Thursday, April 11, 2013

AP Practice Exam Part 1


1. E
2. A
3. E
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. D
8. C
9. D
10.B
11. A
12. E
13. D
14.D
15.D
16.C
17. A
18. E
19. D
20. A
21. B
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. C
26. C
27. A
28. C
29. B
30. C
31. D
32. A
33. B
34. A
35. C
36. D
37.  E
38. C
39. C
40.D
41. B
42. C
43. A
44. C
45.C
46. E
47.B
48.E
49. B
50. D
51. B
52.C
53. C

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Macbeth Intro

•evolution to hero as antihero
•anachronism: out of place in times
•Macbeth: kings were supposed to be kingly
-tone: sinnister
king halo like holy but not
-Dark Play
-evil central characters
-bloody deaths and miserable
-1606 james first king of england for 3 years and refers to this in the play
fasinated by witch craft
-james inherited thrown through banquo and fleance. dunkin was murdered and it was well known
-1040-1057the real macbeth was killed by malcoms son malcom the third. 10/14 kings murdered
macbeth ruled well and wise. defeated by malcom who invaded scottland and killed macbeths family
-king james uniting englanf and scottland
-political correctness- cant live witn consequence and has remorse tries to redeem himself
-noooo human affection trust love etc.
-"fair is fowl and fowl is fair" (paradox)
-witch craft was a popular belief but only bad witches, go out at night, make poisons. can't have good without something to prepare it with. we try and show whos god and who isn't for society
-demonology by king james
-1604 witch craft was a capitol offense hanging burning or drowning. they are evil servants. devil was very real and trapped people
-temptation witches present and are mustrusted
-can stop sun, daylight storms, invisible(antagonist) open graves, called the dead
-macbeth supernatural human
-end audience was satisfied to see wrong deeds get punished
-intrigued by witches powers. witches dont ever lie to him he just interprets it wrong. they alwllow him to deceave himself (fallen hero)
- devil doesn't do anything to us but leads us into temptation

Carrie: Lit Techniques

•Time:1979
•Tone: depressing, sad, mysterious
•Direct Character: Carrie and her mother. Carrie is very relatable and makes the reader feel sorry for her in the sense that we are in high school and can relate or have seen bullying in such manner. Her mom is straight forward. She is that strict old fashioned parent and in that time setting it wasnt unusual however she was an extremist.
•Theme: the need of acceptance
•Anatagonist: Chris is constantly making Carries like miserable.She was the one who first pointed out that she has started her period in the shower and it was her idea to terrorize her at prom with the pigs blood.
•imagery: first startes in the locker room than continued throughout novel
•Motif: constant refernece of the locker room mishap
•Symbolism: pigs blood(killing spree starter), telekinetic(weapon or defense), carlin street(where she feels she belongs and always returns), dirty pillows(being a women is a sin in the eyes of her mother)
•Simile: "she was about as good looking as the ass ended of a dray horse"
•Personification: "the mirror fell on the floor and shattered at her feet, leaving only the plastic ring to stare at her like a blinded eye"
"a huge, oily cloud of fire climbed over the elms in courthouse park, lighting the duck pond and the little league diamond in scarlet
•references used throughout novel:
my name is susan snell by susan snell, the shadow exploded, carrie:the black dawn of tk by jack garer, ogilivies dictionary of psychic phenomena, sinners in the hands of angry god by jonathan edwards

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sacratic Seminar

*THEMES
•Consumerism: everyone needs to have new things..
Ex-throwing away old clothes, shakespeare, god, etc.
•dedicated to the greatet good
•Unity: can't be the ideal society without everyone on the same page
Ex-not wanting to stay a scientist because of the disgrace
•Corruption of values: marriage, mothers, children, family
• More optimistic at the start of the novel.. Trying to prove a point
*SYMBOLS
•Ford: Industrialism
•Froid: inter ego of humanity
•Assembly line: mindlessly doing own task
•Soma: control of government and conditioning
-Everyone has there own soma
*OTHER NOTES
•Conditioned to think they were chosen ones (gamma, beta, etc)
-Main conditioned is to be happy
-Disreguard other emotions
•Our conditioned is to feel individually special
•John makes lenina seem pure and then she throws herself at him
•Bernard becomes corrupt towards the end
-Ex: John gets into a fight and bernard won't help because he doesn't want to get cast away
• He writes because her thinks people aren't aware
•Demonize genetic engineering but a lot of that technology is helpful and we do use it today
• technology vs. ethnics
* GENDER ROLES
•Mother vs. father
-try to make equality within their casts
-make men more dominate based on who gets the girls
-huxleys own values because no female authority
Ex: johns mom being called a whore reflexs our society
-gender gap made women equal but not in charge
•Alpha plus were all males
-Women work with embryos so motherly instincts
*SIGNIFICANCE OF TITLE:
•ship crashes never seen a man like sering a new creature.. Huxley seeing world evolve and being apart of the brave new world
•Border of postmodern why? The time period it was written in .. •Transition from modern to postmodern
-consistant with vision on the future not to postmodern

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Huxley & Wallace interview

•Communism (enemies around the world)
•smoking on interview?
•More materials more gov control
•Everyone is the same in communism
•Technology taking away freedom
•Television=propaganda( brain washing)
•Over population turns the economic position and central gov takes over more
•BNW coming right around the corner
•Problems of survival and freedom
•Society is over populated and over organized
•Communist party is more organized
•Everyone sees the same television around the world and makes the world and different cultures closer
•Propaganda is overpowering our minds and conditioning us
•Artifically happy
•Soma makes you more happy like drugs but is mibd controling_no drug like soma today
•Birth rates remain high
•Technology more and more complicated
•^ lifestyle changes
•Mentions Hitler propaganda and related that to using technology and imposing his will
•Can't be caught by surprise by advanced technology
•Propaganda is like the hypnopedia
•Unity identity and stability
•BNW designed to filled task everything is controlled
•Everything controlled by someone
•Over population prevents population from being inferior. It Designs them to fill out their future jobs

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

LIT TERMS APPLIED

The extra time provided during class has helped me tremendously on the lit terms. Even before the actual test I was able to review Brave New World and pick out literary devices used in the text. I feel as if I did decent on this test but could have done somewhat better by studying my own time rather than just class time.

Monday, March 4, 2013

BNW Chapter 4 & 5

•Proving to be unfaithful to Henry
•Imagery, syntax, anaphora
•Invited herself on vacation
•Soma(take when feeling down)
•Benito "sunny"
•Bernard takes sex hormone gum
•Henry ford builds machine(coincidence)
•Bernard;characteristics of a Gamma(defects)
•Propaganda House
•Good looking girls have no morals
•Lenina first memory of fear
•Being content with who you are
•Setting: forty story apartment
•Soma with coffee
• Anaphora: bottle of mine
• Bernard thinking about Morgana’s unibrow
•ecstasy=Great Being
•Orgy-porgy