Seventh reading

I decided to read Richard Cory because it's short, sweet, and to the point. It's by far the easiest poem to analyze because it starts off as a happy, cheerful poem and then you find out how unhappy he is because it is quoted in the poem that he literally shoots himself in the head.

Macbeth active reading notes. Act 2

I'm not exactly an expert on Shakespeare but this is what I got from the act. It may not be accurate at all but i tried..

-banquo and flea nice talk about how late it is.
-Macbeth runs into banquo late at night and banquo explains how he dreamt about three witches talking about "truths"
-Macbeth imagines a dagger hanging above him and he tries to grab it. As he continues to try for it he notices blood on it and it makes him think about Duncan's death.
-Macbeth confesses to lady Macbeth about the death.
- lady Macbeth gets mad when she realizes Macbeth hasn't left the daggers for the sleeping chamberlains to frame them for Duncan's death.
-Lennox figures out the king is dead and lady Macbeth pretends to be horrified.
- The chamberlains are framed for the murder and Macbeth wants them to be put to death for the crime they didn't commit.
- Ross is walking outside the castle and Mcduff comes and tells him that Macbeth is the new king.

Carrie passages

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings of flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”
-This passage really stood out to me because Carrie kind of opens up and gets emotional. I can just hear a very distraught young girl saying it, I think that's why I couldn't get it out of my mind.


“They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.”
-Every school has a premadonna teenage girl that thinks she's better than very one else.


“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”
-When something good happens to us, or something benefitting us, we tend to not question it because whatever seems to be too good to be true usually is. So we ignore it.

AP practice test. Multiple choice questions

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Brave New World

Honestly, I didn't take any Internet worthy notes about the book. Taking active reading notes has always been a struggle because I haven't quite figured out how to manage staying concentrated on the story but then seeking the important points to jot down.