Blogs Conclusion

When Mrs. Gilman told us that we would be doing these blogs for the rest of the year, I was nervous that this assignment would be hard, but it turned out alright. I saw imporvement in my writting and the voice I portray in the writing, as well as enjoyed reading other people's blogs because they put so much heart and soul into the blogs.



My writing style is very clear throughout all of the blogs I have written. I have a hard time starting sories and essay and the blog posts was espeshally difficult for me. All of my posts have an akward feel and in my writing I use a lot of "I" Statements for lack of anything better to say.



I really liked the post we had to do on a few Poetry Out Loud poems. When I focus on somebody else in a post like that the writing becomes very easy for me. It is like when I right about my passion, which happens to be the God I serve. I am very sorry if I bugged any of you by constentatly talking about and mentioning God and Jesus in my posts. It is just that I don't want to conceal Him or apper to be ashamed of trying to serve him and I am still learing how to show him i my actions.



Also, I liked posting on Great Expectations and Romeo and Juliet. I like the fun things that we planned for great expectations. Also, I like how we did the two question posts. They were very helpful to understand the novel and it was helpful to write the essay and to analyze it. I really liked the cultre shock post. It made me realize just how relevant the story is today and it was fasinating to see the impact Romeo and Juliet has made on society.

Essays and me

This year I learned so much more about essays. I have gotten better at writing them and analyzing. I know I can read any book and, given the motivation and time, can analyze it. I wouldn't call myself an accomplished essayist though. most people in the class write better essays than I do, but I am a lot better at it. Thank you Mrs. Gilman for helping me to understand how to write a good quality essay every time.

My essay is probably the best I have written yet, but part of my essay is failing to be mostly analysis rather than a summerary of the texts. This is simply because there is not a perfect concrete detail for this one point I am trying to prove, but I will get as much out of it as I can.

Summer Books

Well I have read every book in my shelf that was worth reading and I really have no idea what good books I can get my hands on during the summer.

However, I want to look for The Life of Pi from the reading list and Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen. I want to read The Life of Pi because it sounds very interesting. I read the blerb in the library and it pulled me in. I want to read Three Cups of Tea because this whole talk of Greg Mortensen and him coming to our school to talk with us and just the many description of what he did there, has inspired me to read his book and I haven't been able to get my hands on it.

If I don't read these books by the end of the school year, they are defenatly on my summer reading list.

Fate

According to the zodiac, I am a Virgo. Most of the information about this zodiac sign is accurate to me. For example: I do LOVE the earth and out doors, and will often be outside if I can. I do want to do the right thing all the time, but it's NOT because it comes naturally to me. I want to do the right thing because I am a christan and I want to do what my loving, holy God wants me to do. However, I often fail and do not represent him accuratly. I am not perfect and so even though I try, I often fail.

I do not believe that fate controls your future. You control your own destiny, or someone else does. Throughout act three scene four, Juliets parents try to control her fate and plan for her to marry Paris, even though they don't know her very well. Juliet will be a vicim of fate if she obeys her parents becuase she doesn't get to control her future. Those who base their lives off of these horiscopes might also be victems of fate because they are letting the stars control their fate.

Culture Shock

Description: A widower and a divorcee have a chance meeting at a business seminar and love develops. Both of there families are horrified because they are bitter rivals in the floral business.

This novel is like the play because there is a forbidden love and that is becase the families are rivals. I guess this would be the adult version of Romeo and Juliet.

skit prep.

One scene I would like to do in class is Pip's "fight" with the pale young gentleman because it is one of the few action scenes in the book. There is not a lot of thinking and sentiments in that scene, so it would be perfect to do in class

Another scene is when Pip goes to meet miss Havisham for the first time because it has action in it and it can actually be acted out. Plus, people can make miss Havisham's creepy voice.

Another scene I think would be good for a skit is the part in the novel when Magwich tells Pip and Herbert part of his history and is describing how he became partners with Comeyson and Arther hallucinated Miss Havisham and killed himself by it becaause it does have a lot of action.

Book Question #2

When Able Magwich is telling his story he taks about Arthur Compeysonand how mean and self-centered he is. The passage says he was once a convict too and Able says,"I had said to Compeyson that I'd smash his that face of his,..."(351) and also that Compeyson was on the marshes as well. That makes me wonder, is Arthur Compeyson the second convict that Pip meets on the marshes, and if so, how is he also Miss Havisham's fiance who left her at the alter?

Questions

On page 258, Mr. Pip and Herbert are talking with Mr. Wopsle, and his friend Mr. Waldengarver, and the owner, at the theater. The owner of the theater tells Mr. Waldengarver," The last Hamlet as I dressedmade the same mistakes in his reading at rehersal, till I got him to put a large, red wafer on each one of his shins." I am wondering what would be the equivalent of a wafer, that he is refering to, in the present day?

Great Expectations

This picture reminds of Pip and Hebert's relationship. In the short time they have known each other in London, they have become the best of friends. They have been practically inseparable and are very close. The two ropes are their lives and the prominent rope is Herbert because he is the one to initiate the friendship, by greeting Pip in a cheerful and very friendly way.

Great Expectations: The First Stage

In the quote, Pip is refering to his first visit with Miss Havisham. She shows him the finery and Estalla refuses to play with hhim "because he is commen". This permently changes him because after his experiance among Estella and Mrss Havisham, he starts to see himself as commen and residing in a commen society. He becomes ashamed of his home, his sister and Joe and doesn't want Estella to see him there under any curcumstances. Also, when he starts apprenticing Joe in the forage, he downcast and reluctent and only stays at the forage because he doesn't want to hurt Joe. Suddenly Pip doesn't want to live the dreams he had dreamed before his visit.

A similar experience I had was in 2004. I was eight years old and my family and I lived in Spokane. I was raised in a christion home, so every sunday we would go to church. One Sunday, the paster was telling us about how everyone needs Jesus. He said that we needed him because we are all sinners. Even if we live the best life and do all the good works in the world, we are still seperated from God because he can only be around prefection. However, he longed to be with us and to spend eternity with us. So God sent his one and only son to die for us to forgive us from our sins. After three days he rise his son up from the dead and conqured death once and for all. He showed that he was supreme, and that is when I gave my life to Christ. That moment changed my life forever. Now I was living for a whole new mission: to endwell Christ on this life and I could not go back to my old ways. Of corse, I am only human and I often make mistakes and don't often endwell Christ even though that is my goal and my disire.

The Importance of Being Earnest Essay Colaberation

My first point is about how they are genuinely in love and I wrote on how they are defing the culture by really being in love and how they love each other over all the thousands of poeple in the world, let alone in London.

The I wrote about how their relatioinship was based on high expectations because it was a better topic to write on than the nieveness. I wrote on how it is not very likely that before she knew about him that there is not very likely that someone was even named Ernest or that he would be a likable person.

That Gwendolyn could fall in love with an Ernest is unlikely plus it is based on lies. Ernest doesn't even exist in the begining of the play. Jack isn't willing to tell Gwendolyn the truth about his name and if they lived in this century, their relationship would be doomed because of lack of trust.

I will also add in how Jack and Gwendolyn are the only couple in the play who genuinely love each other and are open about it. Maybe Oscar Wilde put this relationship in the play to tell his readers what he thinks marrige should be about.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The research we did on the Victorian era enhanced my understanding of the play because it made me understand the differences of the culture. One thing I learned was just how badly women were treated back then. Gwendolyn is always being scolded by Lady Bracknell about how she can't make a choice on who she marries. Lady Bracknell said that Algernon could decide for himself, who he is to marry, but never even considers letting Gwendolyn choose who she wants to marry.

Another thing I learned was just how conceited and selfish the upper class really is. When learning about the Victorian theater I found out the upper class expected the lower class to separate themselves from the upper class by a balcony. there even were separate entrances so the rich would never have to come in contact with the poor. This is shown in the play by Lady Bracknell. She isn't interested in Miss Cardew until she finds out Cecily has "a hundred thirty thousand pounds in the funds".

The upper class also cares a lot about society and who your family is. When Lady Bracknell learns that Jack has no family relations he knows of, she doesn't let him marry Gwendolyn. The Victorian Research enhanced my under standing of this because it says that the people liked their social classes clearly defined. Also, the Victorian age was all about who has the most money. If someone doesn't have any rich parents who will or have left them a large fortune then they are looked down on and refused.