Literature Analysis #2

Northanger Abbey by, Jane Austen

1. Catherine Morland is a seventeen year old girl with nine siblings and her parents. Her family friends, the Allens, invite her to accompany them to the luxurious city of Bath in which she graciously accepts. She soon becomes friends the Thorpes family and the Tilneys family. Catherine finds herself in situations of the utmost dilemma not wished upon anyone and yet she is able to deal with them. Throughout the story a tangled web is woven and love triangles are broken. The narrative fulfills the author's purpose, because the readers are able to feel what the author wants you to through tone and her syntax and diction.

Launch

• What am I passionate about?  What do I want to do?

I am passionate about helping others and playing basketball. I love being with my family and friends. Breanna and I have decided to combine those things beside basketball and create a masterpiece. We are watching movies and are going to compare how they have changed along with society and the way we think as individuals.

• How can I use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)?

Breanna and I will create either a website or a blog of some sort with different videos, post and pictures.

• What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June?

I will need to stay on top of this project. Breanna and I can't let it slip past us until last minute.

• What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?

The way we are able to show people our project with the different, creative ideas we have for it. Breanna and I are hoping to make people think in a different way.

• How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?

Breanna and I are actually going to work on it one day at a time.

• Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?

Anyone who wants to come across our website can be apart of it. Our classmates will be able to give us feedback and anyone else who would like to comment to it.

Brave New Essay Topic

Describe the elements of our real-time world that you think relate-- or don't-- to Huxley's Brave New one.

I chose the journal topic as my essay prompt, because it's very relatable. I would find it as one where everyone would be able to answer and include their own input. The layout of the essay could be formatted nicely and you could still include a lot of quotes from the book.

I Am Here

My progress in this course during the first grading period has been great.  I have taken everyday and have worked on bettering myself and my education. I have not started my senior project, but my group had been decided. Breanna and I have been brainstorming some very interesting yet brilliant ideas that will soon be expressed in posts to come. We are incorporating the things we find interesting with things that will keep others entertained.

Hafta/Wanna

There are many similarities/differences I see between my life during high school and life after high school.  People won't somehow magically transform the day after graduation, but over time you will see a change. You are given more responsibility and decisions only you are able to make. You need to balance what you want to do versus what you have to do. I expect to learn from my mistakes and help others as they go through a similar journey. I will listen to what everyone has to say and try my best in everything I do. Life after high school will be very different, but everyday needs to be taken step by step.

Lit Terms #6 Vocabulary

1) Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

2) Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

3) Spiritual:  a folk song, usually on a religious theme

4) Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

4) Stereotype:  cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special

The Nose

1. What does Ivan Yakovlevich do for a living? 

He is a Barber. He cuts hair in St. Petersburg, Russia.

2. What does Ivan find in a loaf of bread?

He finds a nose, the nose of customer Assessor Kovalev.   

Launch/ Draft

• I am passionate about my family, basketball and the world around me. I want to help others by giving them my services.
  
  
• I can use tools from last semester, such as our blogs, resources of friends and the internet in general.

• In order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June, I will need to take it one day at a time and collaborate with my classmates to be the best I can be.

• What will impress/convince others (both in my life and in my field)?
• How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality?
• Who will be the peers, public, and experts in my personal learning network?

Vocabulary Lit Terms #5

1) Parallelism: The state of being parallel or of corresponding in someway.

2) Parody: An imitation of style of a particular writer artist or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

3) Pathos: A quality that evokes pity or sadness.

4) Pedantry: Excessive concern with minor details and rules.