wegeleben’s 10th grade blog

1. Why didn’t Beneatha want to be a doctor anymore? Beneatha stop caring about wanting to be a doctor.
2. How did Asagai define “idealists” and “realists”? Asagai says that idealists want something very badly that never comes true and realists just accept things the way they are.
3. What does Asagai ask Beneatha to do? He asks Beneatha to move to Africa with him.
4. What fault does Mama find with herself? She says she was always aiming to high for something that she could never do or afford. She says she should aim lower.
5. What solution does Walter have? He is going to call the house man and make the deal with him that they would pay for a new house in a “black” neighbor hood if they agreed to move out of their new house.
6. Why didn’t Walter take the money Lindner offered? Because he started talking about his father and his accomplishments and how his father bought that house brick for brick.
7.  What metaphorical significance does the small plant have for the Youngers? The plant never got enough light in the window. That sounds like the Youngers family never getting enough light so they can change their circumstances. When they do get enough light it just gets taken away again.

I think that the most thought provoking DPS was the one where it was pictures of the actors and voices over it. The one with the story about teenagers who drink. I think the funniest one was the one that my group made about the gambling addiction and how he lost everything. The one that was the best well made one was the one with the ninja. That was the well made one because of how the music went well with the story.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. (C.S.Lewis) I agree with this quote. It says that those who say that this is for your own good, yet torment the people will not stop because they are in control and they are only listening to their own conscience. This has happened in the past where Russian leaders have said that what the people are doing is for the peoples own good. However the people were starving and had nothing while the leaders of Russia had everything that they wanted. It happens now in Iraq and Afghanistan where terrorists will attack innocent people saying that it is for the better good. But in those countries people now live in a constant fear. The people who torment will not stop because there is no one who they will listen to. People try telling them what is really happening from the tormenting but the message does not get across.

There was one time a man was working and his best friend took all the credit for himself, even though they both did work on it. The man who did the work got mad and never trusted any of his friends again. The man decided that he need some enemies to fight so he could be mad at someone. He went around the office saying personal things to people that he knew about their life and everybody but his friend wanted to kill him at the end of the day. His best friend, that he no longer trusted, was the CEO of the company and could control any body in the office. However when everybody ganged up on the man, the man didn’t turn to his friend because he didn’t trust him. The man was killed by the angry mob that night because he decided that he needed some enemies and not to trust any of his friends.

Once there was a man who wanted to become the richest man in the world. He was thinking about how he would go about it when he walked past a shop with a sign advertising the 48 laws of power. He decided it wouldn’t hurt to get that, so he went in a bought one and read it. To him it sounded like a bunch of crap, but they said it worked so he started to try it. He trusted nobody and had so many enemies that he was in danger of his life. He thought he was doing it all right because he did exactly what the packet said. Other people thought he was a selfish person just in it for his benefit. Eventually he had so many enemies that he had to go to a gun shop and buy the biggest guns they had. He would just walk around with them and if anybody tried to say anything to him, he would just shoot them. Not long after he started to become a psycho for power the government detained him saying he was a terrorist and a danger to himself and the citizens of the country. He was then given the death sentence and regretted the day that he ever bought that packet.

Something that was wrong that I felt guilty about that I did was the first day that I had gotten my license. I had called some of my friends and told them that I had gotten my license and told them that I wanted to hang out since I could now drive. Some of my friends were going to a sub shop to go to lunch and wanted to meet me there. I decided that I would go and follow one of my friends there since I didn’t know where it was. When I got there I went to the back parking lot because there were a lot of open spaces back there. There was literally like ten spaces in a row that I could have parked in, but I chose the space in between a car and a pole because it was a couple feet closer. The space was so tight that I hit my mirror on the pole and felt really guilty since it was my parents car. I pulled out and went back to a very open space and fixed the mirror since it is meant to be able to bend. I was very relieved that it was able to do that or else I probably wouldn’t be able to drive for a long time.

Then, a quick look at 2.3 and 2.4.

Small groups will then answer the following questions about Act II.

Scene 1:

1. What “cursed thoughts” does Banquo have? He had a dream about the witches
2. What lie does Macbeth tell Banquo? He is not really thinking about the witches
3. What is the meaning of Banquo’s answer to Macbeth’s comment that ends in “it shall make favour for you”? It is going to help you
4. What causes Macbeth to think he sees a dagger? He is hallucinating and feels guilty for the act he is about to do.
5. At the end of scene 1, a bell rings. What do you think is the significance of this? It is the gateway of hell

Scene 2:

1. What reason does Lady Macbeth give for not committing the murder herself? She said that when Duncan was sleeping he looked like her father
2. What words about himself does Macbeth belive he hears? (lines 47-48 & 54-56) murderer
3. How did Macbeth mismanage the murder? he brings out the bloody daggers with him
4. Both Macbeth and his lady comment on the effectiveness of water in cleansing away their involvement in the deed. How do they differ? Lady macbeth thinks that it will just wash off and macbeth thinks that the water will be stained with blood.

Scene 3:

1. Why has Macduff come to Macbeth’s castle? to get the king
2. What unusual things happened to Macduff and Lennox during the night? The heard howling and horses eating each other
3. Why does Macbeth say he killed the king’s men? What possible reason may he actually had? He said he killed the kings men because they were covered in blood and he got so angry he had to kill them.
4. Why does Lady Macbeth faint? To distract the men
5. In lines 159-171, what actions do Malcolm and Donalbain take? What reasons do they give for a hasty escape? They decide to leave the country because they are scared for their lives.

Scene 4:

1. In lines 5-25, Ross and the Old Man discuss the strange unnatural events that have occurred. What are they? unusual events were happening during the night and the horses tried to make war with the himans.
2. Who do the public believe are responsible for the murder of King Duncan? the think it is the sons of Duncan who killed the king
3. Who has been named king? Macbeth have been named king.
4. What reason does Macduff imply is his for not attending Macbeth’s coronation

I would tell Macbeth not to kill the king because I think being the Thane of Cawdor would be better. He would still have some power without all the responsibilities. He wouldn’t have to run a country, just be really rich. I would also tell him not to kill the king because he is related and can’t find a good reason to kill him. If the king were oppressing the people that could be justified but he isn’t so the death wasn’t a good death. I don’t think anybody could become king without killing unless you were the next inline to become the king and the king had died a natural death or died in battle.

We teach Shakespeare in schools because he was the best writer of his time. He was poetic and knew how to make a story suspenseful. I think we also teach Shakespeare because the plays he wrote were different than other play writes of his time. He wrote tragedys and satires. A lot of the time the main characters were killed off at the end of the play. The experiences that I have had with Shakespeare is only in classes. Starting in seventh grade all of my English classes have taught a famous play write of Shakespeare. When we were told to read what we were going to do in class as homework for Shakespeare it didn’t work for me. I could never finish the part that we were supposed to read. I always read it at night and ended up falling asleep while reading it.

1. What is the author (Jacobs) trying to convince you is true. Quote one sentence in which she clearly states what she believes. Jacobs is trying to convince us that over the decades that Americans are getting dumber. “consider the one in five American adults who, according to the National Science Foundation, thinks the sun revolves around the Earth”
2. Why evidence does the author give to prove that America is dumber than before? How does baby Einstein prove we’re getting dumber? The author gives evidence to prove Americans are getting dumber so that they are believable. The baby Einstein is to prove that they are trying to get babies to watch tv.
3. What does Jacobs believe caused dumbness? All the new technology takes our minds away from us.
4. What does the author mean by “anti-intellectualism?” What is it? What causes it? It is were people don’t think that they need to do anything and they are involved in what is on tv or the computer.
5. What is the “erosion of general knowledge?” When people think that the sun revolves around the earth.
6. Summarize the 2nd to last paragraph (” That leads us to the third and final factor”). Where people don’ t think that they need to know common knowledge.
7. Is she right? Explain with evidence from your own life. She may be right how ever with all the new technology it is possible to know more things than we did before.

I am going to have Bob be a gun slinger and have him find out that Shane had been killed. He is going to hunt down the person who killed Shane and make sure he is dead or dies trying.