The Importance Of Being Earnest/Victorian Research

Researching the Victorian Era helped me understand many things in "The Importance of Being Earnest" such as social classes, marriage, and even education. I learned that many young women did not get taught school subjects like German, but instead were taught to become a normal housewife. Rich people however, were usually taught regular school skills instead of housework skills, since they most of the time would marry another rich person and have servants. If you were a poor person, marrying a rich person would be very unlikely. But even though Cecily was given the opportunity to learn school subjects, she disgusted it. "Horrid Political Economy! Horrid Geography! Horrid, horrid German!"-Cecily p.40.

I also learned that marrying your own cousin was normal back then. It was considered normal to become engaged to somebody after only just meeting them. Even more, most people who loose their husbands/wifes, usually get re-married very soon. Marriage was known as "business" back then. For example, when Lady Bracknell questions Jack before he gets married with Gwendolyn(p.23-27). Basically, for Lady Bracknell, marriage was based on a persons' background(lower class, higher class). I'm glad we did research on the Victorian Era, because it has helped me understand many aspects of "The Importance of Being Earnest".

New Year's Resolution

For me, New Year Resolutions aren't really that important to me, since I usually forget about them a week later. But, I do have a goal academically, and that is to get A's in all my classes except math(A-). Honors Algebra 2 is kind of hard, there are a few people in my class though that have A's, so I'm going to try my best. In fact, I have an A- right now, all I have to get is an A on another test. The only problem is the tests are worth 80% of your grade..so yeah I'm going to have to study more, and concentrate. My mom pushes me to get A's on tests alot.

Another thing I like to do is procrastinate. I always wait until the last day to finish a (semi) big project. I realize now that the sooner I can finish projects and homework, the more time I have to do other things. Also, it can help raise my grade if I spend more time over a wide span of days, other than those 5 hours in 1 day. Hopefully these goals will stick with me throughout the year, and get me a fresh start to high school.