ANALYSIS #4The book I chose to read was <u>The God of Small Things</u> by Arundhati Roy.<br />
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1) This novel is about fraternal twins and their journey through the death of their cousin and the imprisonment of their mother's forbidden lover following. When the twin's grandparents learn that their daughter is having a love affair with an "Untouchable," they try to do everything in their power to keep them apart by accusing him of kidnapping the twins and their cousin, who dies from drowning.</div>
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2) The two major themes are "social tensions" and "forbidden love." One of the major problems in the novel is the relationship that Ammu and Velutha have, which their parents are strongly against because of their different social rankings. Their parents' anger leads to a chain of events that seriously changes the lives of everyone in the novel.</div>
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3) The tone of the novel is both childlike, brooding, and mature. The switches between when the children are younger to their adulthood shows a contrast in how they see the world. At times, the writing often takes on a rhyme-y, sing-songy tones in the moments in which serious information is being conveyed.The narrator darkly rhymes that 31 is <i>"Not Old. Not Young. But a viable die-able age". </i>The author also describes Sophie's coffin in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">a sing-songy manner: "<i>Satin lined. Brass handle shined."</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><i> </i>Another example is<i> "A wake/ A live/ A lert."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Symbolism- The History House was used as a symbol of the India and the family's actual history. "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 19px;"><i>Estha and Rahel had no doubt that the house Chacko meant was the house on the other side of the river, in the middle of the abandoned rubber estate where they had never been. Kari Saipu's house. The Black Sahib. The Englishman who had "gone native." Who spoke Malayalam and wore mundus. Ayemenem's own Kurtz. Ayemenem his private Heart of Darkness." (2.92)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Allegory- </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 19px;">Pappachi's Moth is more of an allegory of his life. <i>"his life's greatest setback was not having had the moth that he had discovered named after him" (2.73).</i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Imagery- Rahel's watch is used as imagery for her desire to make everything right. "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 19px;"><i>The wristwatch] had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her what Time was meant for in the first place)." (2.12)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Allusion- The novel uses allusions to connect with the audience. </span><i>F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (2.15)/ </i><i>Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (2.92, 5.17)/ </i><i>Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (2.152)</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Setting- </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The God of Small Things for the most part takes place in a town called Ayemenem, in Kerala, India. One of the trademarks of the novel is the way it jumps back and forth in time between 1969 and 1993.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Flashbacks- The author uses a lot of flashbacks to switch between the two settings of the novel. </span><br />
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