At the beguning of the year, Mr.S said that if he did his job right, we wouldnt feel like we had learned annything in this class, we would just come out of it knowing more. well, he is doing his job right, because i always have trouble remembering annything specifick about what i learned in this class.
Actualy, mabey that has nothing to do with how this class is structured. i often have trouble remembering the source of information. an easy example is math. i am very good at math, but i dont remember where or when exactly i learned anny of it. obviosly in math class, but when? Which teacher? I have no idea. Here is another one: the wight part of bird poop is actualy bird pee. I know that its true, but i have no idea how i know. and it is true, i looked it up to confirm.
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This week has been awfull in this class. What could possibly make someone think that its a good idia to have multiple people work together to write the same paper? It just dosent work. We have had to spend at least half of our class time for this project planning how to avoid constant conflicts, unbalenced workloads, and editing wars. Yet we are still having those problems, and on top of that we are behind on the esays.
I am now going to log specific complaints about the members of my group. since there names all start with m, i will call them M1 M2 And M3. M1 knows what he is doing, but his writing is garbage. he seems to forget what he is talking about and decides to re-explain it constantly, as a result very few of his sentences make sence. M3 is often not here, and i understand shes dual-enroled but its still anoying. And M2 seems to be trying her best but somehow failing to do much. M1 and i have had to constasnly help the two of them, and they have barely been able to help us. I admit that i have done some stuff wrong, mainly in telling people that they are rong withought explaining why. I have a hard time turning thoughts into spoken words, even if i am thinking in words. as a result, i constantly tell people "thats Wrong" before i have fully thought out an explanation. I am afraid at least one of our esays isnt perfectly coherent, becaus while mashing together my idias and M1s idias i had to keep some of his fraseing. aditionaly, nobody elts seems willing to work on it this weekend. The only time i have ever had a good groupwork experience was in Physics clas last year. wile this hasnt been the worst, it is neer the bottom. I have often wondered why it is that I have trouble writeing stories, even though i am almost always thinking of some in my head. on wednesday I realized that its because i'm not usualy thinking of stories, i'm thinking of worlds that I would like to see a story take place in. This actualy makes a lot of sence, since I absolutely love the little details, hidden easter eggs, trivia bits, and throwaway lines that acedently turn into something important. Sure an enthralling plot is great to have, but for manny books and movies nearly half of my enjoyment comes from reading websites which explore the deep lore of the story and/or fan theories atempting to explain forgotten deatails and unresolved loose ends. I subscribe to two youtube channals that basicaly exist for that sort of thing, and several others that ocasionaly cover it. While I often mock poetry and art criticks for overanalizing things, i can often be said to do similar things. Still, some of thoise criticks realy are overanilizing, for example i give you anyone who ever analized the works of my &th grade art teacher, who said she often named her paintings the most random things possible, just to mess with critics. Anyway, my point is that I would much rather build an epick fantasy world, and fill it with creatures and people of rich histories, and try to define the strange laws of nature by which it works, than put a caracter in that world and have them actualy do anything.
This is a redo of the topic that I talked about last week. It failed to post, but its such an interesting topic that I still wanted to talk about it. So, have you ever noticed that in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy stories, 1000 years is not really a lot. Even when the characters say it’s a long time, they don't act like it. Can you, of the top of your head, name a major event from 1000 years ago? Probably not. But anyone with a halfway decent education in The Wheel of Time can. How about 3000 years? Can you think of a country that has held together, with the same form of government, for 3000 years? Well, in Lord of The Rings that’s how long the Stewards of Gondor ruled Gondor in the name of a royal family that may or may not return. Some examples from sci-fi include the Enders Game sequels, in which earth has ruled the hundred planets for 3000 years, and Star Wars, where the republic ruled over a time of galactic peace lasting for 1000 years, and they didn’t even have an army!
So what's going on here? Is this just lazy writing? Or could there be a legitimate reason for these ridiculous time spans? Its kind of a combination of both. The numbers probably originated from the authors trying to make there universes sound more impressive, or trying to spread out major events so the timelines don’t get confusing. However, I think there is something within these stories that can make it work. All of these stories have some characters that are extremely long lived. Wheel of Time has the Aes Sedi and Ogier, who can live for hundreds of years. In Lord of the Rings, the elves and wizards are immortal, wile the dwarves also live a really long time. In the Enders Game sequels the quirks of relativistic travel mean that there are at least two people who can remember the founding of the hegemony 3000 years ago. And in Star Wars there are many aliens who can live for a really long time. Therefore, it makes some amount of sense that thousands of years aren't considered a long time, since there are people alive who remember them. Why did I choose this class? I don't like thinking deeply about what I am reading. I think it ruins the plot. I can think deeply, but I don't want to. I also hate writing, and often get writers block. Finally, thinking about my future is scary. I just don't know how I am going to get through it. I break down every time I have to make a decision that will affect my future, for two reasons. The first is that I don't know what I will want in the future. I feel like I could be a different person by then and I wont want the path I had chosen anymore. The other reason is that I don't really know all the consequences my decisions could have. The main reason I took AP Lit was that the only other option was ordinary 12th grade English. no middle ground honors level class were I could still be in a class with smart people who care about school, but without the work being quite so hard. I am starting to believe that wasn't a good enough reason. I still think I am capable of passing this class, but I am not going to enjoy it.
So, this is supposed to be the part of the website where I blog about what I learned during the week. Unfortunately I don’t feel like I learned much this week. This would be much easier if this could include stuff from other classes or outside school entirely. Actually, I don’t know that that stuff is excluded. Of course, I don’t know if its included either, so I think I will go the safe wrought and only talk about AP Literature and composition, for this entry at least. Maybe I should just go through the days one by one to see what I learned.
On the first day of class we went outside. First we spaced ourselves out on the sidewalk according to age and thought about how we got there and were we are going. I think that was supposed to be enlightening or inspiring or maybe even comforting, but to me it was just scary. I don’t like to think about my future, because I don’t know how I am going to deal with it. After that we stood in a circle and introduced ourselves. The only information I remember from that is that Mr. Shoeborn wanted to be an engineer, and the student teachers name is Ben. On the second day of class…err, what did we do the second day? Um, anyway, on the third day of class we did some more work on our websites (ohh, right, that’s what we did on the second day). We also started thinking about our author studies. I for one didn’t choose a book till the fourth day, but I think it will be a decent read. On the fourth day we also were told some more information about how these author studies are going to go., and how much to read based on our average reading time. Since this was a four day week that’s it. I guess I did actually learn three things in class this week. Those were Mr. Shoeborns past interests, the student teachers name, and how one of our ongoing assignments is going to go. I could also count re-learning to use Weebly, which would make four things learned this week. Still not a lot. |
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