Senior Project

My senior project consists of a poetry slam sort of event surounded by art that gives a visual of what the poems mean.

If you would like to add poems or your own art, either, let me know in person or email me at
: taelorgriego@yahoo.com.

Thanks.

kafka multiple choice

1. What is Kafka's last name?
a) Hakura.
b) Katura.
c) Tamura.
d) Mafura.

2. In which Japanese city does Kafka live?
a) Tokyo.
b) Hiroshima.
c) Osaka.
d) Kyoto.

3. What is the name of Kafka's imaginary companion?
a) Crow.
b) Robin.
c) Raven.
d) Jay.

4. How old is Kafka when he decides to run away from home?
a) Fifteen.
b) Seventeen.
c) Thirteen.
d) Eleven.

5. Which of the following items is NOT something Kafka steals from his father before running away?
 a) His knife.
b) His money.
c) His diary.

6. What is the name of Mrs. Saeki's spirit?

a) Keiko.

b) Ying.

c) Sakura.

d) She has no name.

 

7. Who is asked to kill evil before it can escape through the entrance stone?

a) Oshina.

b) Kafka.

c) Hoshino.

d) Nakata.

 

8. How does Nakata react when he sees some bikers beating a man at the truck stop?

a) He is terrified.

b) He is confused.

c) He is amused.

d) He is enraged.

 

9. How long does Kafka spend unattended at Oshima's cottage?

a) Three years.

b) Three months.

c) Three days.

d) Three weeks.

 

10. What weather storms into the city after Hoshino steals the entrance stone?

a) Hail.

b) Tornados.

c) Snow.

d) Rain.

 

11. How old was Nakata when his mentor died, closing the shop where they both worked?

a) 40.

b) 10.

c) 20.

d) 60.

 

12. Where was Mrs. Saeki's boyfriend killed?

a) At a book sale.

b) At a student protest.

c) At a birthday party.

d) At a rock concert.

 

13. How old was Mrs. Saeki when she opened the entrance stone for the first time?

a) 20.

b) 40.

c) 30.

d) 10.

 

14. Which part of the paralyzed cats' bodies does Johnny Walker eat while Nakata looks on, horrified?

a) Their eyes.

b) Their brains.

c) Their tongues.

d) Their hearts.

 

15. How does Hoshino carry the entrance stone back to his hotel room?

a) In a taxi cab.

b) In a wagon.

c) In his pocket.

d) In a backpack.

 

16. Which of the following phrases does Mrs. Saeki use to describe herself?

a) An incomplete shadow.

b) A separated whole.

c) A boundless body.

d) A mysterious soul.

 

17. What is pachinko?

a) Footwear.

b) A type of sticky rice.

c) A gambling game.

d) A child's toy.

 

18. Who is the only other person that Kafka encounters as he is wandering through the woods?

a) Mrs. Saeki's spirit.

b) A Japanese soldier.

c) A small, frightened girl.

d) He does not encounter any other person.

 

19. Which of the following is NOT something that ceases to matter in the deserted village?

a) Time.

b) Love.

c) Hunger.

d) Memory.

 

20. What party does the political trucker align himself with?

a) Libertarians.

b) Democrats.

c) Republicans.

d) Communists.

Multiple Choice

1.e
2.a
3.e
4.c
5.a
6.b
7.d
8.a
9.d
10.c
11.c
12.b
13.a
14.d
15.c
16.c
17.e
18.e
19.d
20.c
21.b
22.b
23.d
24.c
25.c
26.c
27.a
28.c
29.e
30.b
31.d
32.b
33.d
34.d
35.c
36.d
37.e
38.c
39.c
40.c
41.b
42.c
43.a
44.c
45.a
46.b
47.b
48.e
49.a
50.d
51.c
52.c
53.b

54.a

Brave New World (II & III)

I actually enjoyed Chapter 2 and 3 because I was introduced to new characters and other settings rather than just a boring London factory where humans are genetically engineered. I was introduced to Lenina and Fanny. Lenina is a promiscous woman which is normal in Huxley's Brave New World because everyone belongs to one another in their society so there are no such thing as mothers or love. There is only satisfaction and orgasms brought about by constant sex within society. An interesting trait of Lenina is that even though she is bound by society to be promiscous, she likes to date only one man at a time. 

Lit Terms 82-100

82. Omniscient Point of View:  knowing all things, usually the third person.

83. Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its

meaning

84. Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox

85. Pacing:  rate of movement; tempo.

86. Parable:  a story designed to convey some religious principle, moral lesson, or general truth.

87. Paradox:  a statement apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth; an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.

88. Parallelism: the principle in sentence structure that states elements of equal function should have equal form.

89. Parody:  an imitation of mimicking of a composition or of the style of a well-known artist.

90. Pathos:  the ability in literature to call forth feelings of pity, compassion, and/or sadness.

91. Pedantry: a display of learning for its own sake.

92. Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or  abstract ideas.

93. Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose.

94. Poignant:  eliciting sorrow or sentiment.

95. Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point
from which the observer views what he is describing.

96. Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.

97. Prose:  the ordinary form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular rhyme pattern.

98. Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction; opposes antagonist.

99. Pun:  play on words; the humorous use of a word emphasizing different meanings or applications.

100. Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.

Lit Terms 101-136

101. Realism:  writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a straightfoward manner to reflect life as it actually is.

102. Refrain:  a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song; chorus.

103. Requiem:  any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the dead.

104. Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.

105. Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.

106. Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order to persuade.

107. Rhetorical Question: question suggesting its own answer or not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.

108. Rising Action: plot build up, caused by conflict and complications, advancement towards climax.

109. Romanticism:  movement in western culture beginning in the eighteenth and peaking in the nineteenth century as a revolt against Classicism; imagination was valued over reason and fact.

110. Satire:  ridicules or condemns the weakness and wrong doings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.

111. Scansion: the analysis of verse in terms of meter.

112. Setting: the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur.

113. Simile:  a figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things through the use of a specific word of comparison.

114. Soliloquy: an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage.

115. Spiritual: a folk song, usually on a religious theme.

116. Speaker: a narrator, the one speaking.

117. Stereotype: cliché; a simplified, standardized conception with a special meaning and appeal for members of a group; a formula story.

118. Stream of Consciousness: the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images, as the character experiences them.

119. Structure: the planned framework of a literary selection; its apparent organization.

120. Style:  the manner of putting thoughts into words; a characteristic way of writing or speaking.

121. Subordination: the couching of less important ideas in less important  structures of language.

122. Surrealism: a style in literature and painting that stresses the subconscious or the nonrational aspects of man’s existence characterized by the juxtaposition of the bizarre and the banal.

123. Suspension of Disbelief: suspend not believing in order to enjoy it.

124. Symbol: something which stands for something else, yet has a meaning of its own.

125. Synesthesia: the use of one sense to convey the experience of another sense.

126. Synecdoche: another form of name changing, in which a part stands for the whole.

127. Syntax: the arrangement and grammatical relations of words in a sentence.

128. Theme:  main idea of the story; its message(s).

129. Thesis: a proposition for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved

or disproved; the main idea.

130. Tone: the devices used to create the mood and atmosphere of a literary work; the        

author’s perceived point of view.

131. Tongue in Cheek: a type of humor in which the speaker feigns seriousness; a.k.a. “dry” or “dead pan”

132. Tragedy: in literature: any composition with a somber theme carried to a disastrous conclusion; a fatal event; protagonist usually is heroic but tragically (fatally) flawed

133. Understatement: opposite of hyperbole; saying less than you mean for emphasis

134. Vernacular: everyday speech

135. Voice:  The textual features, such as diction and sentence structures, that convey a writer’s or speaker’s pesona.

136. Zeitgeist: the feeling of a particular era in history

First Quarter Review

a) My performance this semester has not been as good as I wished, but there have been several occasions in which I have had "no" internet access. Unfortunately I dont not know my neighbors well enough to go over and use their computers. The factor that I live near a halfway house and a house with both the people being 50/50. Yet I believe my progress with my SMART goal and my senior project is good.

b) I expect next semester to:
     - not slip up on my blog posts
     - Continue to progress with my SMART goal and my senior project
     - and with this get a better grade

The Time of My Life (Feb 2)

Today in class most of my time was spent discussing my SMART goal with my other table members. This discussion included their SMART goals as well. We talked about our progress in each of our goals and also how were are all going to prepare for the AP exam.

Whats The Story (Jan 29)

Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations to entertain his readers. It tells the story of a young man named Pip and his journey of becoming a gentlemen and his attempt to win over a beautiful woman named Estella. Dickens uses characterization so that all the characters in the book are significant in Pip's life and affect him in numerous ways. The tone of the novel differs from person to person depending on how well that person compares to Pip in his adventures to becoming a gentleman.

Dickens Map (Jan 28)

1) My reading schedule consists of reading everyday for 30 minutes.

2) AP questions
          -Why do you think this novel divided into three parts?
          - Are there any points in the novel where you hear our author slipping into tour guide?
          - If Pip had not received his "great expectations" and never left Joe's forge, how do you think his life
would have been different?
          - Given Dickens' portrayal of Estella, what do you think attracts Pip to her in the first place, and what,  when he learns of her cold-blooded manipulation of men, keeps Pip devoted to her until the end, loving her, as he says, "against reason, against promise, against peace"?
      
      Sources
    http://www.shmoop.com/great-expectations/questions.html
    http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Great-Expectations-by-Charles-Dickens-Reading-Questions

3) I think the only way i could actually get  something out of this is to remix it or do a lit analysis on it.

LIT TERMS 31-56 (Jan 25)

31. Dialect: the language of a particular district, class or group of persons; the sounds, grammar, and diction employed by people distinguished from others.

32. Dialectics: formal debates usually over the nature of truth.

33. Dichotomy: split or break between two opposing things.

34. Diction: the style of speaking or writing as reflected in the choice and use of words.

35. Didactic: having to do with the transmission of information; education.

36.Dogmatic: rigid in beliefs and principles.

37. Elegy: a mournful, melancholy poem, especially a funeral song or lament for the dead, sometimes
contains general reflections on death, often with a rural or pastoral setting.

38. Epic: a long narrative poem unified by a hero who reflects the customs, mores, and aspirations of his
nation of race as he makes his way through legendary and historic exploits, usually over a long period of time.

39. Epigram: witty aphorism.

 

40. Epitaph: any brief inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone; a short formal poem of commemoration often a credo written by the person who wishes it to be on his tombstone.

 

41. Epithet: a short, descriptive name or phrase that  may insult someone’s character, characteristics.

 

42. Euphemism: the use of an indirect, mild or vague word or expression for one thought to be coarse, offensive, or blunt.

 

43. Evocative (evocation): a calling forth of memories and sensations; the suggestion or production through artistry and imagination of a sense of reality.

 

 44. Exposition: beginning of a story that sets forth facts, ideas, and/or characters, in a detailed explanation.

 

45. Expressionism: movement in art, literature, and music consisting of unrealistic   representation of an inner idea or feeling(s).

 

46. Fable: a short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth.

 

47. Fallacy: from Latin word “to deceive”, a false or misleading notion, belief, or argument; any kind of erroneous reasoning that makes arguments unsound.

 

48. Falling Action: part of the narrative or drama after the climax.

 

49. Farce: a boisterous comedy involving ludicrous action and dialogue.

 

50. Figurative Language: apt and imaginative language characterized by figures of speech .

 

51. Flashback: a narrative device that flashes back to prior events.

 

52. Foil: a person or thing that, by contrast, makes another seem better or more prominent.

 

53. Folk Tale: story passed on by word of mouth.

 

54. Foreshadowing: in fiction and drama, a device to prepare the reader for the outcome of the action; “planning” to make the outcome convincing, though not to give it away.

 

55. Free Verse: verse without conventional metrical pattern, with irregular pattern or no rhyme.

 

56. Genre: a category or class of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, or content.

SMART GOAL (Jan 24)

My SMART goal is to pass the AP exam when it comes around and also attend a university. While there I would like to major in Mechanical engineering.

LIT TERMS 1-5 (Jan 15)

1. Allegory: a tale in prose or verse in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities; a story that uses symbols to make a point.

 2. Alliteration: the repetition of similar initial sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.

 3. Allusion: a reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects        a reader to recognize.

 4. Ambiguity: something uncertain as to interpretation.

  

5. Anachronism: something that shows up in the wrong place or the wrong time.

I am Here

My progress in the class has in a way remained the same as it was before.
My progress toward my smart goal on the other hand is doing very well as I have found the career that i want to be involved in. I have thought of a couple different things to do for my senior project. The one i want to do the most is to remix a comic book.  

Lit Terms 6-30

6. analysis

 

7. Anaphora

  8. Anecdote

9. Antagonist
10. Antithesis
11.Aphorism
 12.Apologia
13.Apostrophe
14.Argumentation
15.Assumption 16.Audience
17.Characterization
18.Chiasmus
19.Curcumlocution

20. Classicism
21.Cliche
22. climax

23.colloquialism

24.Comedy

25. Conflict

26. Connotation

27. Contrast

28. Denotation

29. Dialect

30. Dialectis

Poems

He Jests At Scars
By William Shakespeare

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
I am too bold: 'tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!

To Thine Own Self Be True
By William Shakespeare

There ... my blessing with thee!
And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg’d comrade.  Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel but, being in,
Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!
On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup
By William Oldys

BUSY, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,	5
Life is short and wears away.
Both alike are mine and thine
Hastening quick to their decline:
Thine 's a summer, mine 's no more,
Though repeated to threescore.	10
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as short as one!

Busy, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,
Life is short and wears away.

Both alike are mine and thine
hastening quick to their decline:
Thine's a summer, mine's no more,
Though repeated to threescore.
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as shorts as one!

BUSY, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,	5
Life is short and wears away.
Both alike are mine and thine
Hastening quick to their decline:
Thine 's a summer, mine 's no more,
Though repeated to threescore.	10
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as short as one!

BUSY, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,	5
Life is short and wears away.
Both alike are mine and thine
Hastening quick to their decline:
Thine 's a summer, mine 's no more,
Though repeated to threescore.	10
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as short as one!

Invictus
By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Vital Spark Of Heavenly Flame

By Alexander Pope

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,	5
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,	10
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!	15
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,	5
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,	10
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!	15
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,	5
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,	10
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!	15
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,	5
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,	10
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!	15
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

VITAL spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,	5
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,	10
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!	15
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

Vital spark of heavenly flame,
Quit, O quit this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, lingering flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirit, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The world recedes it disappears;
Heav’n opens on my eyes; my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory!
O death! where is thy sting?

---

 

BUSY, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,	5
Life is short and wears away.
Both alike are mine and thine
Hastening quick to their decline:
Thine 's a summer, mine 's no more,
Though repeated to threescore.	10
Threescore summers, when they're gone,
Will appear as short as one!

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

My plan for the spring semester is to figure out what career I would actually like to be involved in as I enter the college part of my life. I would also like to increase my writing ability so that I can pass the AP exam when it comes up.

AP PREP POST 1: SIDDHARTHA

1. What does he fear if he stays at home and continues in his father’s religion?
    http://www.studymode.com/essays/Siddhartha-Reading-Questions-641015.html 
2. What purpose does self-denial serve in Siddhartha? What about self-indulgence
    http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html
3. What does enlightenment look like in Siddhartha? Is it a feeling? An attitude?
    http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html
4. What is the “disease of the soul which rich people have?”
    http://www.prestwickhouse.com/PDF/SAMPLE/302272.pdf
5. If you were the river would you be enlightenment or would you know enlightenment? In other words, what’s up with the river? What is it’s relation to enlightenment? 
    http://www.shmoop.com/siddhartha/questions.html

Being that I havent read the book since the summer before sophmore year I can not answer these questions accurately. These questions have to be answered using critical thinking and by analyzing the whole text and not just simply but looking over the text and getting a direct answer. The same technique is also used in the AP exam.