The first few days we worked on finishing up our group presentations and essays then presented our projects to the class at the end of the week. This week the biggest thing our group learned and had to do well was managing our time. Trying to decide which to focus on; essay or prezi, each day was important to making sure we were successful. We put our top priority on finishing our essay. We had a skeleton plan for our presentation but since we hadn't edited our essay we couldn't decide yet what information to put or to keep out of our presentation. Finishing the essay just meant rearranging and rewording. We all collectively talked about and wrote the intro and conclusion but for the body paragraphs we each took a slightly different idea and wrote our own paragraphs. We had to decide our to tie all of our ideas together and how to make the essay flow. Choosing what was important and added to our essay and what was pointless was fairly easy. At the point of revision we all knew where we were going with our essay, we had a little more direction and we had our big question. It was time consuming, I really took time to evaluate each paragraph and did a lot of rewording and adding/removing of sentences. We all had different timelines in our heads, so there was a little panicking by some of our group because things weren't moving as fast as planned. We talked it out and were able to adjust and learn to be a little more flexible. We met at coffee shops to work on things we didn't finish in class and really stayed focus so we could get it done and with quality.
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This week we began to watch Macbeth. It was definitely a struggle for me to keep because the language is so different than ours now. I really like Shakespeare, the plots and the stories are always really good it's just hard to follow along. Not many people talk very formal anymore and nobody talks in Old English. When you are so used to English being used one way it is hard to make that mind shift especially when you can't go at your own pace. However; I got the jist of the play and understood it for the most part. My group's notes varied from helpful to us just typing in all caps about how confused we are. It was a pretty dark and disturbing movie because he literally kills everyone so he can be king. How can being king even be enjoyable at that point? No one respects you, all your friends are fake because they are just trying to avoid being killed and you have to live with the guilt of killing your friends and innocent people. This week we focused on our critical theory papers, two new poems of the week and we had a speaker, Dr. McDermott come in to give us guidance with our proposals. In the beginning of the week my group and I had no direction with our paper. Our plan was to keep our subject broad because we didn't know what we wanted to focus in on. We were all just kind of typing random stuff and were planning on doing a lot of editing to string our ideas together and to figure out our purpose of our paper. I was really unsure how our proposal was going to turn out because we were so all over the place. Dr. McDermott coming in was honestly perfect. She specializes in studying Shakespeare and how his works relate to pop culture. As she spoke about Shakespeare's life and the impact he had on his audience I gained a better perspective on what the philosophical meaning his plays could represent. The one-on-one time was very helpful and she talked with us about how Macbeth is very dark and opposite of Christianity which was especially prevalent in his time period. My group; Haley, Grace, Sophie and I, all believe in Jesus and everything the Bible teaches. Although Christianity has evolved over the years, we can sympathize to a degree with the people's shock at the evil storyline and its exaggerated difference to living a life through Christ. We decided to focus on when you choose to listen and chase after the wrong things, life is unfulfilling. You will be filled with regret and constantly being in want of something more for your life. |
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