MACBETH~BIG IDEA POST 5/12/14

   I think that one of the biggest ideas in Macbeth is trust. Trust is relying on someone, and in Macbeth the "idea" of trust is shown in many ways. Throughout the book trust is an issue with Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The start of the trust issue in this book is when Macbeth finds the witches and they explain to him his prophecy. Macbeth learned from the witches that he was going to be king and he will never be vanquished. Macbeth does anything to get to being king like killing everyone that gets in his way such as Banquo his best friend.
   Also Lady Macbeth and Macbeth put their trust in the people that they are making kill for them. Almost every victim of murder that Macbeth kills has trusted Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at one point before they were killed. Also, Scotland puts their trust in their leader and Macbeth does not show the appropriate traits to become king at all. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth invite people to dinner only to kill them later on which shows a type of distrust in them. Trust is a major issue in Macbeth.

WORK TIMES~
HITS & MISSES: 25 minutes
WRITING REMIX & ANALYSIS: 1 hour 10 minutes
COVER LETTER: 2 hours

TOTAL WORK TIME: 215 minutes

Important Quotations

"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,
Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you
How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains
And thank us for your trouble"
    This quote is important because I feel that it represents the book as a whole. It explains how love and trouble are different but can be the same. In the book Macbeth goes through the trouble of killing people but it seems as if he loves doing it because it causes trouble. This can be confusing but makes sense at the same time. In this quote Duncan explains how we thank trouble as love sometimes, and how we thank God for our trouble.
"Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or hell."
   This quote represents the time where Macbeth goes to kill Duncan. This is the first person that Macbeth kills and I feel that at this time, Macbeth is starting to realize what he is about to do. I interpreted this quote as saying "The bell has rung for you to die" because that is what it is saying. We understand that Macbeth is about to kill Duncan because he says that he is about to be summoned to heaven or hell.

WORK/ READING TIMES:

Finishing gore performance packet: 25 minutes
Pre-planning writing remix portfolio: 60 minutes 
Reading through Macbeth book: 45 minutes 

Reading Times: 4/28/14

Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian) : 40 minutes
Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian) : 20 minutes
Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian) : 30 minutes
Forgotten Fire (Adam Bagdasarian) : 45 minutes

NOTE: (finished the whole book during this time)

TOTAL: 135 minutes

Free Post: 4/27/14

   My spring break was filled with excitement, adventure, and happiness. During our break, Claudia, Ellie, Kylie and I took a trip to Seaside,Florida for four days. We stayed in Seaside in a two-story house that was right on the beach. It was our paradise. We had a whole floor to ourselves. The house was right inside the town so we either road our bikes or walked everywhere. The weather was so beautiful. It was the perfect temperature, not too hot during the day, and perfectly cool during the night time. We did all sorts of things. Road our bikes around to town and shopped, got snowballs, went on the beach, and enjoyed the time we had together.

   Spring Break went by a little faster than I expected it to be. One minute I was on the beach, and then another I was sitting in my room wondering if I had any homework. I believe that on this spring break I wasted the time I had home because now I have to do a social studies project that I forgot about. Not a fun time for me. But overall, my spring break was very good. 

Response: 4/14/14

If you are in a position of power, you are happy…
   I believe that this statement is partially true, but partially false. In a way being in a position of power can bring happiness, but power alone can not bring happiness to a person. In society today, the standards for people that are considered more powerful are set very high and it can be very stressful and hard to meet those standards. This kind of stress in a person can never bring happiness. On the other hand, having money and power and being considered in a position in power can bring happiness because of how well one is doing in there lives and how many things the powerful person has. In reality, the one with less power lives a happier, laid back life. 

Who we are--our essential character and temperament--is fixed and unchangeable…
   This statement has always been a question to me. Can who a person is really change? I believe that if a person goes through something tragic, a person can partly change but not fully. Something traumatic in a persons life could change a persons perspective and look on certain types of things. I also believe that a person can never really change his/her character.

Reading Times: 

3 hours: Desert & Entree project for Nervous Conditions

Reading times 2/24/14

Monday: 30 minutes annotating poems (study hall) 

Tuesday: 40 minutes reading Gimme A Call

Wednesday: 20 minutes revising research paper 

Thursday: 30 minutes studying vocabulary 

Friday: 10 minutes reading Gimme A Call

TOTAL: 130 minutes 

Reading Times 2/17/14

2/10: 10 minutes in class (Gimme A Call), and 30 minutes after school
2/11: 10 minutes in class (Gimme A Call)
2/12: 10 minutes in class (Gimme A Call)
2/13: 10 minutes in class (Gimme A Call), and 25 minutes after school
2/17: 25 minutes annotating Free to be me (song)

Total amount of time spent reading: 120 minutes