This week we read the story Beowulf and the main idea we learned about was what it takes to be a hero. Beowulf is an extraordinary character who is very smart, courageous, witty, strong, and gritty. With all of these things being needed to be considered a hero to some people. He would step up to the plate when people needed help from someone and anyone, doing what ever he had to do to help save the people, whether it be setting a trap to kill Grendel, killing Grendel's mother after she killed the closest friend of the king, and at the end of the story even risking his own life as an older man to save his people of the dragon. we came to understand about the traits of a hero by looking at the qualities in our own heroes in our lives and relating them to heroes such as Beowulf, superman, batman, etc. and how all of them are very similar, even though they are super human, regular human beings can be heroes as well. Some questions i have about after this week are what happened to Wiglaf, the one who received many of Beowulf battle equipment, and if he is as brave and willing to do whatever it takes like Beowulf was. Overall i think my participation was good although at first i wasn't very interested in the story, but the further we got into it the more i wanted to read about it and learn more about it. I believe i understand the story pretty well and i enjoyed reading the story, as it was very interesting and detailed about the battles that took place in the short story. i still need to work on reading with more emotion and slowing down on the more suspenseful parts in a story.
This week we learned a lot about stories and how they all follow a similar story line, and watched the movie Star Wars to relate to it. Mainly all of the good books and movies follow the plan with there being a call, the threshold, the challenges, the abyss, the transformation, the revelation, the atonement, and a return(with a gift) we then would write what we thought what parts in the movie fit each part of the story line. I learned that in some way just about every story follows this line of events. I need to improve on writing more in depth sentences to make it easier for the reader to understand what's going on in the movie or book. I enjoyed watching the Star Wars a new hope because it is easier to stay involved in something in class when you can watch a movie and hear and see the scenes and how everything goes, rather than read a book that would take a much longer time to read. it was also a good movie and i hope we get to watch more movies in this class. I also believe luke showed a lot of the characteristics that are needed to be a good main character. he was very courageous, energetic, smart, a leader, and wanted to make things happen and have the best outcome possible. after her rescued the princess he could have left with Han Solo, but he decided to stay and help destroy the death star with the rebellion.
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March 2015
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