Jessica R


   Should high schools require students to read the "classics"?


  1)- I think that high schools should require students to read the "classics" for many reasons some being that it can help build our reading skills. Also many old "classics" have very important meaning that can help us a lot. The "classics" are also very good lables. In the packet it states," I firmly believe that reading "classics" gives one a perspective about what it means to be human that is hard to achieve otherwise". (page 1) This explains that she believes that we should read "classics" because it gives us a perspective about what it means to be human. It also states in the packet,"The act of reading can be one of the most creative, imaginative activities that I have found". (page 1) This explains that she thinks that reading is the most creative thing and that it can help kids. Even "classics"

 Jessica R


                             The Underworld!



1)-   Some values and beliefs that are reflected in Ancient Greek culture towards the underworld are religion. The underworld was basically divided into 4 religions. Fields of Mourning, Tartarus, Asphodel Meadows, and the Elysian Fields.

2)-  Yes I do recognize similarities between the Greek's beliefs toward death and the underworld and to those that are held in the religion because they believed that the gods would take care of them when they died and they would not go to the underworld.

3)-  The journey of the soul is an elaborate process because, now more and ore people are starting to get in the underworld. It can't be simpler because then it would be easy for people to get into the underworld.

4)-  I think the hero needs to visit the underworld because they need to learn what the people are doing in the underworld and maybe somehow use it to their advantage.

   Jessica R

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1) B 4TH level
2) D 1ST level
3) C 2ND level
4) A 3RD level

1 . On page 8, Conrad’s narrator in Heart of Darkness describes the scene: “Flames glided in on the river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other--then separating slowly or hastily.” WORKS CITED Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. Penguin Classics, 2007. ---. The Secret Sharer. Random House, 2003.

Correction- (8)



2 . Like Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien’s character Bilbo is “terrified of losing himself” and so rejects exile and embraces the warrior’s heroic code (Annotated Hobbit 226). Another work by Tolkien confronts the same issue: the character Frodo is told that he must resist going to a “cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten” (365). WORKS CITED Tolkien, J. R. R. Annotated Hobbit. Edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ---. Lord of the Rings. 50th anniversary ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2005.


Correction- (226)


3 . Magazine covers are often overtly political. Take the example of Time magazine’s most recent issue, which featured three swinging orange wrecking balls with yellow hair. WORK CITED Cover image. 
Time. 6 Nov. 2017. 


Correction- citation.




4 . In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Dill is introduced primarily through narration: Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi, was spending the summer with his aunt, Miss Rachel, and would be spending every summer in Maycomb from now on. His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it. (11) In the film, Dill must relate everything through gesture and dialogue: I’m little, but I’m old. Folks call me Dill. I’m from Meridian, Mississippi, and I’m spending two weeks next door with my Aunt Stephanie. My mama works for a photographer in Meridian. She entered my picture in the Beautiful Child Contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to me and I went to the picture show twenty times with it. WORKS CITED Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. Grand Central Publishing, 2015. To Kill a Mockingbird. Directed by Robert Mulligan, Universal Pictures, 1962.

Correction- (lee 11)

 5 . The Modern Language Association advises that “[t]he curriculum of a major should present an integrated, progressive course of study with articulated goals for each course” (5). WORK CITED Report to the Teagle Foundation on the Undergraduate Major in Language and Literature. Modern Language Association, Feb. 2009, www.mla.org/content/download/3207/81182/2008_mla_whitepaper.pdf.

Correction- ...

 6 . President Trump has taken to calling North Korea by an abbreviation: “NoKo.” WORK CITED @realDonaldTrump. “NoKo has interpreted America’s past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal miscalculation. Do not underestimate us. AND DO NOT TRY US.” Twitter, 8 Nov. 2017, twitter.com/ realDonaldTrump/status/928279728125108225.

Correction- "Noko"  

 7. According to Kidder et al., “[T]o write is to talk to strangers” (3). WORK CITED Kidder, Tracy, and Richard Todd. Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.

Correction-  (2013)

   Jessica Rutkowski.

                                                            English Homework.

      Then using this reading, as well as our class activity I want you to respond to the following question:

• How can you apply the concepts of academic writing to your own writing? 

                         This can apply the concepts of academic writing by we can build on our knowledge of writing to writing better essays better summery's and even tiny sentences like do-now to a couple of words.

Dear Freshies,

Last Quarter I made you post about some of the goals you wanted to set for yourself. We've been in the classroom for half a year now. I want you to access the goals you set for yourself. Have you achieved them? If they were more long term - have you made the appropriate steps to reach those goals?

After you access your goals, I want you to do the following:

Think about and list 2-3 subjects / interests you would like to major at college

Think about and list 2-3 colleges you are interested in attending


For the goals i made myself in the beginning of the year i have achieved some of them while some others i have not achieved. For some of these goals I have tried very hard to achieve them while for others i just simply gave up.This year i will try to achieve all these goals i will make.

2 subjects i am interested in is math and science

2 collages i want to go to is Queens collage and St Johns University 

Jessica Rutkowski

                                               More Research Paper!

      The topic I am most passionate for is Puerto Rican Literature. I want to get to know this literature because I have many friends that are Puerto Rican and I ,want to know about them more. Foundational work/texts I plan on using for your project would be a book by Sánchez González written in the 1980's it  discusses the theoretical and ideological underpinnings of her approach issues of race, gender, and class. Some questions I will use for my research and reading is, When was Puerto Rico found? And by who? 

Jessica Rutkowski

    1) At least 3 strengths you have (try to make at least one of them an academic strength).

2) At least 3 major or long terms goals you have (e.g. to become a lawyer).

3) At least 3 areas or skills you want to improve on (try to make one of them an academic skill e.g. "handing in work on time.")

Then under the same post, respond to: How do you plan on achieving these goals, and working on these skills? What's in your way from achieving these goals? How can you be cleared of this obstacle?

Then under the same post, respond to: How do you plan on achieving these goals, and working on these skills? What's in your way from achieving these goals? How can you be cleared of this obstacle?

    Strengths=

 1-  Fast learner

 2-  Math

 3-  Good Volleyball player 

     Goals=

 1-  Get better at basketball

 2-  Get all my work done in time

 3-  Get good grades

   One way I can achieve these goals is plan my time to what I am doing. 

        

  Jessica Rutkowski

    For this blog post I want you to think of 2-3 civilizations / cultures whose literature you would want to research (e.g. Polish, Vietnamese, Irish, French, Sudanese, etc.)      After you have your 2-3, I want you to pick the one you are most interested in, and explain to me why. 

     The three cultures that I would love to research would be Poland, French, and the United kingdom also known as Britain. The one culture I would most be interested in would be Poland. I would be most interested in Poland because I would like to know more about were I came from and more about my past family how and where they lived. I would love to learn about how they worked what they did in their free time. I would love to know about my family's background 

Jessica Rutkowski.


                                               The end of Gilgamesh!

Question= For this blog post, I want you to share any salient points that stuck out to you. Try to focus on what hasn't already been said in class. Also, I want you to consider the following question "How do the insights from this video change or shape your thoughts on The Epic of Gilgamesh."


Answer=  We learned some new things when watching the video a couple days ago. But some salient points that stuck out to me was that the gods sent down Enkidu to teach Gilgamesh about his power. One other salient point that stuck out to me was that the original "Gilgamesh" copy was written in hylogrifics and when we found them they were turned into a copy that everyone could read and enjoy. The insights from this video shape my thoughts of 'The Epic of Gilgamesh" because I learned many new things about Gilgamesh and Enkidu then I did before. Another one would be that we have not found all the clay tablets to finish the whole story of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Gods they are still somewhere out in the world.