Before we started watching our movies this week, each group was instructed to create a basis for their theme, then write it on the board. My group choose the marxist theme and decided to focus on the social side of it, specifically differences between social classes and the interactions between them. Making this main idea helped me understand the marxist theme in greater detail. It also gave me set boundaries for the notes we would later take during the movie, which will help us stay on track while writing our paper. When I first started watching King Lear I couldn't find anything that I thought matched our theme. In the beginning the movie focused on the top of the social classes, making it hard to understand the lower parts of society. However, as the play continued, people started gaining or losing power, which made them change classes. For example, Edmund started as a man who had no inheritance to speak of, then through plots and schemes had command of the army. Edmund’s experience made it clear that power has a major influence on which social class you reside in. Without the summary my group wrote about our theme, the notes I took would have been all over the place, making our group’s paper much harder to write. A distinct main idea helped me throughout this week, and will continue to do aid me in the future. https://www.usu.edu/markdamen/WritingGuide/21quest.htm
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This week we dove back into analyzing poems by reading “Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth” by Shakespeare and “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley. Shakespeare started his poem with a sad, regretful feeling that spoke about the body’s end. However, by the end the tone changed. The poem still conveyed that the body will someday die, but it also introduced the idea that the soul can live on forever. The meaning of “Ozymandias” was exactly the opposite. This poem spoke of a statue that stood alone in the sand. Only the legs were left standing, with the head half sunk in the sand beside it. On a pedestal at the feet of the statue a sign read “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” (Shelley) Ozymandias assumed that his works would go on forever, when in reality, all was forgotten. Shelley used this story to poke fun at the idea of living forever. The statue that Ozymandias created to display how amazing he was only showcase his fall. The poem of the week question asked us to compare and contrast how loss was displayed in both poems. All of the studying done on the poems made me greatly prepared to answer this question. As I remembered the strategies we used to analyze the poems, the essay was easy to write. The work we did with poems this week taught me that the most important part of writing an essay it the preparation you do beforehand. https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/tlc/tipsheets/reading-and-analyzing/how-to-analyze-a-poem.pdf Learning about the layout of an test can help you when taking it. During the PSAT, I didn't know what to expect and as a result my grade wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. In class this week, we took a practice test that showed us what part of the AP test for this class will be like. It was a multiple choice test with 55 problems, and was only worth 45% of your total grade on the test. Knowing that this specific part of the test was worth less than half of your grade will make it easier to focus during the real test. By the end of taking the practice test, I had a few minutes left to spare. This tells me that when I take the real test, I can spend a few more minutes on especially hard problems. A couple days later, we graded our tests and were told the percentage of Americans that answered each question correctly. There were quite a few questions that less than half of the population answered right, which makes me feel better about the hard questions that I missed. When we went over our answers, I did the worst on the questions relating to the Dickinson poem because I misinterpreted a paragraph. Knowing this shows me my weaknesses which tells me what I need to work on to do better on the test in the future. http://www.testtakingtips.com/test/gentest.htm |
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