Friday, March 28, 2014
My Team
Michaila Bohard and I will be working together on combining together what we both wanted to have our masterpieces based, gymnastics, and physical therapy. I personally thought these two would go great together since I just came out of a knee injury and if it weren't for physical therapy I wouldn't be competing this season. In gymnastics a lot of injuries can actually be prevented by doing different exercises to strengthen specific muscles in the gymnasts body. We are also going to talk with physical therapists on what exercises a gymnast can do to prevent injuries. I am also going to talk about how being safe in the gymnastics gym and taking simple precautions will help prevent injuries as well.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Seeking Mentor
My expert really is an expert! They can really go into detail on what they've seen as far as common injuries with gymnasts, how to prevent them, and how rigorous gymnastics is on the human body.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
My Macbeth Resources
I found a great website that is a study guide for Macbeth. It breaks down Macbeth into study guide sections. Ir is a great resource to use!
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Resource of the Day
My resource of the day is actually my dad. My dad will becoming to my gymnastics practice to get footage on his professional camera to put towards our video, and he is also going to show me how to use his camera so I can film some of my teammates.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Lit Analysis 3
1. I chose the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The story is about an African American man and his adversities that helped him get to the person he is now. The story is in the 1920's in the south. Had a talent with writing and public speaking, the main character gives a speech when he was a teen and got a scholarship for college. When he was at college he was in charge of driving Mr. Norton, who is a wealthy white trustee at the college. One day Mr. Norton overheard someone talking about Jim Trueblood, an uneducated African American man who got one of his daughters pregnant . After he heard that Mr. Norton goes to the bar to get a drink. when the true rumor spreads through the college, the college's president who expels the narrator. The narrator moves to Harlem, gets a job. Things are looking up for the narrator, until he got hurt on the job and looses consciousness. He recovers then joins a group called the Brotherhood, headed by Brother Jack. Again things go bad and the brotherhood begins to question the narrators motives in being part of the organization. In fear the narrator hides from the brotherhood. Finally the narrator returns home to a riot and falls into a hole in the street. Police tries to kill him by surrounding the hole he fell into. The narrator tries to tell them that he lived in that hole for the day. This accident gets the narrator to look back on things and gives him the motivation to what he wants and tell his story of life. Telling his story the he finally gets the strength within himself to come out of the hole because he stayed true to himself.
2. The main theme of the novel is the courage to stay true to who you are. considering he was an African American man living in the south in the 1920's those were bad times and it was tempting for him to take the easy way out of things and accept the poor treatment towards blacks. But it was harder to speak out about the cruelty and make a change. It was a struggle he had to overcome in order to face himself and others.
3. Some people might view his tone as cross or dreary, because of his reflection he has all the time on on the racism issue at the time and his struggles. But I see honesty and thoughtfulness.
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
4.Literary Devices:
-symbolism
-setting
-tone
-theme
-figurative language
-allusions
-diction
-imagery
-allegory
-point of view
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
“Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
“Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
“I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time. Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.”
“I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable...”
Characterization
1. The narrator describes his thoughts and actions through the entire story,so he is always using direct characterization.
2.I did not notice much change in the author's tone when discussing characters mainly because the author writes through the main character describing his thoughts and feelings
3. The main character is definitely dynamic because he struggles with being himself and being conformed by the racist outlook, he is also a round character because he has so many qualities.
4. I actually got into the book, it was like i was experiencing it with him.
2. The main theme of the novel is the courage to stay true to who you are. considering he was an African American man living in the south in the 1920's those were bad times and it was tempting for him to take the easy way out of things and accept the poor treatment towards blacks. But it was harder to speak out about the cruelty and make a change. It was a struggle he had to overcome in order to face himself and others.
3. Some people might view his tone as cross or dreary, because of his reflection he has all the time on on the racism issue at the time and his struggles. But I see honesty and thoughtfulness.
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
4.Literary Devices:
-symbolism
-setting
-tone
-theme
-figurative language
-allusions
-diction
-imagery
-allegory
-point of view
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”
“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
“Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
“Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.”
“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
“I'd like to hear five recordings of Louis Armstrong playing and singing "What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"-all at the same time. Sometimes now I listen to Louis while I have my favorite dessert of vanilla ice cream and sloe gin. I pour the red liquid over the white mound, watching it glisten and the vapor rising as Louis bends that military instrument into a beam of lyrical sound.”
“I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable...”
Characterization
1. The narrator describes his thoughts and actions through the entire story,so he is always using direct characterization.
2.I did not notice much change in the author's tone when discussing characters mainly because the author writes through the main character describing his thoughts and feelings
3. The main character is definitely dynamic because he struggles with being himself and being conformed by the racist outlook, he is also a round character because he has so many qualities.
4. I actually got into the book, it was like i was experiencing it with him.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Resource of the day
Michaila Bohard and I have decided to team up with our ideas for our masterpieces and work together to make one masterpiece. She wants to do hers on physical therapy, and I want to do mine on gymnastics. What better way than to talk about how gymnastics effects the body, what common injuries gymnasts can get, and how physical therapy plays a big role in gymnasts lives.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Brave New World: Completed
I finished reading Brave New World which I am so happy to finally have finished reading. I as worried that I wouldn't finish it time, but I somehow managed in my chaotic week to finsih it. My fellow classmates that sat around me while we had a sub last week and myself discussed any confusion we had with the book. After speaking with them I am very confident in my understanding of the book.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Welcome!
I would just like to put it out there that yes, my blog is a big work in progress right now, but I am getting there. I have a lot of drafts that I am almost done with that will be up shortly. In the mean time, I hope you enjoy what I do have posted up on my blog right now.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Super 5
Identify 5 potential experts who can serve as role models and/or endorse your work:
1. My gymnastics coaches.
2. Previous physical therapists who will be talking to us about how important it is for not only gymnasts, but all athletes to prevent and treat injuries properly.
3. Social Media to help spread the word about what we are doing and to help promote our project.
4. I have a teammate who dislocated her elbow last year and she will be talking about how she could have prevented her injury in the first place, but also how physical therapy helped her make a full recovery.
5. Olympic gymnast Mckayla Maroney as an example.
1. My gymnastics coaches.
2. Previous physical therapists who will be talking to us about how important it is for not only gymnasts, but all athletes to prevent and treat injuries properly.
3. Social Media to help spread the word about what we are doing and to help promote our project.
4. I have a teammate who dislocated her elbow last year and she will be talking about how she could have prevented her injury in the first place, but also how physical therapy helped her make a full recovery.
5. Olympic gymnast Mckayla Maroney as an example.
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