Joshua demonstrated impressive initiative by opening the class with an offer to share textual passages illustrating Macbeth as a proleptic character. We then discussed and analyzed the multiple examples of Shakespeare's use of extended metaphors. I further introduced the term"synecdoche" as a form of metaphor and identified its use in one of Macbeth's "asides". Last, we noted the ongoing motif of appearance vs reality.
Determine why the boiling point of water is as high as it is compared to mass equivalent compounds. Discuss hydrogen bonding between hydrogen and highly electronegative atoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, chlorine, and bromine. Sketch and discuss the 3 different types of isomerism. Use structural formulas to show each.
Joshua requested a little extra class time to finalize his project, and then he presented "Moderne deutsche Musik" a google slides project on the varying types of music in Germany today and what influences it, and how it compares to the music of the American youth.
Reviewed Present Perfect and discussed what happened over the weekend and wrote it out as well. Did Exercises in Deutsch Na Klar.
Watched documentary video on Karl May who authored Winnetou about cowboys and Indians in the American West. Karl May was very influential for Germans and his books were loved and made into movies and plays still now.
Finish covalent bond test started on Tuesday. Explain the nomenclature of a structural formula assigned for HW. Explain some methods for determining the correct ratio of product questions.
Today we took notes on exponential growth and decay functions and related them back to geometric functions. I explained as Joshua wrote down what qualifies a function as a growth or decay. We discussed what the initial values come from, and how to determine the rate of growth/decay. Then Joshua worked on some of the practice problems. We discussed how to evaluate the limits towards the ends of the graph. We noticed that the answer is always, 0, infinity, or negative infinity.
We examined the paradoxes in Act I scenes I and II noting how the opening paradox of "fair is foul and foul is fair" acts as a foundational motif. I further introduced the nuance in the definition of hamartia explaining how the play's opening Act raises the question of whether "Macbeth" is a tragedy of character or a tragedy of fate or "chance". We discussed how the witches represent a malevolent force , a fact apparently recognized by Banquo, but not by Macbeth perhaps due to his latent aroused ambition. Last, I explored Macbeth as a proleptic character as evidenced by his focus on what could or might be as opposed to what is.
