Notes From Underground ( SECOND PART)

Notes From Underground ( Second Part)

(Tuesday, September 24th, 2019)

For Today's class, we continued with the second part of the book "Notes From Underground". As usual, the teacher told us to be prepared to present each chapter he assigned to 10 groups.  The second part named "A propos of the Wet snow" is very interesting because it describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator and anti-hero. Many groups described exactly what each chapter is mainly about . Moreover. With this class, we finished analyzing this complicated but interesting book. Next week, we will star with a new book ( according to what the teacher said), so let's be prepared 😎

A group getting reading for the class 😎

My classmate Daniel explains his chapter 

Some classmates before the teacher's arrival 

Notes from Underground ( Videos)

Notes from Underground 

(Friday, September 20th, 2019)

Since the teacher was not able to assist to the class, He decided to share 3 videos regarding the book "Notes From the Underground". We had to watch the videos and answer 2 questions:  

1. What do you think about the existentialist novel "Notes from underground" and its main character the Underground Man?
2. Why do you think Fyodor Dostoevsky named his book "Notes From Underground"? 

Here you will find the video's link just in case you would like to watch them.

Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky) - Thug Notes Summary and Analysis

Fyoder Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground BOOK REVIEW

Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground - In Ten Minutes

Notes from Underground ( FIRST PART)

Notes from Underground

(Tuesday, September 17th, 2019) 

This class was full of knowledge. Before the class, the teacher classified the students in couples and trios in order to work in the book "Notes From Underground". each group had to read a chapter from the book, make a question regarding each chapter and be ready to explain what it was about to the class. We had around 30 minutes before the teacher's arrival. Because of the time, only the first part of the book was covered ( 11 groups presented their chapters). What each group explained was very interesting and helped us to understand some parts of the book that were quite confusing. The next class we will continue with the second part of the book ( 11 groups will explain their chapters). 

Some of my classmates are reading their chapters in order to be prepared 😎😎

First groups to present their chapters

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Different groups in the class

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Notes from underground (analysis)

Notes from underground

(Friday, September 13th, 2019)

This class was quite interesting. Since the book "Notes from underground" is a little bit complicated to understand (specially the first part), the teacher made some questions regarding society in order to make a relation with the situation of the book. Questions such as what factors would make a person resentful with society, what activities we commonly do make ourselves feel happy ( are they considered "taboo"?) , if you were getting to the end of your life, would you like to write your memoirs ( why , why not?) and others were asked. At first I did not understand the purpose of these questions, but later the teacher made the relation between these questions and the story of the book, so I could get the idea of what the main character of the book tries to explain in his story. Then, the teacher explained the term "Utilitarianism" that means if we want to make something that makes us happy, we can do it no matter what the others may think. Finally, the teacher told us about an activity for the next class regarding the same book. we will have to read a specific chapter and we will debate. I think  this will be very fascinating. 

Checking the attendance list 😃

Working in different groups 

Sharing our opinions regarding the questions 

Storytelling

STORYTELLING 

(Tuesday, September 10th, 2019)

For today's class, we have to present our storytelling. In different groups we had some time to be prepared (practice a little bit). There were around seven groups that presented their stories. Some groups used sound effects to create a better atmosphere. One group presented "Heidi" but in a Salvadoran version (It was very funny). Other stories like The Three Billy Goats Grull, The City Mouse and The Country Mouse, Tom Thumb, etc... were presented.  Since all the presentations took the whole class, the teacher decided to make the other activity regarding the book "Notes from Underground" for the next class. I'm curious about what this activity will be about. 

Some groups presenting their story 😎😎😎

Poetry

Poetry

(Friday, August 6th, 2019) 

For this class since there were less students than usual, the teacher decided to make the activity ( the storytelling) until the end of the class so that others students could arrive. after this announcement, the teacher told us to make the groups of the proposal and he started to make questions regarding poetry such as the what's the purpose of poetry, the requirements needed to write poetry and if we were a poet, what kind of poetry would you write. With my group, we gave different answers. some classmates said that they would like to focus on nature poetry, some others in injustice and reflection of life. 

Something very interesting was that the teacher mentioned  there are people who are very good at writing poem, but they are not good at reciting, and vice versa. After this little discussion, we listened to some songs in  order to identify the feelings and the different stylistic devises used in the lyrics. we listened to the songs River, California and  A case of you, the three song by Joni Mitchell. After this exercises we did not have time enough to present our storytelling, but next class we will present it. 

Discussing about Poetry in different groups

the teacher verifying the attendance list

Analyzing the song River By Joni Mitchell

Storytelling

Storytelling 

(Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019) 

Today's class was quite interesting. At the beginning, the teacher asked to a classmate to notice to the group that we make the groups for the final performance, and for those who have not finished their blogs entrances, the could catch up on it. At his arrival, the teacher explained about the Storytelling and the different characteristics of it such as the voice, tone, emotions, pitch/intonation, characters etc... Something very impressive is that a storytelling is something that we have seen or heard. 

after that, we watched an example of a storytelling named Resurrection Mary (not sure of the name); this video was very intriguing. Then we listened to a similar story name "Lavender". Basically both story were the same but with a different interpretation. then, we made groups of 4 students in order to read a story that we will have to present it as a storytelling but with our own interpretation. 

In my group, we read The three Billy Goats Gruff ( a funny story of 3 goats that want to pass the bridge but a giant wants to eat them). Because of the time, we could not present the story, but for the next class( Friday) we will present our story. I hope everyone will love it ( or at least laugh).

My classmate is giving us the news 

we watch the story of Chicago's Marry or Lavender 😎

the story we will present next class 😊