This week we started reading our new book that were assigned to us before Andy left. At first my group had an argument in my group as to which book we were going to read but eventually we came to the conclusion of the argument and we decided as a group we were going to read A Brave New World. I was excited for this book and was not disappointed when I began to read it. It talks of a perfect future where everybody is before birth given a role and without everybody working together the whole system would collapse in on itself. The book is mainly based around Bernard who cannot seem to find the purpose of the system and so he is seen as an oddball or an outsider. This book speaks to me in the way that at times it can seem like everybody is together in a collaboration against you. This week is also Halloween so on the day of fri I came to school in a polar bear costume and it has been awesome so far.
Can a community come together without trust or righteousness
If a group of people are together without trust or righteousness then how could they be suspected to do the right thing without doing the right thing. This week it kind of seems like we did a loop getting into another set of groups and then choosing a book along with a question that we can use to guide us through the book. Its not that I am not interested in the groups book I was more or less hoping for an independent project or smaller groups not big ones. It seems that their is a bunch of chaos with these larger groups and that it will take even longer with a sub in class in charge of everything. I guess it will be able to be handled but the pace of class is going to be slower, which to me seems boring. This week in class the main objective was to read the book Andy gave us the choice of choosing last week for us to read and find the answer to the question we as a group made last week. My group chose to read the book The Alchemist. For most all of my high school career in English when i have been giving a book I would do that average thing most kids would do and joke around when time to read the book was given to me. I was lucky enough though to apply myself in what seemed to be a very little amount my junior year and get into honors English 11. As much fun as the class was I found that I actually enjoyed the books I was suppose to read like lord of the flies and Frankenstein. Bringing this back to The Alchemist and English 12 I found that I actually wanted to read the book and that it was not a bad story although I am quite disappointed in the ending of the book.
This week the class was given books to read that they could use to answer their questions from the previous week. I was gone Monday for class so I kind of came in late to the whole project and had to join in a group with some friends. The book they had chosen was The Alchemist, initially I thought this book would be a walk in the park. The Alchemist is a good book from the twenty pages I have read so far, being an eighth of the way through the book so far and thinking it was going to be an easy read to decided slack of for the next day and a half. This was not a good decision because I found coming back to the book that I no longer was interested in the story of the book or what it had to offer. To make things worse I had no idea what the group question was and how to apply it to this book so it was easy to come to assumption that I had no idea what I was doing. Frankly i'm still confused on what I am doing but I was able to come by the information that we need to apply the pictures that we get from the book to the phrase that we have as a group.
This week I learned how difficult it can be when a large group of people try to upload something to you-tube, it takes awhile to say the least. With various people having problems on different subjects it made for a busy time for Andy in the classroom. I can say feeling pretty good that I was not an adding factor to the chaos. That was probably because since the beginning of sophomore to the current time in senior year I have been the class Digital Media in the tech center. Having had the class for two years now uploading a video to you-tube was no problem at all and being in that class was able to make the process of making the video a whole lot easier. This would explain why I was slightly startled when I heard that there was very few others who were done with the project. I kind of took my basic skills that acquired throughout digital media as a given that most people had so it would be easy for everyone to finish their video and upload it to you-tube in a timely manner. I was wrong seeing how so many people were surprised when it came to the uploading time it was able to give me a full circle moment of when i had to be helped on how to upload stuff to you-tube.
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Jack
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