Final Exam

Hey guys so here's the link to the Study pong Final video is up on the website as well!!

http://Prestonproject2014.wix.com/studypong

Study Pong?

So we played study pong for the first time ever today... It was a complete fail with what we originally had in mind. And we know what we need to improve in order to make it a more successful study tool. More details about it soon! Btw... My team lost so we will be singing Bump 'n' Grind in class. And it will be recorder and posted.. Stay tuned. 

Grrr.

Yep.

 It's my fault I don't post enough on here! But darn it I need feedback on these topics and ideas. 

Literature Analysis #3

Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseni


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).
This story takes place from 1975-2001  in Kabul, Afghanistan. The story is told by Amir, it starts off as him as a boy until his mid 40's. Amir saw how his realtionshipds and his best friends relationships with others and it change the way of his life. I believe Khaled Hosseni's purpose was to show how us humans are like. Amir takes the easy wat out and doesn't face his fears. But in the end he lived his life.
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.
I believe that theme of the story is that we stop ourselves from doing a lot in life. I know it's a but cliche but we are our own enemy.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
"There is a way to be good again..."
“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
“In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.”
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)?
No it doesn't. The author's tone does change. Like when Amir is talking he's paranoid and clever. When Hassan is talking his tone changes to a peaceful read.
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic?  Flat or round?  Explain.
Amir is a round character. He changes a lot in the story and is very complex.
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.
Yes, I have met a person similar to the character. Amir goes through so much in life. We all do but the events that happtend when he was young and as he grew older was life changing and powerful.

What are your thoughts on gay rights?

I was on Facebook last night and I saw one of my friends post about how he doesn't agree with Macklemore's song Same Love.

 He talks about how teenagers are allowed to wear shirts like this:

 

But can't wear shirts that say: "Our school has embraced what God has condemned." It really bothered me that this post has gotten over 60+ comments that are literally PARAGRAPHS. I mean yes we all have our beliefs but do we really have to preach it? ESPECIALLY ONLINE. My friend is a great person and wouldn't try to get everyone to believe what he believes in but he's also bothered that they talk about this topic in class. Any thoughts?

A Tale of Two Cities Notes

The city is full of violence an Lucie goes to Mr. Lorry that Charles is in the Paris prison. There's a huge mob in the courtyard. Dr. Manette was a former inmate of the Bastille. Dr. Manette see's Monsieur Defarge and Defarge delievered a letter to Mr. Lorry from the doctor that says that Darnay is safe. Lorry takes Defarge and The Vengeance to see Lucie. Lucie reads the letter and begs to help Darnay. Dafarge rejects the help. The shadow of the manner troubled Mr. Lorry. Dr. Manette didn't return after four days of being away in prison. Lucie was apart from France and she was defenceless of prisoners of both sexes all ages were killed. Of those four nights prisoners and political prisoners were dragged out of the crowd and killed. Mr. Lorry tries to influence the court tribunal that his son in law should be free. He remembers the events that occurred when prisoners were attacked and all the cheering that went on. Darnay is in prison for a year a three months while the doctor is starting to get well known in Paris and becomes a physician for three other prisons. A year and three months later. The story starts off  Darnay was in prison Lucie would visit him hoping to see her husband Charles. There was a spot where Lucie would stay to be seen by Charles and she was able to see a woodcutter's house. The owner would tease Lucie by pretending to saw off her daughter's head. She pays him off the stop all the tormenting. One day there was a mob down the street and they surround Lucie. Madame Defarge greets them and the doctor tells Lucie that Darnay's trial was the next day. The morning of Charle's trial there are five judges at the bench. The audience is packed with so many people. There is a woman sitting in the front row knitting. Doctor Manetter sits right beneath the President of the Tribunal. Charles' is an emigrant and all emigrants are sentences to death. The whole crowd in the hall agreed and they immediately call his death. Charles testifies that he's been living in England and has a woman and money there. He's asked if Lucie is his wife the daughter of the doctor and the whole crowd is astonished. Charles chose to be in France because he felt he moral obligation to return to claim his land. He just wanted to save the citizens life. When Dr. Manette is asked to testify he states that he was in trial in England for being a foe and a friend of the U.S. He's now seen as a god person. He's declared as not guilty.  Although Charles is now out of prison Lucie remais fearful for his safety. Miss Pross shops with Jerry and soon afterward four men are the the apartment and they inform that Charles is a prisoner again based on was Monsieur and Madame Defarge's accusations. Charles is forced another trial. One day Miss Pross and Jerry Cruncher go into a wine shop and Miss Pross sees her brother Solomon and he escorts her outside and take her home. Carton and Barsad emerge from the other room, and Barsad and Jerry leave. Carton tells Mr. Lorry that the best he can do is to secure access to Darnay in his cell. Mr. Lorry begins to weep as the implications of Darnay's second arrest sink in. Moved by Mr. Lorry's tears, Carton tells him in a sincere tone that he regards him as a father-figure who has led a good and useful life, and that people will mourn Mr. Lorry and remember him when he dies. Carton adds that a long life wasted would be a miserable one. When Mr. Lorry leaves Tellson's to comfort Lucie and her father, Carton walks the streets all night with the biblical passage, "I am the resurrection and the life,"echoing in his mind. At one point, he drops in at a chemist's shop to make a purchase.
The next day, Carton attends Darnay's new trial. 

ferocity
besought
solicitude
anew
sagacious
amiably
Lucie: bastille prisoner
charles prison paris
Mr lorry= lucie's dad
the courtyard was awfully done by workers; drowning men
impetuous
lattice
besmeared
desmur
reputiated
domocile
despondency

malice

flambeaux