Textbook pages 30-60 notes

Tristia-Ovid translated by L. R. Lind

• Ovid has been exiled by the king of Rome so he is forced to live with the Getae people

• He is the only one who speaks Latin

• They are in the middle of war so the region he describes is full of fear and he explains that the farmers are on guard all the time in fear they might get attacked.

• He talks down to the people believe in that the Roman race is far superior

 Far Corners of Earth by Tu Fu translated by David Hinton

• Once again it describes exile

• He describes everything as gloomy and there is much sorrow in him words

About Beowulf

• Beowulf by the Anglo Saxons is a story about a monster slaying hero

• Beowulf aids King Hrothgar by slaying the evil monster Grendel

• it was passed down orally and wasn't written down until the 11th century

• carries many similar elements of Celtic and Scandinavian folklore; thought to have taken place in southern Sweden

• later versions were influenced by Christianity

The Wrath of Grendel

• God drove out the demons to exile 

• They split into a thousand forms of evil

• When darkness dropped Grendel went up to Herot to find the warriors sleeping

• Grendel killed thirty men in their sleep

• Hrothgar, lord of Herot, mourned for the loss of his men

• He feared the demon would come back

• Grendel came back the next night

• Warriors fled because Grendel attacked while they slept

• Grendel took over Herot and ruled over it for years

• He continued to kill

• Didn't dare to touch Hrothgar's throne due to it being protected by God

• The Coming of Beowulf

• Far away Beowulf heard of Grendel's horrors

• Beowulf got a crew together and sailed to Hrothgar

• Hrothgar's men question Beowulf and his men

• Beowulf tells them why he is there and is escorted to Herot to meet the King

• Beowulf ask for permission to kill Grendel

The Battle with Grendel

• Grendel enter Herlot looking for victims to attack

• Beowulf caught Grendel and began to battle him

• Grendel scared only wanted to flee

• Beowulf injured Grendel badly enough that the demon escaped to go die in his hole

• The Monster's Lair

• Grendel's mother attack Hrothgar's closest friend and took his kid

• Hrothgar tells Beowulf about the lair in the swamp

• Beowulf  talks about how sad he is about Hrothgar's death

• He swears that he will have vengeance over Hrothgar's death and declares his revenge with Unferth

• Beowulf jumps into the lake where Grendel's mother lives and finds her at the bottom

• She contains him by holding him tight so he could not get out his weapon and carries him to a fighting arena

• A witch-like creature rings an iron bell to signify the start of the fight

• Beowulf's chain mail armor keeps him from being torn apart by Grendel's mother and he tries to cut her with his sword, but the sword will not have any affect on her

• Beowulf becomes enraged and decides to fight with his bare hands and attacks Grendel's mother by throwing her to the ground

• Grendel's mother replies by tackling him to the ground and trying to stab him, but Beowulf's armor saves him

• Beowulf got up and found a sword crafted by giants with magical properties and slew he by cutting off her head

• People were at the surface of the lake seeing bubble and feeling tremors from the fight, worried that Beowulf was being killed

• After killing Grendel's fierce mother, he took the sword and her head to the surface

• The Geats help him out of the lake and back to the royal hall where Beowulf is honored, becomes King, and shows off Grendel's Mother's skull to the Danes 

The Battle With Grendel's MotherThe Final Battle

• Beowulf has aged to an old man and a dragon threatens the well being of his kingdom

• Beowulf pursues the dragon and goes to strike it with his sword

• As he stabs the dragon, it hits him with a blast of fire and mortally wounds him but a loyal warrior named Wiglaf comes to help him and the two of them fight the dragon and kill it

The Spoils

• as Beowulf dies, he asks Wiglaf to get the treasure the dragon was protecting

• Wiglaf hurries to grab the treasure and sprints back to make sure he can back before Beowulf dies

• He gets back just in time to hear Beowulf's final words which thanked God for his life and wonderful adventures

The Farewell

• The Geats burn Beowulf's body and mourn his death

• They leave all of the treasure and his battle gear with his ashes

Collaboration with Mile Jorgensen, Terry Franklin, and Lucas Sheckhard

From Legend to History (449-1485)

The conquest of britain

• Brythons and Gaels shared Great Britain until they were invaded by the Roman
• after 300 years of rule Romand fell to european tribes
• britain invaded by anglosaxons

The Coming of Christianity

• Romans accepted Christianity
• was kept in the area even as people changed, promoted peace and unified people

Danish Invasion

• Danish viking invaded because they overpopulated their territory
• Alfred the great ended conflict and was crowned
• AngloSaxon period ended with death of King Edward

Norman conquest

• William of Normandy claimed rights to throne after Edward's death
• He eliminated central government and brought in feudal system

  reign of Plantagenets

• King Henry II ended Norman rule 
• Was a very able king

Magna carta

• Richard I left England in a lot of debt
• King John tried to tax people to eliminate debt
• forced to sign magna carta that stopped taxation without baron consent

Lancasters, Yorks, Tudors

• Lancaster replaced Plantagenets many Henrys IV, V, VI
• York House went to war with Lancaster known as War of Roses
• Tudor House ended the war and crowned Henry VII

decline of feudal System

• black death killed many people and caused the fall of the feudal system

Literature

• Beowolf
• Medieval drama
• Emerging national identity
• Geoffrey Chaucer- The Canterbury Tales
• Romances, Lyrics, and ballads- Morte d' Arthur and Robin Hood

My Opinion isn't a Right

1. A right is something that some one has to go out of their way to respect for you

• for example: if I cross the street and pedestrians have the right of way, then cars have too respect my right and stop for me.

    2. Because I don't have to believe or acknowledge others opinions especially if they are bad, then they don't have a right to their opinion. (Neither do I)
   
    3. I have the right to form an opinion, and others have to respect that I can form my own opinions.

• This is different wording from "right to my own opinion" I am not imposing that other people have to believe my opinion.

   4. If you ever say that you have the right to your own opinion in an argument you have already lost because your use of a logical fallacy and ignorance to what it means to have a right to your opinion makes you look hard headed
 
   5. Religion isn't and opinion it is a belief, and once again you don't have the right to your belief, but you do have a right to form or follow a belief and nobody can stop you from doing that.

•    From the surface the title of the piece is very confusing because you have grown up thinking you had the right to your opinion. However because the wording of that phrase is incorrect when you hear that you don't have a right to your own opinion you are almost left offended.

Vocab #1

adumbrate - verb give to understand; describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
I wish to adumbrate the meaning of all these vocab words.
apotheosis - noun the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god); model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
Many people view celebrities as apotheosis.
ascetic - adj. practicing great self-denial; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; noun someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
I do not believe that ascetic thoughts of good health can relief sickness symptoms.  
bauble - noun a mock scepter carried by a court jester; cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
My tacky family ornaments the house with baubles.
beguile - verb attract; cause to be enamored; influence by slyness
I hope to beguile a girl so I won't be so lonely.
burgeon - verb grow and flourish
My garden vegetables burgeon in this weather.
complement - noun something added to complete or make perfect; either of two parts that mutually complete each other; a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction;number needed to make up a whole force; a complete number or quantity; one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response; verb make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
This picture complements the room.
contumacious - adj. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
Sometimes my dog can be contumacious when taking a bath.
curmudgeon - noun a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas
My family is full of curmudgeons because they are extreme conservatives.
didactic - adj. instructive (especially excessively)
I wish to be a didactic tutor.
disingenuous - adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
Mr. Preston's assignments can seem disingenuous.
exculpate - verb pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
I so far have never been in a case in which I was exculpate, however I have never been found guilty either.
faux - adj. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
I find that everyone gives you a faux first impression to make you think more highly of them.
pas - noun (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
I wish to not pas like a silly ballerina in public.
fulminate - noun a salt or ester of fulminic acid; verb cause to explode violently and with loud noise; come on suddenly and intensely; criticize severely
My dream is to fulminate the world with revolutionary ideas.
fustian - noun a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap;pompous or pretentious talk or writing
My shirt broke because it wasn't made with fustian.
hauteur - noun overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
I try not to seem like a hauteur even though I am better then everyone else.(ironic because the person who wrote this is also the least qualified person to be thinking they are better than anyone else)
inhibit - verb limit the range or extent of; to put down by force or authority
I wish to inhibit on the powers of injustice.
jeremiad - noun a long and mournful complaint
I jeremiad about waking up to early everyday.
opportunist - adj. taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit; noun a person who places expediency above principle
I at times are extremely annoyed by opportunists even though find myself being one on occasion.
unconscionable - adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; lacking a conscience
I wish I was unconscionable at times because it can become disadvantageous.

Week 1 Reflection

1. I have internet access however I don't have much time to be dealing with slow computers. My technology at home is very slow and the internet is terrible it shouldn't restrain me too much if I manage my time, however I do have a "bed time" because I wake up at 5am in the morning to go to water polo practice so I like to sleep as early as possible. I am also not the most tech savvy person ever.
2. I would say I had one awesome learning experience but I have had some very good teachers in years prior. What i have learned about my learning style is that I am very good at mimicry. If I watch a teacher do something I can catch on very fast. I am very good at noticing patterns and making up algorithms in my head, as I watch I put everything in a step by step process and immediately grasp it. This is what has helped me excel in math and science classes, because they have only one right answer. I have been able to get away with never doing homework in those classes and still acing the tests just by watching the teacher and taking notes. English is a bit harder because there is more than one right way of writing or saying something.
3. I am excited to begin self teaching and choosing the topics we discuss in class. I believe that it will teach me a lot of practical things or interesting things that teachers don't take time to go over.

Essay #2

      "What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant, "wrote David Foster Wallace in his 2001 story "Good Old Neon". He is describing human thoughts and the web of ideas in our head. His description reflects those same ideas in the works by Montaigne. Montaigne's style of writing mirrors that of a human mind in thought. This is a foil to Jane Austen's style of writing and the way she portrays her themes in her story.
          Montaigne is very famous for using a stream of consciousness technique in his writing. He would begin writing with one main idea and as he shared his insight, the ideas begin to expand and split down different paths. Sometimes his arguments come about full circle and other times he gets lost off topic. Montaigne was famous for ranting on about an idea and then forgetting what his idea was and/or his reasoning behind it because he would always write things down too late. This is a perfect example of the human thought process. At one moment it can be pondering a deep philosophical question and the next it could be remembering what it last had to eat. The human mind also easily forgets things as well as has a flow of ideas such as the writing style used by Montaigne. The style of Montaigne's essays are the epitome of what the human brain thinks like and reflects it in every way. This is one of the reasons that Montaigne's writing connects to many people. 
          Montaigne's essays don't have any format to them because they express the human mind and thought process, however Jane Austen's works are very organized and the central theme is expressed and supported in many planned ways. Jane Austen's style of writing is supports the theme in an "if...then...because" sort of process. Every event that takes place in the story Pride and Prejudice can be connected to the big picture and used to support the theme in an essay. Even some of the most nominal events in the story tie back around and are used in the end of the book. Jane Austen doesn't leave any loose ends in her novel and that reflects her style of writing. Montaigne and Jane Austen's styles of writing can be considered complete opposites.
            Montaigne's style of writing is a window to the human mind's natural thought process, and the support David Foster Wallace's notion about the human brain. Montaigne's unorganized style of writing is almost an opposite to Jane Austen's style of writing in her novel Pride and Prejudice. Montaigne's use of stream of consciousness and unorganized style of writing reflects human thoughts and how the thought process is scattered yet it flows like a chain of memories. This is how Montaigne's works attract such a large audience. Jane Austen does the opposite and focuses more on the theme and is still very effective.
  

1987 AP Exam

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

Correct: 27 some were between 2,3, or 4 depending on how I did on the free response

Essay 1
I would write an essay comparing how she viewed leisure as lazy and slow, as seem through her diction and tone, and compare to the fast paced entertainment we have today like movies, science, news, ect.

Essay 2
I would have used grapes of wrath and written about how like was like before the dust bowl and great depression for the Jode family and compare it to the reality they faced in the story. I  would try to pick out the actions of the characters in society and show how they became selfish and worried about there own survival and clash that to the Jodes and their hospitality towards all people. this will show change in society and tradition.