For most of this week we read the play "Oedipus the King" out loud in class. It was basically a play about how Oedipus was told what his fate was by the blind prophet, and didn't like what he heard. He went on a rage and killed 5 men. One of the men he killed was Laius and he ended up marrying Jocasta. However, little did he know that Laius was his dad and Jocasta was his mom, and thus following his fate. Ashamed of what he had done, he stabs his eyes out so he doesn't have to see his evil sins again. After we read the play we wrote a blog post about it in our tragedy blogs.
While we were reading, "Oedipus the King," we were supposed to be taking notes on our computes using the cornell note system. Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of the process. I tried doing and, and wrote maybe 2 important facts down, but every time I wrote something down I would lose where we were at in the play and miss other important facts. It was pretty inconvenient, especially if you were reading for someone in the play. Nobody really did the cornell notes because it was just too hard to multitask.
The PoW this week was, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick. I really enjoyed this poem, and the universal truth it held. The idea of carpe diem is really powerful and I think Herrick portrayed it well. Herrick used different literary devices to support this idea. The symbols, structure, and diction in the poem were essential in making the poem as powerful as it was! Personally, I thought this PoW was easier than the one last week!
While we were reading, "Oedipus the King," we were supposed to be taking notes on our computes using the cornell note system. Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of the process. I tried doing and, and wrote maybe 2 important facts down, but every time I wrote something down I would lose where we were at in the play and miss other important facts. It was pretty inconvenient, especially if you were reading for someone in the play. Nobody really did the cornell notes because it was just too hard to multitask.
The PoW this week was, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick. I really enjoyed this poem, and the universal truth it held. The idea of carpe diem is really powerful and I think Herrick portrayed it well. Herrick used different literary devices to support this idea. The symbols, structure, and diction in the poem were essential in making the poem as powerful as it was! Personally, I thought this PoW was easier than the one last week!