Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Hacking My Education
I think most of what I need to learn will be my responsibility. Like vocab and literature terms, also reading, which I am not sure if I am bad at or just really dislike. I need to learn to get over my inabilities and conquer that vocab and reading! Also for my masterpiece, I am thinking about incorporating mountain biking because I want to do really well this year and I hope I can further motivate myself to do well by including it in my masterpiece.
Siddhartha
He was homeless, he felt alone
Many were in his shoes
Felt he didn't belong anywhere or with anyone
Braman- highest religious class in India
Have to be certain way
He had to ask questions which his dryer didn't like
He has questions that can't be answered by books or scholars
He stood still, self actualization
Paralyzed, by snake( evil, devil)
In his thinkin he is by himself
He steps out which may hurt his family and he would feel shame
Snakes he'd skin
He could become new different
Friends don't let you change, when you move past friends a new freedom is found
He is undefined
Understands his self discovery, he moved on, not looking for some place to fit
Doubtful tone
Overwhelmed
Blender, finding the fruit that makes up the smoothie
Doesn't need to find a plae to belong
Anaphorism- I'm not, I'm not, I'm not
Symbolism- snakes, recurring moment
Extended metaphor- story within a story
Ambiguous- always questions, you can take it different ways, it doesn't say how to feel about writing
Mood is ambiguous
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Literature Analysis: The Happiness Project
There is a book called the Happiness Project, so happy someone else has come up with it too. It is like a present I didn't even know was there for me to enjoy. However, I am still waiting for the book to become available at the library, if anyone has a copy please let me know!
1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read according to the elements of plot you've learned in past courses (exposition, inciting incident, etc.). Explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)
CHARACTERIZATION
1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization. Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character? Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)
CHARACTERIZATION
1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization. Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character? Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.
Masterpiece
1. My topic is making someone else feel valued and important and loved. Sometimes high school life can get dry and dull and lull us to sleep rather than wake us up to all the great things out there. Whether giving someone new friendships or just giving them a smile, I hope to complete that in my project. I became interested in making people happy when I found myself not happy. I realized that other people can feel that way, but a little light in their world, whatever it may be can bring them up to the surface of happiness.
I think this topic will enrich my life and others because it shows what a little bit of kindness can do. Simple smiles and small gestures is all it takes to made a terrible day a little better. Sometimes letting our terrible days get others down is also something that can be avoided when you let someone know. Maybe it doesn't have to be a terrible day, maybe it can be a great day if you have the willingness to let it. Also this is to inspire people to be kind and aware of what is happening around them and giving them a little shove to sacrifice some of their time and love for someone else.
This project needs some social skills, some that I may not posses but maybe others will. I hope to include the whole senior class in this project maybe a few from other classes. If I can find enough people willing to participate, I think everyone's social skills combined will make this a project for the books.
Learning how to decipher people's mood or feeling will be one of the first peices. We will be learning about how people respond when something nice and unexpected happens and also seeing how we feel after we have accomplished something amazing and thoughtful. Then hopefully translating that over to our own life and the actions we take in it that we may not have taken before.
I would say we need money for purchasing gifts for the special person of the week or month, then also time from people to see who needs it the most, what to get them and then how to execute the plan in secret. I would like each way of presenting the surprise to be different each time.
to tell my story I will probably use my own blog, my technical skills are not advanced and I try to not "social media" my life away, but I think whatever does come out of this might also get posted to Facebook to try to get support for what we are doing. Also to get ideas of who to surprise, we might post signs up that says nominate someone who you think is deserving of something special, to get the word out about the project, why we are doing it, and hopefully get deserving applicants.
There is a book called The Happiness Project that I am excited to read and see how someone else found a way to become happier. Sadly it seems very popular at the moment because the libraries are fresh out of copies. I have to wait for it to become available but I am exciting to read and learn from it and hopefully get some more inspiration for my project and also how to make it better, more organized.
The author has a blog that I am trying to find to possible contact her to get involved (I am dreaming) but after I got the magic wand, I just couldn't stop. I am ready to hear others opinions and advice for making htis project amazing and still trying to find the right people to approach.
I think this topic will enrich my life and others because it shows what a little bit of kindness can do. Simple smiles and small gestures is all it takes to made a terrible day a little better. Sometimes letting our terrible days get others down is also something that can be avoided when you let someone know. Maybe it doesn't have to be a terrible day, maybe it can be a great day if you have the willingness to let it. Also this is to inspire people to be kind and aware of what is happening around them and giving them a little shove to sacrifice some of their time and love for someone else.
This project needs some social skills, some that I may not posses but maybe others will. I hope to include the whole senior class in this project maybe a few from other classes. If I can find enough people willing to participate, I think everyone's social skills combined will make this a project for the books.
Learning how to decipher people's mood or feeling will be one of the first peices. We will be learning about how people respond when something nice and unexpected happens and also seeing how we feel after we have accomplished something amazing and thoughtful. Then hopefully translating that over to our own life and the actions we take in it that we may not have taken before.
I would say we need money for purchasing gifts for the special person of the week or month, then also time from people to see who needs it the most, what to get them and then how to execute the plan in secret. I would like each way of presenting the surprise to be different each time.
to tell my story I will probably use my own blog, my technical skills are not advanced and I try to not "social media" my life away, but I think whatever does come out of this might also get posted to Facebook to try to get support for what we are doing. Also to get ideas of who to surprise, we might post signs up that says nominate someone who you think is deserving of something special, to get the word out about the project, why we are doing it, and hopefully get deserving applicants.
There is a book called The Happiness Project that I am excited to read and see how someone else found a way to become happier. Sadly it seems very popular at the moment because the libraries are fresh out of copies. I have to wait for it to become available but I am exciting to read and learn from it and hopefully get some more inspiration for my project and also how to make it better, more organized.
The author has a blog that I am trying to find to possible contact her to get involved (I am dreaming) but after I got the magic wand, I just couldn't stop. I am ready to hear others opinions and advice for making htis project amazing and still trying to find the right people to approach.
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