First Quarter Review...

a) I would say that this semester I am not as motivated to enter my blog posts on time. I choose to do another homework and I usually push this class homework till the next day. And I end up procrastinating. Even though I am not as on time as last semester, I still managed to get all the post needed for my blog. All the work is on there, just a few days late then the assigned date. My senior project is coming along, mostly just doing research right now until I further my planning with the project.
b)  Post assignments on time
read all the reading assignments
study more
c) the course progress is okay with me and I feel that there is no need for change or alterations.

BOB I

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i am here..

The first grading period of second semester is finally here. My goals have been slowly coming along very well. For the classes that needed improvement from last semester. As of English... my blog posting as been a bit slower this grading period and I can only blame myself. I am still working on it. I have a feeling that my mojo is kind of slipping. I just need that mojo to come back because the big goal for me right now wold have to be the AP Exam. I need to study study study! Cause in the end it will benefit me.
As of  my senior project, it is coming along. Already have an idea and have begun some research. I am still reading more to get a ore understanding of exactly how I want to come across it and present it to my class.

Literature Analysis

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Remix

GENERAL
1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read, and explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).

- Pip's expectations are 1) fulfilling the role of a gentlemen, at the same time is still searching for love and finds something about Estella that catches his eye. 2) Pip finally has money and is crazy about all his money, but Estella isn't so crazy about Pip just like he is about her. 3) Pip looses his money (value included) and is finally ready to become a real man "gentlemen". He reaches his expected point and in the end after loosing himself, money, love, he managed to gain it all back and be happily in love with Estella.

2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.

- Two main themes within Great Expectations revolve around social standings and self improvement.

The social classes inside of England didn't have to deal with real worth. 

- Joe, Biddy, and Magwitch are good hearted  characters in the story but apeare themselves to be on the lowest level social classes. 

- Drummle is rich but has a horrid personality. 

Self -improvement was a second great major theme. 

- Pip was always open for improvement. He knew he had to learn how t read and was ready to being his education. He knew he had to be Good as well. What do I mean by Good you ask?? Well good as in an all around good person, with a good education, good life, love life, good with money, good person, good heart, you get my point... With this you can see that he had "great expectations" He looked for improvement mainly in the areas of social status, morality, and education. 

- Dickens knew that yes you must be ambitious but our ambition must be a productive ambition. 

- Moral ambition means to build ones character.

  

3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
- Pip's story is his change from childhood to adulthood/ wisdom.
-to teen years--to adulthood-

4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)
-Metafor - “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” (122)
-Narrator - “In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” (77)

-Figurative Language - “No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” (100)

- Climax - " did really cry in good earnest when I went to bed, to think that my expectations had done some good to somebody " (257)

CHARACTERIZATION
1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization. Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?
-- Direct Characterization- It would have been cruel of Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practice on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella (378)

- Indirect Characterization - “I noticed that Miss Havisham put down the jewel exactly on the spot from which she had taken it up.”

2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character? How? Example(s)?
-The authors syntax/diction changes depending on each character.
Magwitch is a poor man, who is a criminal and his ankles are changed. Throughout the novel you get a clear understanding that Magwitch is poorly educated.
"This is a terrible hardened one,"they says to prison wisitors,picking out of me. "May be said to live in gaols this." They always went on agen me about the Devil. But what the Devil was I to do? I must put something into my stomach, mustn't I?" Ch 42

Criminal  and poor English skills

- Estella is much more educated and of high class. She makes sure that she is known and when she speaks to Pip she speaks with such a sophisticated manner but with a witty sense. 

3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round? Explain.
- Pip falling into a dynamic and round character traits, reveal his personality and his inner thoughts about his whole adventure in accomplishing his great expectations.

4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character? Analyze one textual example that illustrates your reaction.
- As I read this novel I had a feeling like I was inside the novel and just watching everything go past me before my very own eyes. I enjoyed reading the novel and loved the drama within it. Reading about Pip's journey in finding himself is an experience to feel, because it was expressed very differently, especially in that time and country. Gave me another understanding of how everyone's journey in discovering themselves is totally different. Interesting is a good word to describe it all.

THE TIME OF MY LIFE

THE TIME OF MY LIFE

Friday's class was productive. wr talked about the novel that we are reading, Great Expectations, and we clearified some information that wasn't so understanding to us.

Whats the story?

1) He lived a hard life growing up in London and he expresses a lot of his emotions through his novels. His emotions are hidden with in the characters personalities and they come out as the character comes to life. I read the biography of Dickens and I also read summaries of the novel to help have a better understanding. Also Dr. Preston's lecture gave more of an explanation of Dickens reason behind the novel.

 LECTURE NOTES
 - London and Paris during the Revolution
 - Frozen Deep (18..) First novel
- Sydne Carton - talented, sacrifices himself for love so she can be happily with her husband.
- Carton was originally going to be named Dick or Richard ( Dick an eco of Richard Wardo of The Frozen Deep) Parallelism *
 - 1858 public readings for profit
- London and Paris in Tail of Two Cities
- Experiences gave him an extensive and peculiar knowledge of the city.. He knew it all, place of rancidness and darkness as well as knowledge.
- London was his inspiration to keep writing.
 - London was a labyrinth  city of extremes in wealth and poverty
- 1854 visits Paris
- His visualization of both these cities would have to be that great use of location
-   MORE NOTES TO COME..

Dickens Map

1) In order to finish I am going to need to be reading like crazy so I can finish on time and be on track with class discussions.

http://charlesdickenspage.com/expectations.html <--- I also found this cool site with info on Dickens and the novel itself! Helpful!

2)
- Lines 23 through 28 are an example of..
  (Passage given by clicking on link) https://sites.google.com/site/mrpipsgreatexpectations/home/ap-style-multiple-choice

- Why do you think this novel divided into three parts?
http://www.shmoop.com/great-expectations/questions.html

- What largely motivates Pip's struggle for social advancement?
http://www.funnelbrain.com/c-6179-largely-motivates-pip-s-struggle-for-social-advancement.html

- How does Estella appear to Pip in contrast to his visit to the prison?

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/pva107.html

- In the final chapter, Estella says to Pip: "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching." Discuss the theme of suffering in this book—specifically how it instructs Pip, Miss Havisham and Estella.Read more: http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Great-Expectations-by-Charles-Dickens-Reading-Questions#ixzz2JR506c31

3) Cutting up the novel into sections and just giving explanations on our blog, using remix or just simply write out a summary. movies are sometimes nice to watch but they do not share sufficient amount of information as the novel displays.