Week 12-14

November 17 - Logical Fallacy/ Rhetorical Device Test - I chose King's speech for the test. I kind of underestimated the test in general. I got to the test and blanked on some of the definitions :(.

The rest of the weeks we watched Henry V, Hamlet and now, The Crucible. We also discussed the definitions of various types of tragedies.

I started my ISU, pretty much right after discussing tragedy. My thesis "Tereza and Tomas defied the gods by committing the 7 deadly sins. Therefore they had to die."

We watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, an old like 1940-ish movie. It was well, interesting to say the least. There was a lot of fill in the blank plot gaps.

Week 11

Presentations,lectures on Shakespeare, and Pep Rally (which I missed). An overall basic week.

Week 10

Rhetorical Device Presentations... nothing else.

a little regret...

I feel some regret for posting a previous post labelled "..."... when I wrote it I was really frustrated and angry. I based it solely from rumours, overheard conversations and a feeling of anger. I'd just like to apologize.

Week 9 O.o

I'm a little sick today... nauseous, head ache etc. I want my ISU marked! It's been the 2 weeks! :O I got my laptop back. By the way... use Citation Machine!!! We passed in our essays... got a few work periods etc. We chose two topics; rhetoricical devices and fallacies.

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Today has been a very hectic day... waking up 3 minutes before the bus ... moustrap car (unit project physics), english class.. I really just wanted to be home sleeping. My laptop is supposed to come in today... and thus ... I did not go to yoga. I wanted to be home. O.o I'm still a little mad over english... I don't like mind games like that. I realize there is a reason.. but its jeopardizing marks.

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I'm really not very happy about class today. The evaluation of group is really unfair. We feel that all should have the same mark for reseacrh, but because of "No 2 people can have the same mark"... we all have different marks. I may have an overall 5/5... but i dont think its fair for the others. Apparantly it only will count for 0.5% of the class... but we're (grade 11s) already 10% below our desired mark. Which brings me to my next point. The fact that we're apparantly being compared to the best of the grade 12s... Thats definately not fair. My mark should not be based on them, but on me. Only me. They all have another year experience, and that year is the most important in high school. In grade 10, we were given easy, busy work. Now, in grade 11, we're given real work. We have all of 1 month experience with this, they have a year (minimum). They have much more experience than us. My mark is not a toy, I need a high mark (especially in grade 12 english) to get into desired universities. Im sorry, but this mark toying is bullshit.

Week 8

Movies for our Criticism Test ... Wizard of Oz (w/Judy Garland) and Unbreakable.
Wizard of Oz, Psychoanalytical Criticism is easy
Unbreakable, Scapegoat is easy

Having trouble to start essay :(

Week 6

More Presentations .... Was at Cross Country Thursday ... Nothing else to say

Week 5

Finish the projects and a week of presentations.. so boring... lots of work ... the presentations were supposed to be teaching us... but I nearly fall asleep! At least we know what not to do.. unfortunately WE SCREWED UP.. got nervous.. didn't know our subject well enough... etc etc. :(

One breakthrough,,, and it becomes easy!

I had one breakthrough with the arguments for my ISU and suddenly the outline became really easy!

Difficulty with nonfiction!

Wow, it is extremely difficult to create arguments for my thesis! >| This really sucks.

Reader-Response Criticism

Dummies Guide

PowerPoint

Week 4

We worked on our projects... again... had one spare etc etc.. the usual.
Except we all suddenly realized that we had nothing done on our projects! CRAP .. lots of work,, and its done!

Week 3

We worked on our projects, however we haven't been in the library for a while. We presented scholarships. Kind of useless right now, I'm not interested in applying for scholarships until my grade 12 year. I was away on Tuesday (16), helping with grade 9 day. I haven't read a lot of my books, however i find another book I'm reading more interesting. I wonder if it will serve sufficient for my ISU...

Week 2

We started working on our criticism projects. Seems like there's not enough to fill 70 minutes. I picked up both my ISU books and have started to read them. We talked briefly on scholarships.

Week 1

We didn't a lot. We were told about our units and ISU. We chose groups and topics… as well as our ISU books.

Blog Change

Edublogs asked me again for a second time to reset my passsword, therefore I changed to Blogspot :D