Reading
I like to read a lot. I read mostly before bed, and when the power goes out or if I just feel like it. I choose a book by reading the description first or sometimes just looking at the cover and...
View ArticleSecret Life of Bees
I am reading The Secret Life of Bees, and I am noticing that there is a lot of imagery. For example on page 4 when a swarm of bees flies around in Lily's room, it's very descriptive and you can...
View ArticleWho Did It Better?
In class we read "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe and "Checkouts" by Cynthia Rylant. "The Cask of Amontillado" had a great use of imagery considering he was murdering someone, but...
View ArticleComing of Age
The story I am reading in class is The Secret Life of Bees, and I personally think that coming of age fits the definition because Lily is growing older and pretty much every day she is learning...
View ArticleProving Something
When you are proving something in literature, you are using your own thoughts as well as evidence from the literature itself to show that you understand the piece of literature. Proving...
View ArticleTo Kill a Mockingbird: Part 1
In part one of To Kill a Mockingbird, my favorite part would be the section on Mrs. Dubose, from the part when Jem trashes her flowers to her death, and how Atticus makes him read to her. What...
View ArticleThe Most Memorable Quote
In the trial, the quote that I found most memorable was made by Scout, one of the characters that I was acting as. It was during Mayella's testimony, one of Scout's narrations; "Apparently...
View ArticleThe Story is Finished!
I agree with Phoebe Adams because the level of sophistication and maturity this story is narrated sounds like it's told by an adult. There are some parts where it sounds more child-like, but...
View ArticleExploring Poetry Out Loud
In poetry out loud, there is physical presence (eye contact, body language, poise), voice articulation (volume, pace), dramatic appropriateness (your reaction to the poem without making it a...
View ArticleMy Poem: "The Arrow and the Song"
My poem is "The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. To me, this poem somewhat represents life. In life people make mistakes no matter what, it is inevitable, and it happens. To...
View ArticlePutting Research to Work
One thing that I have noticed is when Lady Bracknell asks a series of questions to John, she is asking him things that we wouldn't expect to be asked today, like "Do you smoke?" Or "Do you know...
View ArticleDiscussing The Importance of Being Earnest
In my group we are discussing the pursuit of pleasure/selfishness and lying. Discussing these things helps for if someone doesn't understand something that happened. I think some things were a...
View ArticleDicken's Craft
As we read Great Expectations, I noticed that Charles Dickens often uses humor and satire in serious situations to make them funny or "lighten the mood". It's not really what he says, it's how...
View ArticleGreat Expectations
What I like most about Great Expectations is that it's not what I expected it to be. The story line is nothing what I was thinking. A few months before school started, I found Great...
View ArticleStage 2 Close Reading
One of the passages made me have a new insight on Estella's feelings toward Pip. The passage was about Pip and Estella's conversation about the Pockets'; I feel like when started to actually...
View ArticleThoughts on Reading Great Expectation
I thought Great Expectations was a really good story, but it was hard to read. I did enjoy Dickens writing style. He knew how to keep people reading by his mystery-surprise element, but I think...
View ArticleThoughts on Romeo and Juliet
I've always heard stuff about Romeo and Juliet but I've never read it (to be honest, I've never read anything by Shakespeare...), so I've always been kind of curious about it. When I heard in...
View ArticleRomeo and Juliet Film/Play Comparisons
In Romeo and Juliet, there is a huge use of what I decided to call metaphorical symbolism. In the play, they are especially used by Romeo and Juliet to romanticize and make their love for each...
View ArticleMy Crazy Freshman Year
The first big event of freshman year that shaped me to be me isn't really an event, but more of a really good decision, which was joining Honors English. Which also makes (you) Mrs. Gilman one...
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