Tragedy Summary And Analysis

When I first walked into room 110 of South Anchorage High School I had no idea what was in store for me. On the very first day of class Mr. Lee Butterfield informed us that this course would be extremely challenging and he had planned to push us all to our limits. He accomplished this, but in a way that was very rewarding in the end. Never in my life had I ever enjoyed or appreciated reading and writing. Little did I know this would be the year that would change everything. A few weeks into the school year Mr. Butterfield informed us that we would be starting to learn Shakespeare. Our class would be working specifically on the tragedy titled “MacBeth”. We immediately began to grown at the idea of reading page after page of words we absolutely couldn’t comprehend. To our relief, he announced that we wouldn’t have to read the play word for word, but we would all act it out as a class. Throughout the tragedy we were all excited because we …show more content…
We wondered what kind of english test we were going to be given. Mr. Butterfield past out a rubric, and we all found out that our final would be a project. This is a high schooler 's dream. The project was literally supposed to be anything we wanted it to be as long as it related back to one of the novels we read throughout the school year. I chose to do my project on the book “Into The Wild” by Jon Krakauer. This book was my all time favorite novel that we read throughout the year. “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger was a close second. For this project I decided to construct the plot of the novel using polaroid photos and acting out the different scenes. My friend and I went to several different locations gathering photos resembling the plot. I created a large map with each photo leading Chris McCandless (the main character) on his journey. I really enjoyed this project and it was the perfect way to wrap up the school year for this