Thursday, May 16, 2013

Who tamed whom?

For some part it can be said that Petruchio tamed Kate, but if you look closely you will se something slightly different.  Petruchio tries and fails to tame Katherine, but in the process he falls in love with her.  When Kate sees this she begins to tame, and when Petruchio sees that, he begins to tame as well.

Is Kates description of Marriage Biblical?

My answer to this is, there is not a full enough description of the mans part in marriage to give an answer.

character analysis of Kate Petruchio, Bianca and Lucentio

Kate, is indeed fitting of all descriptions from the locals at the beginning of the play, and seems to be driven to act as those descriptions say out of anger at those who proffer those descriptions and in part out of her father's favoritism for Bianca.  However, when she encounters someone who appears to truly love her, she slowly transforms into a woman of good nature.   Petruchio starts his role in the play as trying to obtain Kate's hand in marriage in main part for her large dowry, and in minor part to have a bit of fun in bemusing Kate and everyone else with his antics of wooing her.  However he soon truly falls in love with his wife and begins to attempt to "tame" her out of true affection, instead of for his own entertainment.  Bianca appears to be a character much like Hero from Much ado about nothing, saying little of any substance and serving as mere contrast to Kate.  Lucentio again parallels Claudio from much ado, seeing Bianca, falling in love immediately and running into some difficulty in obtaining her and in marriage.

relationship compare and contrast Benedick/Beatrice to Claudio/Hero

Claudio and hero's relationship may be more classical,  where the man view's the woman as something more than human.  However, Benedick and Beatrices relationship is more scriptural, where the man and woman are two humans working together with love and respect for each other.

much ado lesson 2 thought question 5

Don pedro expects that once Beatrice and Benedick finally meet after each hearing that the other loves them, that each will truly love the other in return and profess their love to each other in person.

much ado, lesson 1 thought question 1

Beatrice compares Benedick's friendships to the  "fashion of his hat".   What this means is, as times change so does ones apparel, and the old apparel is cast aside with little regard for it, and Benedick treats his friends as such.  There are several other references like these in the play, and it seems that in the whole play can be found the theme of wether a character will cast aside their friends when things get rough, or wether they will prove true to those they care about.

Macbeth lesson 4 thought question 5

One possible interpretation is that he simply does not care about life in general any longer.  He is tired of living, exhausted from all he has done and the horror with which he now regards life.  That feeling has now reached to his thoughts of others lives, even his own wife.  He is basically saying, "well, she was gonna die sooner or later anyways."

macbeth lesson 3 thought questions 6 and 2

Q6. The fourth vision that macbeth sees is blood-covered Banquo sitting amongst the eight kings from the third vision.  The witches' original prophecy was that Banquo would not be king, but his descendants (children) would be kings. Macbeth interpreted this to mean Fleance, and thus attempted to kill Fleance, but it could refer to any relatives to Banquo who will be born in future generations. 
Anyway, when Macbeth sees blood-covered Banquo sitting amongst the kings, he is shocked. This apparition shows a bit of the future. Banquo's children WILL be kings, eventually, as shown in the third apparition. 

Q2.  When Macbeth says that in killing banquo they “have scorched the snake, not killed it” Macbeth echoes her previous comments. She told him earlier that he must “look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t”.  In that in killing banquo, though everything seems to be dealt with now, underneath there are still many threats to them.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Lesson 3 Review questions 4-5 and thought question 9

Lesson 3. Review questions 4&5 and thought question 9.  Review Q.4. Claudio is overcome by malice and grief. He believes that Hero has played him for a fool and does not love him.Review Q.5.  Claudio has set up hero as a godess-like creature of perfection and purity.  Once this image of her that he has built in his mind is seemingly bashed to pieces, he.. well to put it mildly,  he hits the ceiling, and because of the drastic change in perception of hero in claudio's mind, he fails to consider that there were two parties involved in the alleged scandal.Thought Q.9. Are Lady Macbeth and Beatrice similar?   Well here are the facts.  Beatrice tries to convince Benedick to kill Claudio out of grief for her beloved sister.   Beatrices motives are selfless.Whereas on the other hand, Lady macbeth persuades Macbeth to murder Duncan to further her husbands and her own personal power.  Lady Macbeths motives are selfish.  Also, Beatrice means "kill Claudio" as honorably challenging Claudio to a duel and killing him in that duel that Claudio has agreed to.  Lady Macbeth has Macbeth murder Duncan in his sleep.  So taking into consideration the facts, of course!  They are exactly the same!

Friday, March 8, 2013

L1 Q8  the question asked by the book is how does banquo explain macbeths distraction at the witches prediction?  after reading the section of the play over and over again, i must say, i dont know.
L1 Q1
the largest change that shakespeare makes to macbeth was the change of the character banquo from a villian to a moral character.  This change is thought by some to have been to showcase more the isolation brought by macbeths actions.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Best teacher paper outline

                                               Best Teacher Outline


I.                Mrs. Flickner, Best Teacher.
            
       A.
           
       B. The teacher with the widest reaching teaching style, most widely relate-able personality and most ideal workload is Mrs. Flickner.

II.  Teaching Style

      A. Mrs. Flickner informs about and aids in the development of all learning styles.

           1.  One week,  Explained how different learning styles take notes that they will better
 understand and remember, and suggested known learning styles to use those ways of note taking.
    
          2. Showed how using graphs and grids helps the more concrete and methodical thinker, (such as herself)  while using circles or "bubbles"  connected by lines helps the more free spirited or random thinker, (such as Mrs. Dunlop).

       B. Mrs Flickner incorporates all learning styles into her way of teaching a lesson.

           1. Knowing that there are Visual, Audio Kinestetic and interpersonal learners in her class, Mrs. Flickner will use teaching methods for all of these learning types in a single lesson so that no one is left confused or unknowledgable about the lesson subject at the end of a lesson.

          2. She uses Video clips from the Shakespeare plays she teaches about, She has students read aloud portions of the play,  She hands out worksheets for the kinestetic learners and she has group oriented activities for the interpersonal learner.

 III.   Mrs. Flickners personality contributes largely to an atmosphere of friendliness and unity in the class room.

        1. She allows for Students to interact with each other about things other than the lesson, yet keeps the students on topic while doing so so that the students can both build friendships and better understand the lesson subject simultaneously.

       2. This contributes to a classroom that is united through friendship through getting to know each other and teamwork through tackling worksheets together in class.

IV.  The last Category that Mrs Flickner excels in homework assignments.
     
   A. Mrs. Flickner Gives a homework load that challenges yet does not disshearten the student.
  
      1. While the home work will take the full two weeks to complete and the student will definately have to work hard,  the home work is easily doable in the two weeks if the student does work hard.
   
     2. Homework assignments vary in type giving welcome change each week.
 
  B.  the homework also incorperates all learning styles.
 
     1.  the homework types vary from watching movies to filling out worksheets, giving visual audio and kinestetic learners alike something to cement the material into their minds.
 
    2. the blogs give interpersonal learners something to gain from as well with helpful comments and quality work to learn from.

VI.  Conclusion.
     
      

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Poems Poems Poems!

1. stair poem

                                                                                                        Majestic
                                                               Deep in the mountains
                   Wise, winged, fearsome
Dragon


2. terse verse
 a many stranded plant of countless thorns after an encounter with a many bladed whirring object of elephantine proportions: Scramble Bramble

3. parts of speech poem

the ninja
silent and discreet
confuses and kills
covertly
fear


4. clerihew

The little ninja man,
Towards the monster ran.
And quickly he became,
A little puddle lame.

5. couplet

Billy struck the match alight,
And quickly found the dynamite.