I've just been going through some of the sample exams, and these are some of the ones that come up more often....

-King Lear/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello (Just lump 'em in together! ^_^ They all have some sort of purpose!)
-A Midsummer Night's Dream (oddly enough)
-David Copperfield/Great Expectations (Charles Dickens is expected, of course.)
-The Colour ( Read more... )

Two more days until Alberta.

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can......

Sorry, I just have a pile of English homework right now. SIGH.

1. I CAN read Shakespeare if I really set my mind to it! :D

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I just don't want to. ^_~
Currently on Act II of Othello. Gotta persevere...-_-

2. I was reading Emma and Shirley today.
You know, the manga by Kaoru Mori?
So, so, so, so beautiful~ I should have read the manga sooner. I mean, the anime is amazing and awesome, and wonderfully made, but the ( Read more... )

Had my unit test on Pride and Prejudice and The Colour Purple, and got my test results today...^_^

So...
P&P Multiple Choice: 10/16
TCP Short Answer: 12/15
Synthesis Essay: 5/6 (So...20/25)

So, in total: 42/50.

VICTORY IS MINE~!!!!! >:D

Because I was totally flailing on the P&P Multiple Choice! I had read only about...six eighths of the book. LOL I did ( Read more... )

So today in English, we were talking about Oryx and Crake.

We were talking about the significance of the weird corporation and gene splice names, when this one guy in my class said,
"In this one scene, Crake is eating this kangaroo- [I forgot what the other animal was, but it was something really weird] thing, and then Jimmy is eating a "capon". What ( Read more... )

Just finished my grad documents AND my UBC Supplementary application ( Read more... )

After organizing all of the favorited videos on my YouTube account, the count went from around 720 to 540 ( Read more... )

Books I've read/am reading:

The Maze Runner by James Dashner
This gives off a very "actiony teen boyish novel" sort of feel, but it sure was a page turner! I stayed up till 12:30 at night reading this (which probably wasn't the best decision I've ever made, but whatever.)
I've read various books with a similar tone in my youth, but this is quite good ( Read more... )

A few classes ago, my Creative Writing teacher had us do a tone identification exercise.
And upon completing it, I realized my vocabulary SUCKS. LOLXD

But yeah. One of the passages we had to do was taken from something by Kafka. And while we were on the passage, she started talking about one of his other stories,"Metamorphosis", which is apparently ( Read more... )

I mean, she's actually a very, very nice and interesting person ( Read more... )