Our Shakespearean Theory project was the main focus of this week in AP Lit. We spent each day (except for the snow day Monday) watching our movies, either Macbeth or King Lear, and then taking Cornell notes on them. My group was looking at a feminist criticism in Macbeth. We watched a more modern version of Macbeth, that seemed to take place around the 1940’s. I found looking at the IMDd for the movie was helpful infiguring out who was playing what charcter. The actors in the movie conveyed the emotion of Shakespeare's play very well. Sense I was looking at how women were perceived in the play and how plot of the play was formed because of women characters, I was mostly watching Lady Macbeth. She was a very dark character and pretty scary at times. I think the movie was actually scary overall… although I get scared really easily. I think it was a good idea to watch the movie before we read the play in Shakespearean English, that way we had, at least, a small grasp of the plot. The actors in the movie did speak in Shakespearean English, but after a while it got easier to understand, and add subtitles was very helpful. I’m hoping by the end of this project I’ll be able to spell Shakespeare correctly without any autocorrect! This week we also did our normal creative writing and reading our books. My book for the 6 weeks is Wuthering Heights. The beginning was slow, and it was difficult to understand, but as I read on, I got used to the dialect of the characters and the plot got much more interesting. I’ll probably finish over break!
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I began this week excited to start the Shakespearean Critical theory project, but that excitement soon ended. This project was supposed to be fun and interesting, but now has become a major source of anxiety and stress. I am worried and saddened by the lack of work ethic in my group. I fear that sense I contributed ¾ of the work this week, I will be expected to continue taking on this workload and do all the work for two of my group members. This week we took notes on our specific theories by answering questions revolving around the origins and elements of the theory. My group picked to do a feminist criticism. I’m glad we did this, that way we know what to look for and how to analyze it when watching our Shakespearean play. Sense I answered 4 of 6 questions, I’m more confident in being able to do this. I guess that’s the good side of doing all the work. We also spend time analyzing two sonnets. One was written by Shakespeare and the other by Shelley. Both revolved around the idea of living on after death. Shakespeare’s said that you live on through your soul, and Shelley’s was through other people’s memories of you. Analysing poems are really hard for me. I don’t understand why Shakespeare or any poet just doesn’t say what they are trying to say. Why does it have to be a puzzle. If they wanted to get a message across, the easiest way to do it would be just saying it directly with no intricate metaphors that take 30 minutes to decipher. We began the new trimester by setting up our new individual reading projects and looking at a sample AP test. Our new assignment for our individual reading will revolve around two books that relate and answer a question or query. This week we came up with our query and submitted a book proposal. I think this will be a cool assignment because everyone has a different topic of interest and it will be interesting to see how everyone's presentations turn out in the end. I picked The Great Gatsby and Wuthering Heights for my two books. Both were on the AP test many times, so I thought these would be good books to read. I also found them intriguing, so I chose a question that would go along with both of them. Although I don’t like presenting at all, the Pecha Kucha style of presentations sounded new and different to me, so I am not so apprehensive. Plus, we can have notes to read off of during our speech and that makes me feel better. The sample multiple choice AP test we took this week made me aware of how much work I need to put into my reading comprehension skills. Out of 55 questions I only got 30 right! I’m glad we did this assignment because now I know what kind of questions to expect if I take the test in the Spring. I realized that when I am taking these types of tests that I should just go with my gut and not think so hard about the questions. Multiple times during the test I changed my answer, when it turned out I actually had it right in the first place. So, I should stop second guessing and putting so much pressure on myself. ap lit multiple choice test guide |
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