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February 24, 2006
Dessert Places
"I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawareness."
A man feeling very lonely and unaware of his surronding that are around him. He is too much a one way person to look on the other side to see what might just be happening around him or the people in his life.
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Mending Wall
"Good fences make good neighbors."
Having a fence up and not having to deal with the neighbor is sometimes the best neighbor to deal with.
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Apple Picking
"Magnified apples appear and disappear"
I believe that the poet is trying to say in this line that he is just exhusted from apple picking all day and he is starting to see thing because his eyes can not stay in focus.
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Portfolio One for E267
Portfolio 1 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
This is my first blog portfolio of the semester. It cover all the reading and discussions that we have talked about in and out of the classroom. This class has really taught me new things that I have never done before. So I am looking forward to walking out of this class knowing more than when I walked in.
COVERAGE: (This shows all of the reading that we have done so far this semster. Things that took several days to do and lot of time reading and analyzing what was going to be wrote or talked about for the next class or for the blogging.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-3
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 4-6
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 7-9
DEPTH: (These works show a little more time and effort spent on them. They may not be any longer or as long as some of my blogs, but they are so of the things I spent more time focusing on to understand or maybe cause I really enjoyed working on them.)
* Trifles
INTERACTION: (These are some comments that I made to my peers, in helping them out to better understand what they are reading or discussing.Each one of us are her to help each other understand what we are being taught. It is important to want to help one another become more sucessful at what we are trying to excel for.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-3
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 4-6
DISCUSSIONS: (Conversation from peers that sparked me. I love to sometimes just sit back and take a look at what other peers are thinking or talking about, see if I even thought about that through a poem or a reading.)
TIMELINESS: (This section show entires that I posted long before the due date so that I could keep up with all the work and be ahead of the schudule. These are entries that also I also took a liking to and that I was interested in reading more about.)
* The Great Gatsby Chapters 7-9
* Writing about Plot and Structure
XENBLOGGING: (Helping others when needed, and of course all the help that other peers have given me,things that I could elaberate on.)
WILDCARD: (Acheivements as a Weblogger and things that I learned by reading the Roberts, Writing About Literature.)
* I believe that I have come a long way from the first week in this class. There are many things that I am still learning and unsure how to do. I give every peice of my work my heart and soul and I try to do the best I know how. I realize that not everything comes to me as easy as I think it might. That is why I spend at least ten hours a week just on this class, to be sure I understand what I am learning. I want to come out of here with the opportunity to have taught myself something new that I can use in the future to teach others and teaching children. It has been a wonderful experience meeting so many helpful students. I like how we all work together and help one antoher out. Those now who I am talking about, Thanks For All Your Help!
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February 18, 2006
The Great Gatsby chapters 7-9
"I don't think she ever loved him." (p. 152)
Gatsby is saying this to Nick. That she never loved Tom but because he was around and Gatsby wasn't because he left for war, that is why to chose to marry him so she would never have to think of being alone with nobody.
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The Great Gatsby chapters 4-6
"I certainly am awfully glad to see you again."
Daisy is speaking here, she is very glad to get to meet up with Gatsby again. She remember's once her love for him and what they shared, knowing that she is married to another man it may be it late to kindle that realtionship again.
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The Great Gatsby chapter 1-3
"The only crazy I was was when I married him." (p.35)
I think Daisy is talking about her husband Tom in the chapter. I think she realizes that he has another women when he runs to use the phone. Daisy trys to spy on him to see what he is up to.
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February 15, 2006
MLA Recommendations
"Documenting Your Work"
Sources must by all sited. There are many different ways to site different materials. Electronic sources can be a little more difficult. Never neglect to search printed information.
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Writing about Plot and Structure
"In it's most elemental form, a conflict is the opposition of two people."
When to people read a story or an article they may have two different points of view. They may not be able to relate to what each other is feeling, and have different oppinions.
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February 10, 2006
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Thesse things astonish me beypnd words."
I think what he is trying to say at the end of the poem on page 147 is that things are always happening that may seem weird but you can not change what happens on a daily basis. There are some things that us humans can not control and that are out of our hands.
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Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your World is you. I am my world."
I liked this quote from the poem Bantams in Pine-Woods, becasue it told me that he may be fat and that is who he is and everyone is their own person and that he excepts the person he is and will not think about changing himself for nobody else.
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February 09, 2006
Roberts Chapter 13
"To study the versification in any poem, you scan the poem."
When looking at poems you want to be sure you read them over a couple good times to get a feel of what the poem is about and what the writer may have been thinking when writing it. You will want to be aware of rhyming, meters, sounds, unusal words, feeling/emotions, and what time of year was it taken place in. There are many thing you want to be thinking about when you look at poetry.
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Roberts Chapter 10
"Objects and descriptions that are not universal symbols can be symbols only if they are made so within individual works."
By determining what something means and looking at all the different ways to look at it and come up with a topic and see the whole picture not just part of it is really imoportant fot the writer. The reader has to understand what is being said and read.
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The Revelation
Poetry Cover Slam 2 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
This is the William Carlos Willams poem that i want to act out. The Revelation
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The Revelation
Poetry Cover Slam 2 -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
This is the William Carlos Willams poem that i want to act out. The Revelation
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February 07, 2006
The Revolation
"The Revolation"
Which means to me that he wants to know more about her but does not have the confidence to ask.
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
In the Wallace Stevens poems the "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"
In my thoughts the sailor was dreaming of being out at sea with red skies at night and in the morning.
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Bernice Her Bobs Hair Class comments
I really liked how the class dicussion made it more clear on what the story was about. I was not quite sure if what I had come up with was the correct idea. I do believe the Bernice wanted to be her own person, and that she wanted to get back at Marijore.
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February 06, 2006
Adding Machine
"This place is only for the good ones" Pg (111)
Zero had done a crime by killing his boss and do believe his was guilty, but he worked all his life never took a day off, never got a raise, and i think he just had it with his job. They found him guilty and he went to purgatory.
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February 05, 2006
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"Oh I wasn't thinking about that. I was considering whether we hadn't better bob your hair."
Bernice really wants to have her hair bobed to fit in society and have more poeple look at her and admire her as a women. But when she got her hair done she didn't seem to like it, and everyone had there opinions on it. Brenice seemed to be a very strong willed women with a strong mind and very demading on what she wanted, she was going to get.
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February 03, 2006
Chapter 3 Roberts
Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair'' (1920) -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"Like ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand how they may be changing or why they do the things they do."
Characters are functional in the way that it is essential to keep the action moving along, they provide the material that draws to the conclusions, of every play and story. They enhance the motions of a story and keep us readers and movie watches, in tune to what is happening.
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February 01, 2006
Close Reading Chapter 2
"A more mangageable and desireable technique is therefore to devote attention to the meaning of individual parts in realtionship to the entire work."
Pick the things that stand out to you the most, the things you would enjoy talking about or discussing. Put forth an effort that might take more individualized time and try to make sense of it by breaking it up into parts. When you write put your whole self into it, write from your heart, express what your feeling and don't be afraid to say what you feel is right. There are no wrong anwers in life. The only wrong answers are the ones you are afraid to answer. Express yourself in your writing cause you are the one that understands who you are.
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