landons blogs » Uncategorized

For the little ones!!

landonlyons8 — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:19:43 +0000

First off I love how Mrs. Duke tells us to write and offer guidance and advice to future victims haha thats great. She is basically telling you that this class is impossible.

Dear ALL little ones that get Mrs. Duke, its hard, i would start freaking out right now and try and do something about it. There are a lot of things you need to do in order to get a good great. Some of those things are Read the books, blog, look ahead, vocabulary, homework, and participate.

Participation- this can make or break your grade in this class. Be sure to participate all throughtout the year, if you do then it is just easy points that you will need in the long run. Even if you just talk a little, make sure it is quality and that you are not talking to your friends cause Mrs. Duke sees everything. Dont be like Elliot, Robert Garrett and Ross. They talked all the time in class just not about what we were learning.

Homework- I know Mrs. Duke gives you alot of and that everyone hates it, but make yourself do it, it will help on the test a ton and i will make your grade so much better. Theres alot so work hard and effecient.

Vocabulary- One word, IMPOSSIBLE. It is one of the hardest things in this class. You cant just remember the words and deffinitions, you need to no sysnoyms, antonyms, the part of speech and how it relates to whatever you are doing. Good luck, your going to need it for this.

Look ahead- I no most people just look online and see what they have for homework that night and do that, but you cant do that in this class. You cant do that, there is so much stuff that you need to do, looking ahead will save you alot of time, there might be a project do one day on the assignment page, and you will look at it and be like wtf, if you would have looked ahead you would have known about that and you would have been prepared.

Blog- Blog……like this one, they are very annoying to me and i cant stand them. It takes so long in my mind and I am so happy about this being my last one. Blogs are due every monday, dont wait tell sunday night to do this cause she will take off point, do it in your free period time. Trust me it will help you. Also make sure you are always making comments, if you dont it is going to kill your grades big time. Good luck.

Read the BOOKSSSSSSSSSS- Omg the biggest and stupidest thing you could do is forget to read the book beacuse you are lazy, i know it takes forever, but it will help in the long run of everything. I didnt read that much and my test grade showd it. I think i failed every test in this class because i hate to read. DO IT.

Hahahahaha sucks for yall, this class is hard. Have fun buddy

Im FINISHED with blogging

Dear Simon Russell Beale

landonlyons8 — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:48:03 +0000

Wow, there is not a whole lot to critique, I think you did a wonderful job on this and I wish you could have voiced every charactor, because there was not one other charactor being voiced that was as good as you. The only thing I cant think of it to maybe slow your voice down a touch. I think that will allow people to follow you easier in the book. Another thing I would suggest to you it to get into the acting business, cause you did amazing and I would love to watch you in a couple of movies. Like Angels and Demans, i think you could hve done a lot better in that movie then what Tom Hanks did, he is just to old for the part. Good luck and i enjoyed listening to you.

Dear Kenneth Branagh

landonlyons8 — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:42:59 +0000

I loved the fact that we were able to read and watch some of hamlet in our english class, it really helped me think and imagine what exactly is going on. The fact that we read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hamlet at the same time really killed my thoughs about everthing and I started to get really confused about every. I personally think that you are a great actor, but in my mind there are a couple of things that you could have done to make the Hamlet movie better. I think, from the short part of the film that we watched, that you were a little to dramatic. You always tried to make everything seem all dramatically. I dont really know how to put it but act more like a normal person would then what you did. But other then that little thing, i think you did a great job in the movie.

rosencrantz and guilderstern (95-end)

landonlyons8 — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:12:15 +0000

In this reading ROS changed a lot in my thinking. He went from being a goofy guy to a gay (like really gay) and stupid charactor. On page 100 ROS and GUIL are talking about weather they are on a ship or not, and ROS asks if they should stretch there legs and GUIL replys no and that he doesnt feel like stretching and ROS then says that he will stretch them for GUIL if he would like and guilerstern replys no thanks and then ROS comes up with the great idea of strtching each others legs. GAY.

Also on page 104 GUIL made a statment saying “-you just repeat it in a different order”. I was thinking to myself and said that that is exactly what Rosencrantz does, he always makes everything stupid by repeating amost exactly what Guilderstern say but just in a slightly different way. MAN that gets me mad because i get confuses when reading whick charator is which.

I dont really like the ending, did Hamlet die? Why would they want to kill Rosencrantz and Guilerstern, when they never did anything wrong that i know of? Im kind of confused and i cant wait to talk about it in english today!

Rosentcrantz and Guilderstern (Pg. 74-95)

landonlyons8 — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:09:33 +0000

Haha this was a funny reading in my mind. I thought the funniest 2 parts were on page 74 and 87. On page 74 ROS and GUIL are talking to each other and GUIL asks what he is doing and ROS says walking then GUIL asks if he was walking on his hands and if he was stark naked, HALIRIOUS!! On page 87 ROS and GUIL talk about splitting up and looking for Lord Hamlet and they decide to split up and go in different direstions, then they think hamlet might be violent so they decide to stick together, then they both say that they are going to come with the other, then ROS say that if they both go then Hamlet could come here so one decided to stay, and finally again they think he might be violent so they stay together there. HAHAHA STUPID

In this reading i really see ROS and GUIL getting stupider and stupider. Why would you ask someone if they were walking on there hands, or if they were stark naked? Was it common to be walking on your hands back then or naked? In my mind I think that they are just tring to be funny, because they are charators that come across stupid but very funny!

Rosencrantz and Giulderstern (55-73)

landonlyons8 — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:25:45 +0000

Wow, this reading has left me quiet confused about everything. Ros and Guil sound like complete idoits to me right now. “We cross our bridges when we come to them and butn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memore of the smell of smoke, and a persumption that once our eyes watered” wow you cant realy say anyhting this sounds stupider then this. I dont understand these to men, they are absolutly crazy, its amazing.

Throughout the whole reading they act stupid as some retarded people, at one point guil confuses himself somemuch that he confuses me. On page 50 he talks about the son rising in every direction, i dont get it, what are they trying to figure out? where they came from, if some why are they saying so many things to confuse everyone about it all. why cant they just say the way that they came in and stop argueing about it. I guess that if they didnt burn there brigdes behind them then they would truely know where exactly they have come from.

On page 66 they say it themselves, they truely dont really know anything thats going on. Guil says, “but we dont know whats going on, or what to do with ourselfs.” wow yall are so stupid. I guess thats they charactor they are playing?????? help im confussed.

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern (Pg. 36-53)

landonlyons8 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:29:57 +0000

WOW, finally I start seeing how this book is really related to Hamlet, in these pages Ros and Guil have a conversation that is pretty much the exact one that is in Hamlet in Act 2. When i wrote the blog about the first 35 pages i didnt see anything about Hamlet at all and finally i can see clearer now the rain is gone. I can also see a hug difference in Rosencrantz from te firs reading. In the first reading he was a calm and collective young man, but in the second reading he like turned stupid.

Back to all the mood swings in the second reading, I think that the swings were an atempt to cheer Hamlet up. Remember that after all one of the main reasons for there hire was to cheer Hamlet up, and I think they are doing a great job at it.

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern (1-35)

landonlyons8 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:14:07 +0000

The first think that pops in my mind about this is the fact that we were told that Rosencrantz and Guilderstern is connected to the book Hamlet, but for some reason in the first 35 pages you do not hear from or even hear about him. One of the main characters named Guilderstern is crazy in my mind, something is wrong with his head. In one part he talks about colors and that blue, red and green are the real colors and that yellow is just a mystical experience shared by everyone. This man is truely mentally retarded.

I dont really understand the whole gambling thing throughtout the first 35 pages, guilderstern and rosencrantz a playing a coin game gambling on weather or not it is heads or tails? i dont get why somone would want to do that, and why would you not stop after loosing like 20 times in a row?

Whats Drama??

landonlyons8 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:36:13 +0000

Im not going to lie, i do not know a hole lot about drama except for the fact that it is a form of acting. When i hear the word drama it makes me think of two or more people having problems with there friendship or relationship. Other then that i am completely blank about this word drama. I am sure that throughourt the week we are going to learn more about drama and what it really is. I cant wait to get back to class and learn about this is seems like somthing i will like alot.

Presentations

landonlyons8 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:26:07 +0000

I thought all the presentations were pretty good. But there was always a couple of things that each group could have done. Like the Franklins group she have not let Landon leave for his gold match. They did the best in my mind and i think they should get the best grade in the class. The Miller group did really good, but there was alot of arguing and confusion that they could have fixed if they would have practiced to presentation more.

Next you had the great group of the wife of bath. They did awesome, if was not in the franklin group i would have said thiers was the best, they did of the limit of stuff to do, great job. The final but certainly not least was the Pardoner group, they did great but i forgot what all happened haha sorry.

Janie dont get to nervous, there is nothing to be scared about when you present. you did good.