1) In class.
We did not spend much time discussing english this week.
Monday- no school
Wensday- time to work solidly on socials works with conferences.
Thursday was the only time that we got to discuss Persepolis. So, on thursday we shared our snippets and had long discussions on analyzing things like the cover of the text.
Vocab to remember;
*Catharsis- Greek trageties. When you see a play that is tragic you feel good because your life is better.
*Hubris- fatal character flaw that brings the character down.
2) I like how we talk about the text, but we usually focus on talking towards Mr.McG. I think that we should refer to each other, and what one person said before the other and make it more comfortable to speach WITH each other, not like Mr.McG. is there assessing us. I also think that there are people that have either said very little this unit or nothing while our discussions. I think that those people should be pointed out to speak, otherwise they wont.
3) LIterary Features and Snippets.
*Kevin (the cover)- the circle of stares. Everybody is looking at each othe, but ina circle. Eye direction (towards the reader) are shown on pages 43 and 185. Anoosh is loking out of the though bubble and into the big picture of Marjane. He is breaking the 4th wall - like Aaron would say. An idea Mr. McG. had was that all of the people in the background might be foils of Marjane. Ex. Anoosh had to escape for a while, like she did to Austria. Granny and Anoosh have different hair colors (the motif 'hair' starts from the very beginning!) showing that their her mentors because they stand out from everyone else. Speaking of standing out, Marjane is the only one in the thought bubble wearing a white shirt- this could be to show who is the main character.
*Fion(304)- If partying, drinking, making love, having fun and all those things that are illigal, then people would keep on doing them behind the sights of the guards just because these actions are illigal. (Manny)- Ex. Stratford Hall's lunch problem.
*Myself(307-309)- I really like how the positioning of the each of the panels are. I mean there are some panels that are very thin and short, and some that are lengthened and stretched. This shows time progression in different ways. Ex. When the lady picks the phone and the door bell rings (307) all of those panels are thin and little because these things happen very fast. As this event progresses the panels become bigger and larger, showing that time is passing slowly- that could be because of the tension in the story.
*Megan(308)- Because on this page there is no dialogue, it makes the reader think and read visually. Moon= femininety. Maybe, when the guy is falling, he is trying to grab to femininety, the moon.
*McG.(302)- Marjane speaks up for herself by looking straight at her reader, basically like she is talking to us. She is playing around with the medium. She breaks the rules of the story by speaking to us.
*Fion(comparing 43 and 323)- art foil and/or juxtaposition, the guns and dragon/ soldiers are surrounding the family.
*Alice(327, 146, 25)- the half shaded faces. Alice talks about this on her blog and I completely agree that when someone face is haf shaded that means that they are showing a different side of them. Its like they are opening up to us and showing us something. On page 327 where Marjane and Reza are studying, I think that when you take the white half of Marjane's face and the black half of Raza's, and then combine it, you will get the ying-yang that Geneva talked about last week.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Denitza's Week 5
1) In Class.
I was very happy when I heard that we were to have class outside! I could not believe that a teacher would have a class outside. I felt like I was in Hogwards for some reason.
Any way, we looked at different questions and made up some that we then put on the weekly schedule, such as:
- Is Marjane a hero or villain?
- Does anyone actually have a personality?
- If this autobiography was written in our era, what might the changes be?
-etc.
We were then asked to choose a question and get into groups and brainstorm.
The question that I wanted to work on was: How can we judge what is beautiful?
My group and I used the dictionary and thesaurus and our brainstorming to come up with some kind of an answer. The problem was that there was no right answer to this question because everyone is different. In the end we came up with these points and more;
*there are different opinions
*beauty is the enherent object that is pleasant to the ear, mind and eye
*different types of beauty; internal, external
*depending on fashion
*Marjane's difference makes her want to change her beauty into a beauty that would fit into the society that she lives in. (p.190)- her surroundings.
So when I got home to write a little paragraph about my question, I wanted to see what other people's opinions about this question were. I wanted to see how people judge what is beautiful and how. I found this great video that gave me ideas about how women from different periods of time judge what is beautiful in their culture. And even though the video did not give me a straight answer to my question, it did open my eyes to what can be considered beautiful. You can find this video at this web;
http://www.archive.org/details/what_is_beautiful
2) Things Mr. McG said.
Lately Mr.McG does not really talk much. He mostly lets us talk to each other, and once in a while he would just put his opinion in with ours. So, he talked whether beauty comes from struggle. I personally think that this is false because struggle is not always the answer to finding your beauty or anything about you. It is like say violance is good. But it isnt. People change, in either a bad or good way, for a reason in their life. In Marjane's life, struggle was what brought her into misery and then later on it was society that showed her that she was different from the rest, making her wanting to take stand and do something about how she looked and acted.
Also, Mr. McG recommended 'The Heroes' Journey' by Joseph Campbell.
I also recommend, once again 'The Hero with a 1000 faces' by Joseph Campbell. It is a great read to introduce you to different types of heroes.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
I forgot who said this line but I really liked it.
3) Snippets and Literary Features.
Fion (268, top 4 panels)
-The art is juxtaposed to the text. Emotion shows depression.
(Geneva)- Ying Yang (the art) and trying to balance herself.
Geneva (250, last panel)
-the city is falling apart because of disorganized governement. The art illuminates this message.
(Alice)- on page 281, marjane's drawing looks similar to the poster picture on pg. 250
(Mr.McG)- angles of buildings look like they are crushing her. The mood would be castrophobic. It is drawn this way to scare her.
(David)- the city is distroyed=no beauty.
David (pg. 273)
- the rats are the illusion to 1984.
(Mr.McG)- To rat someone out= to betray someone. Winston betrayed Julia, and Marjane betrayed herself and her family.
1) In Class.
I was very happy when I heard that we were to have class outside! I could not believe that a teacher would have a class outside. I felt like I was in Hogwards for some reason.
Any way, we looked at different questions and made up some that we then put on the weekly schedule, such as:
- Is Marjane a hero or villain?
- Does anyone actually have a personality?
- If this autobiography was written in our era, what might the changes be?
-etc.
We were then asked to choose a question and get into groups and brainstorm.
The question that I wanted to work on was: How can we judge what is beautiful?
My group and I used the dictionary and thesaurus and our brainstorming to come up with some kind of an answer. The problem was that there was no right answer to this question because everyone is different. In the end we came up with these points and more;
*there are different opinions
*beauty is the enherent object that is pleasant to the ear, mind and eye
*different types of beauty; internal, external
*depending on fashion
*Marjane's difference makes her want to change her beauty into a beauty that would fit into the society that she lives in. (p.190)- her surroundings.
So when I got home to write a little paragraph about my question, I wanted to see what other people's opinions about this question were. I wanted to see how people judge what is beautiful and how. I found this great video that gave me ideas about how women from different periods of time judge what is beautiful in their culture. And even though the video did not give me a straight answer to my question, it did open my eyes to what can be considered beautiful. You can find this video at this web;
http://www.archive.org/details/what_is_beautiful
2) Things Mr. McG said.
Lately Mr.McG does not really talk much. He mostly lets us talk to each other, and once in a while he would just put his opinion in with ours. So, he talked whether beauty comes from struggle. I personally think that this is false because struggle is not always the answer to finding your beauty or anything about you. It is like say violance is good. But it isnt. People change, in either a bad or good way, for a reason in their life. In Marjane's life, struggle was what brought her into misery and then later on it was society that showed her that she was different from the rest, making her wanting to take stand and do something about how she looked and acted.
Also, Mr. McG recommended 'The Heroes' Journey' by Joseph Campbell.
I also recommend, once again 'The Hero with a 1000 faces' by Joseph Campbell. It is a great read to introduce you to different types of heroes.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
I forgot who said this line but I really liked it.
3) Snippets and Literary Features.
Fion (268, top 4 panels)
-The art is juxtaposed to the text. Emotion shows depression.
(Geneva)- Ying Yang (the art) and trying to balance herself.
Geneva (250, last panel)
-the city is falling apart because of disorganized governement. The art illuminates this message.
(Alice)- on page 281, marjane's drawing looks similar to the poster picture on pg. 250
(Mr.McG)- angles of buildings look like they are crushing her. The mood would be castrophobic. It is drawn this way to scare her.
(David)- the city is distroyed=no beauty.
David (pg. 273)
- the rats are the illusion to 1984.
(Mr.McG)- To rat someone out= to betray someone. Winston betrayed Julia, and Marjane betrayed herself and her family.
Denitza's week 4
Hey!
Sorry for the fact that I can not write anything on week 4 due to not being in Canada.
I did think about 1984 through my Barcelona trip though. For example; we had to do aerobics for PE and there was this lady that had a microphone on her head and was shouting on the top of her lungs on what the students of grades 9-12 were supposed to do (thats about 150 people in a big area, something like the Big Top). The lady barely encouraged us to do anything. We were just supposed to know that it was our priority to follow. I felt like I ws being commanded to do everything because I was supposed to copy everything that the lady did, or I would get in trouble. This event reminded me of when Winston was doing his stretching and the lady from the telescreen was shouting at him to do a better job, but in a mean, rude way... kind of the same thing that happened to me in Barcelona.
Sorry for the fact that I can not write anything on week 4 due to not being in Canada.
I did think about 1984 through my Barcelona trip though. For example; we had to do aerobics for PE and there was this lady that had a microphone on her head and was shouting on the top of her lungs on what the students of grades 9-12 were supposed to do (thats about 150 people in a big area, something like the Big Top). The lady barely encouraged us to do anything. We were just supposed to know that it was our priority to follow. I felt like I ws being commanded to do everything because I was supposed to copy everything that the lady did, or I would get in trouble. This event reminded me of when Winston was doing his stretching and the lady from the telescreen was shouting at him to do a better job, but in a mean, rude way... kind of the same thing that happened to me in Barcelona.
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