Socratic Seminar

•children/growing up
-should make own path but parents are sheltering them too much.

•Knowledge/Advice
-remix what you know and give it meaning to your life.

•Building blocks/learning from eachother
-this class!

•school is scheduled
- routine
-if we don't follow rules = not normal

•challenges
-building yourself

1a. Paragraph #1: How can these concepts enhance your learning as you arrive at a moment when grades no longer matter?

Challenging myself to be better everyday. That's one thing I will take from this discussion. Playing!! Giving time for my creativity.

1b. Paragraph #2: How can these concepts enhance your ability to master content for the AP exam and other hurdles you have yet to leap?

Again, challenging myself would be enough for me to learn these English lit and comp AP concepts. I will have the drive and reason to want to try my best to pass all 4 AP exams I am taking.

1c. How can you use these concepts to collaborate with and inspire others, to improve the information exchange and overall value of your learning network?

Well we are, aren't we?The whole blog concept is a great place to share what I have learned from these discussions to others such as my classmates and other third party viewers.

Literature Analysis

The Alchemist -

9 Elements

1. Dramatic situation-
The speaker is Kendrick Lamar, he is male and he's speaking his mind about racial problems and political issues.

2. Structure-
There is a intro an an outro an in between there are 3 verses 3 hook and a bridge.

3.Theme-
The theme is being yourself no matter the circumstances.

4. Grammar and Meaning-
In Hiii Power Lamar uses some profanity and a lot of slang. There is word play a couple of times in this work. For example "beat" and "instrumental" being synonyms.

5. Literal language vs. figurative language-
There is both literal and figurative language in Hiii Power. A good example of both is at the end of verse one he says "I be off the slave ship" he compares the government/media to a slave ship an uses it as a figure of speech but he also is implying the literal meaning to get off the slave ship.

6.Important words; Diction
Lamar's diction is very creative when he uses metaphors and play on words. His choices of words are perfect. His clearness isn't so obvious because this work is meant to be analyzed to get its full meaning.

7. Tone-
Very serious and sometimes angry.

8. Literary techniques-
There are many metaphors, allusions, hyperboles, and other techniques. Examples: Allusions to Martin Luther King, Malcom X, Huey Newton, Bibby Seale, and Tupac. Idiom: "Grown men should never bite their tongue." Hyperbole: (in the intro) "The sky is falling".

9. Procedy-
Because its a song it flows very nicely and it's melody is spiritual and emotional.

Dickens

I believe that Dickens wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" to portray how the people and times that were leading up and going to be in Paris and London during the French Revolution. At the start of this novel he starts depicting France before the revolution; He paints a scene in France implying that there were many punishments for its citizens. Literary devices that led me to this conclusion i guess would be a combination of setting and tone. His somber tone was perfect for the setting of the French Revolution. During this time people were very poor and the rich were very rich, it was a very corrupt time. Dickens focused on the struggles that people had. For example Dickens gets worked up about just how bad the court system is when Charles Darney gets charged with treason.

Research paper intro

Neuroscientists and researchers study how the brain functions. This type of research has expanded greatly in recent decades. Much of this increase in study is marked as the "Decade of the Brain", an initiative of the U.S. Government in the 1990s.

The Human brain is a very distinctly remarkable part of human life. It keeps your memories in a spot where you can easily find them, it controls your emotions, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing, it handles your physical movements, it lets you reason, think, dream, and so much more. It’s a very complex organ that does many things. 

Does it ever get tired? How much potential does it have? We’ll examine the brain’s potential for processing visual and general information in developing babies and adults, their creativity levels, and their memory capacity.   

Guided Questions

1. What was a punishment for not kneeling to honor monks in France?

Answer: A

2. What kind of crime was taking place in England ?

Answer: B

3. How did passengers on the Dover mail act towards each other? Why?

Answer:C

more questions and the answers after the jump

Literary Analysis 2012!!

dannys -