English

English, what used to be one of my favorite classes has turned into a challenge for me. I knew it was going to be tough, but not my hardest class, besides science that is. I've almost never heard any of the terms like annotating and motif before I was in this class. And DGP is a whole other story. The writing part of it can be fun if it is on my own terms, I wish we did more creative writing instead of writing about how we feel about so and so novel/play. I am not the greatest writer. I still haven't fully grasped the concept of commentary. Maybe it's because I can be lazy at times and it's just easier to right a summary. I worked really hard on my last essay though. It was probably the hardest to right because I felt like the reading was held out to long making it hard for me to remember all of the symbols, motifs, and themes. I can still enjoy the class because the people are very interesting and a good group overall. I know this class will help me in the long run and thats why I am taking it. My future is important to me and any time I hear the word honors or AP in front of a class it just makes me think: FUTURE LIFE.

skit prep

Three parts of the book that stick out to me the most is the first time Pip meets Miss Havisham, when Biddy and Pip walk through the garden, and when Miss Havisham takes the blame for the way Estella is.
The first scene is Pip walking into a room with a creepy old lady all dressed in white, for a wedding, with candles all around. The clocks are stopped and there is no natural light. This would be an interesting skit because it would be entertaining seeing the emotion that Pip has towards Miss Havisham. It is also an important part of the book. It goes with the theme of "first times." The theme is present through out the whole book, making this an important scene.
Another scene I would want to see is Pip and Biddy walking through the garden and Biddy totally seeing through Pip. Biddy reads Pip like a book. She knows him that well. I think it would be a good scene because Biddy portrays another side of herself by being rude to Pip, even if it is just telling him the truth.
The last scene would scene shoes another side of Miss Havisham because she gets on her knees crying out to Pip about how she knows what she has done. I think she feels shame in what she has done and feels bad for Pip.
There are also other interesting scenes, but those are the few I could remember off the top of my head.

question 2

"You acted nobly, my boy," said he. "Noble Pip! And I have never forgot it." (317) 39
Why did something that happened so long ago effect the convict so much that he had to return the favor by giving up his life and actually working?

question

(246) ch. 30 "Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point in my progress, I beheld Trabb's boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would be best beseen me, I advanced with the expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my seccess, when suddently the knees of Trabb's boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the rod and crying to the populace, "Hold me! I'm so frightened!" feigned to be in paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appereance. As I every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust." The Trabb boy continues to follow Pip and do the same with, but next time he yells out, "Don't know yah, don't know yah, 'pon my soul, don't know yah."

Why was Trabb's boy making fun of Pip?

picture

I chose this photo to signify the new friendship between Pip and Herbert. This friendship is very important for Pip to have because he had lost Joe as a friend and Biddy as someone to confide in. Joe was his best friend and Biddy was like his personal shrink and teacher. Herbert can help Pip accept his new life easier by being his new friend to confide in but he does not completely filling the roll of Biddy. The friendship between the two also brings Pip to Matthew Pocket, who is to be Pip's new teacher and Herbert's dad. This new friendship is also a motif of life changing days.

Great Expectations

Pip's experience at Ms. Havishams change his life. It was the first link. She changed his life by bringing Estella into Pip's life. Estella made him feel like crud for being who he was. It is not his fault that he is of lower class than her, but she sure makes him feel bad for it. It may have also given Pip reason to try to be of a higher class so that he can impress Estella to win her over. Also, even if Pip does not realize it, Ms. Havisham showed him that he has more than just Joe, Ms. Havisham cares about him. This day changed his life because he found an interest in Estella and he refuses to forget her. It is easy to understand that just one day can change your life forever.

The day that changed my life was when I started at Holy Family. I went in there with a lazy attitude. I didn't care about school at all. But as soon as I walked in the classroom door everyone was busy with work. Everyone cared. It made me feel pressured to care, as if it was weird not to care. Peer pressure won me over and from that day since I have been pressured to get good grades and do the best work I can.

Importance of Being Earnest paragraph

Coming up with something to write for my paragraph has been very difficult. Our body paragraphs are high, medium, and low dishonesty and it is very hard to find much about medium dishonesty. I want to make the point of why the levels of dishonesty are so important and why Wilde uses them in his play. In my paragraph I am going to use several lines from the play as a concrete details to describe the medium level of dishonesty. After that I want to state some of my opinions on the medium level of dishonesty. I do not have enough detail for my paragraph yet and some ideas would be great.