Dover Beach TPCASTT

Dover Beach  TPCASTT:  Poem Analysis Method:   title, paraphrase, connotation, diction,  attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and  theme
Titleof poem means	"Dover Beach" is a location and the scene where the author reflects upon the sea, its metaphor  and how that is connected to people
Paraphraseparts of the Poem	As much as we try to see happiness and brightness in the world, it is false. The dark and dreary parts of the world will always be lingering .
Connotationof some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values	"girdle furled"- the sea was filled to the brim"land of dreams"- pursuit of happiness and love "breath of the night-wind"- the steady but quiet tick-tock of the surroundings
AttitudeWhat is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?	The attitude of the author seems to know the impending doom of where he is about to go with this poem. He has a pessimistic view of the world and uses something as beautiful as the sea to demonstrate his realization of society's unreachable goals.
ShiftAt first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them	"Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar" There are escalating shifts in this paragraph but this is the first one. I choose it because of a shift in diction. It went from soft words to more harsh words.
Title revisitedAny new insights on meaning or significance of title?	I looked up Dover and it is some sort of water way in England or between England and France. No new meanings or insights.
Theme	The darkness of the world is a permanent stain.

Tobermony Explained

The tone of the last line was dark and vengeful. Clovis felt like Appin had but so much grief and a feeling of doom on the guests shoulders, that Appin deserved being killed after he tried getting the elephant to speak like a human. The people at the party thought they were inviting someone to the party who they felt they could poke fun and laugh at. Instead, Appin flipped the situation and was there to be entertained by the other guests, who in horror, listened as Tobermony gave up all their private conversations. 

The theme is nasty people with secrets can't deal with the real consequences of their actions and hope those who brought on those consequences get what they deserve. Appin was a clever guy whose experiment surprised his onlookers more than they could have thought possible. Because of their dismay, they automatically wanted to clean everything up. Though secrets have been splattered on the wall, they thought by pouring bleach all over it, somehow all that they thought had gone wrong can be scrubbed clean. This included the perpetrators to die to hide the evidence of their embarrassment.  

Courageous Incoming Freshman

I have a little friend, who I show cows with at the fair, named Alex. She keeps her show animals at my house so I see her almost every day. Today she called me, outraged that St. Louis de Montfort Catholic School only allows SJHS sweatshirts to replace uniform tops but no sweatshirts representing any of the other schools. She has decided ERHS will be her home for the next four years and in response to "receiving wind" of this info, she wrote this letter to the principal of her school.

• Sweatshirt Segregation?

By Alexandra Thompson

Segregate: seg•re•gate v. 1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. 2. To impose the separation of (a race or class) from the rest of society. – Seg•re•ga•tion, n. (Webster’s New Reference Library [Webster’s New Dictionary of the English Language], 375) I have attended St. Louis de Montfort Catholic School for nine years. My fellow students and I as well know that I am not a normal student; I differ drastically from my grade eight class mates. I am not a part of the Catholic faith, though I began my education at a Catholic school to shield myself from concepts such as segregation or discrimination until I reach the appropriate age. When I entered the front gates, I believed to have a safe, happy nine years free of such topics. I thought I would be treated just the same as any other student. To my surprise, I was appalled to receive wind that after nine years free of this, I am faced with it for the first time. Segregation is outlandish for Catholic schools because the teachings of their religious program state that this concept is against God’s Law, the school should always respect the student’s decisions, and all American citizens have the right to free speech and press.

I will enter Ernest Righetti High School next school year, and am very proud of my choice. I stand out from my other friends, whom will be attending St. Joseph’s Catholic High School instead. Taking into account that SLDM is the main feeder school for SJHS, I realize and understand that SLDM fully supports SJHS, hence them wanting to advertise the high school by allowing eighth graders that are enrolled for the next school year to wear the SJHS school sweatshirts. What I do not understand is why they are taking this support all the way to the point of segregation. Yes, they allow eighth graders to wear Saint Joe’s wear, yet they ban spirit wear from all other schools. This is a Catholic school; have I not been taught that segregation is wrong for nine years straight? In fact, just today the school participated in the Stations of the Cross, the same as every Wednesday during Lent. During the Stations, I heard a wise statement that caught my full attention: “Would I really have stood up for you, Jesus, even if I knew it was right?” Well, does this not explain that the idea of segregation is wrong? I do not own a Righetti sweatshirt, yet the concept of this rule fails to clear in my mind. The whole grade has chosen their paths for the future, whether it be SJHS, ERHS, or OAHS, the majority SJHS. The school supposedly supports every one of these decisions, but continues to show that this is not so. By banning some sweatshirts yet allowing others, the school portrays that they really do not agree with the student’s decisions. As for the sweatshirts, the United States of America grants each and every citizen the freedom of speech and press. By supporting the high schools, we use our freedoms, yet some of us are deprived of them due to discrimination.  Figures of admirable leadership such as Martin Luther King, Jr. devoted their lives to resolve segregation, yet it continues to become a problem all over the world.

Some say that because SLDM is a Catholic school, they should therefore only support a Catholic school. This is actually quite the contrary, because two students or more are attending a non-Catholic school for high school, therefore the school should be supporting each and every high school being attended by an eighth grade graduate. Whatever a student chooses, that school has to respect the decision and not discriminate the child.  Why would one school deserve more support than another? This is especially wrong when the child’s rights are impacted. No child is less important than another. Why is segregation happening at our school? To be frank, I know not.

A Catholic school should remain faithful to Christ’s teachings, especially if this happens to be what they are expressing to students as spiritually parallel. Discrimination is against God’s will, therefore should be omitted from the school policies. I did not write this essay for myself, but for all the children suffering from segregation and discrimination based on small acts, such as sweatshirts. Freedom of speech and freedom of press are important to us Americans, yet can be destroyed with discrimination. Lives can be impacted by small acts. All this over a sweatshirt!

Works Cited

Webster’s New Reference Library, 1990

Unknown, Gwen; The Stations of the Cross with Children, unknown date

P.S. we are learning persuasive essays with Mrs. Matasci right now and I thought this was a perfect opportunity to practice!

Masterpiece and Passion

Most people know about my masterpiece but I'm not sure if even I know what my passion is. What I do know is I want to be a doctor or biology teacher but I think it isn't so much the occupation, but more the effect I want to have on my students. It is centered around biology because Mrs. Wingerden is amazing and through her class I discovered my interest in biology and the careers that follow. However, it wasn't her love for biology that inspired me, it was the care she had in passing on her knowledge to me. 

I think I have always known I would become a teacher. When I was little, my nan would always get us bear related things because she was British. One of these bear things was a small ceramic bear that was sitting or standing and had a little clasp thing at the bottom that could open it up. Anyway, she got it for each of the kids in my family. So long story short, mine was a bear teacher. So I guess this has been a long time coming, it was just hard to see at first. 

Even if I did become a doctor I thought after I was "old" and done being a doctor, I could be a doctor teacher and teach at a med school. 

Back on track with my masterpiece, I think it is fitting closer and closer to who I am first I love helping people, making them smile and have fun and another thing is I love fitness. I love sports and workouts and having the overall feelin of healthy. Over the summer, Victoria and I went to a 5:45 class in the morning at the YMCA. It was so much fun! We were the youngest people there and we jumped and danced and did weird moves. Another great thing was the music they use is a variation of "today's top hits" from pandora pretty much. So as most of the adults are bouncing around not knowing what they are hearing, we know what we are hearing and we are either singing along or cringing. 

The combination of both of my favorite things are what have made this project something I look forward too. Even though little is planned out, I am so excited for it and want to learn more. 

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Don't complain about your job

Never stop mastering your skill

That is how you will be regarded honorably 

Son  says it takes making an effort every day and repeating it

Rest depends on how hard you work

He wants to get back to work

It has to be better than last time

High self standard

Always looking ahead

Aspire to improve skis

Impatience. They are leaders not collaborators

Seeking Mentor

Recently, I have been interested in fitness things and want to do a two part masterpiece instead of one. I still want to do the happiness project and a good mentor for that I think would be a positive blogger. I like reading blogs, sometimes, so if I can find someone inspirational and upbeat, I think that may help me come up with fun creative ideas to help inspire others and make them happy. Someone like this would be Victoria, because I love reading her blogs and commenting and then getting a response! I am hoping to find an older blogger, but Victoria is very inspirational at the moment.
For the fitness mentor, I have discovered this trainer from Australia named Kayla Itsines. She has her own ebook of workouts that she sells and is an entrepreneur. I follow her on twitter and instagram where she always had funny, positive things to say while also motivating others. I feel like she is a great model for me to follow.
My question is do I have to talk to these people who I consider a mentor? Victoria will talk to me but if I find a public figure type of person, it may be hard to get a response. I think finding people on the internet would be great because that is what this class is centered around, and if I find people that motivate me to complete my masterpiece, I think it would be great even if I never talked to them.

BNW Essay

Brave New World highlights the issue of an inner and outer self, even though only a few characters can actually see this.  Bernard is one of the only ones to be not okay with how life in the new world is going. He is having conflict but has a hard time exposing his distaste to the socitey; when his inside is so much like their outside, imprinted with lessons of the controlling world they live in. 
Bernard is an example of a character who seems to be the most human in the beginning of the book. While other characters seem less aware of the pseudo perfect world they live in, Bernard is one of the only one taking strokes against the current.  Everyone around him looks like they are living a dream life because they fit in their class. Bernard feels left out because he is unlike others in his class. He feels his inferior looks separate him from the other Alpha Pluses. Many joke of him being given the wrong mix of injections and that is what made him different. Also, a drug called soma is used by many to create the feeling of happiness whenever their contentedness falls. Bernard isn't interested in this drug. Also the rest of society feels it is okay to sleep around and have orgies whenever, but Bernard doesn't. Bernard values connection between people and doesn't believe in sleeping around. the people enjoy this world because they are happy and can fufill their (sexual) desires whenever they please. Bernard feels very content fitting into his own society rather than someone else's perfect world. Bernard shows the 
At times though, Bernard is frustrated he can't fit in. He wants to be someone who isn't singled out because he isn't normal. When Bernard is jutted into fame after he returns from the Reservation with the salvage, Bernard begins to conform more with the world he so vehemently disliked before. He began breaking the beliefs he used to stand for. He participated in what society labelled as okay, which included sex and soma. 

Ask me no question, I'll write you a thesis

Theme

• Those who don't conform are the only ones who can see conformists not making choices

Once the class looked at the question and we kind of created our own outline in our head, that was when we were more ready to write. If we had sped read the question them jumped into writing, we would have missed opportunities to answer the question well. We were all thinking of using examples, but without getting our theme down, our examples couldn't be used to prove our point. By analyzing the question, we were able to avoid one of the traps the AP test has which is the time limit. By sacrificing some time to give the AP reader what they really want to hear, the essay can be written with much more purpose and impact.

Brave New World highlights the issue of an inner and outer self, even though only a few characters can actually see this. Something John, an unconditioned "savage" is able to see is that not everyone is okay with how life in the new world is going. Some are having conflict but are having a hard time showing that on the outside, when their inside is so much like their outside, imprinted with lessons of the controlling world they live in.