In AP Lit this week we finished our Shakespearean critical theory projects. I finished up the essay on Macbeth, and my group and I presented our theory to the class. Although this project started off rocky, I am proud of the end result. I think the essay and presentation turned out very well. My group got a perfect score on our presentation, and I hope to get a good grade for the essay as well. I worked hard on our presentation to make it look very professional and also include good content. I think the tone of our presentation was presented well through the images and colors of our slide show and that we did a nice job relating our songs and art to our theory. I’m very happy with our score! I am mostly proud of my essay though. I worked hard to make sure there was a large variety in our credible sources and that the essay laid out our feminist theory really well. Writing the essay turned out to be entertaining and fun because I was so interested in the theory that I picked that. When looking for sources I didn't just want to use articles, so I incorporated a Ted Talk and a speech. The ted talk I chose was from Sheryl Sandberg called, "Why we have too few women leaders." It was actually really interesting and I would recommend everyone watches it. In the end I liked this project a lot because I enjoyed writing the essay so much. (Yes, I had fun writing an essay. Weird.) I was really intrigued by my theory and how it applied to Macbeth and I think that’s why it was so easy to write the essay and create a good presentation for it.
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After a week and a half off from school, we came back with a shortened, four day week. Even though the week was shorter, we still got a lot done in AP lit. We worked on analyzing two poems, writing an PoW, and our Shakespeare projects. At first, I really did not like the poem we read monday, “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams. However, after analyzing it, I realized how deep the poem really was. I can tell there is a significant improvement in my abilities to decipher the meanings of poems. In this one I was able to tell that Williams was talking about babies and birth, using spring as a metaphor. I wasn’t here on Wednesday, so all I know about that poem is what people told me… It’s dark and about death, but it also uses spring to talk about it. I feel like I did really well on my PoW, though! In class on Thursday we had a guest speaker come in from CMU to talk to us about Shakespeare and our theory projects. I thought it was interesting, and a great idea to have her come into class to help us expand on some of our ideas. She was helpful in giving my group context to our play, Macbeth. She explained to us how Queen Elizabeth just lost her power in England, and a man had taken over as King. King James I, her prediceser, was trying to gain support for himself, becuase he was an outsider. So, she gave us ideas as to why Shakespeare might have written this play to please him. We were thinking that, maybe, Shakespeare wrote about what would happen if a women was in power. Like, how Lady Macbeth was really in charge of MacBeth. |
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