Senior year and satires

Recently I have actually payed attention to the numbers in the date I have been writing at the top of my paper. There are only a couple of days left in November which is crazy. It is almost December of my senior year and I am shocked. It has flown by and I just want it to slow down. On Wednesday I was in a meeting for senior exec board and we were talking about themes for senior dinner dance. I thought just yesterday my older sisters were going to it and now it's my turn. I just finished all of my college applications and submitted them last night so I am very eager to hear back from the schools I applied to. I could go on for days about making these last months count, but I think the best way to show it would be to share a picture my friend posted on twitter. I want to share my opinion on a lesson that was interesting to me last block. I think that the whole lesson on satires was interesting and I enjoyed it.

Review of A Clockwork Orange

For the second outside reading book, I chose A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. The style that it was written in was very confusing with the language used. Not all of it was written in English because many of the words had Slovik roots and some of the words were made up by Burgess. The story was very interesting once you got used to the language. It was about a teen named Alex that was up to no good with his gang. He got himself into a lot of trouble and ended up in prison. He was conditioned to be physically sick when exposed to violence. This was completely against his free will and he was forced to hate violence. The setting is not clearly stated but it feels like it is in a made up futuristic world. I thought that this book was very interesting once the language became easier to understand. I would recommend it to someone for their next outside reading book. It is not too long and the story itself is interesting. I am curious to see what the movie is like because I think it would be cool to compare it to what I imagined it to be in my head. I think it's all kind of strange and the trailer is very odd.

Hammy Hamlet

After the completion of reading Acts 1 and 2 of Hamlet it is confusing but I partially understand it.  I went on sparknotes for some translations and the side by side comparison to read along with the original text. It was neat to see how different the old text is compared to the modern translation. The modern translation helped incredibly with understanding the plot and what was happening, but the old English was useful to help learn and understand the Shakespearean language and speech. I previously read Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet and I enjoyed Romeo and Juliet a little more because the story itself was more interesting to me. The old English speech wasn't completely dreadful but it was still difficult to understand. I think that the topics presented are also interesting and will keep the play from being a complete bore in Hamlet so far. The topics that we rated in class provided some clues to what might occur in  this play. It will be interesting to discover what is to come in the future acts as we read on. Here is a link to the sparknotes "No fear Shakespeare" website for future reference. http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/ 

This Week

This week it was difficult to come up with a blog topic. We have had very little class time and multiple subs so there wasn't a whole lot taught this week. The major works data sheet was a really good way to review Oedipus Rex in a condensed form. Of course I turned it in at 11:58 p.m. the night it was due because I am a huge procrastinator and that's a way to live on the edge. On Wednesday I had a dentist appointment so I was a little late to the play. I was confused to say the least because I only caught the middle to the end. What I saw of the play was really enjoyable and entertaining. I didn't understand the puppets until the questionnaire when someone asked what the purpose of the puppets was. It seemed quite difficult to hold a puppet up for that long, so I give the cast a lot of credit. What I caught of the play was interesting about the Salem With Trials and the events that went along with it. I will have to get someone to fill me in about what happened so that I can see the whole picture. I also really enjoyed the coordinating outfits that the puppets had with their handlers because it added a cool element that wasn't confusing to the audience.