This week we've learned about Hamlet and did some preparing for the ACT. In Hamlet we've done the music connections sheets with have really helped me understand Hamlet in further depth. Having the discussions afterwards help me better understand whats going on in Hamlet. For the ACT we've just done a little bit of practice on the computer doing problems on the ACT website. I think my overall participation in class was good I got into the group discussions and put my ideas into the discussion. I would rate my overall understanding very good I've gotten all the context behind Hamlet and everything that's going on in it.
This week learned about hamlet this past week. The main ideas were learning the context of the wording I think and getting a deeper understanding of the whole story and what Hamlet or any of us would feel if we were in that situation. The main ideas we focused on were how Hamlets dad was killed by his uncle and his mom married his uncle only 6 weeks after his dad died. And we focused on how Hamlet was feelings when all this happened so quickly. He can't tell anybody or he could get sentenced to treason and killed and he can't tell his mom because he doesn't know if she was in on it to. The Activities we did to help us better understand this was to watch the movie and listen to music to see how it related to how Hamlet might be feeling at the time.
The past week has been an average one at most it seems as tho everyone is always the same but fun go to school come go home and repeat. Christmas is near to it'll be nice to have a break from school and get away from school and homework.
This week we read the story "Beowulf". I learned that being a hero doesn't mean you always have somebody to back you up and it can be a lonely job to fill. Last week we watched Star Wars which followed the hero's journey but Beowulf was or is the original story of the hero's journey. I followers every aspect from the call to return. In the story Beowulf is a courage s warrior who slays monsters in the depth of the seas to the giants of the land. Beowulf is portrayed as a super human but to me didn't seem to have any super human things other than being very big in stature and being a bad ass. In one specific part after he killed Grendel, Grendel's mother came to seek revenge on Beowulf and was killing close friends of Hrothgar the king. When he went down to the lire of Grendel's mom he killed he and brought back the head of Grendel to show he had done it. But towards the end of the story when Beowulf is older and not a strapping young lad anymore and also king. A Dragon comes and starts to destroy. When Beowulf goes to fight them and his sword break the warriors that followed turned there backs on the man who kept peace on the land. He then dies after that but Wiglaf is the only one who stays back to help the king defeat the Dragon and he becomes the new king of the land. The main ideas that we learned this week were a hero's journey were the character starts from no where and becomes something that he never thought he would be. We watched Star Wars and focused on Luke's journey on becoming a jedi in the 4 IV Star Wars that's how we came to know about the hero's journey and made a graph rubric going over the main points of the hero's journey that followed the outline and the journey that the her goes through.
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