BOB I

Here are all the blogs that I feel are above and beyond the rest and the ones that I personally use as a model for my own:
Ming Chen: http://mchenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Danielle Galindo: http://danig14.blogspot.com/
Samantha Garrison: http://sgarrisonrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Valerie Gonzalez: http://vgonzalezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Matthew Patel: http://mpatelrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Felicitas Ruiz: http://fruizrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

These are the blogs that are all great and have most of their work done, the people here are doing a good job staying up to date:
Cassidy Ashlock: http://cashlockrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Reed Conforti: http://rconfortirhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Sebastian Guillen: http://sguillenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Megan Hardisty: http://mhardistyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Alicia Hernandez: http://ahernandezrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Haleigh Jones: http://hjonesrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Ryunhee Kim: http://rkimrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Abby Kuhlman: http://akuhlmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Alex Lane: http://alanerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Isiah Mabansag: http://isiahmabansag.blogspot.com/
Conor McNamara: http://www.csmrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Bailey Nelson: http://bnelsonrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Josh Ng: http://jngrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Nathan Oh: http://norhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Troy Prober: http://tproberrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Brady Redman: http://bredmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Erika Snell: http://www.esnellrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Justin Thompson: http://jthompson2rhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Tanner Tuttle: http://ttuttlerhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/
Dulce Vargas: http://dvargasrhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/
Ashley Wilburn: http://awilburnrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

Unfortunately there are a few blogs that are as far behind as mine but I feel like with a little work these blogs can be back up to date:
Brittany Cunningham: http://bcunninghamrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Kristofer Green: http://kgreenrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Travis Knight: http://tmkrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Carly Koertge: http://ckoertgerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Karianne LaPlante: http://kariannelaplantesblog.blogspot.com/
Colleen Livingstone: http://clivingstonerhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com
Lacey Mougeotte: http://lmougeotterhsenglitcomp1.blogspot.com/
Conner Patzman: http://cpatzmanrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Devon Tomooka: http://dtomookarhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/
Austin Skaggs: http://askaggssrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/

I am Here

This grading period I know that I've fallen waaaay behind on my blog and I haven't been able to consistently post unfortunately, however I haven't been doing nothing.  This grading period I've been working very hard on my senior project and have made alot of progress, also I actually made two SMART goals and I've been working towards both of those as well.  In order to improve I know that I have to start posting more on my blog and I plan on doing that and trying to keep up.

Thinking Outside The Box

Plato focuses on the point that if we don't expand our reasoning and thinking skills we'll forever be ignorant and not see beyond the shadows casted by the fire in the cave.  However if we were able to think outside the box we'd be able to experience the outside light and become intellectuals escaping the "hell" that was inside the cave.  Sartre uses a more literal form of hell being the room and their close minded thinking led them to continuously torture each other for eternity however if they were to overcome their initial judgements of each other according to Garcin they could be redeemed.  Unfortunately none of the characters were able to help each other escape hell because they couldn't overcome their own ignorance.  Sartre's version of hell was hell because it was very monotonous and never changed the environment and the way they thought similair to Plato's in that the prisoner's never saw beyond the shadows.  Freedom of thought and expanding their mind only came when they were willing to make a change such as how change could've occured if the three dead characters from No Exit could've changed themselves.

Sonnet

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

–William Shakespeare

AP Hamlet PLN

http://millsenglish.com/wordpress/?cat=16

I picked this site because it seems very similair to our own blogs and program also the layout was very nice.  If I ever needed help on things outside of Hamlet this site also has information about other books and videos about the books.

http://litcharts.com/lit/hamlet/backgroundinfo

I feel like this site gives a good summary of the story and if I ever needed to refresh my memory of a particular scene or idea I could use this site as my source..chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2006/Mathews.pdf
http://www.shakespearehelp.com/hamlet.htm

This site is kind of a hub of information about Hamlet and I could use this site to find out anything I wanted to about the story because of how large its collection of sites is.

http://www.sccenglish.ie/2011/01/hamlet-resources.html

This site has a wide variety of ways to learn about Hamlet, it has videos, podcasts, and summaries done by other students which gives a similair perspective of the story to someone like me.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/teaching-methods/3544.html

This site is the work of a collaboration of teachers that interpreted Hamlet and then tried to simplify it for people to understand it easier.  It also helps you appreciate the literature and the characterization more than I might've originally.

Who was Shakespeare?

Little is known about Shakespeare and most the facts only lead to vague parts of his life, we know that he was born a hundred miles away from London and that he had two sisters.  Nothing is recorded of his education, he eventually married an older woman and had twins one of which died.  His career was successful and he eventually opened up his own theatre.  I think highschool students don't like hearing the name Shakespeare because they just think of his work as...work, instead of entertainment.  I can start to appreciate how much effort he put into his writing and all the literary elements while still writing in iambic pentameter.  I think that he was a great writer its just his work can be hard to understand since it was written in an older form of english which I still struggle with understanding.

To Facebook or not to Facebook?

When I first made a Facebook I thought "Dang this is a pretty handy site that has alot of utility" after reading this article I can understand why they'd have to focus on creating such an appealing site in order to lure in users.  I think that Facebook will always be a viable and reliable way to get in touch with people however, Facebook being able to track and record where we go online and then be able to hand that information away makes me uneasy.  I think that the best way to decide whether or not to use Facebook is evaluate how much you get from the website opposed to how much of your privacy is being invaded.