Miki Kagawa's AP Literature & Composition Blog
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Thesis in Pictures
Masterpiece Final Essay
Dr. Preston
AP Literature and Composition
June 1, 2014
Monday, May 26, 2014
Masterpiece: Destructive Therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9r71MNxc1s
Created by: Lindsey Wong, Amara Sharp, Jake Hoffman, Min Kim, and myself.
Project Update
Look at my Brains
As a child, I alway thought that intelligence is determined by test scores and how well someone is able to preform educationally. Brenna's big question really changed my view on intelligence. People can be artistically intelligent and book smart. What you specialize in make you smart. A neurosurgeon is not going to be well informed about dentistry because he or she didn't get the entire knowledge a dentist did about teeth. It doesn't mean either of them are not smart or one smarter than the other. It just means that they are specialized in two different concepts. Both are intelligent, I mean.. how can they get into medical school without intelligence?
Poetry Boot Camp: Gridlock
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Poetry Boot Camp : Seventh Reading
Hope by Emily Dickinson
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me
Bright Star by John Keats
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike tas
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
GLORY be to God for dappled things— | |
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; | |
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; | |
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; | |
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; | 5 |
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. | |
All things counter, original, spare, strange; | |
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) | |
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; | |
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: | 10 |
Praise him. |
The Crossroads Should and Must
Literature Analysis #6
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
I translated to Brett.
"You kill your friends?" she asked.
"Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don’t kill me.” Hinting at the idea that the characters ruin their relationships before they themselves can be hurt.
Literature Analysis #5
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Macbeth Active Reading Notes
Meet Macbeth
- How is Macbeth introduced through in/direct characterization?
- What elements of foreshadowing do the witches provide?
- How does Shakespeare's approach to exposition give the reader background information about the setting and characters and a sense of what's to come without spoiling the play?
- How does Shakespeare's characterization of Macbeth reflect a sense of tone (i.e., the author's attitude toward the character/s, audience, and/or subject matter)?
- What themes appear evident in Macbeth's character and conduct? To what extent do you think these themes will drive the rest of the play?
Monday, March 10, 2014
Benchmark Project
LEARNING [in a] BRAVE NEW WORLD
My Team
Launch
Our idea is based off of the level of stress that we have experienced through out high school. Many advanced placement classes have made Lindsey and I guess myself insane. This senior project will be about exploding household goods, along with few scientific experiment, possibly constructing a slingshot. We are still planning what to do, but more information can be found here.
Monday, February 24, 2014
I, Jury
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Brave New World Essay
Friday, February 21, 2014
Brave New World Essay
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
I Am Here
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Interdisciplinary
Lit. Terms #6
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things throughout the use of a specific word of comparison.
Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.
Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.
Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.
Stereotype: cliche, a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.
Steam of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reelections, 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.
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.
Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.
Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.
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.
Theme: main idea or the story; it’s message(s).
Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or disproved; the main idea.
Tone: the deices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the author’s perceived point of view.
Tongue in cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness.
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.
Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis.
Vernacular: everyday speech.
Voice: the textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s persona.
Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Hafta/Wanna
Monday, February 10, 2014
the Nose
Literary Terms #5
Parallelism: In grammar, parallelism, also known as parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
Parody: Parody is an imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect.
Pathos: a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness.
Pedantry: excessive concern with minor details and rules.
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Plot: the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Poignant: evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
Point of view: or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice;
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary
Prose: the ordinary form of spoke and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposed antagonist
Pun: play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications
Purpose: the intended result wished by an author
Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is
Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at internals in a poem or song; chorus
Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead
Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis
Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade
Rhetorical question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring and answer; used in argument or persuasion
Rising action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax
Romanticism: movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact
Ratire: ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general
Rcansion:the analysis of verse in terms of meter
Retting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur