Finals week, college, sports, I am going insane

With everything coming down to there deadlines I feel like I am going insane, and to add on top of all the stress, I have a cold! well just needed to vent and get this off my chest. Thanks.

Lit Analysis #2 HACK

The point of a literary analysis is to read a book, find the literary analysis and hopefully gain some knowledge that will help you be ready for the AP Test. The questions seem to be pretty boring ans straight forward. I am coming up with a more creative way to understand The Great Gatsby.
PLOT/THEME


TONE

LIT TECHNIQUES
symbolism: 


Imagery:



First Person 

Metaphor:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw9Au9OoN88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0WZ8-0Z1Y

These two videos answer the rest of the questions better then anyone can, and they breakdown the book so well hope you enjoy.

Lit analysis #1

Heaven Is Foreal

1. This book is a story about a small little family. It is placed mainly around the little Boy Colton Burpo. He is only five years old when he dies for a brief period of time go's to heaven and then comes back to life. I think this is a super cool true story, and is fun to see how no one believes the boy yet in the end everyone does.
2.The  Theme of the novel is trust in what you believe in even though it might be hard. The parents wanted to believe there son the whole time, but doubted if he was telling the truth or not. One reason it was hard to believe in there son was because everyone in the community did not believe the boys story. In the end though they backed up there son and once they decided to do that the community as well started to believe them.
3.The Author of the book is Coltons dad and his tone is confused and weary. One point in the book he says something along the lines of help me I don't know what to do. Showing is has a inner battle with what to believe and is confused about which story is right. He is weary because of the stress of the town almost anywhere he goes someone says a rude or snotty comment to him. This puts a lot of wear and tear on him
4.1) Imagery- When Colton Describes his trip to heaven.
2) Flashback-Coltons trip to heaven keeps flashing back.
3)Personification- At the beginning of the book he gives a spider at the museum they were visiting life like characteristics.
4)Conflict- Weather the parents should believe Colton or not.
5)Pathos- The sad story draws your emotions into it.
6)Metaphor- He uses a lot of them to compare the struggles they are going through.
7)Point of view- The dad is telling the story from his point of view.

Fun conversation in class.

Poem Remix

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right Doing 

there is a field,

I'll meet you there.

Let us leave this place where the

Smoke blows black,

And the street winds and bends.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends

Where the soul lies down in that grass

Which grows soft and white.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep 

Near the place where the sidewalk ends 

Where everything will be alright.

A poem that relates to me

I really am a golfer I really am a golfer And let me tell you why Its only when I swing a club I really feel alive I really am a golfer And take my driver out I swing my club and hit the ball As hard and I have might I really and a golfer My ball is in the rough I swing my metal 3 real hard To find the grass is tuff I really am a golfer My ball goes 50 ft. It’s out the rough and in the sand And buried very deep I really am a golfer I take my sand wedge out I open up the face of it And swing it with a clout I really am a golfer My ball is on the green I swing the putter in an arc With boggy on the seen I really am a Golfer My put goes 10ft past I’m looking at a double But the Green is just too fast I really am a golfer The balls beside the cup I make it in the center And my friends they call it luck.

Intro to poetry

To start this off, I'm not really a huge fan of poetry. To me it is kind of confusing and just a little boring. This could just be because I have never really looked for a poem that would interest me. Maybe I will do that. 

   The poem we decided we like best was Working Together by David Whyte. It is a fairly short poem. It is written in lines of 2 with the I blank line in between, and the lines only consist of 3-5 words. What I think he's saying in this poem is we try and make ourselfs into the person we think the world will accept, and a lot of times that doesn't work so the "world" re- shapes us again. The tone of this poem is uplifting, and as I read it over and over again to gain more depth in it I start to get inspired. It's almost as if I can picture a epic Gatorade commercial with them reading this poem in the background, while a athlete is training hard towards his goal. Then his team come along side him also working extremely hard because thy all have the same "common goal" this is what I got from the poem. 

Christmas lights

I've always helped my dad put up christmas lights, but normally we just do the trim of the house with a blow up or two in the lawn...this year I decided to do them myself and it's more then we have ever done! I'm still not done, but so far they dance to music perfectly to the beat. However I keep blowing fuses so the dancing to the beat might have to wait tell bext year. I will post a picture when I'm done with them. This is a video of what it will look like in a couple years. http://youtu.be/9jWN5Myxtwg

To be or not to be essay

      The play Hamlet by Shakespeare is shaped into such a amazing work of art through a few main quotes that help tie up loose ends and thoughts. One of the quotes that stood out to me with great importance is "Too be or not to be". This stood out to me for many different reasons.

       One of the reasons this quote has such a importance to me is because up until Hamlets first soliloquy I was a little lost. His first word were "To be or not To be" I believe there are a couple meanings to this looking back on it. When it first hit my brain I thought he was struggling with depression, and had a inner battle with if he should live or not. He might want to kill himself because of how corrupted his mom and new step dad are.

       Looking back on this quote however I think it also could mean that he was think if he should do it or not. By doing it or not I mean following what his dad told him do. Kill Claudius and leave his mom full of guilt or not to do it. 

    I'm sure their are many more  interpretations, but these are the two I took from it. They helped me clear up why Hamlet was such a dramatic and freaky character. He was dealing with a huge decision and didn't know what to do. I'm sure Shakespeare had other meanings for it, but them again Shakespeare has other meaning for everything.