Great Expectations Notes

- Novel of maturity

- Coming from childhood to adulthood

- Pip has these imagining about what his life can be like

- What he is going to do to manifest those

- Pip believes that his aspirations are just going to happen

- Idealism is from a child

- Appropriate fantasy fro pip

- He thinks he is unwanted 

- Doesn't have a solid family background 

- He doesn't have a normal 

- He has grand expectations and then had these fears

- Adopts adult males as role models

- Magwhich threat of the outside adult world that all parents protect their children from 

- He has a capacity for wickedness

- Animal mentality of a need to survive scarfs down food

- Selfishness abandonment brutality 

- Magwhich presents the possibility of what pip might become

- Play on words

- Havasham she symbolizes horrible decay on one hand and shining promise on the other like a fairy grandmother

- She left everything untouched since she was left at the alter

- Her preservation of these items signifies her loss

- Astella adopted daughter of havasham

Pip?

- We are conditioned to the things wanted 

- Joe Gargerry and Jagger's j is interchangeable with I

- Pip is identifying with each one

- Joe is the blacksmith trying power

- Joe lives by feeling goes with his heart doesn't judge people by appearances 

- Romantic

- Not a wealthy man

- Rich emotional life

- Jaggers know things about people and uses that over people to control them 

- Lives by the law

- Breaks everything down by evidence and logic

- Makes it hard on people

- Has a lot of money

- Astella Molly Havasham are like Jaggers

- J and j both come across a mother and a baby that needs help joe adopts them

- Jaggers puts the baby in a adoption and blackmails the mother into working for him

- J and J are foils

- Jaggers a pecimist only a business deal when pip is trying to form an emotional connection 

- Wemick at work is foil at Wemick at home

Joe at home Jaggers at work

- Connections to other people is more important than money 

1. Havasham not a fairy godmother

2. Astella part of pips training process

3. Magwhich setting out pips life

- Joe is not an intellectual

- Pip responds differently as the book goes on from Joe and Jaggers 

- Pip still lives in his fantasy 

- Fantasist vs realist

- Pip wants to dance but doesn't want to pay the band

-Devotes himself to the women who doesn't want him 

- Pip becomes selfish and unwilling to engage

- He's not living in the fantasyland he wants to live in 

- Pip doesn't get it yet and is still in need of education 

- Coming to terms with that story by writing an autobiography 

- He writes it so he won't repeat it

- Pip is disillusioned that he doesn't want to have fantasies 

- Child pip

-Reflection towards  the book

Lit Terms #3

exposition - noun (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur; an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic; a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
expressionism - noun an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
fable - noun a short moral story (often with animal characters); a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events; a deliberately false or improbable account
fallacy - noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
falling - adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value; decreasing in amount or degree; coming down freely under the influence of gravity
action - noun something done (usually as opposed to something said); the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; an act by a government body or supranational organization; the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; the series of events that form a plot; the state of being active; a military engagement; a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong; a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; put in effect
farce - noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations; mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs; verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
figurative - adj. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; consisting of or forming human or animal figures
language - noun the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication; a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; (language) communication by word of mouth
flashback - noun a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story; an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)
foil - noun a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; verb cover or back with foil; enhance by contrast; hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
folk - noun people in general (often used in the plural); the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community; people descended from a common ancestor; a social division of (usually preliterate) people
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
foreshadowing - adj. indistinctly prophetic; noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
free - adj. not literal; unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; not held in servitude; not occupied or in use; not fixed in position; not taken up by scheduled activities; costing nothing; adv. without restraint; noun people who are free; verb free or remove obstruction from; grant freedom to; free from confinement; free from obligations or duties; make (information) available publication; make (assets) available; let off the hook; remove or force out from a position; part with a possession or right; relieve from; grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
verse - noun a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; literature in metrical form; verb familiarize through thorough study or experience; compose verses or put into verse
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
gothic - adj. characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; of or relating to the Goths; of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German; as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; noun a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches; a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries; extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
tale - noun a trivial lie; a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
hyperbole - noun extravagant exaggeration
imagery - noun the ability to form mental images of things or events
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false; something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
incongruity - noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
inference - noun the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
irony - noun incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs; witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Lit Terms #2

Circumlocution - noun an indirect way of expressing something; a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Classicism - noun a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
Cliche - noun a trite or obvious remark
Climax - noun the decisive moment in a novel or play; arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness; the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; the most severe stage of a disease; the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse; verb end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Colloquialism - noun a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Comedy - noun light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a comic incident or series of incidents
Conflict - noun an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); an incompatibility of dates or events; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; a disagreement or argument about something important; verb go against, as of rules and laws; be in conflict
Connotation - noun an idea that is implied or suggested; what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Contrast - noun the act of distinguishing by comparing differences; the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness); the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors; the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; a conceptual separation or distinction; verb put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared; be different
Denotation - noun the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denouement - noun the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; the outcome of a complex sequence of events
Dialect - noun the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialectics - noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Dichotomy - noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
Diction - noun the manner in which something is expressed in words; the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
Dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
Elegy - noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Epic - adj. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; noun a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epigram - noun a witty saying

Lit Terms #1

All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap

I think Salinger was trying to get at how Copperfield's writing style is very ordinary and follows sequential events. The novel David Copperfield is more like an autobiography and talks about the personal history and experiences of David Copperfield. In Dickens' novel he writes about many events that have occurred in his own life. By Salinger having that phrase as his first line of Catcher in the Rye goes to show how he has a very different writing style than Dickens. Salinger is trying to express that his character is going be very dynamic and doesn't follow a traditional course in his life.

AP Prep Post 1: Siddhartha

1. In context, the word “ablutions” (5) most likely means

(A) forgiveness

(B) prayers

(C) rituals

(D) religious cleansings

(E) devotions

2. We can infer that “Om” is

(A) a sedative

(B) like an opiate

(C) a prayer

(D) a meditative recitation

(E) a routine

3. The passage’s primary purpose is to

(A) portray a culture

(B) characterize Siddhartha through the perceptions of others

(C) introduce Siddhartha

(D) characterize Siddhartha through descriptions of his setting

(E) characterize Siddhartha through figurative language

4. The first sentence of the passage can be described as

I. periodic

II. containing repetition

III. containing metaphor

(A) II only

(B) I and II only

(C) II and III only

(D) I and III only

(E) I, II, and III

5. The dominant technique in the first paragraph is

(A) anaphora

(B) personification

(C) asyndeton

(D) allusion

(E) metaphor

http://www.ivyeducation.org/Uploadfiles/AP/McGrawHill-500.AP.English.Literature.pdf

For the AP test it's going to be key to know the literary terms and elements. It's going to contain a lot of reading so in order to comprehend what I'm going to be reading I need to read and understand the text the first time thoroughly so I don't waste time on trying to reread it again.

Siddhartha Notes

- He was a religious man

- Siddhartha didn't know where he belonged

- Each step was a broader view of what's out there

- Looking ahead and not looking back

- Trying to figure out the person you want to become

- Brahmin highest level of class, very religious 

- Him being awaken and him seeing a snake were the parts that were repeated most

- Snakes symbolize evil 

- He's taking his own path and he is own his own and is scared to keep moving forward

- Taught to think of others before ourselves 

- Direct threat to step outside of values and try to go against our own cultural values that you've grown up with

- Snakes shed skin every year to try to take on a new path and leave the older layer of his life behind 

- Despair and apprehension comes along with leaving something that you lived in for so long 

- Grieving what's no longer alive

- Tone was doubtful in the beginning confusion or overwhelmed

- At the end he is very optimistic and happy

Hacking My Education

This semester is my final semester in high school...EVER!Its honestly kind of scary not knowing what's coming next but I intend to try to live out the rest of my high school career the best I can with a positive and patient attitude. Even though I feel like this semester is going to kick my but, I need to make sure to stay on top of things and not start winding down just yet. In this class especially I'm kind of excited for our big ideas and masterpieces that everybody comes up with to be shared!Mine personally will be something I enjoy a lot and is the career I want to go into, which is fashion. So I'm anxious to see what kind of project I present and how it all comes out in the end. I know we will have other English assignments like reading and writing,which are not necessarily my favorite but I look forward to getting involved more with my masterpiece and big idea. I also expect to hopefully stay on track with my other assignments and try not to stress so much about the assignments and just do them with ease and try to produce quality work that portrays me as a person.

Winter Break Homework

My Big Idea: I  had different ideas and I haven't chosen one just heat but I was thinking of possibly doing a fashion show where I can style the models or just the people I get and have other people with their big ideas get involved in some way if their ideas coincide with mine in different aspects such as music or the layout of it or just whatever other work it takes that goes into a a fashion show or I was just going to find some students who wouldn't mind helping me out and letting me style them in different looks and I would showcase that to the class along with a blog that I would make up that included outfits that I wear or other people that I style with a little description of that look and also include my own inspirations and other little fashion tips!

Other Big Ideas: Okay so mine is spreading better quality Medicare to countries and places over the world who are scarce of it. To do this I am going to speak to teachers, doctors, professors, etc in search for help, links to success, etc. - Stevie

So I kinda have been rethinking my masterpiece but there are two roads I could go down that I am interested in I guess. So the first one is setting up a clinic for a week or so where I go into a hospital and help out the patients. I don't know if it will be cancer patients or I guess just any patients in allowed to visit and I want to get a group of kids together to do it. This came from the idea of disformations or asymmetry on face or sorts of the body that people are drawn to look at and it makes the people with those things feel bad and. So I want to give those people self confidence or just a memory of someone who looked at the words and stories they told rather than what they looked like. Number 2 is going along more reaserch and the idea behind how we change ourselves to have the same characteristics as the people we hang around? Still developing that concept haha - Hannah