Memoirs....

This is a dedication to our class! I'm sorry it can't be better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijKo82ECB4

Out with the old, In with the new!

I want to hear from the incoming class of 2011! The new AP.E students!

How is the reading? Who is reading which book? This is the place to post your commentary on the summer reading and journal writing.

Final Day

Well, grads, here it is. Our final day of high school forever. Well, we've had our ups and we've had our downs, but through it all, we've stuck it out. It's been a good and long four years, and I wish you all the best of luck in your futures. Godspeed, my friends.

At Long Last!

Well, everybody, here it is. We are halfway through our final week of High School. Ever. Now, I know that there will be few (if any) of you who read this, but for those of you who took the time to view this post, I say this: Life is what YOU make it. Do NOT let ANYBODY tell you how to live your life. Only YOU can do that. You go into this world now now as humble high school students, but as achieving young men and women. Hopefully all of you will become movers and shakers in this world. We all have the power to alter the course of history single-handedly. So let's get out there and DO IT. Congratulations to the graduating seniors of 2010!

Quaerere Verum! (Seek Truth)

The Aftermath!

So, it has been a couple of days since we took the A.P. English Literature and Composition exam and I'm sure many of you, including myself, are excited to talk about the prompts and the different things we wrote. Due to College Board rules and regulations we may not talk about the prompts until Monday, when Ms. Hill receives them; furthermore, we are expected to never utter a single word about the multiple choice, for it can harm the outcome of your test. Come Monday, we may talk about the prompt; however, until then we can discuss the experience of "The Test". Being the first A.P. test for some of us, was it what you expected? How did you feel going into the testing room and how did you feel leaving? For those who have taken a test before, how did it differ from the previous one(s)?

-Esteban

Novel Overview

Here are the notes I took on certain books we discussed. Feel free to attach more notes about these books or about the plethora of others

The Glass Menagerie Tennesssee Williams 1945

*Amanda- Mom, lives in past

*Laura- symbolism of glass/unicorn

*Tom- Narrator- worked in lackluster warehouse, poet.

*Jim- “The Gentlemen Caller”

Idea of escape, Picture of Father who fell in love with long distances,

Native Son Richard Wright 1930s; Southside Chicago; Winter; White Black Motif

Bigger Thomas

Mary Dalton

The Daltons

Bessie

Buddy

Jan

Max

Vera

Titles of Books- Fear, Flight, Fate

Idea of society, racism

Are we helping produce this type of atmosphere?

Native Son, he’s a native of society

Siddhartha Herman Hesse 1951

Gutama Budha- The One

Siddhartha

Govinda

Kamala

Young Siddhartha

Vesudeva

River, Experiencing, Truth from within, “The Golden Mean”, The Brahmin- growing out of one’s environment, Caged Bird, One, Went from one extreme to another

Novel Overview

Here are the notes I took on certain books we discussed. Feel free to attach more notes about these books or about the plethora of others

The Glass Menagerie Tennesssee Williams 1945

*Amanda- Mom, lives in past

*Laura- symbolism of glass/unicorn

*Tom- Narrator- worked in lackluster warehouse, poet.

*Jim- “The Gentlemen Caller”

Idea of escape, Picture of Father who fell in love with long distances,

Native Son Richard Wright 1930s; Southside Chicago; Winter; White Black Motif

Bigger Thomas

Mary Dalton

The Daltons

Bessie

Buddy

Jan

Max

Vera

Titles of Books- Fear, Flight, Fate

Idea of society, racism

Are we helping produce this type of atmosphere?

Native Son, he’s a native of society

Siddhartha Herman Hesse 1951

Gutama Budha- The One

Siddhartha

Govinda

Kamala

Young Siddhartha

Vesudeva

River, Experiencing, Truth from within, “The Golden Mean”, The Brahmin- growing out of one’s environment, Caged Bird, One, Went from one extreme to another