Today we reviewed and read over the great play of Antigone by Sophocles it's a great play. I had a little trouble understanding everything but after talking it over with the classroom I began to get better grip on the details. This play was a great read but I bet it would be better watching it at its natural form of a play. I really like the ( Read more... )

Today in class we watched a film over another play we had read, the name of the play is A Doll's House by Ibsen. Being written In the eighteen hundreds you have to change your mind set on how important money is during this time, but one character takes a little to much advantge of the oppurtunity for money. Nora the wife of Torvald the lawyer is ( Read more... )

After reading some of the play of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we had also watched a film over it viewing the differences between the original story and it’s recently made film. It was very interesting comparing the two, because the story was so old, but in this film we had watch it had look liked this story had taken place in the twenty first century and ( Read more... )

The class and I just turned in our thrird paper for the semester after going through the past two weeks over short stories. The story I have seleceted to go over with my paper was Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood I enjoyed this short story mainly because of the style it was written in. I wasnt really to familliar of the style that the story was ( Read more... )

Today in class we had disccused the story we have read The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. When I read it I did'nt quite fully understood the whole story, I guess I just couldnt wrap my brain around this odd and strange idea of a story. But after we discussed in class I really ended up enjoying it very much re-looking at all the details and main ( Read more... )

I wasnt to sure if I had to enter in a journal log during springbreak but I did it anyway just to be safe. So as of right now I am catching up on my novel for my research project, the story have picked out is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I have been really enjoying reading this book even though it is my second time, I caught a lot of details that ( Read more... )

This week I had to turn in my outline for the classes final reseach paper over the book we have selected in the beginning of the semester. The book me and my group decided to pick out was a great classic that I have read more then once, the novel is Frankenstien by Mary Shelley. Re-reading this novel I'm about half way through the novel catching a ( Read more... )

Just finshed typing out my second paper, over the poems we have read in the past two weeks. I choosed the peom of Agha Shahid Ali and his poem The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood", the reason for this being my choice, was beacuse the creativity of the idea of giving the other side story, the Wolf's side. This poem did a really great ( Read more... )

Reading class the poems of Lover And Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape by Amanda Holzer was really odd but enjoyable. The style of the poem is very new style that I have never seen before, it was really creative making up the lines for the poem from lines of song titles about love and cheating and many other topics. When you read the first time Its ( Read more... )

This week and last week we went over short stories, throughout most of the stories I enjoyed reading and reviewing them with the whole class. On Wedensday the class reviewed to stories the I greatly enjoyed, the stories were "Happy Endings" by Margaret Atwood and "A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Had great ( Read more... )