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Due to the winter storm, Thursday, 2/18, will have the below half-day schedule:

09:00am - 09:55am C1 Band

10:00am - 10:55am Y1 Band

11:00am - 11:55am A2 Band

12:00pm - 12:30pm Advisory

Due to the SDP half-day, we will run under the below abbreviated schedule on 2/12.

Friday, 2/12

09:00am - 09:55am B2 Band

10:00am - 10:55am X2 Band

11:00am - 11:55am E2 Band

Due to conferences, 2/4 and 2/5 will run under the below abbreviated schedules.

Thursday, 2/4

09:00am - 09:55am C2 Band

10:00am - 10:55am Y1 Band

11:00am - 11:55am A2 Band

Friday, 2/5

09:00am - 09:55am B2 Band

10:00am - 10:55am X2 Band

11:00am - 11:55am E2 Band

Due to the snow, SDP has declared a half-day for students. The modified virtual class schedule is indicated below.

Tuesday, 2/2

09:00am - 09:55am E1 Band

10:00am - 10:55am Y2 Band

11:00am - 11:55am C2 Band

Due to the snow, SDP has declared a half-day for students. The modified virtual class schedule is indicated below.

Monday, 2/1

09:00am - 09:50am A1 Band

09:55am - 10:45am X1 Band

10:50am - 11:40am D1 Band

11:45am - 12:00pm Pre-Conferences Advisory

Members: Hannah, Kavina, Nile, & Gabe

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In our final podcast, we discussed our thoughts on the overall book, the author’s intent, and what important messages we took away individually. in our final podcast, we talked about the character development of characters in the book, and the breakdown of power being broken and it’s systems. what happens when power is broken? what character’s stay in role, or change? join us for our final talk, as we explore these final questions.

In the last episode of our podcast, we discuss Bronte’s hidden themes in “Wuthering Heights”, along with her personal intent and influence on the story. Is there such a thing as too close in the affairs of love? The characters’ relationships are incredibly claustrophobic, and obsession turns to cruel acts of revenge and insatiable attempts to revive the past (to literally digging up graves!). Thanks for listening!

References:

Linton’s death: Ch. 30

Quote #1: page 121

Quote #2: page 363

Heathcliff’s death: Ch. 34

Claustrophobia/Obsession: Ch. 15, 19, 34

Tale of Two Tribes: The Podcast “Episode Three”

CoHosts: Jakob Cantor, Ami Doumbia, Londyn Edwards, Justine Koffi, Maysa Wright

In Episode Three of “Tale of Two Tribes”, Jakob, Ami, Londyn, Justine, and Maysa discuss their third and final reading of the novel Homegoing by Ghanian-American author Yaa Gyasi. The five cohosts talk about their thoughts and feelings towards the book, how the author wrote in the themes they wanted readers to grasp, and who they would recommend this book to and why.

Run Time: 28:47

Text to Text Connection:

-18:05: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, published in 2018, follows the ups and downs of two people in a marriage. Through jail time, mixed up feelings, and unspoken words, the pair struggle to remain connected while being so far apart ad when they do finally reconnect, the spark is gone. (To read more, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Marriage)

Book References:

-10:34: Chapter Marcus, pg 293, “Not the being lost, but the being found. It was the same feeling he got whenever he saw Marjorie.”

-12:10: Chapter Marcus, pg 289-290

-13:10: Chapter Marcus, pg 290

-14:06: Chapter Marcus, pg 284, “Marcus didn’t care for water,”

-14:33: Chapter Marjorie, pg 268, “I put you in here so that if your spirit ever wandered, you would know where home was.”

TheVision

Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

James Kry, Sukainah Hasan, Nasir Duppins, & Tristan Mayberry

Podcast Summary:

In this podcast, from finishing the book we discussed why we think the author wrote the book this way. We think Toni Morrison wrote the book to show the power of each character’s story. Most characters were judged because of the way they looked. This caused them to become the character they are in the book. We even see with the characters’ actions everything comes with a price. Sometimes people have to sacrifice in order to satisfy others or themselves. Toni Morrison mainly wrote this book to show the damage that racism has put upon these characters.

Link to Podcast:

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Co-hosts: Lily Bromley, Elena Smith, Antonia Solar

Summary: For our last podcast we discussed the final events and the author’s intent for the book The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov included a lot of symbolism in this book, but the main ones we went over today were about morality, love, and authenticity. Lastly, we finish our episode with our thoughts on whether we’d recommend this book and what audiences may enjoy it.

List of Evidence: Morality & human nature (360), Love (215, 381), Art & authenticity (287, 371)

Margie Castejon, Tristan Dini, Annie Chen, Vincent Cammisa, and Caleb McCreary

In our third episode, we discuss the ending to Grendel: our reactions to it’s themes and characters, and how Grendel engages with the original text it’s based on. We also speculate on John Gardner’s intent for making a prequel for ‘Beowulf’ in the first place.

Listen to our episode here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JIGYbNqTKWevwUrzTXlAmrNcCjvUIZUK/view?usp=sharing

By: Clare, Lucia, Kofi, Aigner, Ian & Ashton

Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

In our final episode we talked about the end of the Novel, character developments, as well as Ken Kesey’s intentions behind One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. We fill you in on the fishing trip that was organized by McMurphy and childhood memories both McMurphy and Bromdon reminisce on as the story ends. Enjoy our final episode of the Dayroom and learn our ideas of the author’s intentions and the impacts it had on the character developments.

Pages Referenced; 221, 265, 304, 326

Artist Statement :In my memoir I used a lot humor similar to Trevor Noah’s memoir and how he used humor and expressed himself and used a lot of comparison to other things or people I would say my writing style is similar to Trevor but not really since this is my memoir and I wanted it to be unique and coming from a neighborhood similar to Trevor Noah.In my memoir I talk about how I use football as a escape in my life from the danger in my neighborhood and how I make my problems disappear with football and how I communicate with people and meet other people also I like the this Diego Armando Maradona (RIP) “When you are on the field life disappears.Problems disappear.Everything disappears.” I use inspiration of this quote in memoir and how I use football to disappear into another world with football and in that world I make problems disappear.Lastly to finish this artist statement with me saying I feel like I made my Catalan ancestors happy talking a little about Catalonia and Catalan culture with Barcelona the capital of Catalonia and our team F.C. Barcelona even though I don’t know much Catalan but I am proud of my ancestry but I just want to fútbol (soccer) is the most beautiful sport to be proud and passionate about in life I got better with other languages I am learning and learned to accept other cultures with this people.

Podcast: In the Streets Hosts: Nickell Ceasar, Randy Le, Matthew Nguyen, Bella Walls, Tyshon Wooden Episode 2: End of the road

In this episode… We talked about the end of the book where the son meets new people and goes off with them> we transition into speaking about the apocalypse and what is shown of human nature which is discussed further and turned into talk about morals with different characters in the book. We discuss themes Mccarthy had going on since the beginning of the book, including death and good vs bad. While doing all of the above, we talked about the author’s intent on why certain events came together or fell apart.

List of Evidence: “I’m starving man. You’d have done the same.” (257) “How do I know you’re one of the good guys? You dont. You’ll have to take a shot.”(283) “You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.” (283) “There was some discussion about whether to even come after you at all” (283) “The boy tried to hand him the pistol but he wouldn’t rake it.” (285)

Not Your Big Brothers Podcast Elliot, Matalai, Nicco, Sohpia and Amadou

How 1984 Ended

In our third and final episode we explore the ending of 1984 (by George Orwell) with our thoughts while trying to understand the author’s intent.

A list of the the references to evidence used (with page numbers) for listeners to locate as desired

“‘They took me a long time ago. … Don’t deceive yourself. … You have always known it.’” pg. 238-239 Winston’s Reintegration - “How many times had he been beaten, how long the beatings had continued, he could not remember.” (247), bottom half of pg. 257 “ ‘There are three stages in your reintegration,’ said O’Brien. ‘There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance.’ ” (269) “The German Nazis and Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.” (272) “There will be no loyalty, except loyalty for Big Brother. There will be no love, except love of Big Brother.” (276) “He knew now that for seven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass.” (286)