YAY!!

So this week ROCKED!! For starters I only had three days of school and on Friday I took off for my dream college (Spring Arbor University) to audition for their music program. It went really well!! I got into the program and got a scholarship!! But anyway on to college english stuff... 1984 was really interesting. The end confused me a little at first but after a second time reading it, it really clicked and I thought it was really cool! The op-ed essay was really fun for me to write. I had a great time looking through other works and trying to find the connections. Overall it was a pretty awsome week in college english and other aspects of my life!!

Crazy Ending

I just got done reading the last chapter... what a crazy ending. I like how Orwell ended the book showing that the Party had complete control all along. A very good way to finish it. Oh, by the way good job Luke, Jake, and Tyler friday you guys did great.

Debate

Way to go Luke, Jake, N Tyler you guys made a boring topic not so boring you did a nice job and had some very interesting facts

1984 Ending

I just finished the book and i can say that the ending was enjoyable. Although it was rather depressing, orwell shows how the party was always in control of Winston, and how he is no longer the same man.

1984..The End

After reading all of 1984 I was really kind of disappointed in the ending. I was expecting to be left hanging or I figured the author would have had one last twist as the book came to a close, which in a way there was but it just seemed disappointing. I would have liked a more exciting and vibrant ending to 1984. Overall though i ended up liking the book a lot more then I thought i would have or a lot more then in the beginning. My favorite part was the chapter right before book 3 when Winston and Julia get caught. The section was the most exciting in my mind. I'm glad this book is done though and I am ready for the next novel we read.

Good Discussion

I thought friday went very well.  Thank you for all who participated.

A new frontier...

...the Op-Ed essay. I went from not knowing what the heck it was, to writing a rough draft in the matter of a week or so. I'm kinda glad I'm a fast learner. :] It was interesting to see the connections between the different works that we had to include. The amount of similarities in the themes was really astounding when you really thought about them. This made incorporating them into my essay a ton easier too! However, reading actual op-ed's in newspapers didn't really help me all that much. It might have been due to the fact they were mostly very informal and from community members, not pros. I have survived it non the less! (I hope ;])
*plus, good job on your presentation, Jake, Luke and Tyler!*