Reaching out to enrich our learning

I was a little confused last night on how to reach out to other communities. Today in class I asked a question about it and it became clear to me. When I got home I started my research. First of all, I commented on a couple of blogs relating to Hamlet asking a simple question would they be willing to share any ideas on how to learn Hamlet in a more fun and enjoyable way. No reply from the blogs yet. My biggest networking experience was I emailed a professor from USC who teaches a class called 430 ENGL: Shakespeare. I asked if he or his class would be willing to work with ours, and share their ideas about Hamlet. Waiting for a response from him hopefully good news. I will keep you guys updated.

Hamlet act 2 scene 1 notes

-starts off with a long speech in front of all the kings and queens at a dinner.

-hamlets dad died pretty recent (grieving) however life is for living so we must go on! -king Claudius 

-hamlets wife re married the new king! She's queen again! 

-Claudius is the king now.

-tricks them by saying don't focus on our own problems, but yet what is out there. 

-"a little more than kin, and less than kind" -hamlet (speaks out of side of mouth)  he means there friends but don't call me son I don't really like you.

-He cleverly gives the new king a F-u 

-The king replays to Hamlet by saying it's life everyone's father dies, and also calls Hamlet peevish (childish)

-Hamlet is not describe by direct or indirect techniques, but yet he describes himself in a monologue.

-He doesn't want to kill himself, he is

Pissed. He just doesn't want to be in the situation and around the stuff going on.

-He calls his mom a hoe in the way she just. Jumped straight to her ex husbands brother after his death. 

-Once hamlet finds out about his dad's ghost he has a feeling there is some foul play going on.

Green eggs & hamlet

1) I don't really know anything about the play hamlet other then Shakespeare wrote it and that it is probably pretty boring and confusing like previous plays we have read by him.
2.) Shakespeare was one of the most famous play writers back then, and to ever live. We have read a few of his plays throughout high school. Freshman year we read Romeo and Juliet, and Sophmore year we read Julius Ceaser. I know we talked a lot about iambic parameter, and why he used this. Also, we were always told that the plays were very crude, yet never told what or where these parts could be found.
3.) I think students frown when they hear Shakespeare because he plays are so confusing and pointless. If you can tell me exactly when and why I will need to know how to write in iambic parameter then I see all the reason to learn his writings, but I can't think of any myself.
4.) To make this experience less of a drag, maybe we could read it in a version that has been translated to modern day speech.

vocab 6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
-She felt abase when she fell down the stairs.
abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
-I abdicate to doing my homework.
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
-He is a abomination to the sport of basketball
brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness
hes response was brusque
saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
-The saboteur plotted when, and where to attack.
debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight
gauche - adj. lacking social polish
rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey
paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself
conundrum - noun a difficult problem
anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment
churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish
precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Unable to take a phone

Question c

A moment that was breath taking and I could not take a picture of was when i saw the meteor shower during the summer. There was so many but yet they were so small and far away it was hard to take a picture. It really was a moment that Was uncaptureble! I tried however to take some pictures of them but they came out terrible. There are moments like this throughout our life's and we need to take mental pictures of them because they are great experience that we need to remember in someway, it's just not through a physical picture, but it is something you will keep with you forever! 

Phonar

-Photo narrative. (phonar)
 -habits define us, we kind of inherit them because we see people do stuff and so we assume we should do it as well.
-systems don't want us to think for ourselves
-a photo is two dimensional, it ages, black and white or color, is framed.
-Who does not use instagram what kind of college is this?
-everyone has a camera phone so everyone is a photographer, but what defines a photographer.
-photos are cropped into rectangles or square so we can ship them. (look around and see how many rectangles you see.          
-Everyone now a days keeps the pictures on social media.
-all i know is that Chris is crazy smart that guy answers every question!
-obviously this teacher is a huge open source learning supporter.
-he has a cool accent, but very monotone and boring!
-cool idea but it was hard for me too get into it.

Lecture notes

Prologue

- embodied contradictions in it, 

(Heavenly and earthly)

(Theological and biological)

(Supernatural to natural)

(Winter to spring)

(Sickness to health) 

(Death to life)

-they define one another, or show a progression.

- Tone of the prologue, gentle satire.

-begin at top of social latter work way down.

- inter play between social roles. 

-the hierarchy is almost American because it's dynamic(socially mobile, don't stay in places)

NARRATOR

-lens through how we see everyone

-compassionate 

-Questioning 

-Easily impressed 

-Observant 

-Ironic 

(Amused in attached way) 

-self deprecating (my whit is short)

FRAME  STORY 

-prologue (story about journey)

-shows up in the links between stories. 

-the tales function as a catalog of tales within a frame between competition.