New York City the Person, By "nameless"

   In the title it says my name is Nameless. As you can probably tell that is not my name. I am also not who you think I am. Enough about me, lets get to the point, shall we? 

   New York City. It is wonderful, dirty, expensive, poor, exciting and curious. I bet your thinking "Is this person crazy?! New York doesn't have a personality! Nor can it be all of those things if it was!" Am I crazy....lets leave that question open for a bit; however, New York City is not a place at all. When you look closely, it is a person. It has different personalities, ways of thinking, and different moods. 

   Manhattan is alive, eccentric, happy and a little old fashioned in it's looks. When you get to know it, it's talkative and has a nice sense of humor. The stores are like different points in time. The drug stores, clothes stores, ice cream shops, grocery stores and 5TH AVENUE are modern, past the 90's if you want to say that. The old apartments, detailed building designs, old alleys, victorian windows and the hidden lofts are a little bit 80's-90's.

   Queens...is just interesting. It is very unpredictable. It can be full of people and frighteningly empty. It's kind of like a bipolar 21 year old. There isn't much to it.

   Hoboken is very quiet. If you want to live a more calm life where the grocery store is just around the corner and you know all your neighbors and be friends with daily by passers and hobos sometimes, this is the place for you.

   New York City is such a wonderful places! If your hungry, you have about 5 different countries outside your front door! 

   You don't even need to worry about walking your dog. You have the biggest back yard anyone could want, Central Park. I think Central Park is where New York City's essence is. It's like that one place inside all of us that feels like home. It's the heart of everywhere and anything. It has a certain "Je ne sais quoi." You know when you have a long, hard day and you just want to go to a place where you can let the past be the past and look forward to the unexpected future? Well Central Park is that place where that can unravel. Go for a run if your angry, go have peaceful picnic, have a nice romantic lunch date *wink wink*, or just be a family and friends kind of person where you can have that annual family sports day.

   All of this is what makes New York City the best person I know! Once you get to know it, it can be that friend where no matter what, it will always be there and will always know exactly what say no matter what day it is. To me, it's my Best Friend. Don't believe me? thats your lose. It's like the kid in school that you've just met. Meeting someone new can be little shaky but they will turn into your greatest companion. 

   It's now time to answer your question. Am I crazy?

Sentence Structure of Dickens

Charles Dickens was a very talented writer, the structure of his sentences created meaning throughout his story.
     In the very early pages of A Christmas Carol, Dickens uses (Chapter 1 pg. 2) Epistrophe when describing Ebenezer Scrooge. He calls him "a squeezing,wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner." This makes us define in our minds that Scrooge is a horrible person in every form of his personality which intensifies a dislike for him.
     He uses this again later (chapter 2 pg. 29) when the Ghost of Christmas Past is unveiling a vision of the Christmas in the town where Scrooge grew up and went to school. Ebenezer notices odors "each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long forgotten." this makes you feel like all of these past memories are suddenly rushing back at once creating meaning and emotion.
    Dickens also uses repletion. He repeats the word long "cares long, long forgotten." this creates the meaning that
 

Favorites and non favorites

    I think my favorite thing we have done this semester is create STORY TIME :) there are other things, but I think that would have to be at the top of my list! The second thing would have to be doing the character descriptions. It really channeled my imagination and that side of my brain that school doesn't allow me to use a lot of the time. When I get to create a person from my mind it's like creating an extension of myself that I didn't know was there.
    My least favorite thing would have to be writing about all the literary devices in sentences in a story. I didn't like this because sometimes it was difficult to find the instances and also putting the instances into the highly structured paragraphs was mentally very difficult for me. I personally like a little more freedom when I right. When I am structured it feels like my creative writing side is shutting down. This is "Creative Writing Class" correct?

GREAT JOB!!

Christmas break time! 

I look forward to seeing you all in January. Remember to have The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and The Hobbit.

And remember- the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear. 

Likes?

 I would say the homework was a disliked part of this class but i never like homework because its more work and it takes up time at home that i could have been using to do something else, a bit more entertaining.
But this something that could not be changed so there's no point mentioning this, however there are other things about the class that were vary rewarding, such as:

                   - learning to annotate

                   - learning how to use literary devises

                   - improving my grammar and vocabulary

These are some things that i would like to continue to do in this class next year and any other years i might spend in the class.

Happiness

Literature class was a pretty cool class.  I learned a ton!  Thank you Mallory!  The terms and techniques were nice things to put in my writing tool box.  The cinnamon pumpkin marshmallows were awesome!  I also enjoyed how much ground we covered this semester.    

Some of the things i liked and disliked about the class.

    

Hmm? One of my favorite things we learned to be better at would have been annotating. However I did not enjoy having to read everything over a thousand times before writing about it. My second favorite was characterization, because I learned how to pick apart at characters in a story. One other thing I enjoyed is sitting on the floor for story time ha-ha.

yes this is not capitolized or spelled corektly... sew me

           Well everyone seems to like this class so I guess I must be nice. My least favorite part was probably the grammar rule. I found myself scoring straight 100s until I saw the 6 points taken off for grammar each week. Honestly I think it is rather hypocritical of you because you cant even spell your own assignments! Now that we are past the bad parts I must say I loved the ability to disagree with you in class and debate.

Satisfying Semester

     Where to begin? Where to begin? Where to begin? First off, I would like to establish that I enjoy this class immensely. The homework that is given to us students is perfectly balanced; challenging yet not overwhelming. One of my favorite assignments that we have done this semester, is this week's creative writing  task. I really admire the creative, go-with-the-flow style of writing. Story time is also a favorite occurrence. It allows us to retreat to the "good ole' days" of preschool, a happy time of coloring, connecting the dots, and being forced to take a nap. I also love how we are allowed to discuss and sometime debate during class. Overall, this has been a satisfying semester, and I look forward to the rest of the year. 

Three cheers for such a wonderful teacher! Go Mallory! :)

The Structure of "A Christmas Carol"

 Charles Dickens has excellent sentence structure, proven in his story "A Christmas Carol". As we can see by reading the story there are many instances in which he uses repetition of not the same word but similar words giving the same descriptions of either dread, gloom, distaste, and many others. this is something difficult to do and is vary unique to Charles Dickens's stories.

The good. The bad. The homework.

Though this wonderful class has had many good and bad points, one of my favorite activities we have done was reading The Most Dangerous Game. I enjoyed the suspense and entertainment that the story gives its readers. My least favorite homework assignment was the characterization essay. I never fully understood how to write it. With the good, the bad, and the homework, this class is one of my favorites.

Favorite things about class

My favorite thing we did in class was the simile contest. I enjoyed reading and voting on each other's similes. I also like it when we read stories in class like "Cinderella" and "God Knows the Truth but Waits". As far as writing, I like creative writing assignments. They are a nice change from the other essays we have done. This year I have really learned a lot about writing techniques and how to use them. I look forward to the next semester! 

My Favorite and Least Favorite Parts of Class

My favorite part of this past semester had to be the simile contest. I enjoyed creating similes, reading other student's similes, and voting for them. Of course the suspense of waiting days to know who won was fun too! My least favorite part of this past semester was reading The Role of the Scholar. For me, that was probably one of the hardest pieces of literature to understand! I have really enjoyed class so far and am looking forward to the next semester! : )

The good, the bad, and the meh.

     This class has been my most enjoyable one at co-op.  My favorite part of the class was the character description blog we did!  I really liked reading everyones description and actually enjoyed writing mine.  My most hated part was reading The Most Dangerous Game more times than I ever dreamed I would.  Another part that I didn't really enjoy or hate was when we had to memorize all the definitions. The reason I didn't hate that is it took a lot of time but not a lot of effort.  Another thing in class that I didn't particularly enjoy was reading The Christmas Carol.  I'm sure it was a great book but it had so many adjectives that it was really hard to follow.  Overall I have really enjoyed the class and I can't wait for next semester!

These are a few of my favourite things....

My very very favourite things we have done in class this year are many. But if I had to be trapped on an Island with these exercises One I would pickwould be Character arc-ing. I thoroughly enjoyed being able to find out who a character is by just taking apart the little things in his change from one point to another. Also, I loved story time; It was really nice to wind down from the ecstasy of lunch with a nice Grimm tale or anything else we would be speaking on that day. I liked having a lot of responsibility. The fact that we had to blog before Thursday morning and we didn't have a key word outline and we didn't have to check off dress ups on a checklist like babies was very empowering and made me feel like I was in a grown up class without a bunch of morons in it. Lastly, my favourite was actually writing the papers. The panic I felt when I hadn't done it until Monday and the accomplishment of finally getting it perfectly in my own opinion was beyond anything that I could have asked for by name. I'm really glad that we did these things in class this year. It really made Co-op bearable!

Favorite and Not So Favorite.

My favorite thing we did this semester was definitely the blog about a character. I had so much fun writing it! Plus, it was extremely easy for me to do, which is always a bonus. My least favorite assignment we had was probably the whole chunk on allusions. I struggled so badly... It could've been because I was missing almost every class, or maybe it just really wasn't my cup of tea. Either way, this semester has been a success in my opinion - our teacher rocks.

homework for the week

1. Your "final"

Choose from either

          A. 1 page typed essay on how Charles Dickens uses the Literary device of your choice to create meaning.
         B. 1 page typed creative writing (prose, poetry etc) in the style of Dickens. Study his word choice and sentence structure and try to sound like Dickens!

This assignment is worth 100 points. That is a LOT of points.


Blog

- your favorite or least favorite thing we've done in class this year.:)

- don't forget to comment.



Remember, next week is Tacky Christmas Sweater week AND bring a christmas snack to share and if you want your favorite Christmas book! Of course, all of that is optional.


BONUS ASSIGNMENT FOR 15 POINTS

Memorize the Beatitudes, as found in the Chapter on Symbolism and Anaphora. Be prepared to recite in class.