That sad moment.....

It is 12 weeks into school now and I have now realized that not only do I feel that my blog is another media that I am connected to and feel good about when people compliment me. "Blogcomm 4 Blogcomm" (courtesy of Kathryn Green) instead of "PC for PC" which I believe is bettering out society; feeling confident because other people are seeing your success in school and English rather then people telling you that you are beautiful. (which isn't bad) We are changing the path of how we use the internet and our resources for good! But the down fall of it? I feel that our blogs can now be an evil media sight when it comes to getting things done. I am constantly checking DP's blog and have an icon on my phone and scroll an refresh the page like it is Facebook or Instagram. I'm not sure if this is showing my nerdiness or that I am easily addicted to social media sights... I hope DP is proud of himself that his sight is now my new social media "addiction" 

so to leave on this note... Blogcomm 4 Blogcomm?

State secrets

Notes:














My notes for this are as non existent as this article.... There are no more secrets thanks to the internet.

Vocab List #10

aficionado - noun a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer; a fan of bull fighting
browbeat - verb discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate; be bossy towards
commensurate - adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent
diaphanous - adj. so thin as to transmit light
emolument - noun compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees)
foray - noun an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); a sudden short attack; verb briefly enter enemy territory; steal goods; take as spoils
genre - noun a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work; an expressive style of music; a style of expressing yourself in writing
homily - noun a sermon on a moral or religious topic
immure - verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
insouciant - adj. marked by blithe unconcern
matrix - noun mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface; the formative tissue at the base of a nail; the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded; a rectangular array of elements (or entries) set out by rows and columns; an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb)
panache - noun a feathered plume on a helmet; distinctive and stylish elegance
persona - noun (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
philippic - noun a speech of violent denunciation
prurient - adj. characterized by lust
sacrosanct - adj. must be kept sacred
systemic - adj. affecting an entire system
tendentious - adj. having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
vicissitude - noun mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another); a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something

Tools That Change the Way We Think

Well as Dr.Preston pointed out the other day, I am very reliant on Google Chrome to save me from looking and sounding illiterate. I rely on Goggle Chrome to catch my mistakes in typing automatically whenever I am on the internet. But of course when I find myself on another computer that doesn't have Google Chrome I often forget that it has no red squiggly lines to save me. Or even worse I have to remind myself to press the spell-check button to see if there are any miss-spelled words. Not only have I got accustomed to this on the computer but on my phone also! I have an I-Phone and not only does it tell me when I spell something wrong in a search, but on my text messages also! I know it is sad that I am use to it and rely on it in every day life, it is sad how this is the path society is going down. Now Google hasn't just turned me like this, I was a horrible speller myself before. More then half the things I do on my phone or internet is related to Google  is that a bad or good thing I'm not sure... I know the CEO's at Google are happy with it, but the rest of society I am not to sure about.

"Notes on Hamlet."

 Explain how your thinking about the play has evolved from the time we began reading to the end of Act III. Has anything changed your mind about the plot or characters since the ghost showed up at midnight? Where do you see things going from here?

Hamlet has gotten way more intense on characterization; maybe it is because we are decoding the characters more or just because we know them better. Either way I feel very in tuned to the characters. Obviously we know everyone dies in the end, but that is a given from the start. What I want to know is how they all die. I can’t really see too much foreshadowing (but maybe that’s because I’m not picking up on it) I am eager to keep reading, the plot is actually very intriguing.

"Who Was Shakespeare?"

Do a quick search (remember to document search engine, terms, URLs and links followed) and see if you can piece together who Shakespeare was. What do we know about him, and what are we left to wonder? Write about how Shakespeare is perceived by students-- the name alone inspires strong feelings-- and how you have progressed in your understanding of his work over the years. What do you "get" now that you didn't before? What still causes you to struggle?


http://whowasshakespeare.com/

I searched “who was Shakespeare” and after wikipedia this was the second result I got. What I found interesting about this site was that it had more back round of him and more about myths of who he may have been rather then what we know is true of him. This goes along with the article we just read about him being a fraud. Well obviously that not being true I feel that this is all researched things on this site but not where we need to end our search (not to say this is Wikipedia) I am just saying it comes up with more questions then it solves. Like did Shakespeare really only sign his name on something once? I think not, but I do understand it was a very long time ago.

"To Facebook or Not to Facebook?"

Write about your initial impressions of Facebook, the benefits and risks associated with using Facebook, and an explanation of how reading the article and discussing in class informed your thinking.

When I first heard about Facebook it was the summer after 7th grade at summer camp. All these girls in my cabin were talking about how they just made one and how cool they were that they had one because just a little while ago they were not even aloud on the site because it was only for college students. Well obviously I was curious about it and wanted to find out more. After the two weeks at summer camp I went home and made a Facebook. I was one of the first people I knew from back home who had one so basically all of my friends were people from this camp I went to.

What I though was so cool about Facebook at this time was that I could connect with people who I see only two weeks out of the year all year long! It was so great to catch up with friends constantly and all the things they told me about see it in action.

Vocab (Remix) #9

Kathryn Greenup and I have a fictional character of Kathryn named Kathy Green. We refer to her a lot and as Kathryn started using her in this course I decided to join in. So I wrote her a "Dear Kathy Green" We collaborated on this assignment and she will respond to my letter with her "Remix"

Enjoy!



Dear Kathy Green,
Here I write with a traumatic experience. (I don't want to vitiate anyone or their identity nor do I want any bruit to go about. So I will use fake names for my story)But I don't want to In medias res my story so I will start from the top.  I have a friend, lets call her Kelly. She is a sweet maladroit girl, but you have to love her. Lately Kelly has ensconced a drinking problem. Now I'm a Iconoclastic person and believe this is not acceptable, but I'm no modulate so I do not know how to help her. She is not a maudlin person but is sure acting like one. I want her to be the salubrious person that I know she can be but I cant internecine the situation  She is in a abortive state with contumelious behavior, I don't want to come of portentous to her, I just care about her.  I know you don't have prescience powers but I need your help and need to know there is some hope for Kelly. Please be the dictum to my worries, this is no waggish situation  I am done with seeing my best friend being touch stoned by her image.
Sincerely,
Worried
 P.S: I feel bad this can't be a quid pro quo situation.

For her response see :http://kgreenuprhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/


...... Oh yeah the definitions


Abortive: failing to produce the intended result
Bruit: spread a report or rumor widely
Contumelious: scornful and insulting behavior
Dictum: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source; a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle
Ensconce: establish or settle
Iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
In medias res: a narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning
Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict
Maladroit: ineffective or bungling; clumsy
Maudlin: self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness
Modulate: exert a modifying or controlling influence on
Portentous: of or like a portent; done in a pompously or overly solemn manner
Prescience: the power to foresee the future
Quid pro quo: a favor or advantage granted in return for something
Salubrious: health-giving, healthy; pleasant, not run-down
Saturnalia: the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December; an occasion of wild revelry
Touchstone: a standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized
Traumatic: emotionally disturbing or distressing; relating to or causing psychological trauma
Vitiate: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of.
Waggish: humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner

Mid-Term Autopsy

I did not as well as I thought. I know I could have studied more, time got the best of me though. I will be much more prepared for the final, going through that stress the night before once was enough for me.

Hamlet Remix

“Soft you now, The fair Ophelia? Nymph, in thy Orisons Be all my sins remembered.” Ending the infamous  “To be or not to be” This of course coming from Act 3 Scene 1 when Hamlet is debating killing himself, I keep coming back to the end of the soliloquy where he turns and starts talking about Ophelia. He is obviously infatuated with her if not in love.   Meanwhile Polonius is trying to prove that Hamlet is mad when really it may be that he is just in love with his daughter and doesn’t want to hear it. This makes me think of every dad and daughter situation. That the daughter wants to date a reasonably nice and good boy but the father sees no good in him and thinks he is a horrible person.
 

Unapproving Asain Father Meme- Seemed fitting

 This is a shirt that Polonius would wear if it was modern day

Vocabulary Midterm Reflect

A. What went well was I knew by heart two of the vocabulary lists backwards and forwards because I study them very well from the first time I took those quizzes.
B. What didn't go so well was I probably should have studied a little bit more of the words that I didn't attempt to memorize the first time around.
C. Like I said, I had two of those lists down and memorized from the first time we were quizzed on them and they stuck with me. So hopefully I will be able to have that stick with me and the others that I went back and reenforced myself to learn.
D. To improve for next time I will actually go through with what my study plans are and hold myself to a higher standard that I know I can achieve.

Vocab Mid Term

How I am going to study for Vocab:

Monday Night: Study Vocab Lists 1-2

Tuesday Night: Study Vocab Lists 3-4

Wednesday Night: Study Lists 5-7

Thursday Night: Review All Lists

Each night I will use the flashcards I have already made and write each work out in a sentence. Then on Thursday night try to see all words and give definitions and sentences for each word. 

Hamlet

1. Hamlet was the “Melancholy Dane” because he was the Prince of Denmark of a “Dane” and the play was of Melancholy humor making him the Melancholy Dane.
2. Shakespeare was a famous poet and playwright in the early 1600. He wrote many famous plays that are still widely acclaimed for today. Most of his plays were Tragic Love stories.
3. Shakespeare is name most students hate because that means critically reading, trying to understand, and still not getting it. Shakespeare is hard to understand for most students because of the language and syntax. It has a pretty easy story plot, or enough to keep you interested, but still is very difficult to comprehend due to when and how the story was written.
4. Something that would make me remember this play is to actually act it out and read it in class. (We did that with Romeo and Juliet Freshman Year and it was funny and easier to learn)