Slipping, falling down
Royal crest low in defeat,
The eagle shall fall.
O'er hate and fear
Majestic strides, crown bright
Heart shall rule the strong
Mighty clash of greed,
Hundreds fall under steel
All for few to gain.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Theme For English 3.
Many of the teachers in this school find me as a bothersome student. I mean, I don't do the homework, I rarely participate in class, yet I understand all the material and can ace the tests. But when it comes to English, I kick ass. And I know exactly what the problem is... I love English. It's just that simple. Walking into 608 just brightens my day for about an hour. My teacher is "LEGEN... ..... Wait for it........... DARY."
Then it's back to the original, crap-shoot of a "learning experience".
As I'm saying this, I'm starting to think that maybe it's my attitude towards the rest of high school that's ruining my meaningless grades. That and all the missing work. Ugh. Now just thinking of paper makes my head hurt. Add homework to a busy schedule consisting of water polo, work, volleyball, and friends (I like to have at least an itty-bitty ounce of a social life.), and that transforms my world into a list of importance. At the top, family and school (according to Mother), followed by sports, then friends, then girlfriend (which is basically the same thing, except I can't kiss the former without consequences from the latter), and finally, my novel. Of all these things that I want to do, every day I must refer to my list of importance and choose the top three (sadly) to carry out that day.
Now don't get me wrong. I love school. The people, the subjects (English, and... English), and the teachers, they all add up to greatness. The problem lies in the complete lack of anything interesting at school. It's not very compelling when the only thing remotely interesting during the school day is witnessing a fight that lasts for about two seconds and nobody goes down before security rushes in to break it up.
But to get back to the title, English 3 is, at least for this Junior, the BEST THING ON FREAKING CAMPUS!!!!! The blog, the online stuff, the sometimes-hilarious guest speakers that make Shakespeare understandable for today's teenager. All these things make up for the shittiness of the rest of school. To be able to control my own path of knowledge, make it lead towards what I want to excel in means that I can control my own future and not have it handed to me on a used and dented silver platter. To have a teacher that guides instead of dictates makes for a more well-developed student that is confident as he takes his first strides in the real world.
This is my post for English 3.
2013
Then it's back to the original, crap-shoot of a "learning experience".
As I'm saying this, I'm starting to think that maybe it's my attitude towards the rest of high school that's ruining my meaningless grades. That and all the missing work. Ugh. Now just thinking of paper makes my head hurt. Add homework to a busy schedule consisting of water polo, work, volleyball, and friends (I like to have at least an itty-bitty ounce of a social life.), and that transforms my world into a list of importance. At the top, family and school (according to Mother), followed by sports, then friends, then girlfriend (which is basically the same thing, except I can't kiss the former without consequences from the latter), and finally, my novel. Of all these things that I want to do, every day I must refer to my list of importance and choose the top three (sadly) to carry out that day.
Now don't get me wrong. I love school. The people, the subjects (English, and... English), and the teachers, they all add up to greatness. The problem lies in the complete lack of anything interesting at school. It's not very compelling when the only thing remotely interesting during the school day is witnessing a fight that lasts for about two seconds and nobody goes down before security rushes in to break it up.
But to get back to the title, English 3 is, at least for this Junior, the BEST THING ON FREAKING CAMPUS!!!!! The blog, the online stuff, the sometimes-hilarious guest speakers that make Shakespeare understandable for today's teenager. All these things make up for the shittiness of the rest of school. To be able to control my own path of knowledge, make it lead towards what I want to excel in means that I can control my own future and not have it handed to me on a used and dented silver platter. To have a teacher that guides instead of dictates makes for a more well-developed student that is confident as he takes his first strides in the real world.
This is my post for English 3.
2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Spring Post 1: Music As Literature
Welcome back! It has been a long and wonderful Christmas break, but now it is time to get back to work. Today we are looking at music and it's influence on the literary world.
If someone were to walk up to you on the street and ask you to describe, in your own words, what literature is, you might be quite taken aback, wouldn't you? But such a question makes one think... What is literature? Normally what comes to mind is a bunch of boring old-timey stuff that makes your head spin trying to read the first word. But literature today is so much more than that. Literature today contains everything from poems to novels to short stories to movie scripts and, you guessed it, MUSIC!!
Back in 1600-something, William Shakespeare was writing a ton of plays that consisted of what high school students thought to be super boring shit that was difficult to read and just plain terrible. What those high school kids didn't realize was that this type of stereotypical literature (Shakespeare is the first thing that popped into your mind, wasn't it?) was not only freaking vulgar and hilarious if you decode it into modern terms, but also a stepping stone into more advanced types of writing. From Shakespearean literature blossoms the Enlightenment, which brought the corrupt political regimes to the public view. The Revolutionary War flipped the literary world on it's head yet again, bringing about the Romanticism period that cleared the path for literature to develop into the exciting beast it is today.
Now how does all this tie into music? Well, very simply in fact. Music and literature are one in the same. Mainly because they can both express our deepest thoughts that we would never say in public. The plot lines of both books and songs can be described as invigorating, meaningful, and over all, emotions. That, my friends, is the simplest connection between music and literature.
If someone were to walk up to you on the street and ask you to describe, in your own words, what literature is, you might be quite taken aback, wouldn't you? But such a question makes one think... What is literature? Normally what comes to mind is a bunch of boring old-timey stuff that makes your head spin trying to read the first word. But literature today is so much more than that. Literature today contains everything from poems to novels to short stories to movie scripts and, you guessed it, MUSIC!!
Back in 1600-something, William Shakespeare was writing a ton of plays that consisted of what high school students thought to be super boring shit that was difficult to read and just plain terrible. What those high school kids didn't realize was that this type of stereotypical literature (Shakespeare is the first thing that popped into your mind, wasn't it?) was not only freaking vulgar and hilarious if you decode it into modern terms, but also a stepping stone into more advanced types of writing. From Shakespearean literature blossoms the Enlightenment, which brought the corrupt political regimes to the public view. The Revolutionary War flipped the literary world on it's head yet again, bringing about the Romanticism period that cleared the path for literature to develop into the exciting beast it is today.
Now how does all this tie into music? Well, very simply in fact. Music and literature are one in the same. Mainly because they can both express our deepest thoughts that we would never say in public. The plot lines of both books and songs can be described as invigorating, meaningful, and over all, emotions. That, my friends, is the simplest connection between music and literature.
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