This week was kind of cut short due to ACT registration and career day. We continued to watch Hamlet, and looked a little bit at ACT questions. I'm really glad we are looking at some ACT questions and focusing on why answers are wrong or right. I believe the best way I learn is getting things wrong the first time, learning the right answer and trying again. I think this relates to the fact that I do not like to be wrong or "bad" at anything. I also enjoy that we aren't directly practicing for the ACT but we are doing things that will help us on the ACT all the time. Even doing things as simple as relating song lyrics to what Hamlet is feeling and doing helps me to look at the bigger picture and make connections between some not so obvious elements or events. I feel like I have a really good grasp on the English part of the ACT, but I am a bit worried about the writing part. I don't doubt my writing abilities as a whole so much as I doubt my ability to write a fully developed essay within a short time period.
This week I learned the most about looking at things from multiple points of view. We did a lot with the decision making process and I think that helped me realize that you have to look at things from all different angles to really understand it. People read one piece of information about an event or take one look at a picture and are very fast to absorb the opinions of others about these things. To really form a strong opinion about anything without ignorance you really must look at it from all different angles and point of view. I wish more people did this before trying to force their unoriginal or ignorant opinion onto others. We also looked at some "creepy" pictures for creative and that really interested me. I knew the story others around me formed about the pictures, I knew the story I formed in my head, but I wanted to know the actual story behind the pictures. I looked up the picture of the "body" falling from the ceiling on Wikipedia, unexplained photos, and Reddit and found many very interesting and thought out possible explanations. Reading a large group of different explanations from different people really helped me form my own explanation. It also amazes me how two people who could have grown up in the same house and have very similar life experiences can look at the same photo and come up with completely different and unique thoughts and inferences. It's very interesting how the human mind works and how humans are so very diverse but also so very alike at the same time.
http://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/275v8g/the_falling_body_i_find_this_photo_very_eerie/ This week I learned how to create and edit a video. I had no knowledge of how to create a video or how to structure one, so this was completely new and definitely a learning experience for me. I learned about having good emotion, movement, pacing, and other elements in a video is what makes one "good". I learning how to put music as a background to a speaking part and how to make the music fade in and out. I also learned how different songs can help get a point across or tell a story. Pictures can also do this. Pacing and the timing of the video is what I had the most difficulty with. Changing the length of one section of the video affects everything that comes after it and keeping things aligned and the correct order was sometimes difficult. After picking apart the Pardoner in the process of retelling it I really had a good understand of the basics of the story which then allowed me to think a little deeper about it. The fact that people can preach so strongly against something, while doing it themselves baffles and interests me. And why are people willing to do ANYTHING to believe that they are going to heaven? People are naive when it comes to teachings that affect every aspect of their lives. If there are promises of forgiveness of sins or a key into heaven people are willing to just overlook any cost or corruptness even if its very prominent.
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