JOHNNY CYBERPUNK:

Oops. Turns out this never posted, just saved as a draft. Sorry : I read most of the story, but I didn't understand it. People had devices in them? With other people controlling them? Toootallllyyy confusing if you ask me. People are totally different in that story then we are now in life. Girls definitely dress different in the story then we do now.. But what is the point of this story really? It's kinda like these people are computers, they have a device in them and other people are controlling them.. I guess you can say more like a bunch of robots?

Brave new world: essay reflection:

Well, first off I definitely should have finished the book. Not reading the whole book screwed me up. Also another key thing I need to make sure I do before an essay is understand what I have read about the book. If I don't get something I just keep reading and figure I will understand it later on in the novel but really I just need to ask questions because They dont always get answered by just moving on

MAPLAN: Modernist Author Project

Project?: News Report/ Broadcast
Name?: Daily Modernist News
Channel?: Channel 72
We will be acting it out
Include background music based on what they liked
Interview the authors
start with the Credo: words to live by/ life philosophy
Genre?: Report on a novel (what it's talking about)
Report on the person behind the book:
Life circumstances
Behaviors
Ideas
Religion & Politics
Childhood/ Family Background
Previous Work
Personality
Ask random people on what their input is
Have a "commercial" with one author talking about themselves and how they "help the community".
Pressing Question?: Do it at the end (During Credits).... Have the question at the end and have the author answer it.

Back-up ideas in case this doesn't work!!!
Make a group story about the authors.
Write an essay with links to other websites with great information on the author.

"The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud

Feld agreed for Sobel to talk to his daughter Miriam and then everything changed, before he got the approval, Sobel left his job because he thought he wouldn't have a chance with the shoemakers daughter. But then after Sobel finds out he has the shoemakers approval, he went from being very depressed to the happiest guy and he then returned to work. This story was full of unexpected events. I originally thought that Miriam and max were going to last, but I guess I was wrong.

spring vocabulary #2

1. Praetorian: Resembling the Roman guards.
2. Sieve: Utensil with a meshed surface for straining.
3. Veiled: Covered or in disguise.
4. Saccharine: Artificially sweet.
5. Harlequin: Character in a comic theater.
6. Toil: Hard and continuous work.
7. Delinquence: Neglectful; failing.
8. Jibbering: To move relatively sidewise or backward instead of forward.
9. Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile.
10. Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface.
11. Patronage: Act of buying something.
12. Cadence: Pace
13. Suffused: To spread through or over
14. Centrifuge: Machine that separates substances by spinning fast.
15. Dentifrice: Toothpaste.
16. Leisure: Time free from work or duty.
17. Vessel: Large craft.
18. Phonograph: Record player.
19. Profusion: Abundance of

vocabulary feb. 19

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

• cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

• demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

• deference: Humble submission and respect.

• enigmatic: Difficult to interpret or understand

• definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or

specify precisely

• bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

• choleric: bad-tempered

• bulwark: solid wall-like structure raised for defense

• curtail: To cut short or reduce

• adamant: extremely hard substance

• profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

• mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

• thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

• onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

• requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

• mollify:Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

• sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

• presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

• impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

• forbearance: refraining from the enforcement of something

• remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

Fahrenheit 451

Notes Of The Day:



          - Utopian: idea that the future is perfect.
          - Dystopian: negative view of the future.

semester endgame:

** i forgot to post this at the beggining of break, sorry **


1. Do you read your colleagues’ work online? How often? What is it like to read their work? How does being able to see everyone’s work online at any given time change the way you do your work?
 - yes, i do sometimes read my colleagues' work. If i ever happen to have a time where im struggling with any work or understanding what i am supposed to do i go and see what everyone elses ideas are and it helps me understand more about what the assignment is.

 

 

2. How has the publicly and always visible course blog made this course different from one without a blog? How would the course change if the course blog disappeared tomorrow?

- well it definately was a huge change with having this class but it was an experience im glad i had a chance to take. i think if the course blog dissapeared most of the class would be very dissapointed. we all have worked very hard to get it to where it is and i would be very dissapointed if it were to disapear.

 

 

3. Has publishing your work for the public to see changed your approach to completing an assignment? How so? How would your feelings about the course change if you couldn’t publish your work that way?

- it has definately changed my approach to completing an assignment because i make sure that i am doing it right and i am making sure i give 100% of my effort into it, not that i dont when its an assignment that everyone doesnt see, but it just makes me think more, if its right or not.

 

 

4. Has your experience of the physical classroom changed because of the open & online aspects? Where does your learning actually happen? 

- my learning is both happening in class and on the blog. theres tons of different things i have learned on the internet by what classmates are saying and what dr. preston has said or has told us to research. in class i have learned so much, and this english class is probably the class i have learned the most in, from literature to the internet.

 

 

5. You were described in the Macarthur Foundation/DML interview as “a pioneer”-- how do you describe the experience on the edge to people who haven’t been there (friends and family)?

 

 

6. How do they respond when you describe the brave new world in which you’re working?

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7. What do their responses mean to you? What effect(s) (if any) do they have on you?

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN:


my goals for this semester:
- to be able to write an essay without repeating myself.
- finding out what job career I would like to pursue.
- focus on school and my hobbies.
- get another part time job
- start saving money and be ready to move out on my own at 18 and graduated from high school.

My plans:
- get 4 or 5 classmates as a study group for tests and quizzes.
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SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE:



can we consider music to be literature? Yes, I think that music can be considered as literature. I see music as a type of poetry. A lot of times, Most music reflects back on stories or any type of literature.

How do we define literature? Its the art of written work. Literature is based on genres and themes.

What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony? The difference is the way they are told or said. Some are told with different emotions and moods and tones. They all have different meanings but in someway they can all relate back to eachother.