APEnglish–Los Al

Period 4

*Disclaimer* *I sit in the corner so I don’t see/hear a lot of the interesting, people doing weird things kind of stuff. I did, however, get down all the academic stuff (I hope). *

The class started with ACT IV quizzes being passed out to be graded. I got Dylan Lee’s…he’s really smart btw!! Then Mr. E got mad because we all ask to leave the class room even though were AP students, juniors, and young adults and therefore should be able to take care of ourselves. So Jordan and I are going to Taco Bell and taking care of our need for fatty, bad for us, but oh so delicious food. Then Steven started throwing food (Lucky Charms) at me and some got on Keith’s seat and he sat on them and they got turned into dust. And at the end of all this, Mr. E yelled at all of us to grow up!

Anyway…on Nadir’s quiz, he drew a very nice picture as the definition of Fortinbras’ name (put the pic here please!). Then, when answering one of the questions, Adam informed me that its not “to be or not to be” proving the importance of punctuation. Then Ed Guo screamed something about “MY NUTS!!!!” and Mr. E informed him “you don’t need them!” Then I introduced two new verbs to the English language, “Scribe Noting” and “netflixing”. Then I took a picture of Steven while he was plugging in the overhead because Brittany told me to and he looks kind of evil or possessed.

Then we started to talk about Hamlet.

• © In play, and visually displayed in the movie as well, Ophelia is in a cage, ex: behind the gates.
• © Hamlet said the whole world is a prison and Denmark is the deep dark dungeon. In the movie,
• © The main hall is decorated with mirrors, which is a good visual representation of the whole play/movie because the whole play is about reflections of self and others.
• © All Claudius does is posturing.
• © Ophelia goes crazy-destroyed- by Hamlet and Polonius.
• © Ophelia knows nothing (like all women says Jordan so Michelle E. is going to kill Jordan)
• © USE THE WEBSITE ON THE BLOG!!!
• © Ophelia’s flowers all mean something::
  • o Fennel-flattery
  • o Columbine-gratitude
  • o Daisies-lying
  • o Violets-faithfulness
    • § Died when Polonius died
• © Madness-tells the truths that no one else will acknowledge or understand
  • o Daisies for Claudius
  • o Gertrude adultery flowers
• © Ophelia’s songs aren’t just annoying as Ed and Sean thought
  • o Ed skipped them all together
  • o But they’re really all puns implying that Ophelia slept with hamlet
  • o Maid=virgin=Ophelia
  • o Keith says they “made sexy time”
  • o I’m not sure… but I think I heard something about Jizz.
  • o Ophelia maybe isn’t completely crazy
  • o Hamlet promised to marry her if she slept with him, but now doesn’t want to marry her because she slept with him
  • o All of the “sexy time” is ambiguous because it would be completely inappropriate at that time.
  • o Ophelia is alone
    • § Laertes ignores her
    • § Laertes and Polonius are very similar
      • · talk too much
      • · Self proclaimed as “smart”
      • · Ignored Ophelia unless there’s a way to use her or she is completely going crazy
    • § Ophelia has snatches of craziness and snatches of reality
• © Circular logic-Hamlet confesses to acting mad, but because he’s “mad” nobody believes him
• © Ophelia= a pawn in everyone else’s plans
• © Polonius=Jefta (killed his daughter-sacrificed her for the win of a war)

Then we were handed out a packet of speeches from throughout ACTS I-IV. All of them were persuasive. From reading EAA (we’re supposed to be to chapter 6) there are 3 ways to convince:

• © Logic-logos-reason
• © Emotion-pathos
• © Credibility-ethos-most important
  • o For example, George Bush, it didn’t matter how logical or emotional if not trusted

 

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Dynamic contact-all depends on audience-identify

Sophomores vs. AP Juniors

Sophomores don’t sit and throw food during food

There are five key questions:

1. Who’s the speaker? What is/are his/her goal(s)?
2. Who is/are the audience(s)? (observers and intended listeners)
3. What will persuade the audience(s)?
4. What technique is used?
5. Is it successful?

Each group was then assigned a speech to analyze and answer the above questions and tomorrows scribe will hopefully take notes on that. Hope you all had a great day today!!

<3 Always

Michelle Lampert

Peace Be with You

Period 5

Today we started by grading the Hamlet quizzes from yesterday, which were better than the ones from before. Then randomly, Carfi’s “brother” came in to change the big water thing, but he had to endure chants of “DON’T SPILL!!” Poor kid…not only did he spill the water, but he’s also related to Alex. That must suck. (jk carfi :])

After that excitement, we talked about Ophelia and how crazy people actually see truth. Even though she seemed insane when she was passing out flowers, each flower had a special representation: daisies = lying, violets = faithfulness (which she put on Polonius’s grave), and fennel = adultery (which she gave to Gertrude).

Also, gates in the play represent a prison, and mirrors represent self-reflection, which is a theme of the entire play.

In 4.5, Ophelia sings seemingly insane songs, but they’re actually really sexual. We can infer through her references to maids (or virgins) that she and Hamlet had sex. So…Hamlet’s not as boring as previously thought!

Then at the end of class, we briefly discussed the 3 elements of persuasion:
-ETHOS (character/credibility)
-PATHOS (emotion)
-LOGOS (reason)
Depending on the audience, a speaker will employ different elements to sway their listeners. Ethos is the most important element because without credibility, no one will listen to you!

Tomorrow in groups we’re gonna answer questions about the packets we got today.

- Michelle

 

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