February 28, 2006
Portfolio 1 (revised)
Article: Kumamoto -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
This is my first portfolio blog for this semester. It covered all the reading and discussions that we had so far this semester. A lot of the reading were new for me and learned more than what I knew at the start of the semester. Look forward to learning more throught this semester.
Coverage: This shows all the readings that we have done so far and the blogging that we wrote and talked about.
Williams Steve Williams
The Greatsby ch. 1-3"
The Great Gatsby ch. 4-6"
The Great Gatsby ch.7-9
Depth: The following are that works that spent more time on and what I enjoyed working on.
The Adding Machine
The Pastoral Poem
Willimas Stevens Williams
Triffles
Interaction: These are the commets that I made to my peers, in helping them to understand some they are reading or discussing. It is important to help others in the learning process for both myself and my peers.
The Adding Machine
The Great Gabsty
The Great Gabsby ch.4-6
The Great Gatsby ch.7-9
Discussions: Conversations that sparked me. I like to look at what others have wrote and then respond to several of their insignts.
Willimas Carlos Williams
Willace Stevens
Robets Ch.2
Timeliness: These show the entries that I have posted before the due date.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby ch.4-6
The Great Gatsby ch.7-9
Robets Appendix B
xenblogging: Helping others when needed, and the help that others gave me.
Desert Places
Mending Wall
After Apple Picking
Ch.3 Roberts
The Adding Machine
The Great Gatsby ch.1-3
The Great Gatsby ch.,4-6
The Great Gatsby ch.7-9
Wildcard: What I learned about webblogging and in reading the chapters in Roberts.
Roberts Ch.2
Roberts Ch.10
Appendix B
Roberts ch.13
I believe that I came a long way in this class. I never really anaylzed what I read. I usually read for enjoyment, however I also learned that even when reading for enjoyment that the novel can still be analyzed. Poems I never acted out a poem, however I found it very helpful to take a poem line for line and word by word to understand the meaning of the poem.Looking at what others blogs helps me understand some of the reading more.
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February 27, 2006
Portfolio
Article: Kumamoto -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
The Adding Machine http//blogs.LisaRandolph/EL267The Great Gatsby
After Apple Picking
Desert Places
These are the other entries that I felt were as good.
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Portfolio
Portfolio 1 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/nt-tb.cgi5533
Fritzgerald-http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LisaRandolph/EL267The Adding Machine
Desert Places
Roberts Chapters 2,5,
Mending Wall URL: http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt-tb.cgi/5533
After Apple Picking
question 2: The only coverage or depth I found was in the bloggs themselves from other students.
Question 3: Interaction with other students webblogs are all the bloggs that I put on for other students.
Question 4: Blogging isn't lonely.
Question 5: My bloggs as you can see are all on time and blogg before they are due.Look at my blog as you have done in the past.
Question 6: I have helped many students with my comments and they help me with mine.
Question 7: One blogg on online blogging is that blogging is like email. Except that it is more formal than emailing but I really do not see any difference except there is more to getting a blog. This is the only class I had to use this in and probably the last.
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The Great Gatsby (1925)
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Go on" He started, "Why my God! They used to go there by the thousands."
It this something that People only know you when they want something. No one seemed to like Gatsby and yet they went to his parties. He was shot and no one came to his funderal. People can be so cruel.
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February 21, 2006
Great Gatsby (1925) ch.4-6
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
woops, I realized I reread chapter three and quoted that instead I meant to quote on ch.4-6. However, as I reread ch.3 I liked that quote as well. "The next April Daisy had her little girl, and they went to France for a year." (p.77). I had the impression that she already had her little girl in chapter one or chapter two.I was surprised when I read it again in ch.4. I guess I miss understood the chapter. This book is hard to understand and not really the type I like to read. However it is interesting and makes you wonder what is next.
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Gatsby (1925) Ch.4-6
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of he cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." (p.59)
This statement does not really say if he is honest. He gives the accounts of everyone else but not his own. The writer is portraying himself as honest however, I am not sure that is true. He only seems to be telling the reader what he wants the reader to know. He talks more about everyone else instead of himself. He only tells what the others have done and the lies they have told and lived.
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February 20, 2006
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
I just finished reading chapters 1-3 and the sentence that stood out to me was on page one,chapter 1. "Whenever you feel like critizing anyone,"he told me, "just remember that all people in the world haven't had the advantages that you have had." This statement is the one that is considered snobbish and that I feel that it is one that should be looked at seriously. If you think about the way people critize and put others down just think of where you came from and where they came from. This is the starting point of this chapter and upon reading the other two chapters the characters are rich, and well off and not a care in the world. Tom who is a cheat and cheating on his wife, however I think she is cheating on him as well.
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February 19, 2006
Robets Appendix B
Roberts, Appendix B -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
MLA Syle
"You must assume that someone reading your essay and using your list will want to check out the souces themselves, any errors in your transcription will at best create confusion and at worst create doubts about the quality of your research."
All papers, documents, lesson plans need to have the sources that you site on a separate sheet of paper or next to the source you sited as well as the full URL if you sited soemthing all the internet. All in All every source should be sited that is used in a paper or lesson plan. Any time you use someone else's words or ideas give them credit and site it. People who look at your work and if they cannot find the source you cited then they will not want to read your writing or may not believe you even used a source or that they may assume you site the source word or word and you are taking the credit for it. Always give the person you are citing the credit.
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Roberts Ch.5
Roberts, Ch. 5 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Organize Your Essay About Plot"
"The conclusion may contain a brief summary of the points you have made."
Any paper that is written should have a summary. The summary should intergrate your thesis statement and summary of the paper. Not word for word but as Roberts Ch. 5 explains the points that you have made in your paper should be in the summary not the details that you may have placed in the paper.
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February 12, 2006
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"I must make myself of something"
Meaning that when we are younger we need to make something of our lives. Life when we are young seems to have many roads and alleys we can take. The poet here is saying on p.151 When we are young we need to decide what direction our lives are going in. What are our career paths and then follow that path to make something of yourself. Follow your dreams.
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Wallace STEVENS
Wallace Stevens -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"His spirit grew uncertain of delight"
Meaning that as life was passing him by and the uncertainity was not delightful and the his spirit was failing him.
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Roberts ch.13
Roberts, Ch. 13 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Poetic Rhythm
"Rhythm in speech is a combination of vocal speeds, rises and falls, starts and stops, vigor and slackness, and relaxation and tension." The way we speak on a daily basis is not the way to read a poem. Poetry has a rhythm to it and some syllables are stress in poetry whereas, one would not stress in every day speaking tones. Reading and speaking poetry is like singing a song in some respects.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"while the poets inner life was quite obviously rich, the biograhical facts of his career could hardly be more ordinary."
Wallace Stevens did not like to be incrowds and would rather stay to himself. He also did not life to travel as others did. He just seems to be reserved and hard to get to know. Some may say a "loner".
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Roberts Ch.10
Roberts, Ch. 10 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Allegory
"An Allegory is like a symbol because it transfersand broadens meaning" Which is basically saying something that is not or beyond understanding.
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Poem I will be doing
Ex 1-2b: Poetry Slam -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Williams Carlos Williams Poem called the Pastoral on page 151.
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February 6, 2006
Comment on Bernice
Roberts on Character -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Mr. Jerz, I do agree that Bernice did agree to commnets and helpful hits, however the way I felt after reading the passage and Marjorie saying to Bernice "if you want to go then go" I did not feel that she wanted her their and that Bernice did not fit in the Marjorie's friends and that Bernice was in the way.
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The Adding Machine
"I've been waiting for you"(p49). It seems Zero is waiting, not all the time, but waiting for a raise, waiting for his boss to come to him and waiting for the police man to come for him. He seems to be a nice guy however, he has no backbone. He would not ask his boss for a raise and he never mentioned it. Zero was in shock when his boss ask how long have you worked here and Zero said "twenty-five years" you would think he would have been promoted not fired. However, his actions were not appropriate to kill his boss. He mentions a raise only after his wife said something about it to him. He was dependable, and reliable.
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Representations of reality
Representations of Reality -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Not real sure what or even if we are to comment on these topics of Repesentation of Reality. However, My thoughts on this is that is a passage, or story is to represent reality then it should be written as if it were in the present.
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Roberts ch.3
Roberts on Character -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Reality and Probability: Verisimilitude: "Characters in fiction are to be true to life meaning their actions, statements, thoughts, must all be what human beings are likely to relate to, do, say, think, under the conditiions presented in the literary work."
I agree with this because when I read something a book, poem, story or passage, I like to see what the author is going to do in a real life situation. I like to feel that I am a part of the passage,and like to feel what the author is saying and doing in a particular situation.
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February 5, 2006
Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair'' (1920) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
Fitzgerald "Bernice Bobs her hair" (1920).
"Don't worry--she'll back out" Marjories says this to her friends and tells them that Bernice will not bob her hair that she was only bluffing. Majories set Bernice up to look like a fool. Majorie is not very nice to Bernice and it seems like she does not want Bernice there because she is a bore. Majorie is a spoiled brat.
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February 1, 2006
"Triffles"
Hale said that he knocked at the door and someone said come in the he said he saw her"rocking back and forth. She had her apron in her hand and was kind of -pleating it."
The Sherriff and the County are accusing Mrs. Wright of killing her husband? I question this because there was a rope around his neck and my impression is that he committed sucide. I feel that all the men pointed to her because she was not a tidy housekeeper. She stated she was a sound sleeper and that she did not hear anything. I feel it is possilbe that he killed himself. Mrs.Wright seemed out of sort or shocked when she found her husband dead.
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