Masterpiece Academy Questions

Masterpeice Questions

My Masterpiece

Jarreds Materpiece

music and poetry

Writes about love and suicide

meaning behind every song and poem

not exactly rhythmic

bs?

meant lyrically

some have been made into songs

first year ever writing poetry

"if ihad more time"

"I don't have anything to fill my time"

worthy of expression

"i could have done better if..."

needs to find the motivation

needs to find his passion in it

looks like a first draft

something from the heart but just quickly written

more than meets the eye

I cant do any better what do you think

why are you holding yourself back?

felt a need to help others rather than himself

helping others holding yourself back?

want to go to college- not helping himself in getting himself there

what made you decide to do this as your masterpiece

-he turned the things in the back of his mind into something beautiful

not really passionate about anything

againstthebully - website

why is life worth living....

Codys materpiece

- wrote a novel

-crystals are the base of the being

Archer- 19

adopted by kinezoos mother and father

age 5

rescued Kienzoo

Kienzoo

lived together

had happy normal lives

taken captive at age 9

held hostage

held captive for 4 years

age 13 he was "released"

archer enrolled him in school

they lived a happy life

ate age 15 tells Keinzoo about his plan

takes down stronghold

gets to core

archer dies

he was take by the pirates because he was a child

meets Soleamus- doctor

Raztuna-she is one of the soldiers archer highed

Kathreen-archers fianca

lord Dredworm

woman-she diabolical

Amon- very extravagant- all about murdering and blood

Someone passes out

 Keinzoo goes after memories

chp 4

~codys fav~

Hina- held by her father and shipped her off t an island-skilled with 2 daggers

energy transformed her into Chimera part human, part machine, part

Archer is alive!

Lord Dreadworm is there father

they are twins

separated by his father because he had a disagreement with the mother

Christine and gabes masterpiece

-was considered a blood sport
- started as very deathly
-jujitsu
-tiquandoe
-passing out Is a part of the sport
-Karate
-karate is developed in Japan

Rachels masterpiece

Traveling
•Hawaii- family vacation
•Job-wants to have a traveling job
•Wants to go:
-Rome
-Australia
-New York
-London
-Amsterdam

Journal May 19

Invent a magic spell.  Explain what it does, why you wrote it, and how it makes the world a better place. 

- If i where to invent a magic spell it would be a spell that will give you the power of different views. If you were to get this spell cast on you it would help you understand the other persons view. Whether it may be from personal opinion or why someone in a higher power did a certain thing. It will help the worlds be a better place because it will help the other person have more of an insightful opinion on the argument in question. For example if we where at war or something and the president made a certain decision that not everyone agreed with, then you could cast the spell on everyone and they would be able to understand why they did what they did and there would be less controversy.

Journal May 18

Wave your mental magic wand and imagine the next three weeks as valuable, unforgettable learning.  What do you expect from the Masterpiece Academy and how can you contribute to making it the experience you envision?

- There are many things that i expect form the masterpiece academy. Almost everyone has something different and it is a unique experience seeing all the work everyone has put into it. I can contribute by taking everyone else's opinions and views on things and incorporating them with mine. Seeing everyone's views on things can help other people realize what they want to do or can help them with there masterpiece.

The interview

The interview helped me a little bit understand more why the author did some of the things he did in the book.

Chapter 8

1.What was John’s upbringing like? His relationship with Linda? His education?
-He had a tough time finding acceptance in the native boys, so much of his time was spent by himself. He has a close relationship with Linda, and feels protective of her around other men.
2. Why doesn’t linda want to be called a mother?
-Because she has been conditioned to think family is wrong and even though she has love and appreciation for John, she is disgusted with herself for having a baby.
3. What social positions do Linda and John hold in Malpais?
-Neither of them are treated with kindness or acceptance. Linda is shown no respect by men, and John is clearly an outsider.
4. What does John want in his life?
-John wants to go to the World State, which is like a dream land according to his mother’s description. John is a character, who does not fit in either society.
5. What does Linda tell him about the Other Place?
-Linda would talk very highly about the Other Place. how you could go flying anytime of dayy??? that there was no such thing as sadness, and how everything was beautiful and happy.
6. What does he learn from Shakespeare? How does he relate to Hamlet? The Tempest?
-John connects with Shakespeare because it speaks to him and he is able to make connections to his own life. He relates Linda to the women sleeping on a bed in Hamlet, and Pope with Hamlet's uncle. John also sees Bernard as Prospero.
7. What does it mean to discover “Time and Death and God?”
-To discover time and death and God means to fully understand the purpose of life
8. What do John and Bernard have in common?
-They are both outsiders in their own community and are continuously striving for acknowledgement. They gravitate towards each other because they see the similarities between them.
9. Why does Bernard want to take John to London?
-Bernard sees fame and recognition through the Savage, and becomes corrupt and greedy and uses him.

Chapter 7 Questions

1. How is the mesa like a ship?
"The mesa was like a ship beclaimed in a strait of lion-coloured dust."
2. Why doesn’t Lenina like their Indian guide?
-Lenina is afraid of the indian guide because he is associated with this unknown place. Her feelings were reciprocated, with the guide being described as "hostile and sullenly contemptuous."
3. What is the city itself like? What are the people like? How does Lenina respond? Bernard
-The streets were dirty and dusty and villiagers walked by in feathers and wearing deerskin shoes, holding snakes. Lenina is shocked and scared at times. Bernard is fascinated in many of the things he sees in the streets .Bernard is shocked along with Lenina.
4. What ceremony do the witness? What does it mean? What does it seem like to Lenina?
-They witness a sacrificial ceremony. This is considered to be an honor by seeing this /witnessing. Lenina sees the blood and what in her eyes is torture and cruelty.
5. What idols emerge from the ground?
-An eagle and Jesus Christ.
6. How is John Savage different? What does he want? How does he respond to Lenina?
-John Savage is different because his mother Linda was born through a battle but she was left at the reservation and gave birth to him at Malpais. He has lighter skin and hair. He wants to fit in with the other indians, but clearly doesn't at all. He seems embarassed, and shy when he notices Lenina watching him.!
7. What is Linda’s story? What has her life been like here? How does Linda react to her?
-Linda traveled to the Reservation with the director a long time back ,  but she got lost and he left without her. She accidently got pregnant and  gave birth to her son John. He pities herself and her life in Malpais, is ashamed for having a baby. Lenina pities her for doing these awful things she has been conditioned to be disgusted with.

Chapter 6 Question

1. Why is being alone a bad thing?
-Because it allows you time alone in your own head, which can lead to being loney, and being lonely makes people feel unhappy which you don't want
2. What do Lenina and Bernard do on their first date? Why is the ocean important? The moon?
-Bernard talks a lot about the ocean and how calming and peaceful he looks at the waves of the ocean. This makes Lenina feel very uncomfortable to feel that way about something so ordinary.
3. What does Bernard say about freedom? What does he mean?
-He says that “wouldn’t you like to free to be happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way”. Bernard is the one who refuses to take soma from people  and likes to spend time alone. He knows that the happiness he feels is just temporary. Bernard wants to be different from other people. He wants to be free from those conditioning and find his own way to feel happy rather than just eating soma like the others do.
4. How does the date end?
-With Bernard giving in to Lenina's begging taking a few grammes of soma and sleeping with her.
5. What does it mean to be infantile in this society?
-Infantile behavior- something the masses are taught  since childhood. As adults they encouraged to have sexual relations with multiple partners. They are encouraged to spend their free time using a drug called Soma and satisfy their primal desires.
6. How does the director feel about Bernard? Why is he warning him?
-The directod notices that Bernard is different so he must have to be monitored closely. He warns him not to question society and act the way he is expected to act ,or else he will be exiled to Iceland.
7. What does his story mean? What does it show us about him?
-The story shows that the director has made mistakes in his past. Like from him leaving with Linda somewhere in the reservation that he is not proud of.
8. How does Helmholtz feel about Bernard after he hears the story of the meeting with the director?
-He is annoyed with Bernard's childish behavior and emotions.
9. What do we learn from the Warden? What are the reservations like?
-There is no escape from a Savage Reservation and children are born into it and will live there for their entire lives.
10. What does the word Malpais mean?
-Malpais is the town and rest house where Lenina and Bernard stay. This is where they watch the sacrifice and where John and Linda live.

I AM HUMAN

What do you pops into your head when someone askes you to define a human? If you asked me i would say a human is a living breathing person that has feelings and makes mistakes. If you look back on your life and think of all the mistakes you have ever made you can hopefully also think of all the stuff you have learned from them. If you're a robot, well, you probably can't do that can you. In my personal view on life, a human uses ethos, pathos and logos in everyday life, contrary to a robot . If you're wondering what ethos, pathos, and logos is, are you even human? Well just incase you are a human that just doesnt pay any attention in english class, ethos is the character of someone, how they appear to you, pathos is how someone can connect with someone else's feelings, letting them see how they feel, logos is credibility, like the evidence that is provided. Now just sit back and think about that. Robots don't have a character, they are designed for a single purpose, and only that single purpose. Robots also don't have feelings, they don't develope feelings like they do in the movies. Theoretically, If you were to ask a robot, for example, why is the sky blue? It's response would be respond  "because it is." ( circular reasoning ). If I where a robot would I have a beating heart or organs that without I wouldn't be alive to write this. Not to mention, a robot is made out of metal and would probably have a really hard time going through airport security. All in all, a robot has no emotion, no regrets or wishes, no dreams, and  no room for error. I am the farthest thing from a robot.

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Notes

Content- do you have something to say
Organization - key words
Design- can you see your personality through your blog

Fallacies

My Argument

The argument I admittingly started was with my brother. We had a disputation over the reasoning I had for believing swimming was a more competitive sport than football. He believes that football is more competitive because the team has to run down a clock to score point for there teams. I believe that swimming is more competitive because it is not a team against a team, it is a human against a human. Each member has to individualy push themselves to there limit and if they don't then they are letting themselves down, which is worse than letting other people down in my observation. We came to an agreement that we both had valid points (which was not easy) because we saw what the other person saw, not just there own point of view.

What Jiro Means to Me

I believe that Jiro is an incredible person. He is a hard worker and he is always striving to do better on whatever he is working on. Jiro said in his interview "Always look ahead and above yourself". That really spoke to me and told me how much Jiro really cared for the work he did. I look at Jiro and I see someone with drive, someone who will stop at nothing to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. In this generation it seems fewer people are as determined and ambitious as Jiro. I mean don't take this the wrong way, some people in my generation have great ideas and ambition like no other, but there just isn't as many as there used to be. We all need to just try a little more and work a little harder and great things will come out of this world. Jiro has worked very hard to be were he is and with the amount of comition he had coming in around the time this documentary was made, he could be traveling the world, but he's working in his kitchen because that is what he has the passion to do. Now I'm not saying that we al nerd to be kicked out on our buts at a young age but we need to have the motivation and drive like we just where.  It's people like Jiro that show you why you should want to be a better version of yourself.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

"Dedicate your life to mastering your skill." Jiro shows complete and utter focal on his dream. He knows what he wants and once he had it he kept building on it. He wants to get better and better, he non stop pushing himself to reach his full potential. In most instances once a person reaches the success level jiro has, they stop. But most people don't get the push off the cliff into real life, experience he had. In my case I don't know what on God's great earth I want to do in the future, but that's the fun of it. When you try and try at things and you fail most people stop. But real success comes out of that one accomplishment through all of the failures. Now me and Jiro may be very very different but one thing stands the same, if we both want something enough we don't stop until we've obtained it and mastered it.

Something I Learned

When asked to learn something and post about it, I though well, that could mean many things. So I then after a while said what thr heck, ill cool somethimg. So today after school I deside that I wanted to learn how to cook something new that I have never baked before. My grandmother suggested an apple crisp, basically an apple pie with a crumbly top. So that's what we did. And might I add the end result was quite delightful.

I'M HERE

Well I've been posting to my blog every time we have an assignment and the jist of what we are doing right now is reading catcher I'm the Rye. I think that I am doing well I'm this course. I have done all of the assignment and have done the project we had.
(Sorry I posted it late, it failed to publish last night and I did not notice)

The Catcher and the Rye end summary

Holden goes to Edmont hotel and calls up a stripper and she says she would meet him the next day and but he ends up not meeting with her. Then he thinks about Jane and how they first met. him and jane met in the summertime in Maine. He also asks the cab driver where the ducks go for the winter. He calls up Sally Hayes to meet at a Broadway play. That didnt go well. The Catcher in the Rye means someone who catches children as they are about to fall off a cliff. Holden wrote Phoebe a note saying he is leaving and to meet up with him during lunch time at the museum. She shows up with a packed suit case ready to go with him. Then he takes her to a carousel and begins to cry from seeing her so happy while on it. The end of Catcher in the Rye was very unpredictable, I didn't know what to expect. I thought it was intreeging  that the author had decided to end it with Holden saying that he was going to try harder at school, but doesn't want to promise anything. Also he actually says he is happy seeing his sister which wasn't like him at the begining. Though he does have to be sent back to a hospital to be helped due to his sickness. The hospital is where he is writing the novel to the readers saying that we shouldn't talk about people, because we could start to miss them.

Our Catcher in The Rye Project

Chapter 8

In this chapter all that really happend was that holden left pency and got on a train. Then someone from his school, ernie, his mom sat next to holden. They talked for a while and holden lied like it was his job. He even changed his name.

Chapter 7 notes

- Holden wants to stay in akleys room because of his and stradlaters fight
- he kept thinking about jane and stradlater
-he thinks about stradleter and his dates he had before
-you can tell he is depressed
-he left akleys room
-being at pency made him sad and lonely
-he decided he wouldn't wait till Wednesday he would leave right that night
-he felt bad for his mom because he got the axe agian
-when he was leaving he started to cry but didn't know why
- when he left he screamed "sleep tight, ya morons!"

Chapter 6 thoughts

Stradlater is being childish for not telling holden what hapoend between him and jane. Holden gets irritated because I think he a secret crush on jane. Stradlater looks at the composition holden wrote and got mad because it was suppose to be about a room or house not a mitt, so holden through it away. Holden lit a cigarette to get stradlater mad which was stupid. Holden then continues on and called him a moron witch makes stradlater really Madd so he ends up knocking him to the floor and holden ends with blood all over his face, pj's, and robe. I think the fight they had was unnecessary but it seems to show alot about how holden portrayes himself.

Chapter 5 notes

-they have steak dinner every saterday
-it is hard to cut and very small it is survey with lumpy mashed potatoes
- introduces Mal Brossard
-Ma, akley, and holden are taking a bus into ages town to get food and see a movie
- they get burgers and end up playing pinball instead of going to the movie
-they all go back to pency and holden goes and puts his pj's on when he gets back and he starts to do the composition
-he wrote it about his brother allies left baseball mit with poems written on it in green ink
-his brother died of lukemia
-he slept in the garauge and broke all of the windows with his hand when Allie died
- he keeps allies mitt with him in his suit case

Chapter 4 notes

-strandlater was shaving and hold was talking to him
-stradlater is a "secret slob"
-stradlater asked holden to write a composition for him for his history class
- holden got bored in the wash room so he started entertaining himself by tap dancing
-holden will do stradlater work if he has time
-holden kept messing around with stradlater
-stradlater is going out with a girl that holden knows from his childhood
-Jane Gallagher
-holden keeps talking about wanting to say hi to her but he never goes to do it
-he tells stradlater to send his regards to her
- stradlater leaves for his date
-ackley comes in
- is detracts holden from thinking out jane

Chapter 3 notes

-he lies alot
-roommate is senior
-he lived in old ossenburger memorial wing
-he reads alot of books
-the person who lives next door to him is named akley
-Akley has pimples,he is very tall, he has groom teeth, and he is kind of rude. He can't take a hint
-he has a bad personality
-Ackley always made you repeat yourself
-holden used to date a girl in NY named Sally Hayes
-Akley is anoying holden
-akley hates stradlater
-stradlater came in to the room in a big hurry and asked holden is he could borrow his jacket
-stradlater is actually very nice

ALL THAT DAVID COPPERFIELD KIND OF CRAP

NOTES
- rich kid school
- points out that they are crooks.
-he says sort of alot
-goes to old Spencers house
-old Spencer was his teacher
-he doesn't like weakness or vonerability
-"didn't know his ass from his elbow"
-people shake their heads out of confusion
-he's not quit as worldly as he wants us to think he is
-"people never notice anything."
- ..."cement bed..."
- he talked to his old teacher for a while
-they talked about how he got kicked out of other schools
- his old teacher read the paper he wrote to kind of make him realize what effort he was truly putting in
- he got very unconfortable and made up an excuse to leave

Notes

-puts up a front
- he pretends like he doesn't care but he really does
- he's straight up
- he has his own view on life
- he seems like he's been through alot

The Catcher in The Rye first impressions

From the very first sentance I new I would love this book. It cought my attention and kept me wanting more and more. To sum up what i have read the author has very touchy parents, attends a school he does not like at all, and then eventually gets kicked out. I have heard many great things about this book and am excited to read more.

Conversations

I spoke with Rachel about her topic and what she was inte re step in was traveling. She enjoys going new places and meeting new people. My interest was pshycology. Since I was young my mother, who is also a pshycologist, has always told me I was intuative and had a kind pure soul. I find myself helping and careling for people so I have always been interested in helping people profetionaly. Even though I still do not know if that is was I truly want to pursue.

MUSIC AS LITERATURE

Can we consider music to be literature? How do we define literature? What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?
-In my personal opinion music is definitely a literature. It's unique, it tells a story, and it is probably one of the most truthful prices of literature ever made.
- The difference between each one of those items is that they are all story's of pain, perseverance, or anything the author feels, but they're put into a way that that person can express their opinion. Rap and novel for example. A rap is either a short expression of opinion that particular person feels. A novel is a long write story that is either fiction or nonfiction, but it's still an expression that person feels in their head and their heart.

Literary analysis #4 "Perks of Being A Wallflower"

1. What drew you to this book?  What did you expect and/or hope to experience through reading it?
- The movie drove me to this book. I had seen the book many many times and I absolutely love it, I figured that if the movie was that good then the book had to be 10x better.
2. What kept you reading past the first ten pages?
- The thing that kept me reading was the perspective the main charter had. He gave very insiteful look on the tragic truths of the teenage life and mind.
3. Describe your reading habits
- My reading habits are pretty inconsistent. But i usually get a book, grab something to drink, and l either sit my bed, couch, or outside.

1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read, and explain how the narrative fulfills the author's purpose (based on your well-informed interpretation of same).
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower is about a young boy named Charlie . Im the book they follow his everyday life, relationships and how the past and present sometimes may not mix that well. Through Charlie and his friends, the author wishes to show us the imperfections and pain every single person has to deal with.
2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel.
- I think the theme of this novel is secrecy. In many instances, secrets bring Charlie closer to the people in his life. Not until the end of the novel do we realize that Charlie is holding onto his own secret: namely, his Aunt Helen had molested him when he was a child. As this secret is revealed, Charlie's life falls apart much more abrupt than before. He is even hospitalized. Just as secrets form a structure for Charlie's life, they also tear it down.
3. Describe the author's tone. Include a minimum of three excerpts that illustrate your point(s).
- The tone in this book changes a lot. Sometimes it's really serious and/or sad, then it gets really happy whenever he is with Sam and Patrick for example when they were riding in the car together listening to the tunnel song.
4. Describe a minimum of ten literary elements/techniques you observed that strengthened your understanding of the author's purpose, the text's theme and/or your sense of the tone. For each, please include textual support to help illustrate the point for your readers. (Please include edition and page numbers for easy reference.)

Characters aren't people, but they often provide the most compelling connection with a text.

1. Describe two examples of direct characterization and two examples of indirect characterization. Why does the author use both approaches, and to what end (i.e., what is your lasting impression of the character as a result)?
2. Does the author's syntax and/or diction change when s/he focuses on character?
- I believe the author uses diction.
3. Is the protagonist static or dynamic? Flat or round?
- The protagonist changes alot, he goes from this scared antisocial catapiler to the outgoing butterfly who isn't afraid anymore. He is for sure a round character.
4. After reading the book did you come away feeling like you'd met a person or read a character?
- After reading this I came away feel as if I had met a person not a charter. It was as if I had personally met and been with Charlie through all of his experiences.