Dear All People, [Let's Get Real]

We may have differences, we may have similarities. But the thing we don't have a clear issue on is staying within a mete. Expression through a mental boundary and nothing else. It's pretty obvious that we may not like each other or maybe do, generally speaking. Just my opinion if you don't mind, but keep some thoughts to yourself that could mean offence to the other party, group, clique, union, etc. I know a guy who has been raised to act a certain way against a certain body of people based on pigmentation. I'm not going to de-friend him in real life based on his thoughts about the issue, but in this day in age (and I know of what goes on with the world), people don't outright go out to start love or hate.

I don't judge my friend at all, but I don't entirely agree with why he does with what he thinks. He doesn't show what he really is, in public, but as time goes by, there is a central understanding through acknowledgement between two parties. I don't intend to make this a very racial thing, since the subject we have to be aware of is calling someone out for being something untrue. What I'm getting at here, in addition to ignoring those slandering internet offences, is just keeping the mouth closed. It can end badly on both sides if one says anything that revolves around this not-so letter/memo. Remember, you don't have to love that group and you don't have hate that group. Don't pick a side, and interpret the character individually. No singling out or cull one's affiliation. 

Assimilation is bad enough; we can't expect others to become what we want them to be. It's too extreme for extreme idealism and too greedy per se. We are who we are and can't justify a line that embodies perfection. Learn by personal experience.

I just had to: 

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[...] Keep it Real!

Reminiscing the Typing Past

While I'm typing down the lit terms onto my blog, I look back to those famous grade school years. Those alpha levels of typing, especially during kindergarten, I typed slow like a turtle on a beach. I had a friend named Harley who was like a magician at typing. It'd take him 0.0001 second to write a sentence. All this happening in kindergarten! It was magic! Now, I type faster, but not as proficient as I should be. The main point behind this is what you could say is many years of practice. So if anyone thinks they haven't accomplished much, I mean you could say you accomplished being a faster typer.

Lit Terms #3

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 their tombstone

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

Evocation (Evocative): A calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality

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 down by word of mouth

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

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

Gothic Tale: a style in literature characterized by gloomy settings, violent or grotesque action, and a mood of decay, degeneration, and decadence.

Hyperbole: an exaggerated statement often used as a figure of speech or to prove a point

Imagery: figures of speech or vivid description, conveying images through any of the senses

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

Incongruity: the deliberate joining of elements that are not appropriate to each other

Inference: a judgement or conclusion based on evidence presented; the forming of an opinion which possess some degree of probability according to the 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.

What's the Story?

Why did Charles Dickens write the novel (Great Expectations) you're reading/reviewing?

Great Expectations is somewhat like an epitome to people's hopes and expectations. We've been there and realized it's not going to happen. This happens to Pip many times before the thought of loneliness and justification penetrates his mindset. Dickens sets forth with how one character such as Estella treats Pip, with every encounter calling him 'boy.' Repetition throughout the story with the word 'boy' evenly reminds Pip how small the world can think and how one character can shutdown those expectations at the sight of speech than true appearance. You could say that physical appearance, their phenotype, is a fallacy within itself. Dickens wants the reader to reveal the true inner person of every individual you might encounter, so the same goes with Pip's experiences. Aside from people's looks, colloquialism is also a big thing. There's so much to learn and distinguish from folksy speech. Local language, depending on the place Pip visits, is the thing that gets Pip to realize that the world he lives in isn't secluded as much as thinks so. Great Expectations as a whole can be seen as ambiguous for certain events of life. As innocent as we may be, we can't abandon a request with strangers and there's a certain urge to know more. Even though it may be forceful, the presence of learning one's lives makes the readers want to interpret the character's lives and their's as well.

Lit Terms 2 Remix

Circumlocution: a roundabout or evasive speech or writing, in which many words are used but a few would have served

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

Climax: the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the pint of greatest intensity or interest at which plot question is answered or resolved

Colloquialism: folksy speech, slang words or phrases usually used in formal conversation

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

Conflict: struggle or problem in a story causing tension

Connotation: implicit meaning, going beyond dictionary definition

Contrast: a rhetorical device by which one element (idea or object) is thrown into opposition to another for the sake of emphasis or clarity

Denotation: plain dictionary definition

Denouement: loose ends tied up in a story after the climax, conclusion, closure

Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others

Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth

Dichotomy: split or break between opposing things

Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words

Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education

Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and priniciples

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.

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

Epigram: witty aphorism

remix coming soon

Reading Reflections so far about Great Expectations

I'm reading along within the text along with keeping in check with the characters based on lecture notes. The novel seems to go somewhere, but I haven't to the point where Pip officially says why he hangs out with Magwitch. From the context of Pip's sister, the attitude she gives off suggests that she has given up on him; loss of trust and degrading relationship maybe. Also from the lecture notes, there are connections to Pip and Pip's sister being the mother and infant that Joe drew from wedlock. I have yet to meet Ms. Haversham and Estella and their presence of Pip's fantasy.

What to Expect from Great Expectation Notes

What to Expect

• bilundungsroman: from adolescent to an adult growth
• information of the culture in which it was produced
• pschology

Pip Characteristics

• childhood fantasy: Pip expects something of his life of fantasy/ideals
• Pip is orphaned and strong sense of unwanted
• -trait to that of intelligence, grander goals
• -looks at the world of apprenticeship
• -aware of being persecuted/taken advantage of
• -no sense of normality/regularity
• -vulnerable to male adults as father figures
• -takes in those guy's personalities

Antagonist (sort of)

• Magwich - boogeyman in form of stranger
• implies selfishness, wickedness lack of manners
• a threat of abandonment
• association with one guy and not sticking to what he is; he might this guy
• Ms. Havisham - witch
• dual identity, having shame, ruse
• one side shining promise, other side gloomy
• sacrificed life for memorialized wedding
• at a loss

Pip's love and guidance to life/adulthood

• Pip meets Estella
• plays "Beggar your neighbor" game
• Havisham uses Estella to avenge the wedding ceremony
• Pip learns about her adulthood
• -not truthful/nondisclosure
• -insecure about what is going in his life
• -archetypical character mindset

Arrival at London

• Pip meets father characters: Joe and Jaggers
• in continuum

Masterpiece and Network Talks

Guadalupe: Reading, Literacy, Communication, Animal Cruelty

• explain how reading affecting her life
• How Reading Defines Life by Oscar Wilde
• Local library - book club for kids
• Asking students at RHS, middle schools about what they think about reading
• document entire literacy path
• -show that kids are still reading
• “Meet the Author”

Erica: cultural enrichment and diversity through transmedia

• Danielle and her are doing different parts of the “quill”, but are the same in some ways
• unique in a way
• 21st century - social media (Twitter)
• #hastag, showing participants creations, crafts of pictures with pictures
• #SpreadTheLove - to show our humanity and love, and how we’re all the same
• cut out the heart (photo)
• incorporate videos and pictures, Laura from the UK is going to make a track
• Danielle and Erica are making a video with the original soundtrack

Yesenia: Language, History, Community Involvement

• translate book from early Guadalupe history
• Dunes Center - events, hikes
• opportunities - outreach, personal setup hikes, Erica as photographer

Lit Terms 1

Allegory: a tale in a prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideals or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point

Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words

Allusion: a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work that the author expects the reader to recognize

Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation

Anachronism: Something that shows up at the wrong place or wrong time

Analogy: A comparison made between two things to show the similarities between them

Analysis: A method in which a work or idea is separated into its parts, and those parts given rigorous and detailed scrutiny

Anaphora: a device or repetition in which a word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences

Anecdote: a very short story used to illustrate a point

Antagonist: A person or force who opposes the protagonist in a drama or narrative

Antithesis: A balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness

Aphorism: a terse, pointed statement expressing some wise or clever observation about life

Apologia: a defense or justification for some doctrine, piece of writing, cause, or action; also apology

Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly

Argument(ation): the process of convincing a reader by proving either the truth or falsity of an idea or proposition; also, the thesis or proposition itself

Assumption: the act of supposing, or taking for granted that a thing is true

Audience: the intended listener or listeners

Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals a character's personality

Chiasmus: a reversal in the order of words so that the second half of a statement balances the first half in inverted word order

"All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap"

The quote in the title of the post is from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.

What J.D. Salinger means by the quote is that there are always diverse personalities among people. Every human being has their own way of living life and facing the events they tread along. Basically, all characters in their respective book and setting are original. Thus saying, Salinger implies that Holden in Catcher in the Rye is a long ways distant to the protagonist of David Copperfield. Dickens' style of distinguishing a person motives of the standard of living. If you think about how one lives, David Copperfield lives without a father figure and a broken family. Holden on the other hand suffers at his own hand to recognize that his snottiness toward his family's fortune is taken for granted.

Both characters are different in ways of how they deal with money and family relations. The protagonists' opinions of the situations they are in are shortcomings and unforgivable in most instances. Just the thought of dealing with the unfair life leads them to believe in their own matters. Charles Dickens apprehends Pip's motives of seeking family, but always gets caught in his own fantasy, simply losing sight of his goals.

Hacking My Education

How original are we? We can be very original. You can say we like the same topics as everyone else, but in remixed versions. From here on out, it's going to be the traditional AP rigor classroom setting. There's a difference in what we do in English though. We're actually going to be in the effort of formatting a masterpiece and answering those desired big questions.

We're original to move ahead of the basics. Open Source Learning is no other network. It's a misinterpreted hacking community. The hackers out there doing no good on the news are totally different from what we intend to do.

We're here to tell our story. To hack education. Get down to the roots and squash the beliefs of learning like a rebel without a cause. I'm a rebel who wants to go somewhere in life. They're called dreams and goals, which are open to connections and options. I want to continue what I do best.

Obtaining an education my own way.

Take it from Harry Potter...

New Year, DO Year!

I have a lot of free time from what I'm foreseeing given my position. A student living the school life of grades. Boring! Because this year is new, I feel the need to stay interactive. You could say its a New Year's Resolution, I say "Bring it on!" 18 years of my life wasn't spent to waste away senior year. Sure, here in RHS, we have Sadies, Prom, Grad Nite, and other things that seniors intend to go because its our last year. My short term goals for the remaining of my high school year is to save up college money, apply to scholarships, and involve many people to 5PH1NX. We'll see how this is going to pan out and try to make this an interesting senior year. It's not about academics for the most part, but making every last moment last. It's time to get busy!