Some thoughts

Okay, so right now I am just going over words off a literature terms list with some friends. Pleases excuse some of the crude speeling because this is quite frustrating doing this on an iPod. Anyway, the going over the terms is going "okay-good" and it's off to a good start. Later today, I'm feeling like going. Over more words on my own and thinking about some of he essay prompts. Hopefully I get get some thoughts in the way I would like. So e that are quite satisfying. I have to say that today in class..... That I should work on collaborati g with others in his class. Not so much others in here right now, but more of others who take this course during different times of the day. As I type this, I cannot help but get in involved with the random word studies going on. I'll end here for now, this iPod is really frustrating me right now. Till then, またね

What Do You See?

In the comments section below, leave something that tells a story about this photo from your point of view. You are the narrator, you tell the story that YOU see in this photograph.

This photograph is my own.

AP Test Plan Prep... stuff

So here is how it goes. My plans for preparing for the AP Test is to..... prepare.

Okay, so I don't have any set plans as of this moment, nor even last night. However, I'll take up what the Doc said today in class. Proper diet, sufficient sleep and pretty much that. Mentally, I have no clear plan for that. Physically, I'm taking his advice.

Perhaps for a mental preparation, I'll.... implement whatever I know (and more) in my everyday routines to get me more familiar with the stuff.

Joy Luck Club Remix

Socratic Notes

• Play <or any sort of leisure time> is needed for anybody
• Lets creativity and freedom flow
• Beneificial in terms of sociability and creativity down the road
• Too much structure is dangerous
• Mostly influenced by what the future outcome may result in
• Too many restrictions  will destroy later life
• Keep to a minimal, guidelines would be best
• Break old habits
• Keep a straight mind
• Stand strong
• Don't fear failure or rejection

1) Considering how these concepts have been introduced, that thought where grades no longer matter is when the individual can truely learn. That free-roaming learning without that constant nagging of that "OMGBBQSAUCE! This is going to be GRADED! I must make sure I get an A+++++!!!! ksdhfvaencv" type crap which usully ends in half hearted work that still gets that stupid grade giving the student a false sense of "intelligence".

2) Bringing these concepts to help my performance on the AP exam is just to go out and look for relative subjects for the AP exam that interest me. As weird as it may sound, structured learning does not always have to be detrimental to anybody. If anything, I'll just need to find my hurdles and prepare ways I can get pass them with the limitations that I have in the structure of the AP exam itself while still maintaining the actual subject focus in mind.

3) The setting of guidelines and the usage of creative ways to collaborate with others can be extremely beneficial. Of course, some structure is needed to keep it from being too chaotic, but perhaps maybe even introduce a game of some sort to encourage the creative learning to enhance that network.

Lecture Notes: Tale of Two Cities

1. "The Frozen Deep" - 1857 
1. inspired A Tale of Two Cities.
2. self sacrifice
3. love triangle (how delicious)
2.  Fell in love with actress name Ellen and left wife - 1857 
3. Ellen inspired Lucie's character
1. Other characters:
2. Charles Darney and Sydney Carton (originally named Dick Carton)
1. doubleness of character
2. Charle's Dickens' initials
4. Public readings for prophit - 1858
   • separated from wife
   • left his editors
5.  New editor - 1859 
   • first three chapters of A Tale of Two Cities are pubished (woo) 
6. Experiences in London gave him a "profound knowlege of the city"
   • a dark and fascating place
   • "everything is there and disconnected
7. Paris: 1844
   • "most extraordinary place in the world"
   • strange, striking things
   • half size of London
   • visited 15 times
   • public charity readings
   • last visit was 2 years before his death
   • vibrant modernizing city
     • had a darker side:
     • dark, wicked place, but wonderfully attractiv
     • liked visiting the Morgue
       • public attraction
       • attraction of repulsion
8. Worlds of London and Paris were the same in his story
9. people were haunted by memory of French Rev.
   • very brave for confronting that fear in his story
     • published in weekly and monthly volumes
       • restricted his focus
   • "Best story I've ever written"
10. 1860: first stage version of book
11. 1899: The Only Way
    • another stage play
12. Silent film - 1909 (These are remarkably fun)
13. Sound film: 1935 
14. Thomas Carslisle
    • friends with Dickens
    • influence
    • "History of the French Revolution"

Shakespeare in ABC's "Castle"?

You may want to skip ahead to about eight minutes and twenty seconds (8:20). A dead give away thanks to Castle himself, but you can take your own guess if you skip to eight minutes and thirty-five seconds (8:35)