My tenth week of AP Lit was not a memorable one, in that I was only there for two days. With school off on election day, a field trip the day after, and sickness keeping me home the day after that, I did not get to experience my usual weekly dose of learning. That being said, with good friends in the class, I was able to get caught up fairly quickly. Yet, even though I wasn't in the class, I still felt that I learned quite a bit about tragedy. After all, I am a die hard liberal who just watched as the guy whom I called insane beat the odds and win the presidency.
Tragedy is very intertwined with expectations of success and failure, and I cannot help but feeling that it is a tragedy because my nation did not meet my expectations. That being said, I firmly believe that it is important to try to learn from tragedies, and I think I did learn an important lesson. I learned that even when the person we hated wins, it is more important to try to work together than stay divided. I learned that when one side spews hate, it is always important to shout back love. I learned that no matter what, the sun will always rise in the morning, and it is up to us to determine our own futures and to fight for what we believe is right. I was not at school much this week, but this certainly one of the most self-discovering weeks of my life. I experienced a tragedy this week, and now I will embrace the future and do everything I can to embrace the lessons I learned from that tragedy. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-president.html?_r=0
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Week 8 was the week of presentations. My group was the first to present, and I have to admit, I was nervous. I was completely freaking out that when I got up in front of the classroom, I would forget everything I wanted to say and sound like a complete idiot. Of course, I knew that this was irrational. I have spoken in public dozens of times, even hundreds of times. I knew that when the time came, I would my voice and would speak well. This thought gave me confidence as I stepped up in front of the class. Fortunately, my fellow group members spoke well with confidence and I was able to follow them up with similar abilities.
Afterwards, we were praised heavily and I entered the classroom proud of myself and my group. Throughout the rest of the day and the rest of the week, the other groups presented. I was very impressed with just about every group I saw, and I was even surprised by some of my classmate's very capable public speaking skills. I found that I was learning quite a bit about literature, and I was captivated by the examples the other groups used. Overall, this was a very fun week. I was happy with my presentation, and I was glad to see all of my other classmates succeed as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_speaking Week 7 was entirely focused on working on our presentations and finishing them. My group, which consisted of Peter, Ally, and I, worked hard and efficiently, and before long we had our presentation exactly where we wanted it. With many of our ideas put down into the powerpoint, the only thing we had left to do was to clean it up and make it look pretty. This basically meant that we chopped away a few of our bullet points and expanded a couple of pictures. No big deal, and without too much effort, we had a crisp, clean looking presentation that we were proud of. http://www.skillsyouneed.com/present/presentation-tips.html
Other than working on the presentation, we did some creative writing and I tried to read some more of my book, Invisible Man. Invisible Man, so far, is very interesting and pretty strange. A clear look at the racism of the earlier part of the 20th century, it's unique in that the main character has no name, and claims that he's invisible. With such a unique and intriguing style, I'm very excited to read more. Overall, week 7 was nothing too exciting. It was just a lot of refining details and finishing up things. However, I am thankful for the work opportunities we received, because our presentation is looking very good. |
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