Journal 12/11/14

I for the most part, learned how to be human, and to not be a machine controlled practically by the school. I took my own way of life, and started writing, and doing something that inspired me. For this, I thank Preston. Everything we did in this short time, obviously effected everyone in this class, we deserve being treated human, and Preston is the one who realizes this. More importantly we did learn actual stuff, but other than that the stuff that matters is the stuff that we learned individually in our own ways.

Thank You Dr. Preston.

Don't forget to study for the final! Here's some help!

Diction, tone, mood, syntax, Allusion, theme, universal theme, plot, setting, exposition, rising action, climax, conflict, falling action, conclusion, resolution, foreshadowing, static/dynamic Character, direct, and indirect characterization, round/flat character. 

Journal 12/10/14

Am I awesome? Yes, in my own way. The way I see it, everyone is awesome, it really depends on who you are, and what you see awesome. Everyone has their own opinions on what is awesome, tricks, flips, and stunts are usually looked to as awesome, which is weird, that people would see things as that, awesome. I see it as someone's work of art, or literature, game scenery, some pictures or screenshots, all these things I count as awesome. Strang? I think so too.

Journal 12/9/14

This semester I learned that I have my own way of thinking, I feel I am more than different, that I am my own person, and I don't need anyone to keep moving forward. It's helped me a lot throughout the year just showing up to this class, doing what he told me to, even though in the beginning I was lost, confused, I wanted to twerp to myself, and not make any conversation with anyone, I was Anti social. Until the day came when Dr. Preston told me to write. Ever since that day, I'm not the same person I was at the beginning of the year. It's good that I have friends now, and I'm not always alone. For this reason I feel I have to thank him, for teaching me more than any other teacher has taught me

Journal 12/8/14

I think I am not ready for finals just yet, I personally don't know everything that will be on the final itself. I need to know, I think over the next to days, we should go over what will be on the final, then the next to days, review various materials like a normal everyday lecture. And on our final Monday, if anything else is needed, anything last minute, then we go over it. I also think we should be aloud to use our blogs as a cheat sheet, it would be a semi good thing to, people will actually start posting, and it will prove if we can stick to our word.

"Out beyond ideas" Remix

"The Place Out Beyond Ideas"

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing 

There's a field. I'll meet you there 

Like a yard, 

Flowers will never grow

Where the ruined house once stood

Like a mole, a plow

Dig up the world 

In the spring 

And a whisper will be heard

When the soul lies down in that grass, 

The world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, languages, even the phrase each other

But doubts and love

Doesn't make any sense

Poem Questions: Out Beyond Ideas

1: Signifigance of the title: it's not something that people think about constantly, it grabs attention to those that sink so absentmindedly 

2: Tone of the poem: Alone, but hopeful someone will come for you.

3: The mood of the poem: The mood makes me feel, at peace, after a war in my own head, a feeling of finally being able to relax.

4: Shift of poem: When the poem changes from being literal, to being figurative, from "I'll meet you there" to a "soul sits in that grass" it gives an unexplainable meaning to us.

5: The theme: The theme of the poem is thoughtful, and how every person is different in their own way, not every single person can be the same, no one can be the same.

Journal 12/2/14

I think they have a weak spot, that they all want to be free. To be free, people have to escape everyone else's thoughts, and listen to their own voices, and in ones head, is the only place we can think freely. It's sad, it's sad that we can't be aloud to show our imaginations to others.  Because it's socially unacceptable. Not only that, but the superior, or the teacher in this case, is the one that tells us what to think, or what to even do. It's disgusting, that we put chains on the younger soon to be individuals that are so used to being told what to do, and when in the real word they won't know how to act, around surrounding people, or in an everyday environment.

Journal 11-20-14

Yesterday to be plain, I had a panic attack. They stuck me and a group of others in the cafeteria, and practically made us watch the swat team, and other police forces gather in front of the area, I saw one kid, try jumping the fence, cops chasing after him. At this point, hope for me feeling safe at this school, is gone. I contacted my family, told them everything and that I was ok. The worst part is, that there was a cruddy "go to your 6th period" announcement that made it worse. So I would call this a riot. Definitely a riot

What I want to do, and what we should do.

Lately I have been wondering, what I want to do with this class, and its all been coming to me quickly. I want to make something amazing, simple inspiring, that  will get people's imaginations going again. at this age, its wrong to have an imagination, to have fun, to make believe, and so forth. but I see things differently, I see things as, if you want to dress up in a costume, and play pretend, do that! I will not hold back, and join you, because we may be making fools of ourselves as others see it. But to us, we are having fun. I personally want to know, what you would do, if you were given a chance to be yourself, and have fun. Comment below, I'd love to here your answers!

Dover Beach

The sea is calm to-night.

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago

Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a thought,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Vocab fall list 7 examples

Pratfall: The man tripped, and ended with a slow Pratfall.

Bewilderedly: I was bewildered when I saw a donut kissing a monkey.

Titillation: he laughed as he was overcome by Titillation.

Theremin: The music to the movie was made by using a Theremin

Tabloids: I love to read the tabloids in the morning

Centrifuge: They use a Centrifuge to make milk.

Haltingly: The train came to a violent Haltingly.

Probing: The group began Probing to new lands.

Stagnant: The river was so so cold, it became Stagnant, after it was cut off by a freezing ice.

Cacophony: He heard a Cacophony of screams inside the movie theatre when a ghost scared them.

Vocab fall list 7 definitions

Pratfall: A fall onto ones buttocks

Bewilderedly: To confuse or befudle 

Titillation: To stimulate by touching lightly

Theremin: An electronic instrument played by moving the hands near its two antennas.

Tabloids: A newspaper or small informant, like a magazine

Centrifuge:An apparatus consisting essentially of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate contained materials of different specific gravities.

Haltingly: Hesitant or wavering

Probing: An exploratory action

Stagnant: Not moving or flowing, motionless.

Cacophony: Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance.

Vocab fall list 7

Pratfall

Bewilderedly

Titillation

Theremin

Tabloids

Centrifuge

Haltingly

Probing

Stagnant

Cacophony

Vocab

Non combustible 

Bewilderedly

Haltingly

Seive

Veiled

Receptacle 

Dimension

Praetorian

Advantageous

Harlequin 

Vocab

Non combustible 

Bewilderedly

Haltingly

Seive

Veiled

Receptacle 

Dimension

Praetorian

Advantageous

Harlequin 

Vocab 6 examples

Tatters: It tears very easily, and you are left with Tatters

Merely: Ed merely looked at them, then back at Carla

Vast: he was tall, or Vast in height.

Parlor: The family was all sitting in the Parlor.

Abrupt: John asked in his usual Abrupt way.

Refract: As waves approaches the coast they are refracted

Immense: He had a look of immense pain in his eyes.

Imperceptidly: The ant was imperceptible.

Ventilator: The Ventilator finally kicked on, and cool air filled the room.

Olfactory: the old dog had lost it's sense of Olfactory

Vocab Fall 6

tatters: Torn to shreds
merely: and nothing else or more
vast: great in size or quatity
parlor: a room in a private home for entertainment 
abrupt(ly): unexpectedly 
refracted: to deflect 
immense: very great in size
imperceptibly: not noticeable 
ventilator: a device that circulates fresh air
olfactory: Of, relating to, or contributing to the sense of smell

Rest in Peace Clarisse

The inciting incident in the story, to me personally is when I found out that Clarisse (my favorite character in the book) has died, ai could tell right away Montag was depressed, for once in his life, he had understood someone, he had known that she wasn't crazy, that she was brave to believe in everything, that the world now shuts out.

 Bradbury, is giving certain attitudes to his characters, I've noticed it mainly with Mrs.Montag, she is quite annoying, to me a little "blonde" I could tell from the beginning she doesn't really love Montag, and I know for a fact Montag does not feel love for her, I think at a time he felt love for Clarisse, in a daughterly way, and when she passed, he passed with her. Now he is finally taking life by the balls and living in the way he wants to, by reading.

The Salamander

  The signifigance of the salamander, is that salamanders, are known to relate to fire, and in this particular book, the emblem Montag wears is the salamander. I think more personally that the salamander is the flame, every time he burns a book.

 Montag in a way can be a hero, the way that he panics at first is not. A shocking twist, anyone who would come home at night to see their wife passed out drugged on a bed would freak out, the fact of the matter is that he did save her, although she may never realize that what he is saying is to be true, it unsurprisingly is.