Thursday, February 20, 2014

I am here

I have been slacking a little on my blog work but I have taken the effort to catch up last weekend. I think I am just feeling overwhelmed with college and scholarships. I am going to step back up and finish strong because slacking is not fun and it seems like a lot of work.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

WELCOME TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARITY

My project is about my future career. I am going to interview elementary school students ( the students I work with every day at an elementary school), Jacob is going to interview some kids around the same ages of kids he works with. and then we are going to ask the same questions we asked the kids, to high school students and see how they respond. Then to end the video we are going to ask teachers what they wanted to be when they were younger. I am really excited about starting this project because I love working with kids and I am really curious what their answers to the questions are going to be.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

lit terms #2

circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served
- saying a persons characteristics instead of their name.

classicism: art, literature, and music reflecting the principles of ancient Greece and Rome: tradition, reason, clarity, order, and balance

cliche: a phrase or situation overused within society
- "only time will tell"

climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved
- the climax of the story is the most exciting.

colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in informal conversation
- "that's pretty sick"

comedy: originally a nondramatic literary piece of work that was marked by a happy ending; now a term to describe a ludicrous, farcical, or amusing event designed provide enjoyment or produce smiles and laughter

conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension
- In " dear john, john has inner conflict with himself enlisting longer or going home.

connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition
- puppy has a more appealing sound than dog.

contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity
- The contrast between boys and men.

denotation: plain dictionary definition
- the exact meaning

denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, closure, conclusion
- at the end of Allegiance the series gets tied up with death and the effects of the death.

dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.
-In Mexico the dialect is Spanish

dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.

dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.
- the dichotomy between right and wrong.

diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.
- Diction changes between formal (interviews) and informal(casual).

didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.
- teachers may seem boring but really their class is just very didactic.

dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.
- everyone who doesn't go to church is an atheist

elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.
- Natasha wrote an elegy about her father's passing.

epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time (definition bordering on circumlocution).

epigram: witty aphorism.
- There is no way to intelligence , intelligence  is the way.

epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.
- Beyond is the infinite morning of a day without tomorrow

epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character, characteristics

euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.
-saying stepped out of the room, instead of saying they became ill.

evocative: a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.
- some writing is evocative.

lit terms #3

exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation.

expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

falling action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

figurative language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech (such as metaphor and simile).

flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

folk tale: story passed on by word of mouth.
- many old stories are considered folk tales.

foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.
- showing a knife in the beginning of a story can be a preview of someone dying.

free verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.
- romantic genre.

gothic tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.
- errie, and dark.

hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point.
- that hamburger is as large as an elephant.

imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses.
- the waves were as clear as a glass of water.

implication: a meaning or understanding that is to be arrive at by the reader but that is not fully and explicitly stated by the author.

incongruity: the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other.

inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possesses some degree of probability according to facts already available.

irony: a contrast or incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or what is expected to happen and what actually happens, or what is thought to be happening and what is actually happening.
- the teacher didnt know the answer to the subject they were teaching.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Haft/wanna

 explain similarities/differences you see between your life during high school and life after high school.  Is there a significant difference?  Will people somehow magically transform the day after graduation, or will they take their current habits of mind/word/deed into their next set of daily activities?  How do you balance the things you want to do and the things you have to do, and what are your expectations of yourself and the world around you as you move on?
-life after high school will not be all that different, not until after we start college and become more independent. The day we graduate we will be more excited about college then most of us are at the moment, but we will not be different people. The thing that is motivating us right now is the graduation date, we all have senioritous and are unmotivated to do school work. I think that as we move on with life we will become wiser and better people but at the moment we are just waiting for what lies ahead of us. 

Thursday, February 13, 2014

lit terms #6

Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.
- Her eyes are as blue as the sky.

Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
- Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech.

Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
- Dr. Sueus is a speaker in his books.

Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
- All pit bulls are dangerous

Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s
thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.
- Poe has a very creepy style of writing.

Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.

Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the non-rational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.
- people watch/ read fiction things but know the things in it aren't real.

Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
- a bed symbolizes sleep.

Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
- a dark noise

Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.
- "Powerful you have become; the dark side I sense in you."

Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).
-the theme of  "Kite Runner" is forgiveness/ getting over guilt.

Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
- should be in the very beginning of an essay, must have the main ideas.

Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view.
-- eerie, cheerful, relaxing.
Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed
- Romeo and Juliet

Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis
- I am so tired I think I only got 5 minutes of sleep.

Vernacular: everyday speech
- talking with friends/ family

Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.
- the way the narrator sounds.

Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
- a picture can help you feel how a time period is.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

The time of my life

We discussed and shared all of our notes and took the most important details and added it all on one page. This is effective because we are rereading through our notes and our peers notes avidly and really imprinting the information into our minds. I think that our discussion was very useful and essential for our benefit!