Senior Project Update 2

This last few weeks I've been fittling around with the word press blogger format. Word press is definitely different from blogger in a lot of ways. So far the blogger template is very simplistic over the next couple weeks the format will go into its final stage. Look forward seeing how it turns out!

Senior Project Update

You can find my senior project at http://seniorsurvivalguidee.wordpress.com/

Senior Project

For my senior project I decided to create an active senior survival guide on word press. The blog will provide helpful tips, information, and advice regarding college, AP classes, scholarships, ect.

We're at the end

In the beginning of Senior year, we beg the year to go by fast. Toward the middle, we beg it to slow down. And at the end, we wish it to never stop

Graduation isn’t the closing of a door, It’s the opening of a thousand.

With graduation around the corner.. I can't help but celebrate

Senior Presentation Board

AP Exam Reflection

After taking the AP Exam for this course I'd like to reflect on my experience. What I did know, what I didn't know, and what stood out to me. Starting with the multiple choice, in my opinion the multiple choice was the easiest part of the exam. I particularly liked the poetry passages and questions. As for the essays it's definitely difficult to focus your mind for 2 straight hours and write 3 of the best essays of your life. I particularly had problems staying focused. I liked the poetry essay the best out of the three essays. If I could have done something different I would have prepared more for the open essay question.

Hamlet Essay

Open Essay

Thou Blind Man's Mark Essay

Keats and Longfellow Comparative Essay

Fasting Essay

The Crossing Essay

The Street Essay

Helen to Troy Essay

Times a ticking

With the AP exam right around the corner I feel pretty confident in my abilities and my schooling. Over the pass few days leading up the exam I am making sure to get plenty of sleep and good nutrition. I have also been looking over my in class essays and reflecting on them. I have asked you, Dr. Preston, questions and believe in the time allotted I have done all that I can to prepare for this test. We'll see soon! Check back in a couple of days.

Poetry Team Reponses

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Title: At first glance, the title 'Our Deepest Fear' makes me think of monsters and gloomy type of scene. I assumed the author would be a little boy or little girl.
Paraphrase: 'Our Deepest Fear' by Marianne Williamson is a truly amazing poem. The poem how people in the community is scared of reaching their full potential. 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.' The line reveals how we are not scared we are not enough, we are scared that we are more intelligent, stronger then we know. The poet reveals how each individual has their own potential. Mrs. Williamson states how to each individual much rise to their full potential in order to better the world itself.
Connotation: The author uses special diction and syntax in order to betray her message. By using such powerful words you become one with the poem. The whole poem has words like 'inadequate' instead of a basic word like unintelligent. By switching just these two words makes a poem much more powerful and much more motivating.
Attitude: The authors tone is just really self motivating each individual. The poem reminds me of the coach telling his players to do the impossible. The poem is so inspirational and has the attitude where you just want to get up and go get to get that education or do whatever you want to do in life in order to succeed. By keeping that powerful tone the audience is able to feel what the author is trying to convey.
Shift: ' Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure'. There is a shift in the middle of the poem when the author is explaining How each individual has the potential to be anything they want not just to better themselves but also the world itself.
Title Revisited: After reading the poem several times I have came to the conclusion that our deepest fear is not about monsters or any physical challenge. The title means we must mentally overcome our obstacles and self-doubt.
Theme: the author's theme is pretty self explanatory. Each individual has ability to do whatever they want in their life. However, we are so scared of rejection we reject ourselves. We have the opportunity to get education and not only better ourselves the better those around us. The author mentioned how playing a small role in the world does not help anybody. Be who you want to be a but make sure its a person you can be. Everyone is beautiful and everyone is powerful. Do not let self doubt control your life. You are the controller of your own game so play well and win everything.

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Title: The title of the poem expresses the significance that the narrator put on his fantasies by referring to his dreams as a state of apotheosis

Paraphrase parts of the poem: "joy departed"- Meaning no longer joyous or containing joy. “But a waking dream of life and light hath left me broken-hearted”- The narrator articulates his fears of when his fantasy world will come to an end. Connotation: "broken-hearted"- His heart isn't literally broken, but he is devastated or sad. "What is not a dream by day"- This doesn't literally mean that dreams during the day, but what one dreams at all. Attitude: In my opinion, the attitude of the poem is one that is introverted, or even emotionally inept, as if "his" message is not to be shared with society. This seems like a sensitive subject for the narrator, as he shares his deepest thoughts and feelings.

Shift: I feel that there is a shift between "In visions of the dark night", and "But a waking dream of life and light", the first quotes creates a dark, depressing state for me, while the second quote creates one that is more joyful.

Title Revised: I feel that "A Dream" has significance as the narrator discusses his very own dream. His dream ,I feel, is to live in his own fantasy wold, undisturbed.

Theme: The theme of this poem is how the narrator wants to live in his own dreams, maybe because of traumatic life experiences. He finds more comfort in his fantasy world than he does reality and fears the day that his fantasy world will cease.

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Title: A Summer’s Dream by Elizabeth Bishop sound like it will be happy and uplifting.

Paraphrase: In this poem, I feel as if Bishop is observing these 4 characters in one room and making a poem about them. The owl seems a bit random. The poem, although it is titled A Summer's Dream which makes you think of sunny, fun and happy things, seems like a contradiction to the actual poem which has nothing to do with summer and who's tone has dark feelings at times.

Connotation:

Diction: wharf, geraniums, linoleums, somn ambulist

Attitude: The attitude of the author is a mix between dreamy and gloomy. She doesn't stick to one subject and jumps from one thing to another. This moment seems like a real moment but pictured in a dreamy way where her attention shifts from one thing to another.

Tone: I hate repetition but her tone seems dreamy, smooth and gloomy at times.

Shift(s): I think these two verses are where the poem shifts from normal, content to serious and gloomy. Extraordinary geraniums crowded the front windows, the floors glittered with assorted linoleums.

Every night we listened for a horned owl. In the horned lamp flame, the wallpaper glistened.

Title revisited: The title is referring to a memory and the poem is the description of part of the memory that she allows us to see into. She gives us details that make us question the title but in all the title is what she got out of the memory although we can extract other feelings from the poem.

Theme: Im struggling on this one...

GROUPTHINK

Each person in our group has chosen a different poems in different categories therefore we get a better understanding of different types of poems. Since we each have chosen a poem and have presented many presentations to each other we have learned different types of writing themes, diction and tones.

Vendler Grid

Meaning
Antecedent Scenario
Structural Parts
Climax
Other Parts

Skeleton
Content Genre- games
Tone
Agency
Roads Not Taken
Speech Acts
Outer and Inner Structural Forms
Imagination

Poetry Grid Lock

TPCASTT:  Poem Analysis Method:   title, paraphrase, connotation, diction,  attitude, tone, shift(s), title revisited and  theme
Titleof poem means
Paraphraseparts of the Poem
Connotationof some of the words – changing literal meaning to implied or associated values
AttitudeWhat is the attitude of the author, characters or yourself?
ShiftAt first we think or feel one way – then there is a shift:  identify the shifts and explain them
Title revisitedAny new insights on meaning or significance of title?
Theme