We started to watch Macbeth this week. The movie was sort of hard to keep track of during the begining. For the first few minutes there was a ton going on with a bunch of characters that I was no familiar with. It was not until the second day that I was able to straighten everything out and figure out who was who in the movie. So luckily Luco was able to take some good notes in our shared Cornell notes. However after the first day I was able to contibute more stuff since I had finally gotten the idea of what was going on. I am more excited to actually getting the chance to see a hard copy of the dialogue for the play. I am positive that there is a ton that I have missed from just watching the play.
One thing I specifically remember form watching the movie was an instance of a couple members of our group missing a line form the play. The line in particular was ""False face must hide what the false heart doth know..." since we all missed it I did a quick google search to try and find the exact wording of the phrase and came across a bit from eNotes that had the quote and explained its meaning. This line is the end of Act I and is the moment that Macbeth has been convinced by Lady Macbeth to assassinate King Duncan and to place Macbeth on the Scottish throne.
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We started back up the poems this week which was pretty exciting. Our first one was Sonnet 146, which is one of William Shakespeare's many sonnets. The poem focused a lot on the mortality of mankind and their tendancy to use there material wealth to lavishly decorate their outward appearance before their deaths. It tried to make sense of why nearly all humans resort to this when there is not really any reason for them to do this.
On the other hand we also read the poem Ozymandias, the king of kings. This one was a bit trickier than Sonnet 146 because Ozymandias was not a name that I was familiar with so the meaning of the poem was lost to me at first. Until I did a little research and found Ozymandias' Wikipedia page and learned that it was actually a nickname for an ancient Egyptian pharoh. Which made the point of time erroding at the strength and influence of an empire. Lastly, we started our Critical Theory notes. My group chose the play Macbeth, which in short is a story of poor life choices. But we were specifically studying Philosophical/Existentialism before we watched the play Macbeth. As a group we sort of decided that the quicky definition to Philosophical/Existentialism was that there is no such thing as exact. It is more up to whoever is interpreting it. In this new trimester we are doing something different for our reading projects. We are doing our project in a Pecha Kucha designed presentation. Which is basically a timed slideshow that will reflect the subject that we decide to pursue for the next twelve weeks or so. For my two books I chose 1984 and Brave New World. My inspiration for picking these two books came from an internet post I saw the other day. It was re-post when I saw it and I do not have the original image but it resurfaced around the Presidential Election. The post contrasted the two books and was really thought provoking at the time. And Brave New World has been a book that I have wanted to read for a couple of years now, so I figured now was as good as time as any.
In addition to starting our new reading project we did a practice AP test, but only the multiple choice part. I realized that I needed to really refresh my knowledge of literature vocab. There were a couple of times that I was not confident of my answer because of not understanding a word. Which instictively made me pick a random answer. After finishing our tests we talked about what we thought were the best test taking stragies. Personally the thing that helps me the most is forgetting that it is a timed test. If I am actively being timed or feel rushed I do significantly worse. The part that I did the worst on was section regarding the man who talked about his gold. I am confident the reason I did so poorly on this section was because I noticed everyone sitting around me was already a story ahead of me which made me rush through the story and answer poorly. If I had answered only half of those questions correctly I would have gotten 5 points better. Putting me at a 43/55 instead of 38/55. Same thing with my SAT during every practice where we were never told how close to the end we were getting I was doing crazy good. In math I was scoring low 700's every time and in the reading I was only missing on average 5 questions in total. But when I have taken the actual SAT they rush you along at specfic intervals which I feel messes me up. |
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