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Final essay

I remember the day my sophomore year when I went to college counselling, and that day, I had to decide what classes to choose for my future career as a student. At first I was assigned to IB Lang&Lit, however, after I’ve heard couple feedback from people that participated in IB Literature Performance I immediately changed my intentions and chose to take this class; and to be honest, I do not regret a single moment in that class. Throughout two years, I had an opportunity to learn, teach, participate, and express all the thoughts on my mind. This class gave me a vast number of possibilities, I became more mature I grew as a student and as a person; I could finally perform in front of people without being scared or shine I developed as a human.  I came into this class with a small idea of what it would be; however, I changed my mind after the first week, this class wasn’t only about performing reading and writing, this class bullied people into becoming more social and open ...

Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab. In my opinion is very talented and creative artists that create art by expressing her emotions and feelings on the paper, and providing the rest of the world with interesting thoughts and ideas. She contributes her poems to her vision of the outside world including things like politics, race, nationality, and family. From my understanding Shihad connects ger poems with each other by including certain words and lines in more than one of her poems; for example " My father and the fig tree" and " Blood " in both of those poems she talks about her father. She also has two poems that talk about her grandmother " The Words Under the Words " and "My Grandmother in the stars " by looking and those two examples we can see how dedicated Shihab is to her family and how much time she spends thinking about them. However, besides her family, she is also focused on the environment and the world arouned us and in the poem called " Two Countrie...

Blog post due: Choose any question (from samples posted on the blog) that you have not yet worked on yet and write an answer to it based on only Emily Dickinson's poems. Due by class time!!

2. “The language of a poem is often that of one thing compared to another.” In the work of at least two poets you have studied, explore how poets have made their subjects come alive through different means of comparing them. Emily Dickinson is a unique character that did her work in the environment that she prefered was safer and more interesting than the rest of the poets at that time. Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely what helped her to create and progress. Throughout most of her poems, Dickinson explains her point of view on humanity and her own experience before living in the community in the past. For example one of her poems “  I’m Nobody! Who are you? “ she is pretending to have a conversation with another person similar to herself; “I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us!” this three lines clearly explains her vision and her style of languag...
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog –  To tell one’s name – the livelong June –  To an admiring Bog! Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind —

Read poems and post notes by class time

Two poems that I really enjoyed reading were  “Hope” and " Tell all the truth but tell it  to slant" written by Emily Dickinson. The reason I choose both of those poems is due to the rhythm that both of them maintained. " Tell all the truth but tell it  to slant" a poem that I really enjoyed reading because of the connection that I saw with the life of a regular person. ' Hopen" is a poem that describes the meaning of this word in a very unique and philosophical way.  Both poems gave me joy while reading them and gave me something to think about and get dipper into the thoughts of Emily Dickinson.

3 questions in class work

1. Select a passage from a novel you have chosen to study where a change of atmosphere impacts on the characters and the course of events. By paying due attention to the context of the passage, show how such a passage might be dramatised for an audience.   The most significant impact on the story played a simple three which stopped Daniel from going further, and what brought both of those characters together. The change of atmosphere in this question for me means the transformation of the weather or environment. Due to the idea that Daniel was from another part of the island, he didn’t know the roads and the location, what played a significant role on his driving and might've been the reason for the accident. In my opinion, the crash impacts both the characters and the course of events. If the accident didn’t happen, there would be a small possibility that Desiree would ever meet Daniel, and would move to the other side of the island. If the accident didn’t happen she would see ...

Outline - 1 question

1. Select a passage from the novel you have chosen to study and, showing how the mood and atmosphere is evoked in the passage, explain in detail how you would create this mood and atmosphere in performance for an audience. Use the same staging dynamics that author uses in the book, because in my opinion by showing the dirt, aggression, sovereign, and absence of respect and appreciation I can deliver the main plot and content of this specific scene. In my preference, my main objective would be to make the audience feel the energy of the play and the environment that all of those characters were in during the scene. A scene like that has to be shown with the best product possible to include all the little details and emotions from the passage. Throughout the scene, I would like to have a screen on in the front of the characters that show the rain, mud and the [backgrounded of the castle; in addition to that, I would include the sound of the storm. In preference and if possible I w...