When we started to talk about race, gender, class and what that had to do with The Tempest, I got quite interested. Then when I got more alert and we got into different lenses and what influenced these variations a lot seemed to knot together, though the reason why men think differently then woman still was a mystery. Also while reading The Tempest I noticed that Prospero basically controlled Miranda’s life. That made me want to answer the question “What is the role of woman in The Tempest, how did it change over the years and what influenced that?”
I believe that the role of woman dramatically changed around the world since the Renaissance. Shakespeare seems to express his opinion of the role of woman in The Tempest; to me he is saying that woman back then did not have much to say. For example in Act 3, Scene 1, line 64 where Miranda says to Ferdinand “I am skilless of, but by my modesty”, on the whole, William Shakespeare is saying that woman were not rated by there personality but if they are a virgin or not. Another opinion is articulated in Act 4, Scene 1, line 1 to 35. Prospero, Ferdinand and Miranda are on stage and Prospero is having a conversation with Ferdinand and says that he is allowed to marry Miranda; this whole scene Miranda doesn’t say anything as if she were a price. Lastly in Act 3, Scene 1, line 27 to 33 Miranda is watching Ferdinand carry logs and says that she wants to help, but Ferdinand says that she should not. Subtext of this passage could be that women were not supposed to work but just look pretty and reproduce.
These days woman are equal to men almost everywhere around the world, though the contribution in society is still a bit different. Lets look at Africa first, by what I know and heard it seems like woman are the once that work, I may not have my own lives experience to support this but I do have Mr. R’s who lived in Africa, he once told us in class “In Africa the woman basically do all the work and the men sit around all day smoking cigarettes even though they are really poor.” This clearly shows that the role of woman there is a lot different. While that is true, it is not true that the men force the woman to work, the men are just lazy and don’t get anything done, though the woman want to feed them selves and their children to stay alive. In Asia the role of woman is also different, men and woman both work, though it is more agricultural work that they do because Asia is not that modernized yet. Nevertheless the men and woman still have some separated jobs. I can prove this with my own life experience, I have been to a wide variety of countries and everywhere I see woman and men working in the rice fields. In Europe and North America most of the work is urban where both woman and men get jobs in factories or other businesses. To support this I have my own life experience because I lived in Europe and I have a quote form Azita Amini who comes from the USA, she said “In North America woman started to contribute to the society because the country could not function without them.” Lastly, in South America the role of woman is a lot different than North America, the countries in South America are not fully modernized yet. I got my opinion and support from Ali Pinedo who lived in Brazil all her life until she came to Malaysia, she told me “In South America it depends on the environment in which the woman lives. For example, in the city woman have the same role as in North America, but in agricultural or the outskirts of the cities men and woman still both work but the jobs are a bit separated just like in Asia.” In short the role of woman has changed a lot through the years.
As we talked about different lenses in class we also talked about what influenced these things. In this case, where we are talking about the role of woman through time there are a lot of thing that determined how life is like for woman in the present. For instance, religion and law have had a position. Sometimes a religion says that women are not allowed to work and because in some cases the religion shapes the law, woman cannot get away from that. An other explanation that might have bent the role of woman is the environment. If you live off of agriculture and trade, you need to grow as much crops as possible to make a living. This may lead to the whole family working. Last of all, one of the major things that contributed in this process is culture and what people are used to. For example, the men in Africa may not be used to working and the women are. This will also not motivate the men to start doing any work.
In conclusion, this year I learned how to look for subtext and how to look through different lenses. I think it is amazing what you can sometimes find when you just look close enough! It seems like there is a whole new world is out there! Also I learned how to support my opinion and prove that I have a point.

Hey Everyone,

When I listen to music I hear a wide variety of song and I think to my self, what do they mean to me? I have a totally different perspective of the songs on the radio then other people do. For example, the song “Dance with the devil” by Immortal Technique, I disgust it. Though when a guy might listen to this song, he might not hate it as much as me but just think it is wrong. I think that guys are this way not because of there education, culture, language or religion because females have these same things, but I think its just part of there structure.

An other lens would be the once of a mom that has lived all her life in a campung, not knowing English or what is happening in the world around her, and one day listens to this song, (pretend that she understands it) she might say, “That woman could be me.” She will maybe even think that it is a part of life; daily life. This opinion, I believe is influence by there education, because she doesn’t get the same education as us. She doesn’t learn about consequences, or other important things. Also I believe that culture and religion influence it because there culture might say that women are just on earth to reproduce and so they believe it because they have nothing else to believe.

Lastly a black man may listen to “Dance with the Devil” and think that the artist (Immortal Technique) is being racist and that the sub-text is saying that black people are the only once that do things like that. He then would most probably hide this feeling deep inside and just ignore it. Though I think they shouldn’t. Anyways, I believe there history or in other words experiences of there ancestors controls this view the most because all the way back to the Age of Exploration, the Europeans made the black people slaves and treated them like animals. Also, not that long ago when America had developed in a lot of ways and was full of Europeans they forgot one thing, respect. The black people had to sit at the back of the bus, etc. It is kind of logical that these memories will stay with them for ever.
In conclusion, I believe that all these different people are allowed to look through their own lenses because other ways the world would turn into a place where everyone thinks the same way.

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Hey Everyone,

This quarter in English we covered the poetry unit. At the end of the quarter we showed what we learned by making a poetry book, by having a poetry night and as we know at the end of every quarter we had to write a journal! Well this quarter was no different!

We also worked on a Teen Life project during this quarter. We worked with students around the globe to make a final animation. My group’s topic was the cause and effects of teenagers using drugs. I wrote several poems and made several picture to contribute to this project.

As you may know, this journal is written according to the Expected School Wide Learning Results and the 6 traits. For the ones who do not know what these things are, I will explain. The Expected School Wide Learning Results or in short the ESLR’s are 5 things the students have to be at our school, they are as following; Critical thinker, Academic Achiever, Involved Citizen, Effective Communicator and Self-Directed Learner. Secondly the 6 traits are areas to improve your writing. The 6 sections are, Ideas and content, Organization, Voice, Word choice, Sentence fluency and Conventions, we will also be graded on these traits.

To make our writing more detailed and in depth we used the Blooms Taxonomy. This is a 6 step way to make your writing thorough, the 6 steps are, Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation. Where knowledge is the easiest level of description and evaluation the hardest or most professional!

Now, after a long and boring introduction of 4 paragraphs let’s start the actually work!

To start with, I was a critical thinker this quarter because I applied problem solving skills to facilitate learning. To me this means that I used prior information and new information to make my learning easier and that I was able to solve problems by myself and in a group. I demonstrated this while working on the teen life project; I worked independently but still communicated with my team mates to clear our thoughts. Another thing that showed that I met this trait was by solving problems that came along. If I would have the opportunity to do the teen life project again I would adjust my behavior by getting my team mates email addresses and talking to them more often.

I was also being an academic achiever. This is because I demonstrated progress in all curricular areas especially in writing poetry. When I started writing poems I did not really get it nor like it too much, but at the end of the quarter, my poetry book had some really deep poems in it. This shows I learned to respect the art of poetry and learn that it is not that bad. I also showed that I was an academic achiever by demonstrating that I could use technology as a tool for efficient and creative achievements for a project. This applied to the Teen Life project where I used the computer to modify pictures and I went to websites to help make my poems sound more professional. If I would like to modify my work on this ESLR I would have worked harder at writing poetry and really used metaphors, similes and personifications. I would also have made them longer like the one poem called “Death”.

Thirdly, this quarter I was an involved citizen. This is so because I demonstrated care and concern for the environment by not printing every single poem that I wrote, instead I put them on the Teen Life wikispace or my web log. I also showed care and concern for the environment by recycling sheets of paper by using them more then once.  For example, when I printed a poem and Mr. R had corrected it. Later that day or the next class I would use that paper to write a first draft or drafts of a new poem. Next quarter I would like to improve in this area because believe that I could demonstrate an other reason why I was an involved citizen, for example I could demonstrate responsibility in active decision making or demonstrate awareness and respect for the rights of other.

During this quarter I was also being an effective communicator. This is because I collaborated with others in appropriate learning situations to achieve group or individual goals. This means that I talked to others to make sure we understood what we had to do to achieve our assembled goal. This situation applied to the Teen Life, because we had to make sure we were clear on our task. Also it applied when we had to make a class slide show to show who we were. This demonstrates this trait because our class had to establish good communicational skills to make sure that everyone contributed to the project. Moreover, to me this trait means that you put effort into joining in conversations we were having during class. I showed that when I was being an effective communicator by listening respectfully to others and by asking questions to achieve better understanding. I confirmed this in class when we were doing the Hai Ku’s. I was not totally clear what standards you had to meet for a poem to be a Hai Ku so I asked questions to clarify my self. An other example was when we were talking about the different kinds of poems, like image, sound, or message. I could improve in this area by mixing my communication skills with my creative talents so that the general out come would be more resourceful.

Lastly, I was being a self-directed learner this quarter because I accepted responsibility for my own learning and evaluations. I illustrated this by doing my homework and doing my work in class. Mr. R had told us a couple of times that if we just wrote the poems in class, we would get a good grade. So that is what I did! Also I showed that I was a self-directed learner by taking creative risks in developing untried ideas. I applied this to the poetry unit while making my poetry book. I made the cover really unique and exceptional and as it turned out no one else did it the way I did it! What I would like to change for this ESLR is that I would like to monitor, adjust and document all my work in progress. This is because at the end of th poetry unit I had all loose papers with poems on it lying in my binder.

Over all, I thought that this unit was really fun and that I learned how to admire poetry a little more and also, I learned how to have a higher opinion of it. In conclusion, I think the memories of this quarter will stay with me forever! Compared to the first and second quarter I believe that I have grown physically to become a more efficient and better used of all the ESLR’s!

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As you guys may know, quarter 4 has strated! this quater in english we are reading The Tempest by William Shakespeare and an other book which i don’t know the name of. We already finished Act 1 scene 1 and 2 but we have to read scene 2 again so that we will understand it better.

Now the reason I am writing this blog post is because we have to write 2 lines we understand, 2 lines we don’t understand and 2 questions about te plot of the book.
Here they are!!!

Well I understood these 2 pasages:
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 552 to 554 “Miranda: There’s nothind ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with ‘t” This says: This man has no evil inside him. If the devil is inside such body, good things will come with it.
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 586 to 588 “Miranda: My affections are then most humble. I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.” This means: My love is not poor. I have no need to search for a more handsome man.

And i didnt understand these:
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 385 to 387 “Caliban: A wicked as e’er my mother brushed with raven’s feathers from unwholesme fen drop on you both” I suspect it has something to do with his mothers magic.
- Act 1, Scene 2, Line 41 to 42 “Sebastiaan: A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!” I think Sebastiaan is trying to make the workers work harder but I am not sure.

Some questions that I have about the plot is that in Act 1, Scene 2 is says that Caliban is trapped in a cave, though it also says that he is the one that gets wood for Miranda and Prospero. How can this be is he can’t leave the cave? Also a question that bothers me is that Ferdinand says that his father and all his friends have died, but that couldn’t be true becuase then there would not really be a book. So then why does he say that when he saw everyone in the ship still alive?

Hey Everyody!

In Social Studies we are working on Current Event articles where every class some one has to present a important incedent that had happend over the last month.

Here is my summary of the article:

As you all know Google Earth is a downloadable program where you can see the Earth from a range of 15cm to 15m. Google is also making their program more modern by having 3D effects.

Though, citing security in India has been worrying about the details in Google Earth, therefore, Google has been having meetings with the Indian government to discuss which sites are too sensitive to show on Google Earth. They included military basses and government buildings.  The government is making a list of the places that are too sensitive to be viewed via Google Earth. Many of these areas have already been blurred on Google Earth. Google said that they are glad that they have talked it over, though there has not been any decisions made yet, and that they will continue talking until the problem is solved. The Indian government wants to blur some sights because they are scared that terrorists can get too much detail from it.

The images that Google Earth uses are often made by the government or other agencies, and they already blur them before giving them to Google. In exceptional circumstances Google Earth will also blur images. Because Google Earth has blurred some sights, it has encouraged more people to spot those locations.

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Here is a picture of where every thing is taking place:

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to My School Blog! I am Emma, and my classmates and I have set up blogs for our English class. We are going to use this blog for posting our writing assignments that we got for homework.

I hope that you will enjoy reading my blog!

Have a nice day!