Suggestions For Scrapbook

Yesenia Parra-Delgadillo

• Somehow incorporate more color
• In pictures where you are far away point an arrow to where you are at

Valentina Alvarado

• Add captions that describe the pictures
• Write any memories that come along with the picture

Julio Prado

• Add music
• Add more photos of you
• Add more recent pictures

I will add more music and pictures of my other friends. I need to add captions and make smoother transitions. Some clips are significantly shorter. I have a lot of editing to do to make it more cohesive. 

Progress On Final Project

1. Post the following information to your blog:

• What you've done so far;

I have about twenty different slides of my prezi done. I've done a lot of outlines but not the actual slides. 

• What you still need to accomplish in the two weeks we have left;

I still need to gather the books I read during high school. At the end of this presentation I will have a  reflection. I still need to work on that. I will also add pictures of myself (maybe). If I do end up doing this I need to pick my pictures. I will also be adding music to my prezi. I need to chose which songs I will add to it. I am also reading the book IT by Stephen King. I've tried many times to finish reading this book but I have never been able to finish it. This will sort of be my grand finale. 

• How your work will benefit you and others.

I think that my project will give people the opportunity to think more deeply about the literature they have read and how it has influenced them. Many don't realize just how big of an influence literature is to them. 

Plan for Final Project

My Goals:
I was set on doing a scrapbook of all the books I have ever read. I was doing a prezi and have already started doing this but I am having second thoughts. I think that this may be a dull, boring format to present my scrapbook. I am considering doing a video format now. I know what I want to do just not how to present it.


Materials/Resources:
I am going to need a computer to do it. Everything that I am going to do is going to be done on a computer. If I do end up doing a video I am going to need a video camera which I already have. I might need assistance on making a video if I do chose to make one


My Timeline:
I have already picked all the books that I will include. I have divided them into four categories:

• Books I read before elementary school
• Books I read during elementary school
• Books I read during middle school
• Books I read during high school

I already have about 20 slides of my prezi done. I think I will end up cramming a lot at the end because I cannot decide on what to do.

This project will be viewed through a computer so it will be projected to the classroom and posted to my blog. 

AP Studying: Day 3

Today in class, I decided that the best way to help prepare us for the essay was to have my partners pick an essay prompt and have them write the introduction as homework. Tomorrow in class we will each evaluate each other's introductions and give each other advice on how to improve our thesis statements. I have also been looking over the literary terms.

This is the one I chose:

Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a
parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the
sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of
the work. Avoid plot summary. You may base you essay...

There is usually always conflicts among parental figures and a son or daughter. The child is usually rebellious and refuses to do what that parental figure insists. One of the most famous plays in which this happens and plays a major role in is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Juliet has always been told to stay away from the Capulets but disregards this when she falls in love with Romeo.  This forbidden love eventually leads to the death of both the main characters. This conflict helps to convey one of the major themes in the play. 

AP Studying: Day 2

I focused on poetry. I reviewed the nine elements. What helped me a lot is reviewing my old Spanish Literature notebooks from last year. We did a lot of poetry analysis. This really helped me refresh my memory.  I then looked up some poems in English and tried applying what I had reviewed to the poetry. I always told myself that analyzing poetry in Spanish was easier that English. My mentality on this has changed and I now feel more confident about analyzing poetry in English now.

A Reflection on Unstructured Learning

This passage is from the point of view of a super hero. There was one major theme I picked up on: self-doubt (the word is even directly stated in the text).  The speaker keeps doubting himself  and does't know what to do with himself. He struggles with his confidence. In the end, everything comes together for him and finally finds the name he has been searching for. He stumbles on it when it was least expected.

As I read this passage, I was the one with the self doubt. I am the one who was doubting myself for the AP test. I need to have the confidence that I can do well on this test.


'  "Nite Owl."  I liked it.  Now all I had to come up with was the costume.'


We as AP English students have been given all the resources that we need. Now we need to take them all in and "deliver the goods."

AP Exam Studying....

I actually did not do what I said that I was going to do. I glanced around at the essay prompts and noticed that they frequently ask for tone. I then realized that I always use the same words to describe the tone of a passage. I went online and looked for some new words that I could use to replace my mundane ones (serious, sad, etc). This is what I came up with:

• http://www.mshogue.com/AP/tone.htm
• http://www.rjfisher.lgusd.k12.ca.us/staff/mhartung/documents/tone_words.pdf

Looking at these two different list really helped me and I think will strengthen my essay writing. 

I also realized that I never fully understood what syntax was. I was able to find this great source.

• http://schoolhousebooksweb.com/syntax.html

I also reviewed essay writing. I read the "Analyzing Prompt" document that Dr Preston posted up.

This also helped a lot. There was sample essays that helped me to set standards for myself on the test. 

I also reviewed the AP terms and tried to apply each of them to a novel I had read. 

This weekend I mostly focused on the essay writing. This coming week I plan on focusing on the multiple choice. 

Essay Prompts: Macbeth

1979 Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of
recognized literary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone,
beconsidered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and
why the full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more
sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary.

1977    No prose selection (instead, had the following prompt:  A character’s attempt to recapture or reject the past is important in many plays, novels, and poems.  Choose a work in which a character views the past with such feelings as reverence, bitterness, or longing.  Show with clear evidence how the character’s view of the past is used to develop a theme in the work.)

1997    Joy Kogawa’s Obasan:  Analyze how changes in perspective and style reflect the narrator’s complex attitude toward the past. Consider elements such as point of view, structure, selection of detail, and figurative language.

AP Test Study Plan

I think that gathering a group of people outside of class would also be very beneficial.I need to work on the multiple choice, I think that I can write a passing essay. The multiple choice has always been difficult for me. I would also need to go back and review the literature we read in the beginning of the year. My biggest concern is the multiple choice and grammar. I will take practice multiple choice sections.I will do this by using the resources Dr Preston has post.ed on the blog

Recorded by Alex Rea Thursday, April 19, 2012

Macbeth by William Shakespeare [Notes]

Macbeth: Act 1

• Macbeth proves himself a hero at Scot's battle. The king then decides to give Macbeth a promotion.
• The prophecy: The witches come across Macbeth and tell him that the king has given him a promotion (thane) and that he will later become king. They tell his friend Banquo that he will not amount to much but that his children will.
• Banquo seems doubtful of the witches. Macbeth ponders about it. 
• King Duncan=father of Malcom
• Duncan shares with everyone that his son Malcom will be the heir to the throne. Macbeth wonders about this because the witches said he would be king. 
• Ominous weather = tragedy or disaster ahead. 
• Since he heard of the prophecy he yearns to become king....it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy
• Lady Macbeth is ambitious and wants to have Macbeth seize the thrown my any means necessary. 
• The king will join Macbeth and his wife for dinner. Lady Macbeth says they should kill the king then. 
• Macbeth: thinks things over and "chickens out" and decides not to kill Duncan. His wife is angered and disappointed. She convinces Macbeth to kill the king
• She is somewhat Macbeth's driving force....makes him appear somewhat weak. She is kind of like his "back bone"

Macbeth: Act 2

• Macbeth is feeling paranoid and guilty over killing Duncan....this is unusual. One of the only Shakespeare characters to feel this way.
• Macbeth finally kills the king but does not fully carry out their plan. He was frightened as he killed the king. 
• Lady Macbeth is again frustrated with Macbeths' cowardice and finishes off the plan herself (puts the daggers in chamberlains room so it seems like they killed the king).
• Macduff and Lennox come to visit the king and discover him dead. Macbeth claims he killed the chamberlains because they killed the king. 
• Malcom feels he is not safe since his father was murdered. 
• Foreshadowing: weather, animals behaving strangely.
• Macbeth is now to be crowned king. Malcom is suspect because he has fled. 

Macbeth: Act 3

• Macbeth still feels extremely guilty. His wife as well
• Macbeth fears Banquo because he knows of the prophecy....he has hired some men to kill him. 
• The murderers kill Banquo but fail to kill his son Fleance. Fleance is now another threat to Macbeth...he is a potential heir to the throne. The prophecy said that Banquo's children would be king or something of that extent.
• During a dinner with their court, Banquo's ghost appears to Macbeth and Macbeth  talks to him and makes himself look crazy.
• Hecta the goddess of mischief and witchcraft tells the witches to keep Macbeth in confusion.
• Malcom has now sought help from King Edward. 

Macbeth: Act 4

• Macbeth goes to see the witches and they tell him that Macduff is a threat. Macbeth sends murderers to kill him and his family.
• Macduff and Malcom become allies and together want to overthrow Macbeth.
• Macduff now swears to take revenge on Macbeth since he has murdered his family. 

Macbeth: Act 5

• The English and Scottish army will now fight against each other. The English army is led by Malcom.
• Lady Macbeth kills herself from guilt. 
• Malcom's army are carrying pieces of tree to disguise the size of the army. Malcom sees this and remembers that this type of wood will mean his death.
• Macduff shows up with Macbeths head.
• Malcom is crowned king. 

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare Background Notes

• Source #1
• Play has a very dark tone
• Shakespeare included witches to please King James 1 who believed in witchcraft
• First performed at Hampton Court to the king
• Not an original play; based based on real life

               -Macbeth was ruler of Scotland (17 yrs)
              -He killed Duncan and was killed by Duncans son Malcom

Source #2

• This play tends to upset people....
• Characters "Banquesve and Fleance never existed
• Evil for Shakespeare: Bad human habits and behaviors
• Theme: What is a real man?
• The third murderer is a mystery
• Rumored that play brings bad luck

Source #3

• Lengthy....
• Basically the entire play...

Source #4

• Shakespeare invented a lot of the stuff in the play to make it more dramatic and entertaining
• The main story line still remains to be true

Source #5

• Shakespeare's main source was

              -Hanishbads Chronicles (Macbeth)

              -based on Scotorum Historiae (1592) by Hector Bece

Top Three Video Remixes

After watching several videos, I have established the top three .


#3: The Scarlet Letter Video Remix by Trevor Hudgens.

• The video had a lot of worthwhile information . It was very eerie and a little dark. It was very creative and different from any of the videos I had seen. However, it was very lengthy, this is the only downside of it. 
• http://tjhrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

#2: The Tortilla Curtain Video Remix by Marisol Zepeda

• This was a normal picture and song video. The pictures aligned great with the novel and so did the music. It was short and straightforward. 
• http://marisolzpd13.blogspot.com/

#1: My Antonia Video Remix by Rebecca Patterson

• This video consists of Rebecca talking about the novel My Antonia. Her confidence and expertise in the novel makes the video easy to watch. It is not too lengthy and is very informative. 
• http://rprhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Lit Anal Video Remix

Remix your last LA into a one-minute video with a soundtrack .....

Remixing Lit. Anal Notes: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

1.Remix the literature analysis notes on your blog into a mindmap