This week in AP Lit, we've been watching our perspective Shakspear plays. I have been watching King Lear. In this play, pretty much everything happens because on man decides that his life is not enough for him. This man, Edmund, goes power crazy and is determined to wipe out everyone and every thing that stand between him and his kingdom. During this struggle for power, he dies, his father dies, and all of Lear's daughters dies. This theme of power driving men mad in Shakespear's plays is a reoccuring thing. Power so easily goes to one's head, and it is indeed a fascinating topic. But this power that makes men and women giddy and weak in the knees is always the cause of their ultimate demise. I liked watching this play much more than I did listening to them being read. I feel like watching it allowed me to be able to better feel what the charcater's were feeling with the actor's given inflections. King Lear is an interesting drama, but also hard to understand. It was a little hard to determine what the motives were for these characters, but most everything was discovered in the end. Overall, I really enjoyed this drama. I'm interested in seeing what my group will be able to come up with for our project.
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This week in AP Lit, we started our Shakespearean drama projects. We divided ourselves into seperate inquiry groups and chose between two dramas; King Lear or Macbeth. My group chose to analyze the play King Lear. Working in these inquiry groups proves to be more challenging than I had previously thought. This project is challenging, and having a difficult project abd trying to work with individuals that i don't know very well is a bit of a daunting task. But I believe that we will be able to pull through and create an amazing paper and presentation. I'm actually kind of excited to take on the task of analyzing King Lear. I have interest in the play, and I think that that interest I have will lead me to work harder to try and understand the meaning in the play and will also help me to find things that will support the critical theory that my team has chosen. We chose to study Gender (Feminist) Critisism. This will be interesting to see play out while watching the drama. I have high hopes for this project, and I look forward to seeing what my group and I will be able to accomplish in these next few weeks before break. This week in AP Lit, we mostly discussed what the plan was for the rest of this trimester. We started with the 10 Rules for Being Human, and I really appreciated strting the trimester with that. Having a reminder that we are all but human and that we will all have our ups and downs. It's very important for me to be reminded every now and then that I'm just a teenager in high school and that I'm just human. I don't have to do absolutley everything that everyone asks of me. Also during this week, we discussed our independant reading project for this trimester. I was introduced to a new form of presenting, the Pecha Kucha style. I think that I'll like working with this presenting style more than any other style that I'v experimented in in the past. This style incorporates listening more than watching, and that will help the audience in understanding and absorbing information. The last thing that we did this weel was take a short practice AP test. This test might be more work than I thought. Everything is up to interpretation. But the hardest part is the the interpretation isn't ours; it's the test's. The test's thoughts on how the story exists might be completley different than mine, resulting in many missed answers. All in all, I'm looking forward to this trimester. I think that I'll be able to expand my horizons and learn a lot. :) |
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