Wednesday 5/2 AP Prep

Today I continued to catch up on blog work from my absent days all of which in my opinion contributes towards the AP exam. The responses to Miss Williams essay exercise many tools needed for the essay portions while the synecdoche vs metonymy article was informative. I took a gander at the lit term list to get a feel for the words for Friday; they seem to be fairly easy however some words like scansion I had no recollection to their meaning. I'm yet to actually right to a past AP prompt being that its hard to conjure the motivation for something like that

Monday: AP preparation

Monday I was actually out of town visiting my future home at San Francisco. Forgive me if I didn't use the time to study, but I do think it was still important. I toured the campus at SFSU which is where Im going by the way, and got to ask all the questions I was wondering while getting a feel for the place. I know you would have liked me to prepare for the test but please take satisfaction in that I was preparing for something.

A Reflection on Unstructured Learning

I believe that multiple, yet still interconnected themes can be found within the text. One being the act of preparing your self for your goal ahead. Alan Moore focuses on the long process it took Nite Owl to even become the masked hero he is presently. He had to prepare both mentally and physically (not to mention make a cool costume which required a cool name)for his long term goal ahead. This is something that should be universal, most people do in fact have goals set out ahead of them. You could connect this with each of our long term goals of passing the AP test coming in a couple short weeks. We might not all need a costume or have to wade through a bog of self-doubt to get there but certainly some amount of mental preparation (perhaps even physical preparation)is needed to meet our goal. The tale of how Nite Owl got his name can be taken to represent how learning can be taken from anywhere and even the most unexpected places. This is something that will reoccur throughout life, not only in the realm of academics or in the case of Alan Moore the world of the Watchmen

Tomorrow Recitation

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FEAT OF WISDOM #10

Relevant AP questions

1974 Choose a work of literature written before 1900. Write an essay in which you present arguments for and against the work's relevance for person in 1997. Your own position should emerge in the course of the essay. You may refer to works of literature written after 1900 for the purpose of contrast or comparison. *update: relevance for person in 2012 1979 Choose a complex and important character in a novel or a play of recognizedliterary merit who might, on the basis of the character’s actions alone, beconsidered evil or immoral. In a well-organized essay, explain both how and whythe full presentation of the character in the work makes us react more sympathetically than we otherwise might. Avoid plot summary. 1982 In great literature, no scene of violence exists for its own sake. Choose a work of literary merit that confronts the reader or audience with a scene or scenes of violence. In a well-organized essay, explain how the scene or scenes contribute to the meaning of the complete work. Avoid plot summary.

Top Three LA Remixes

Nick Lycan: His analysis of Macbeth is both helpful and indepth
http://nlrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Mari Kagawa: Appreciate the production value
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N5q3_EPuQ2Q

Dania: Good enthusiam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcsKxEGavjk&feature=player_embedded