Metacognition: Blogging

This is rather broad, to apply "how I was thinking" to all my blogs, so this might not be exactly what you're looking for.

For each blog, I first checked what the blog prompt was, and then checked what I had to do in order to complete the blog prompt. I thought about what I could write, and then tailored what I wanted to write to the blog prompt. If we had a choice as to what blog prompt I wanted to use, I chose the one that I thought I actually had something to say in (and usually, I wouldn't have much to say on many of the blog prompts).

As to what I thought about the blogging in general...
I think it was interesting to be able to write and read what other people thought about certain subjects, and in that respect, I thought it was good. But sometimes, because it's an internet assignment, teachers like to assign things when we don't have class (i.e., on Memorial day, we were assigned this) and they like to make things due when we don't have class (i.e., this is due today, but despite the fact that we don't have class today, we still have to do this blog). In that respect, I think it's rather unfair to be able to assign blogs out of class and make them due out of class.

Metacognition: Best of Week Blog

Which blog to do first, the choose your own prompt, or the Best of Week prompt. Well, let's see what my choose my own prompt would be. Don't like that... don't like that.. can't do that... Hmm, I could do a Connection.. oh wait, that would be for Social Studies, not English. Yeah, I don't like any of these blogs. I guess I'll do another metacognition. But what will I do the metacognition on? The Jane Eyre project was a while ago... we haven't really written anything in English in a while... oh, I guess I could do it on my Best of Week prompt. Yes.. let's do that.. first I have to do the Best of Week though. So.. what was best of week? There was some stuff about PoV and themes, Michael K as God... we finished Michael K... we got grade sheets, we talked about the test on Monday. Hmm.. I'd rank those at about the same level of interest. We missed a day of English for the AP test... Can't really write about that though, not for Best of Week for English... Alright, the Michael K as God thing was interesting, and I disagreed with it, so let's write about that. It's easier to write about what you disagree with than what you agree with anyway. Let's see.. hmm it's been a while.. what were the things that likened Michael K to God? "I am what I am", "Miracle", and "He escaped the system." Was that it? Am I missing something? I probably am... that's a pretty weak case for a strong an assertion as Michael K being God. Oh well, let's write about my disagreement with that.

Best of Week: Michael K as God

As noted in class, there may possibility be numerous biblical references that might imply that Coetzee may be likening Michael K to God. I'm not using this topic because I feel that I actually believe this 100%, but rather because I found it to be an interesting topic that we discussed in class. So... our logic likening Michael K to God were that he said "I am what I am", someone said that his escape/getting over the wall out of the camp was a "miracle", his escaping from the "system", which supposedly cannot be done, and probably other things that I cannot recall at this moment. So with the first two, we see two instances out of an entire book where somebody might make a vague references that might possibily liken Michael K to God. Or not. I know that I've personally used the phrase "It's a miracle" before, and I've heard other people use it before, and I know that God was not really part of the equation when the phrase was used. Just because the Bible says it, does not mean that everyone else that says it must be referring to the Bible. With the "I am what I am" one, it's more likely that it might be a religious reference. I say this because its an actual line, and not just a one word phrase. I'd probably liken Michael K more to Buddha through this line, and not God, however. If I recall correctly, Buddha also said something along this line (And if not Buddha, another eastern religion.) Michael K's experiences through the book vaguely remind me of Buddha's journey. However, once again, this does not necessarily mean that Coetzee is likening Michael K to God (or Buddha). He might be likening Michael K to Popeye the sailor man. Or he might not be likening Michael K to anyone at all. As for Michael K escaping the system... I really don't think he's actually escaped the system. If he's truly escaped the system, he wouldn't have been constantly pulled into those camps. The system still has a major influence on him. At the end of the book, he's in a city. He's living inside the creation of the system. Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe he really isn't in the system. But, if this is the case, is there really a "system" at all? As we discussed in class, post modernism doesn't apply in all time periods; only recently has post modernism applied due to internationalism. Michael K lives in the 1940's. Is it not possible that the reason he's outside the system is because the system is not developed, or does not exist at all? Would it then really be a miracle to say that he's outside the system?