Even though I wasn't super close to Breanna, she was a friend. The type of friend that would be there for anyone who needed a laugh. Breanna Rodriguez was such a beautiful soul. She was one of those people that had the ability and strength to make a change in the world. She had big aspirations but an even bigger heart. She constantly chose to focus on the positivity of life even while others didn't. And she spread this positivity to everyone, everywhere she went. As cliche as it sounds, she was one of those people that everybody loved. Not once in the 4 years of me knowing her have I ever hear anything negative about her. Breanna was inspiring. She was going to go to her dream school, she was going to go help others in Africa, and she was planning a senior trip to Yosemite. She couldn't wait to experience and explore. Life doesn't feel the same without her. So many sweet memories. I love you baby girl. And there's not going to be a day that goes by where I don't think of you and how you forever impacted all of our lives.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Saint Crispin's Day Speech
When reading the speech I understood quite quickly that he was honoring the troops on the day of St. Crispin. Words like men, die, country, live, honor, pray were used throughout the text. I gathered that Henry was saying that those who fight, and continue to fight, should be proud of themselves. Those who do not want to fight, don't have to. The soldiers are his brothers and they share great honor.
I took away all of that from just this speech; I don't know the story line or what role this speech played. Some of the lines made me question their meaning because of the word choice and language.
I took away all of that from just this speech; I don't know the story line or what role this speech played. Some of the lines made me question their meaning because of the word choice and language.
Lit Terms: List 3
exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
foil - noun anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; able to act at will; not hampered;
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
foil - noun anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; able to act at will; not hampered;
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Great Expectations Lecture
Bildungsroman:
- novel of education and maturity from childhood to adulthood
Pip:
- has imaginings of what his life could be like, but he doesn't see that these desires don't come without effort because he's a child.
- He's an orphan and acts with my sensitivity.
- He has a strong sense of being unwanted and is conscience of getting the short end of the stick.
- Questions if he deserved what he's gotten or if it's unfair.
- He doesn't know what normal is.
- He has grand expectations and fears. Vulnerable.
- Adopts males as role models because he's fatherless.
- He's a seed (he hasn't yet become)
Magwitch:
- He represents the outside adult world that parents try to protect their kids from.
- Eats like an animal.
- Not government by civilization.
- Has capacity for wickedness and brutality.
- He represents a threat of abandonment, greed, evil, etc.
- He sends a message to pip: if he's with Magwitch what does it say about him (Pip)
Havisham:
- Witch like figure.
- Has duel meaning: horrible decay and dream unfulfilled & shining promise, potential of fairy godmother character.
- Sacrificed her life for betrayal.
- Everything since the day she was left at the alter is untouched (represents dead hopes)
- Duel possibility of adulthood.
- She's rich but not what she seems (either is Estella)
Estella
- Trained to be a heartbreaker by Havisham
- Pip is smitten with Estella.
- They remind pip of himself
Fairy tale part:
- Male desire to dominate the world and wanting to be something more
- Fairy tale world is interrupted by reality of give and take
- Pip has to take active steps to see what will happen in his life
- Pip meets more father figures (Joe and Jaggers)
- Uses these characters to embody the moral universe.
- Is pip like Joe (physical work where he derives power but he doesn't use it) or Jaggers (knows things about people which gives him power and uses it to keep others loyal)
Joe:
- Lives by feeling.
- Looks at situations as a whole and goes with gut.
- Doesn't judge on appearances. Romantic.
- He isn't successful financially but has rich emotional life. He's content.
Jaggers
- Lives by letter of the law.
- Cold objective.
- Doesn't deal with emotions.
- Makes others spell things out. He makes things hard on people.
- Only thing that can be trusted are facts (difference between joe). Has a lot of money but isn't emotional.
- Joe keeps mother and child together and adopts child
- Jagger sends child away and uses the mother as his servant. Jagger is purely a business man and tells pip that
Wemick:
- Plays off of Jagger.
- Clerk.
- Works with Jagger's.
- Two different Guys at work and home (Joe-like privately and Jagger at work).
- Represents old nostalgic world.
- People are worth more than money.
- Has both philosophies throughout his day.
- Thinks as money as an advantage at work
- Pip tries different personalities and traits some he likes some he does.
Magwitch
- Represents Pip in bad circumstances.
- He identifies with pip as an orphan.
- Has a double life. Evil life of childhood. Better life as he grows and is influenced by Pip
- Less action and more mindset of protagonist
1- Havisham is not fairy godmother
2- Estella isn't intended for Pip but part of her training process
3- Magwwitch has created Pips expectations and thoughts.
- It's not about adult telling a child how to live his life but the child figuring it out on his own
- Joe has accepted moral compromise (lower than where pip sees himself)
- Pip wants to be practical like Jagger but also emotional like Joe. He differs from both he's a fantasist. He doesn't make compromises yet. He's a realist.
- Joe married Miss Joe.
- Magwitch stays alone.
- Pip cuts himself off from his past. He becomes a snob because he can't commit to who he is. Distant and judgmental and unwilling to be vulnerable.
- Pip doesn't get it yet.
- His autobiography is a confession. Dealing at middle age with the problem of his youth. It's catching up to him. It's a self cautionary tale.
- Estella isn't worth pursuing. Pip doesn't want to have fantasies. They aren't the same couple. They're a middle aged couple that has failed
- Joe has married Bitty and has a child named Pip
- novel of education and maturity from childhood to adulthood
Pip:
- has imaginings of what his life could be like, but he doesn't see that these desires don't come without effort because he's a child.
- He's an orphan and acts with my sensitivity.
- He has a strong sense of being unwanted and is conscience of getting the short end of the stick.
- Questions if he deserved what he's gotten or if it's unfair.
- He doesn't know what normal is.
- He has grand expectations and fears. Vulnerable.
- Adopts males as role models because he's fatherless.
- He's a seed (he hasn't yet become)
Magwitch:
- He represents the outside adult world that parents try to protect their kids from.
- Eats like an animal.
- Not government by civilization.
- Has capacity for wickedness and brutality.
- He represents a threat of abandonment, greed, evil, etc.
- He sends a message to pip: if he's with Magwitch what does it say about him (Pip)
Havisham:
- Witch like figure.
- Has duel meaning: horrible decay and dream unfulfilled & shining promise, potential of fairy godmother character.
- Sacrificed her life for betrayal.
- Everything since the day she was left at the alter is untouched (represents dead hopes)
- Duel possibility of adulthood.
- She's rich but not what she seems (either is Estella)
Estella
- Trained to be a heartbreaker by Havisham
- Pip is smitten with Estella.
- They remind pip of himself
Fairy tale part:
- Male desire to dominate the world and wanting to be something more
- Fairy tale world is interrupted by reality of give and take
- Pip has to take active steps to see what will happen in his life
- Pip meets more father figures (Joe and Jaggers)
- Uses these characters to embody the moral universe.
- Is pip like Joe (physical work where he derives power but he doesn't use it) or Jaggers (knows things about people which gives him power and uses it to keep others loyal)
Joe:
- Lives by feeling.
- Looks at situations as a whole and goes with gut.
- Doesn't judge on appearances. Romantic.
- He isn't successful financially but has rich emotional life. He's content.
Jaggers
- Lives by letter of the law.
- Cold objective.
- Doesn't deal with emotions.
- Makes others spell things out. He makes things hard on people.
- Only thing that can be trusted are facts (difference between joe). Has a lot of money but isn't emotional.
- Joe keeps mother and child together and adopts child
- Jagger sends child away and uses the mother as his servant. Jagger is purely a business man and tells pip that
Wemick:
- Plays off of Jagger.
- Clerk.
- Works with Jagger's.
- Two different Guys at work and home (Joe-like privately and Jagger at work).
- Represents old nostalgic world.
- People are worth more than money.
- Has both philosophies throughout his day.
- Thinks as money as an advantage at work
- Pip tries different personalities and traits some he likes some he does.
Magwitch
- Represents Pip in bad circumstances.
- He identifies with pip as an orphan.
- Has a double life. Evil life of childhood. Better life as he grows and is influenced by Pip
- Less action and more mindset of protagonist
1- Havisham is not fairy godmother
2- Estella isn't intended for Pip but part of her training process
3- Magwwitch has created Pips expectations and thoughts.
- It's not about adult telling a child how to live his life but the child figuring it out on his own
- Joe has accepted moral compromise (lower than where pip sees himself)
- Pip wants to be practical like Jagger but also emotional like Joe. He differs from both he's a fantasist. He doesn't make compromises yet. He's a realist.
- Joe married Miss Joe.
- Magwitch stays alone.
- Pip cuts himself off from his past. He becomes a snob because he can't commit to who he is. Distant and judgmental and unwilling to be vulnerable.
- Pip doesn't get it yet.
- His autobiography is a confession. Dealing at middle age with the problem of his youth. It's catching up to him. It's a self cautionary tale.
- Estella isn't worth pursuing. Pip doesn't want to have fantasies. They aren't the same couple. They're a middle aged couple that has failed
- Joe has married Bitty and has a child named Pip
All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap
When Salinger says, "all that David Copperfield kind of crap," he's referring to one of Dickens' stories/characters where David Copperfield doesn't have a strong relationship with his parents and people are constantly entering and leaving his life. Salinger's character in Catcher in the Rye had a lousy childhood and his parents didn't pay attention to him. This is quite similar to Pip in Great Expectations, but unlike in Catcher in the Rye, Pip doesn't have parents; he's an orphan. In both stories, they're use to unstable relationships. When a reader hears a saying referring to David Copperfield and/or Dickens, they can infer that this is the relationship trying to be portrayed. In Dickens' writing, readers are educated on the characters internal thoughts on these types of relationships and situations. Salinger, however, uses a more distant approach and just refers the reader to Dickens instead of elaborating like Dickens does. Salinger stays away from Dickens' "style" by calling David Copperfield's stuff "crap".
Lit Terms: List 2
Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
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Cliche - noun a trite or obvious remark
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play;arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Colloquialism - noun characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); the reference of an expression
Connotation - an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences;the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Cliche - noun a trite or obvious remark
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play;arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Colloquialism - noun characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); the reference of an expression
Connotation - an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences;the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Hacking My Education
This semester I want to read more. This semester I want to prepare more for the AP test. And this semester I want to strengthen my skills in all aspects of literature and composition. I want to become more engaged in class, and collaborate. I want to widen my perspectives on pieces that we read and see the depth that others see and I want to be able to recognize techniques used. To do this I think that I need to come to class more prepared so that I can engage more in conversations.
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