Happy Summer!

So here I am waiting for a Very Potter Musical to load all the way and I decided to check the blog to see if anyone had posted anything over summer. Obviously not. I suppose I would be the only one to check it but stiillll to anyone out there that is reading this- Happy Summer! Enjoy the sun and the free time because goshdangit, we still have one more year left! See y'all in the fall. haha that rhymed... (:

BYEEEEEE!

So, I'm going to be that guy (or in this case girl) who posts now, when the class is done. Just in case we get points for blogging this week. I NEED POINTS!!!! no joke. I really do. So just saying when I turned in my research paper and I made the LOOOONG walk from my dad's room to Stariha's for the fourth or so time that day my paper felt like it weighed 150 lbs. at least. Like, if I dropped it on the floor the tiles would crack and a big hole would be left in the floor. (not that something that weighed 150 lbs. would even DO that to the floor but exaggeration is fun right? If I call it hyperbole then its okay right?)I hope I got a good grade because many hours were spent in GG's room on that guy. Now its summer and my place in College English is riding on the grade I get in Brit Lit (if its less then perfect, I'm out :p). UMMMMM.....It was fun, catch y'all later.

citing....AAAHHHH!!!!

does anyone know how to cite a critical essay? i cant find it on stinken Owl of perdue, and its driving me crazy!!!

First of the Last

I am posting this an I ease myself into finishing up my project. I opted to stay at school and do it instead of going home because if any of you know my house it is very distracting and very hard (nearly impossible)to get any work done. So I'm here until eight thirty and I am going to finish up my project. it is going to be the best darn thing ever. I hope I got a good grade on my exam. I love you all. but not DJ.

Don't dream of yesterday.

So thanks to Christian I was just listening to the new Noah and Whale CD, which btw (just for you Ms. Stariha) is super good. A lot more cheerful than The First Days of Spring one. Anyway, one of the songs had a lyric of "Don't dream of yesterday" this reminded me of Brit Lit Ryan and Swift's "No wise man ever wished to be younger." This made me realize just how much we learned this tri...so as to follow in the footsteps of what I posted last tri here goes a random list of all we learned:

• That it is possible to write a 12 page paper
  
• Kaitlin can make a good man sticks...
• And Noble enjoys to steal that man stick
• Ms. Stariha can never fail to run out of reasons why everyone should take college english
• Kody is a best person to make fun of (sorry Kody)
  
• Never bring a gypsy boy home because it may end up ruining your family
• Kaitlin can sing like Kate Bush..."It's me, Kathy, I've come home now"
• Kaitlin can get that song stuck your head for DAYS!
• DJ is a science nerd...
• Never plagiarize, or you will get caught, and you will die.
• Christian has good taste in music
• Lady Gaga is similar to Frankenstein and sings about Wuthering Heights
• Brit Lit is one of the only classes that you can have food/tea/coffee in and no one says anything
• And many other things that I could post but I have a paper to finish writing....so...

Good luck everyone on your other exams and good bye to this blog (I'm not gonna lie, I think I may miss reading this blog...)

Heeelllloooo Summer...it's been too long since I last saw you (:

Learn from my mistakes

Never do T.S. Eliot for any type of project...ever, you will hate yourself for it.... immensely. Especially when you have to analyze his writings...just don't do it...ever, believe me I just saved you some future sanity.

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last day of brit-lit <--------- SAD
i am really excited though that we (those of us taking college english) get a break :)
have a good summer everyone:) make good choices :p

The LAST email... posted on the blog

I sent this out today but am posting it in hopes everyone reads it!


Okay:  So Laura emailed me and reminded me I had more to send you so the last last email is now the next to last email, and this email will be the last.  Sad for many of you... I know. 

First:  some of you thought I was slamming Bri's project today with my rushed words of reflection.  Quite the contrary.  What Bri said spoke to me and made me want to speak to you.  She is right... though you obviously have learned in this class, which I hope your incredible improvement in the level of writing, reading, and thinking many of you have done will show, many of you still are opting out of continuing that level of learning next year.  All I can think is one of two things: I am ultimately inadequate, or society is flawed beyond repair... (because yes... you young people ARE part of society).  That is what I was trying to say.  I guess I shouldn't have tried to deliver a profound reflection in a few rushed moments between presenters... so sorry for sending a message that I didn't enjoy Bri's project.

Second: I will attach Hannah's paper here so you can see the example I mentioned.  Thanks Hannah.  By the way (BTW for those of you who speak text), Hannah's paper was not the only good one... but it was one of the most complete.

Third: Please don't forget my evaluations.  I look at them to help assess my instruction for future classes.  Remember to include your gender if you don't include your name.  Turn those in to my mailbox if you wish to remain anonymous... or turn them into me sometime before your final paper is due on Thursday at 3:00.  Don't forget to bring your books back to me either... I need to inventory on Friday! 

Fourth: Those of you who desire test prep materials or reading material for next year's classes--send me an email and I will send info out to you!

Last:  Yes I mean last... It has been my honor to work with you and watch you grow this year.  Every single one of you has grown (even those whose grades may not reflect previous grades or desired grades).  I hope you feel this too.  I am proud of you all for sticking it out... I enjoyed seeing your reflections during the exam projects today, and I hope I get to work with many of you next year.  Enjoy your summer.

Ms. Stariha

Exam

Last day in Brit Lit(:

:D hey everyone :D

So i've been doing this project for the majority of the day... (skipped the first four hours!) and so I'm hoping this project will be up to Stariha's standards..... :(

Scary.... :( ANYWAY...
food tomorrow? haha i'll do my best. Baking doesn't sound fun in this heat, but maybe brownies will happen or something

First essay

So I'm just wrapping up the Victorian Age for that first essay (I already did the second prompt 2 days ago) and I've written 8 pages...sorry Starhia its going to be a long one. HAHAHA and when you right click on "Starhia" for spelling suggestions the first one to pop up is Starship....lol that just made my day.

BRING FOOD

ok so bring some snacks to Brit lit tomorrow because we are watching the projects be presented therefore we should also have a fun time and snack while we do it ... right?? well that was my thoughts anyhow! lol well yes and Jen Kaitlin and Maddie's 14 min long .... movie? lol

man oh man...

Tomorrow is the last day of Brit Lit!!!!!!!! Sadface...?
anyways I am going to do these essays right now and try to make them good quality....however I know Mrs. Stariha will be expecting some top notch essays and I'm guessing some other essay writers are going to set the bar pretty high /:
THIS IS DIRECTED STRICTLY AT HANNAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol, just kidding...kinda :P
anyways, hopefully I can get this done and then focus on finishing up that research project/:

esssay 1

ok i just spent 2hours writing my 1st essay on the anglo saxon and medieval time periods.....ugggh! do we need to just do the time periods from brit lit b?

good talk

so just had a conversation with my father cause i was contemplating this second essay because i thought i wasn't taking it different and well after this conversation i think I'm gonna write a very interesting essay that's quite different! ohh yes this better be good!!

I'm excited!

The Exam Project and the Bachelorette

I started the project last night...
and, right now, I'm pretty happy with it :) It sucks though because I still have a whole bunch of it to do! So, I set a goal for myself:

Softball is over which means I can do whatever I want after school. Well, i decided the best thing would be to go home right after school. this means that I can start on my project at about 3:15 ish and finish the whole thing before the Bachelorette at 8!! because, honestly, it shouldn't take me 5 hours to do this thing...

Quote Quote Quotey Quote Quotes

Alright, its a dumb title I know.
But I'm real tired.
I procrastinated a tiny bit.
And right now I'm taking a break.
As I am writing my paper, I realized that I like quoting things.
Quotes make things flow good.
And I like how you can take different parts out and add things in to make them sound how you want.
Plus, if you don't understand all of it, you only have to put in the part you do understand.
It makes me kinda happy.
Ugh I'm getting loopy.

Project

so this project is going to be fun. well...just time consuming. Laura, Shamus, Ninja and I are trying to figure out a time to do it. Shamus has futbol. Laura is SUPER busy and Ninja is just a Ninja. For myself, I have a physical and a banquet. it should be fun. =]

So my computer wont let me comment on posts?

how do you fix that?

Well im really exited that its the last week of school but im also kind of bummed out about this whole project/exam thats due and the research paper kinda sucks..lol

hey freddy

im sure its too late, but instead of writing essays, we should shoot a totally sweet video tommorow at your house for the project, that would be cool, and tamales, we need tamales! haha, so ya, just throwing that out there

Almost There

Wow at this point in time I feel as if I am in a tunnel and can't see the end, I guess I just have to run faster to get there. I can't believe that this is the last week of school. I feel swamped. I want it to be thursday, june 9, 2011 after my last exam and my paper is handed in. Until then I will just do what I have to in order to survive!

10 minute video?

So I hope it's okay that our exam project is a ten minute long video. It seriously didn't seem so long when we were recording it and now it's super long. It might be completely boring...and long...but I really don't want to figure out a time when Kaitlin and Maddie and I can re-film parts to make it shorter. So, I'm sorry Ms. Stariha and class, you're just going to have to bear through this project.

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Alright I think that's enough.
I spent way too long doing that.
Because you can't copy and paste on this thing.
That means I typed all of that.
But yeah anyways,
This is a big thank you to Ms. Stariha for only requiring one critical essay.
A huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
Not all of it, but a ton.
Now I am going to go write my paper.

Hip-Hip-Horay

Well I'm trying to work on my Essays but I'm watching Julia Child make La Tarte Tatin instead. Which is actually a terrible idea because I'm super stressed about this paper. But any who- I have a question!

Did Ms. Stariha end up posting/emailing the changes made to the research paper??

Database help?

Hey, so if anyone needs help with database stuff, here is mcc's link:

www.muskegoncc.edu/pages/2587.asp

username: emily.schuchardt
password: fishing12

.. please just dont be dumb and switch my classes or anything.. lol

so its a beautiful day out but i have to do my exam project and research paper... NAH im gonna hang outside for awhile and ill get to the other stuff later tonight when its dark out and i cant do anything outside anymore lol. so its probably gonna be a late night haha

out-of-the-box.

you know. how extreme can these projects go?
because all my ideas are like....wayy out there.
man ive been listening to too much lady gaga. :p
no, but if anyone could just like give me a general idea of what they're doing that
would be like... greatly appreciated :)

so thinking about this exam i get a)excited and b)super nervous.
everyone knows im not doing as well as everyone else in this class
which to me is yeah a big deal, but i have learned so much.
i know how to not just summarize a poem or story but analyze it.
i now go into deeper meaning of things, sometimes even when i dont need to
i have learned that writing an essay doesnt need to be a into,3 supporting paragraphs, and an ending.
i know how to think on my own. and whether i fail or not. i have learned. and let keep it between us, i liked this class. i liked learning and reading the crazy books like frankenstein and wuthering heights, am i going to miss it..?
wellll thats a different story.

oh jen, if you read this i have an idea of what i want to do for my exam but i dont want ours to be the same. lol so if you could like let me know what your doing thatd be great. :)

Is this true?

Can it be? Is this really my last required blog for British Literature??? Holy crap, I wish I could go out with a bang but I honestly can't think of anything to write!

Is this true?

Can it be? Is this really my last required blog for British Literature??? Holy crap, I wish I could go out with a bang but I honestly can't think of anything to write!

So I am trying to find credible essays on my author and I'm having a really hard time. The one website that we accssed in class isnt working any more, and then I went to the mcc database (jstor) and all that I can find are exerpts?.. Which is what I first wrtoe mine on?... is an exerpt okay?

ahh, Im just kinda lost.

Sunshine and Summertime!

So I woke up this morning and my first thoughts were "Hmmm I have to write my brit lit essays today..." then "Oh my gosh it's so beautiful outside!" and those thoughts resulted in me being outside in my swimsuit tanning and attempting to write my essays...well the tan lines are coming along find but I really can't say as much for the lines that are supposed to be appearing on my paper....

Final

Is the final over every time period or just part B??

MLA Format

So if we are doing the essays for the exam, should they be in mla format? I'm thinking yes but I would appreciate someone telling for sure what to do!

3.5 more days!

We only have 3.5 more days of Junior year! Yay! I must admit though this warm weather is making it extremely difficult to concentrate on anything school related. This is probably a bad thing as I keep getting distracted from exam studying. Does anyone know the schedule for exams? Is it Tuesday 1st hour, Wed. 2 and 3, and then Thurs. 4 and 5??

schools almost done!

i'm super excited that school is almost done..but i'm kinda in my freak-out, panic-attack mode right now. exams..and portfolios...and research projects (and that's just for ms. stariha's classes!) ahh..well maybe if i don't procrastinate this time, things will be perfectly okay. now..time to go work on homework! have a good weekend everyone:)

Wow I'm Blonde../:

So I e-mailed Ms. Stariha my check point three last night. Well I was really dumb and didn't actually attach the file. Hahaha. She seemed pretty mad when she e-mailed me saying I didn't attach it. Whoops. I did e-mail her again and I double checked to make sure I actually attached the file. I almost forgot.. Jeez.. hahaha.

One more time just for fun

No this is not another repetition of Kurt not be able to ski but about the research project. I was so delighted to here Mrs. Stariha say that she was going to make it a bit easier that I zone out into may happy place and didn't quite catch what she said. I if I am right we now only have to do an analysis on one essay, right. And I know we don't have our checkpoint 2 back yet, but she said she would try to get those back to us this weekend, right... because that would be so helpful to have them back before Monday.

I can hear the trumpets!...

Wow, we are done with Fridays.... what a relief... only 3.5 more days! I am counting down the hours! haha

Friday!

Since its the last friday of the school year, thought i would make a tribute, haha
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0

Blahhhhhhh....

I've had a very, extremely busy week. Monday I was in Muskegon all day at my long-lost cousin's house and new pool. Tuesday was the first day back to school along with practice after. Wednesday consisted of a doubleheader with Hespo that went into 9 innings in the second game, followed by an AYBT scrimmage in muskegon until 10. Thursday was practice and the athletic banquet and the baseball banquet which i had to attend because I drove Logan to the athletic thingy before and I couldn't just leave him there with no ride home. Then, after that I got home and, surprise!, I got really sick. My coach had the flu yesterday and it's been going around again so, yeah, suckish for me. But, somehow I did get that paper done and emailed to Stariha. But, as a result I didn't come to school until 10:30ish this morning because I was still sick this morning. And the only reason I'm here is because we have districts tomorrow and I can't miss practice today!!! Soooo, yeah, that's just how life goes I guess...

:P

Caffeine is for little girls.. just saying.. you gotta have sheer will power? ahh! just kidding. My computer has just randomly shut off twice now.. gotta love it. If you went to the sports thing (which I had to because I had our baseball thing afterwards and didn't get home until like 9:15) the ?amry? maybe airforce? I don't know which, but he said you have to embrace the hardships. So everyone this is me... embracing :P

Cross-eyed :(

I'm literally getting blurry eyed do to starring at this computer screen for so long. I really need some z's. But now I'm all wound up from writing this silly paper. I have my blood rushing and my mind is running. I'm so tired but all I can do is sit here. This stinks.

Good luck to everyone who is finishing their paper. Text me if you guys need some help
I'll try to answer any questions I can help with... like about the layout or something.. I might be asleep though.

Nighty Night Brit Lit class.... see you in roughly 7 hours.... ugh. i NEED SLEEP!
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the blog is all messed up...just sayin...it makes me sign in a bunch and wont let me comment annnd yeah so idk?
but anyways, ready to do this critical essay stuff..should be a blast!!! i'm really hoping i can find some critical essays though because so far my luck hasn't been the most amazing but...we'll see!
it's going to be a verrrryyyy long night /:

??????

I can only find critical essays on novels by Virginia Woolf? I'm getting really frusterated and I don't know what to do..

Help!

I do not know what we are suppose to be doing any more. I thought we were simply criticizing but after I read the example I got really confused. I don't know what to write. Please help me.

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My dogs stink like they have odor problems, bad odor problems. They got into the trash and therefore keep farting and its horribly sucky. Not enjoyable and annoying and ohh yeah nasty!

-Headphones-Knuckles Cracked-Caffeine---Lets DO THIS!

I'm ready. Dreading doing this for a while, but I think I finally have my work station set up to how I want it. I just looked up some criticisms for Kubla Khan and the first couple came up as 82, 64, and 39 pages. I think this might be a long night!

Is there a set number of pages that this has to be, or is it more of the 'however many pages that it takes' type of thing?

Stupid Question

Ok so when do you used the word entitled and when do you use just titled like

1. The book was titled ...


2. The book was entitled...

It is confusing me and its also distracting me in the back of my mind!

exam

i thought stariha sent us the exam? why dont i have it?!

People dont Know ..... ANYTHING

• "To be sure, there exists little shortage of critical material on "Not Waving But Drowning," nor is there any lack of possible interpretations various readers have attempted to unlock its mysteries."

Ha tell that to my hours upon hours of research! This is a quote from my critical analysis paper! I can sure tell they don't know much!

:P :) :D B ) ( <- sunglasses)

my essay so far...any pointers?

Garrett Near
Ms. Stariha
British Literature
2 June 2011
The religious side of Middle Earth
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit may seem a secular piece from the mystical wizards to the mighty dragons, but it is actually deeply rooted in Catholicism, as was Tolkien himself. David mills says in his critical essay titled One Truth, Many Tales, that “He did see his Lord of the Rings as a ‘fundamentally religious and Catholic work’, he even expressed some frustration that readers did not see this”. The absence of a supreme being or deity ruling over middle earth automatically makes this novel seem a secular piece, which David mills also addresses, saying “God is not mentioned at all in the book. All that the characters and the readers know is that some power, unnamed and unknown, is guiding the events”.
Tolkien grew up with his mother Mabel, who was later accepted into the catholic church, as was her two sons, John and Hilary, and they all became devout Catholics. Tolkien’s own website, the Tolkien society, says about his religion: “In 1900, together with her sister May, she was received into the Roman Catholic Church. From then on, both Ronald and Hilary were brought up in the faith of Pio Nono, and remained devout Catholics throughout their lives.”
The closest thing to a deity in The hobbit, is the ring of power itself, evident by its power to control minds, such as Gollum’s: “It wont see us, my precious? No. It won’t see us, and its nasty little sword will be useless, yes quite.” Although Gollum’s mind is easily susceptible to corruption, in later books, such as The two towers, and the return of the king, Frodo also becomes a slave to the ring, to a point where he refuses to destroy it. Tolkien may have had intentions of representing sin with the one ring, to show how sin destroys lives, and controls intentions.

essay

so for our essay, do we have to do it from a certain point of view? like marxist, femenist, etc. or can we kinda just do whatever with it?

No Grub for Me

So I skipping the athletic banquet to finish this wonderful part three! yes I'm a tad sad just because its called a banquet so i am assuming I'm missing out on some good food. Well yes so to all those responsible athletes at the banquet cudos to you and if there's cake sneak me some please!! :) much appreciated! But yes this is the starting point of my essay lets see how long this is gonna take ......

ihatemyself.

that is an extremely depressing title. haha but anyways, I am really frustrated myself for not working on this earlier. I sat down to write part 3 and I ended up editing and fixing part 1... and I still have to edit and fix part 2! sooo I'm going to have to limit myself to not even looking at part 2 tonight otherwise I know part 3 will never get done.. ugh.

sick

so i went to the doctor today and found out i have another tonsel infection, so i cant come to school tommorow, which means i have to sit here at home writing this critical analysis with a horrable headache, but atleast i dont have to sit through school tommorow.....

MORE Problems

Yes with more problems comes more complaining. I have searched for essays for the third part for far too long and now have a smacking head ache (well it's more of a pain in the neck but you get the point). I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of part 3 yet I just know I need more essays! Of course I still need one more essay for the 2nd part too but I'm saving that for the weekend when I have to finish my biography, redo part 3 (it will probably be awful friday), make my EXAM project, and ignore all other classes who also have exams coming up. This of course will be done between graduation, open houses (actually I probably won't have time for those), the soccer game (go tigers), and coordinating with my partners for the project. Yeah I just can't wait for the Weekend!.. not.

I'm Giving Up .... White Flag .... Help Needed .... Hide n' Seek Sucks

So I have now been looking up essays for umm at least 2.5 hrs this is not cool. I am getting super frustrated like to the point where I'm actually going to go exercises, before I kill our new pretty computer (which would be bad). So yes white flag, essays You Win!!! I don't like Hide and Seek anymore!!

This is an Attention Grabing Title

The site essay411.com is a free essay cite I cant grantee anything but it may help I almost found a analysis essay there!

Part tres

Im having a real hard time finding critical essay's for part 3 of my paper. All the essays I have found aren't just about the work I'm looking for, they're combined with other works. Its really frustrating!

For the Greater Good.

So I was reading the back of my Burt's Bees Shampoo bottle when I discovered that their motto was "For the greater good". Either Burt's Bees is a big fan of Harry Potter or JK Rowling is an avid consumer of Burt's Bees products...either way I think I'm going to start buying more of their products.

The Machine Stops

In the story I'm reading for part three the world has gone to an underground utopia where everything in controlled by "the machine". So far the story is very interesting but one thing in particular made me think. A lecturer in the society tells his listeners to not listen to what he has to say about a subject but what someone else thought about someone else thought about someone else thought about what some one said about the original subject. I'm sure that got a little confusing but it's a lot like what we do in the second part of our research projects. We are writing about what someone wrote about about the original subject. The lecturer believes that each generation after us will be better off because they know what we think about what someone else thinks. "And in time there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free From taint of personality, which will see the [subject] not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine." I'm not sure what to think about this idea. I don't think I like it.

Well i was gonna post sunday night but i got on way to late and then i just gave up on that idea lol, so everyone was saying the test was alot harder than they all thought it would be, and i agree somewhat that it was hard but they always are so it doesn't surprise me at all

Bright Shining Moment...A Darkling Thrush if You Will

I didn't mind this test. Multiple guess kick my butt, but WHAT ELSE IS NEW? right? The multiple choice always drop kick my in the face. It's kind of funny because I LOVE the history, I think its the best part of the section. Its kinda awesome how everything fits together and the history we know is enhanced by the stuff we learn in this class. But the funny part is that I sit next to Miss Sterken who DREADS the history. With every fiber of her being she loathes it. We're just opposites. So other than that killer multiple choice (there were quite a few weren't there) I actually didn't mind this one :) Mrs. Stariha this blog ppost is the Darkling Thrush in this dark blog.

This May Make You Smile

I agree with everyone one hundred percent on this sucky test! I also did some pretty solid studying and was completely lost ... although i did forget to read the signalman :P oops lol But other than that i thought i was gonna do fairly well but like my essays were so short cause i didn't have enough time and it sucked!

ok to the funny part. i got to my house and stariha was there picking up her children, and i was holding Harper (the baby) and smelt something funny .... it was Harper! lol and she had to clean up a huge poopy Stinky diaper! :P So along with getting the pleasure of marking up our tests with all kinds of ink she also gets to clean up poop :P haha Just a good story kinda!! lol

oh jeez.

so the test today, not so good. i really was not prepared at all..and i'm super bummed about it. i guess my tradition of my test scores going up 10% every time has officially ended. shoot

sick

so i tried taking that test today, and i dont know if it was because i was sick, or because the test was so hard, but i think i had like hot flashes, cuz i was sweating so stinkin bad, and i thought i was gonna toss my cookies, lol, but ya, so hopefully tommorow will be a little better...

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So I didn't want to copy everyone and put my post title as "Test", so I put what would come after the word "Test" if I were to put that in the title. That is the least amount of confidence I have ever had after taking a test. I even studied and felt good about it beforehand. Just hope I did better than I thought. It might have been the heat, it might have been the long weekend... nonetheless, it was not good.

You know, I even studied for that test last night, partly because I don't have a facebook anymore to distract me. By the way, my life has actually gotten better without facebook...I don't think I'm going to get another one for a loooong time. It's just like how I gave up junk food for lent (and now for summer too); it's so much healthier for you without it gone. So, yeah, you would think without the junkfood and facebook, i would've aced that test. Yeah, wrong.

Research Project

Is anybody else completely stressed out about that research project? Are we going to talk about part 3 tomorrow, because I don't know what it is...is there even a part three? If there isn't then I would be sooo incredibly happy...like you don't even know. I don't mean to be negative but my whole memorial day weekend consisted of homework...except saturday night when I watched that justin bieber movie with friends (yes, you know who you are :p) but, yeah pretty much i would be estatic if this project consisted of only two parts...plus, it's less work for ms. stariha to grade!! And i know grading is a pain in the butt...or so my mom says.

Not nice.

That was by far the meanest test we have ever had!!! I don't remember talking about realism vs. romanticism at all so that completely screwed me over for that essay, and so many of the multiple choice options were the same!! I mean seriously? Sky and crypt vs. clouds and grave???? So not cool they're definitely the same thing!

Because of that darn test....

All I can say is....

Good thing SuMmEr BrEaK is a week away...........

Test

Holy cannoli.... I don't know if I didn't prepare as much as normal, if the test was a whole lot harder, or if my brain was just not with me in class today because I do not have a good feeling about this test. I hoping that I am be completely wrong about this... I guess I'll just have to wait and find out!

well then.

Everybody hates tests. So now that I am starting to know most of the history, I need to study the individual works so I can get the multiple choice right

call me cheap..

the only reason i'm posting twice is because it's not letting me comment so i guess i need to post what i have to say...but i was just wondering;
do we still get extra credit for the reading logs if we only have like some of the poems?
just wondering because it's not like i would be irresponsible and only have some ya know, but in case some goofball only did some, and forgot there book, and just remembered about the test, and tried to google some crap but only found a little bit.......do they still get any extra credit?
boy oh boy, sure glad im not that scallywagger..

okay i'm just diggin a hole here....but um hannah i agree with your post and kurt i think you should get extra credit for those sweet pics! lol
^ those are my two required "comments"
:)

getting there!!!!

sooo last test tomorrow, that's soooo sad cuz i'm really going to miss all this studying........okay that wasn't sarcasm mrs. stariha it was just.......satire! yup! me making use of all the wonderful things i've learned over this trimester :)
anyyywayyyys...the blog won't let me comment? actually, i'm not even really sure it's gonna let me post this? cuz i've signed in like 9p8743502735027345092734975 times and it keeps telling me to choose a profile and sign in and what not. psssshhhhhh...get it together stariha cmon.
juuuust kidding...boy that sattire again.
but anywho, the victorian age, ey? how bout that weather today...nice n hot :)
yay for summer..soon..ish...nish....
happy memorial day! :D

Last Test

Yeah, I just got done studying for our last Brit Lit test... I am so sick of studying, I feel like my head is going to explode! Hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend and studied it up tonight. I really had to look back on the history because it was hard for me to draw connections between it and the literature. Hopefully I will have some revelations about it while I sleep tonight!

Cheap Post

alright Here goes my "cheap post"...only because of what maddie said about blogging twice in a row;)....i would just like to say im am ready for this test so....bring it on...stariha...jk im not really sure how ready i am but just make it an easy one

My Post

My Post is going to be about....well nothing really because i just got done studying and i was getting ready for bed when i realized...i still had to blog for this week

One More Concern

Usually I don't like posting 2 posts in a row because I think it's a little cheap (no offense people but you know it's true) but this is somewhat important:

Do we have an extended response??

I've done well in the past but that's mainly due to the fact that I knew what it was going to be about before hand. If we have one this chapter I honestly have no idea what it would be about! Yikes!

Wasting Away Again In Studyville

As I was going through all the poems to study I was having a difficult time connecting them to the Victorian period. I read the intro of history first and the main points I grabbed were peace, prosperity, reform, conflicting ideas, and realism. None of the poems address these subjects very well! Take The Darking Thrush for example. What the heck is Hardy hoping will emerge in the good time of the Victorian age?!? Tomorrow's essay may be a little bit of a stretch for me.

I have to be missing something

Okay, in my reading log I have Splendor Falls, Crossing the Bar, Prospice, Signal Man, Darkling Thrush, Are you digging on my Grave, and Sonnet 43, but I have this feeling that I am missing one more poem or something, and with me missing a few days of class it is highly likely. It might just be me, but if you find the poem that I am missing I would appreciate it.

The first poem we read?

So Abby and myself were just discussing the poems, and we were talking about the one describing the picture?... ugh, I dont remember what it is called at this very moment, but anyways, I know it was kind of talking about elf land, and then how there home is engulfed in nature and it used a lot of imagery, but what was the point of it?

OH, and Mrs. Stariha, I was looking through blog posts from last week, and I dont think mine are on here?.. and like I know people even commented on them?... did they just disappear?.. orrr...?

just wondering.

Powerpoint

Hey my computer isn't letting me comment on my other post.
But I don't need the slideshow anymore because I found out Ms. Stariha did send it to us.
She sent it under the subject title "Reminders".
I sent it to Kaitlyn and Brianna and Mallory because they all said they needed it.
If for some reason you deleted the e-mail just comment and I'll send it to you.
I reccomend asking before 10:30 though. :)

sooo....

I just wanted to express my overwhelming joy for this test tomorrow.... I feel so prepared because we spent so much time on one long novel, and no time at all on the little works that make up 99.534543% of the multiple guess. (fyi bre, that is completely sarcasim).... I just hope that it all comes back to me at around 8:05 tomorrow morning.

Victorian Age Powerpoint

So does anyone have the Victorian Age powerpoint?
It's not in the supplementary materials on Ms. Stariha's page and I don't remember her e-mailing it to us.
I e-mailed her and asked her to send it to us but I have no clue when she is going to get it and I need time to study it.
So if anyone has it and would be so nice as to send it to me it would be greatly appreciated!
Please and thank you!

sooooooo....

well my plans have failed once again.....i tried gettin with sombody and nobody either wanted to or wudnt....idk if its just that no one wants to study with me or what all i know is that for once i tried and it worked out just as good as when i dont try....its cool tho im used to it by now! good luck to ya'll tommorow!

29 years 11months and 29 days

That's how long the speaker at the Memorial Day service after the parade was in the Army. I even paid attention. No one Fainted! We had no Crazy Catherines having a brain fever up in there or any of that. I'm working all weekend. I love it, I love work. However I do not love that it leaves me with minimal time to study. So I will now take this wonderful time that I have so little of to study for the lovely test we will have tomorrow :) and then I shall ACE it and rejoice in my good fortune that my hard work has paid off (God willing) Have fun all! (poems to come after the rejoicing)

3rd Part?

So for the 3rd part of this paper- are we just doing the same thing we did for Frankenstein but with our author's book? The whole picking a critical theory thing?

On a different note, Happy Memorial Day! It's sunny today too- that makes me happy!

memorial day

its going to be great. well at least i hope so. first i have to get up all early and junk to go parade-ing then almost pass out from the heat during a couple of speeches. then go to softball. then go out on our new boat. then study for a test. then rest for the start of an other week of school. well its almost done. but it should be a great day to say the least. a day to remember the ones who faught for this country. =]

A weird feeling

It feels a bit strange blogging on a Sunday knowing that tomorrow we don't have school, but is is kind of nice. Usually last minute blogging is a reminder that I have procrastinated all weekend but tonight I know that I don't have to stay up all night cramming because I still have all day tomorrow to study for that test. I am still not sure if that is a good or bad thing, I guess I will just leave that for my future self to decide.

Final Project?

So has starhia told us what the project we can do instead of the final exam is yet? and if we can still do partners for that is anyone looking for a partner? I'm taking applications starting monday.

Wanted Dead or Alive: DJ, Kody, and Freddy

So just noticed that all of you are not signed up for College English... seriously?  Dead can be arranged... but I would prefer if you would come over my way breathing.  FYI.  Mrs Glerum is tough (ask Sarah Johnson), and I am working with Mr Stapel this summer on his curriculum for next year in Senior Comp B. :)

Feels so Good!

haha, I bet that title caught your attention.... bunch of stupid heads. But anyway, I was referring to that feeling I have right now after I turned in my deadline 2 paper and ABC book... Plus, its the weekend, with memorial Day! Wow, I am happy. Except for that stupid test on Tuesday... but still, nothins gonna bring me down.

Just Checkin In

Well I decided to get on here and check in to see how everyone is doin.
Doesn't look too good lol.
But I know you guys can do it.
This is really weird for me but I have to say I haven't stressed out at all about this paper.
I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. :S
I've been pretty laid back.
I hope its not so much that I do bad on my paper though.
I'm workin on it currently and so far so good.
AND I'M NOT EVEN TIRED YET!
It's a record!
Stay awake Kaitlin!
Alright I'm done.
Anyways, keep your chins up everyone!
You can do it!

2nd checkpoint....2/3 done!!!

Well I just summarized two critical essays, but I kinda feel like since I'm so paranoid with plagorizing and what not that like I have huge chunks in quotation marks just because I wanna summarize what they said but I don't wanna get blamed for plajorizing so I just kindof shove it in quotation marks...yeaaa...idk lol but I'm not quite sure the summarys are top notch or even a fraction of what they should be but hey it's the effor that counts..I'm hoping Mrs. Stariha you'll look at them and tell me what to fix on the first two parts before it's finally due..or at least part 2!! But annnywayyyys, I'm excited to see the Wuthering Heights projects tomorrow, I love when we do projects on the material cuz it helps me understand soo much better. I spelled plagorizing two different ways up there...is it with a G or a J? YAY friday tomorrow!!! :D

Can. Not. Focus.

I'm trying to finish the critial essay summaries and I just can't get anything done! Its so frustrating! So close yet so far away.

PROJECTS smell like BEEF and CHEESE!

So I USUALLY don't mind doing these writings and projects, but I feel like I have been sitting in this chair in front of this laptop for forever. I'm sick of clicking on a page and it not being legit or just a bunch of useless information. I want to find what I want and when I want it. I wish that Wuthering Heights wasn't so complex, even though I like the complexity... I wish that it was a little bit simpler. So yeah... instead of working hard I decided to vent... but... Ms. Stariha, I know how much you hate that so....

I'll say something that I'm happy about....

I am happy that....

(wow, this is harder than I thought...)

.....

OH! I am happy that the bird didn't die when it hit the window in class the other day. THERE :D

Thanks

My computer is being weird and making it super hard to post comments so I will just post this post. Thanks for the heads up Sarah and I guess that means I need to get to work, and maybe get to school early tomorrow to explain some things...

EVERYONE!! Read This(:

So I just ran into Ms. Stariha at Wesco and I remembered that Freddy had posted a question on the blog. (are our papers due in class or anytime tomorrow?) So I asked and she told me to post that they are DUE IN CLASS TOMORROW.

Friday means Friday

OK, this second checkpoint is due tomorrow, but is that tomorrow for class or just anytime tomorrow? I am asking because I forgot half of my essays on the school H drive and now I am not sure what I am going to do. I guess I will do what I can with what I have and see how it goes tomorrow.

Kody is dumb.

Sooo I realized that I shouldn't be that worried about getting a good grade on my Wuthering Heights project because if she grades mine against Kody's, I will easily get 100%. lol
But yeah I'm doing the Soundtrack and at first I thought I wouldn't be able to find many songs that could relate but once I started looking, I found them all super quick. yay! :)

Blog Troubles?

Problems, the blog isn't letting me comment on other people's posts. It says that I need to select a profile even when I'm already signed in, and then it signs me up as an anonymous person, creepy much?? GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one more day maybe

I don't know how you guys are doing on the optional Wuthering Heights project, but I am kind of at the point where I don't know if I want to continue with the idea that I am thinking of and hurriedly put it together for Friday along with the checkpoint two, or just not do it at all and just concentrate on the research paper. Either way it would be really nice if Mrs. Stariha could possibly give us one more day to work on them and that way we can spend more time on Friday studying for the test Tuesday too. It feels like it has been forever since we took that last test so it would be nice if we took that extra time to go over everything together in class. I guess this is just me begging for more time because it has been one the hardest aspects of this class to manage in my opinion.

summer...are you near?

So I started doing a critical essay summary, it's not so bad. I think I'm going to finish up the rest tomorrow except summarizing that 18-pager is going to suck! I'm probably going to brush the key points and talk about the intent of the essay and then go back and put more detail into it later when the whole things due. But I'm glad the exam is an option, I'll have to see what the project/essays are to decide, I'm leaning toward project though because the standards are probably going to be sky high for those essays. Soooo Tonya & I helped that bird fly again today! We named her sunshine :)
Just gotta push through these next like 2 1/2 weeks and then I'll be stress-free!
I'm also kindof nervous about the plagorizing thing because not necessarily in my Frankenstein paper, or even papers in this class, I feel like I don't give enough credit when using research to write papers and so that kinda makes me worry that I may be guilty of this at some points in my history of literature classes..I'm definitely going to be more careful now!

1/3 of the Way

I just finished my first essay summary and I'm not entirely sure it's what Ms. Stariha wants. Honestly, its not too bad and I'm a little happy with it myself BUT I think I used too many quotes from the essay. I'm having a hard time displaying the claims without plagiarizing (I'm being extremely careful here after the talk we got today which is why I have so many quotes) or stating the author of the essays name too many times. I suppose I'll just have to wait and see what she says but I'm hoping its OK.

Linton :P

I'm not sure why but Linton (Isabella and Heathcliff's son) bugs the living crap out of me!! More than any other character in the book! Seriously, how selfish can you get?? I get that Heathcliff scared the crap out of him and threatened him and what not, but still couldn't he get his head out of his rear end long enough to realize that Cathy was the only one who genuinely cared about him and loved him? But no, he'd rather sit there and suck on his little sugar candy while Cathy was locked in a room with a tyrant forbidding her freedom. And when Cathy nudged the chair and he went into a tizzy about her "abusing" him, and she left and then he fell out of his chair and basically threw a hissy fit. Just to let all of you boys out there know, being a whiny little brat, is by no means the way to a girl's heart.

I'm out of the loop!

Help me here:
1) Someone said Starhia made something else optional besides the wuthering heights project...what???
2) Have I missed anything of importance while puking my guts out?
3) Have you guys missed me? Never mind I already know the answer to that one!
4) What have we been disscussing regarding Wuthering Heights? I finished the book so we're all good there but is there any key elements that I might be in the dark about?

Ms. Stariha and her Great Ideas!

I actually mean it this time, no sarcasim intended... I really like Ms. Stariha's idea to make the exam a choice. I think I'm definitely doing the project part because I am getting hand cramps just thinking about any more essays. So yea, thank you little birdie for putting Ms. Stariha in a good mood. haha

Christian Deen

He is a mean mean person. Hahah Kidding. Kinda... (: I usually do group/partner projects with Christian. In Spanish we did a sports broadcast and I wanted to do it on juggling. Christian said no and that we had to do it on a real sport. So we are doing our Wuthering Heights project together. We are doing the alphabet book and I had the perfect way to incorporate juggling. But once again. No. I cant make the project fun. Christian gets to pick it. Heck I even had Sesame Street on every page. It would have been awesome and still fallowed the rubric. But NO!. Oh well. Either way we will get a good grade. I just wanted to let everyone know if you want to do a project with juggling involved, don't be Christian's partner. You wont get to use juggling. Ever. haha Maybe I should pick something other then juggling next time? Nah. (:

The Problem With 20 Page Essays...

So far I've only found one essay less than 16 pages long. After searching all day in class I finally just decided I was going to have to deal with it and hunker down for some intense reading. However, it is easy said then done. I am no only half way through a 21 pager and have to admit I've only grasped a portion of what I was reading. The writing shoots a little above my head and there is so much time to simple zone out. I do think this essay will help but I was hoping I might be able to use it in both of my essays as sources. Please Stariha? Take pity on me!

~ :) sUpRiSe !!!!! ~

YAY so today I found out I got an A- on my critical analysis essay!!! I'm so happy with it I mean there is always room for improvement but I'm just ecstatic that i didn't fail the paper altogether!! YAY lol may be the best paper Ive ever written! ...ok its easy the best paper, but I hope I can do it again with this HUGE research paper!!! :)

CD for big ears only?

So you all know I don't curse or swear or cuss or use fowl language or whatever you want to call it. But I'm making a Wuthering Heights CD and some of the songs I want to use do. I know you can find clean versions of them but I already have normal ones. Is it okay if my CD has a curse word here there or everywhere? No one in class has to hear it. It can just be Stariha? It that acceptable?

Back to the Book

While reading over the weekend I realized how sad it is that Cathy turned into a cold and somewhat shrewed person! I really can't blame her because her life pretty much sucks but I realized the light hearted fifteen/sixteen year old is completely different from the Cathy we are first introduced too. Maybe I'm remembering this all wrong and I'd like to go back and reread when Lockwood first came to Wuthing Heights but right now I'm trying to finish the book! I really hope things start to look up for Cathy at some point. Even though she is a bit snotty I can't help but feel bad!

It did help!

So the time in the computer lab today really helped me. I stumbled upon some questions that I probably would have just guessed the answer to and just go off in the wrong direction with, but sense we were in class I got everything cleared up. Plus, all of those researching sites made google look weak. I hope not a lot of you guys screwed around today because I want to be in there tomorrow too.

Random

So I was the 667th post on this blog...is that a bad omen? Does that mean that something bad will happen as a result to this blog because the number before this was 666? I wonder...guess we'll find out soon enough. Anyways I'm trying to get caught up on Wuthering Heights but I'm failing because I keep getting distracted by When Harry Met Sally, and Louis Armstrong's music..so good but its so good that it makes it impossible to pay attention to anything else.

confused.

so for the wuthering heights project..i'm doing the soundtrack thing and it says

"create a cd insert with appropriete artwork, artist info, dedication, and a booklet that includes lyrics and a paragraph for each song...blah, blah, blah.."

so..are we supposed to do like one of those things that are in the front of the cd case...? what is a cd insert?

Dance for the Sun

so Laura, this is for you- I discovered this pretty awesome Youtube video/song about Sun Salutations and it reminded of track, and yoga, and Ms. Stariha which led me to post this on this blog. For some reason this makes me really happy...but be warned it's a little bit strange and hippy-ish... :D

Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_SZ0A7iXA8&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXd_Z1uXzJHSisIVCY4ALtHj&index=2

(: ~ ReSearch ~ :)

So thank you so much Stariha! Who'd a thunk you'd have to teach an 11th grade class how to research stuff. But honestly it was such a huge help and I would never of found anything ... ever google has always been good enough for me .... until now! haha

Also and I know I'm going to receive some hateful comments but I am ready to get going on this paper, for some reason im not worried, stressed, or freaked at all!! I found three essays today in the lab and am ready go get going on them. I'm sure that the examples Stariha has kindly written for us are going to pretty much be my guide and help me through it! and ... its bEaUtIfuL OUTSIDE!!! :)

?

so idk what really happened in class today..alright. i know a little bit. but it looks like the last couple of posts are happy..and not the usual complaining? nice! but thats besides the point..

uhm, does anyone wanna fill me in on what we did today? thanks a bunch:)

Thanks Ms. Stariha!

Thank you for the lab time Ms. Stariha! This has helped a lot...especially how we got to go over how to find the essays and what is a good critical essay. I feel like I can finish this project with a little bit less stress. Also, those examples are helping a bundle. However, I'm bummed that the AYF kids have to miss the quote/review day...so I'm going to post my quote later in the week!

Lovin' the Lab

I am really happy that Ms. Stariha gave us lab time and showed us how to find the essays! Es muy helpful! I am hoping to get part 2 done early this time so I have time to relax like Kody... I think I can blame my "non-stressed out ness" on the fact that I sit between the two most laid back people you could ever meet! haha

Project

I'm very glad that the Wuthering Heights project is optional. Even though I know I am going to do it, it takes a little bit of stress off knowing that it isn't required.
Yay for checkpoint 2! I found a couple good critical essays to use, even though they are long. The one that I think was written the best was 23 pages long. But at least I found some right.. ?

New Week

yay for a new week. Theres a lot of good things and bad things about this week. How about the bad news first.... we have another part of the research paper due on friday and a wuthering heights project due on friday.... the good new is we get lab time for the paper and the wuthering heights project is optional... just look at the bright side :)

All the people on the street, I HATE YOU ALL!

That title is for Jen. I know that she will appreciate it. And Maddie will hate it. I hate just about everyone in this book in varying degrees. I hate Heathcliff because he's all bitter because he didn't have a father and he was poor, and then the girl he loved didn't marry him. Tough luck. Get over it. I hate Cathy because she's spoiled and two faced and kind of stupid. I hate Edgar because he's a wimp. I hate Isabella because she's naive and spoiled and she's blind to how people really are. I hate the narrator because he's a meat-head. I hate Nelly a little but I don't know why. I hate Hindley because he married a girl named Frances. I hate Joesph and Hareton because they talk in weird dialect. So that's how I hate everyone in this book in order.

poems and WH

Darkling thrush- there seems to be a silver lining in each piece of literature. in the poem it starts out gloomy then there is hope. they are related in that both have some sort of silver lining.

Digging on my grave- it talks about how no one is remembered after death. that people just move on with their lives. they are not related because heathcliff doesn't gorget about catherine.

So, as Im reading Im learning that I really dont like Heathcliff. To me in theory hes seems like a chararcter that I would fall in love with, but in reality, I dont like him at all. He is so selfish, all he can focus on is his own desires.. and even though he is in love with cathrine, he still wants it his way.. I dont know.. he just bothers me.

Bad Me :/

So I took the weekend away from brit lit ... im sorry I just had to take a break. I know this was probably a horrible thing to do but it was soo nice, no joke. Saturday I got to watch a lil kids soccer game and fall in love with Adam & Matt's moms lil puppy dog, watch movies, make crafts, and write letters, attend a graduation party and it was all so nice and relaxing!! :) Today I just vegged watched my bros soccer game (there is a story there) *see bottom lol - see my grandma eat a nice dinner and cry my eyes out watching the Ultimate gift!! Soo nice but this all means Monday with no track I'm gonna tear up the homework like crazyy!! :) so watch out!!!

Funny SUFF
* so at my bros soccer game this Oakridge kid was shoving like none other and so of course all the parents are yelling shoving and things of that sort. Well this kid lost the ball and got all mad. He turned around to face the sideline and started yelling, cursing, and flailing his arms around defiantly (at the parrents) and told some parent "you just think your cool cause your picking on a kid" lol bad choice of words I'd say, and then he turns around with ohh wait for it, gives the parrents (dun dun dun *drums) THE FINGER !!! lol it was quite comical this little hissy fit!! haha well I thought I outta share my fun story with this wonderful brit lit class!! :)

Connections

So I have just remembered that I need to blog about the connections between Wuthering Heights and those to poems. I believe the connections is the gloom that seems to be like a heavy fog is surrounding the atmosphere in all three works. In Wuthering Heights its the torment of the two lovers who have fate against them, and the death that destroys Heathcliff's life. In the poem with the little bird it is the suppression of hope, that something good could happen. (i cant remember the third poem so i will look that up once i get to my room) In both these two works though hope does shine through in small increments in Wuthering Heights when Catherine and Heathcliff are together for brief periods and when Cathy grows into a woman, and in the poem the thrush singing his song through the gloom. So that was a pretty sad connection but ohh well its all i got at the moment!!!

Wuthering Heights ---> Poems

Darkling Thrush:
Well in Darkling Thrush it starts out super gloomy but then a little bird sings a song for no reason at all to show us that there is hope. We may not see it but it is there and it will show itself sooner or later. I think this is related to Wuthering Heights because there are soooooo many bad things that keep happening, and as you're reading it, all you can think is that something good will have to happen. I keep seeing this tiny little sliver of light at the end of a tunnel that I am hoping I am getting closer too as the end of the book nears.

Digging on My Grave (I don't know the full title)
This poem is basically talking about how after you die, no one is going to remember you. Maybe at first but as time goes on you will be forgotten and life will go on without you. I don't think this is related to Wuthering Heights very well because so many people die but everyone is still remembered. Like Heathcliff always goes on and on about Catherine. And the book still talks about Isabella. And Hindley.

Heathcliff

So you know how we were talking about how Heathcliff is actually somewhat good deep down inside based on his first instincts?
Like when we were talking about how he caught Hareton when Hindlel dropped him off the balcony?
Well I found another example.
It's when Hindley and Isabella decide to lock him out for a few minutes and then he gets in and he and Hindley duke it out.
Hindley gets knocked out or hurt or something and Heathcliff automatically starts tending to him but then he was like: wait I don't have to do this, let the servants do this.
So I was just thinkin about that and decided to share that with you.
I keep thinking about it when I read all the nasty things Heathcliff does and I keep telling myself that maybe he isn't so bad but I just can't make myself believe it.
Heathcliff is just too evil.

Project

So im super glad the projects optional now, cuz i havent even thought about it yet...haha, just worried i'm forgetting something tommorow

Wuthering heights project

Well i went into this weekend thinking the project was required and i was getting really stressed but now its optional so im all good, I dont know why everyone complains so much on this blog.. do you think people feel bad for you?? because i know i dont give a darn and i just laugh at all you guys who complain lol

Wuthering Heights

I had some time on my hands this weekend so I read a lot of Wuthering Heights and I actually really like the book but I don't like how abruptly Emily Bronte describes some things such as death. A person will be alive and happy one minute then the next they are dead. I guess it is just the way that she writes but it makes it hard to read some times because you feel like you missed something along the line somewhere.

End of the World

Well its really to bad that the world didn't end yesturday. Because now we're all going have to finish the research project and take the final exam. :( Now i guess we'll just have to wait for 2012, but by then were all going to be out of this class so it won't matter because we will probably all die from heart attacks which were caused by increased blood pressure which was caused by high stress levels which came from too much work...lol

Heres some pics :)

Time Well Spent?

So I decided to devote this weekend to homework....more specifically, Brit Lit homework.... more specifically Wuthering Heights reading and "optional" project. The question is, was that the right thing to work on? I mean, I guess I have all week to work on the research paper, but it sounds like everyone else did the opposite. I am 95% complete with my wuthering heights project, so I feel good about that though...

End of the Rope

I swore to myself I wouldn't write my next blog complaining but that may be a little difficult for me to do today. I feel the only thing I leave the classroom with is a stack of work to do. I can be engaged and optimistic when we're discussing things but once we're done I can't think about the reading anymore only the work. Today is especially bad. I have to rewrite my entire biography and have no clue where to start. The next section of my paper is going to suck too and I'll probably end up having to write it over like I did this one. On top of that I discovered we've been assigned absurd amounts of reading this week. Not even the thought of not having to do the Wuthering Heights project can lighten my mood.

Project

it has just come to my knowlege that the project is optional. i'm happy about it. i would love to say that i don't need the extra points... but i really do. i'll try to find something fun to do for this project. hopefully i'll get a good grade too.

Critical Essays?

Is anyone having any luck finding critical essays online? The only thing I can find are essays that I have to pay for? I really don't want to have to do this project AND spend money trying to complete it. I don't have an obscure author, Charlotte Bronte is fairly well known...Help Ms. Stariha!

Charlotte Bronte

So, Charlotte Bronte is Emily Bronte's sister. However, her book Jane Eyre, is a lot less morbid than Wuthering Heights. There's no abuse or evil gypsy men, only a mentally unstable, crazy lady hidden in the attic of Rochester's home! Jane Eyre is a lot more romantic, and quite interesting. The most interesting part of my research was once she published Jane Eyre. When Charlotte Bronte published her book it generated gossip because she published it anonymously. Some people speculated that it was written by a member of the Thackeray household. Charlotte Bronte didn't hear this gossip and dedicated the next edition to Thackeray himself. This caused scandal because Thackeray just happened to have a mentally unstable wife...which directly connected to the entire plot of Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester's mentally unstable wife commits suicide and is most crazy.

However, this project is really killing me. I have procrastinated wayyy too much. Also, Ms. Stariha can you post your example? Please!!