This week felt like a very uneventful week, however in hindsight we watched a very long shakespearean play that is reference in many aspects of the world today. Starting off the week we debriefed and finally decided just what exactly each group's critical theory meant. I found it very interesting to see all the variation among the groups. There were three different theories that were picked yet there was a variety of movie choice between the theory, some decided it suit Macbeth better and some decided it fit King Lear better. There was even more variety among what each group interpreted the critical theory to be centered upon so I found that very interesting. After seeing what each group had chosen and splitting up based on our movies things got even more interesting. I had only ever seen glimpses of Macbeth in pop culture today but never actually read the play let alone the synopsis of it. It was very interesting to see it, but I felt that I would have been able to enjoy it more had I read the play prior to watching it just. I would have also been able to differentiate between characters easier. At one point while Mr. Schoenborn was out of the classroom almost half the class was so confused that we had to say who each character was as they popped up on the screen just so we could follow the story line. Other than the it being slightly confusing I found this week to have been very eventful upon looking back, I even was able to figure out the reference to Macbeth that is used in the musical Hamilton.
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This week was a really interesting week. I was in an odd mood at the beginning of the week, questioning the whole reason why we do what we do. Then the two poems that we looked at for the poem of the week, William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias really put my thoughts into words and echoed my thoughts. Both poems are discussing the impermanence of humans and how really when we die it doesn’t matter what our body looked like or what it did. I found it strangely odd that these poems did reflect my thoughts and while they really did not help to calm my thoughts I did see them as a step towards trying to figure out my thoughts. Another thing this week that I found very thought echoing/provoking was diving into the critical theory that my group chose. It was very interesting seeing how many people had looked at philosophical/existentialism but never labeled it was such. It made me think about how things have been labeled as what they are due to someone naming them so long ago and from them on they have been known as that. It makes me wonder why things have been labeled as that from them on. While this definitely isn’t anything remotely like what those philosophers did I still felt like it was some sort of deep thinking, that deserved to be discussed. This week we were introduced to a lot of new things. The introduction to what we will be doing at the end of the trimester with the Pecha Kucha style presentation was very helpful. With most of the presentations that we have done previously we have really seen an end product or we have seen one once we have started creating our end product, so I appreciated seeing the video of a previous student doing their presentation. Another thing that we were introduced to that I found very helpful was doing a practice AP multiple choice test. I hate doing practice tests, because I often find myself falling asleep during them, but I liked that we started talking about what the test will be like. I have not looked super in depth into what the AP test will be like and we did not really talk about it much first trimester. After taking the practice test I learned that I needed to read the story before answering questions and I have to go back and refresh myself on literary devices used in poetry and other forms of literature. Looking at what the future and what to expect was very helpful this week. Knowing what to expect on the AP test and where I stand right now with it. Having the base line will help to show the growth that I have made this year when it comes to taking the AP test. Also being introduced and have do a new style of presentation will also help me in the future because due to the job field that I will be going into I will be presenting pretty often. |
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