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So this unit of English 12 began with poetry and I absolutely hate poetry. I hate it because I always have nothing to talk about. I've hated poetry since the 5th grade and every year since then I've gotten a lesson based on poetry. I was put at ease when I found out we weren't actually writing poetry but just reading and analyzing it. When I have a lesson I don't like it make is hard for me to understand and do the work that's given, but I do it anyway because everything counts towards my grade. But that lesson was last week and this week we are looking in to Shakespeare an his play hamlet. I don't mind this lesson because Shakespeare's plays are really interesting. I've only read two of his plays Othello and Romeo and Juliet, both of them were class assignments but I probably would have never read them on my own time. Yesterday we had to translate a conversation into Shakespeare's time period's language. It was pretty cool doing that. We also had a lesson on saying the different moods of O's I think we should have more interactive lessons like that to keep students engaged.

If Loving You Is Wrong by Tyler Perry

One of my favorite shows of 2014 is If Loving You Is Wrong by Tyler Perry. It is like the ghetto version of Desperate Housewives. It is about 6 different families that each have there own set of problems. I like this show because its interesting and it leaves the viewer wanting more and more with each episode.The theme of this show would be lies and deceit.One of the story lines is about this husband and wife named Alex and Brad who are like  high school sweethearts but the spark in the relationship has died and the wife has turned to infidelity and the person she's sleeping with just happens to be her husbands best friend(OMG). I think this is interesting because this woman has almost a perfect life she has a husband who loves her, two healthy children, and everything is provided for but it still isn't enough. This reminds me of the time in the matrix when agent smith was talking about how the humans rejected the perfect world and only responded to misery and suffering. Many of the characters do this throughout the story and that's what make it interesting. Maybe that's why people like to watch shows like If Loving You Is Wrong because you get to see other peoples downfalls and hardships.

Brad and Alex 

 

Sentences

Here are the vocabulary words used in a sentence

1) The vaulted ceiling added to the churches Gothic appearance.

2) The brazen thief paraded around the new sunglasses he just stole.

3) The army platoon was beleaguered  by radicals after they packed up there weapons. 

4) The ascetic monk took a vow of silence to express his religious faith. 

5) Ms. Hegeman's class seemed interminable after the tertiary group presented their power point.

6) Even though my long johns chafed against my leg I continued to wear them because the temperature was 20 degrees.

7) My family emancipated the dog we found in the street because it was to hard to domesticate.

8) The plane i'm on has to traverse over many bodies of water to get to Japan.

9) The haggard wife had multiple bags under her eyes.

10) Ms. Hegeman often has to reiterate to her students that they have to be in uniform.

11) I had a paroxysm of crying when I found out my cat died.

12) Stacey was spasmodic so she made sure her new dorm mate knew so that she could make the decision to stay in the room or not.

13) The suicidal boy had many brooding thoughts about killing himself.

14) The jockey was upset when he didn't win the horse riding competition.

15) To clean my room was tertiary on my list.

16) The imperious Hitler ruled over Germany.

17) I hastily ran to class after the late bell rang.

18) The parapet was about to fall down after the continuous blows to the foundation of the wall.

19) Stacy face was practically blue from keeping in her secret but she finally divulged it to me.

20) Chris Brown is rakish.

Class Response

In class we started reading short stories. At first I did not want to read them because the looked really long and uninteresting. On to of reading the short stories we had been assigned a project that we had to do on the story you where assigned. The short story I was assigned  was the lottery by Shirley and I worked with Malik, Dominique, and Magdalena on the project.we were the first group to present and I sorta felt like we were given no time to do the project and because of that I really stressed my partners on getting the work done in a timely matter. Working in groups usually don't work out for me because most of them time I end up doing the work by myself and in this case I did. That also reflects in the presentation because you get up there and only one person in the group knows whats going on in the slide show and it ends up being a mess. I was happy that we were allowed to do brag sheets so that I can express my lack of help. During the duration of all the presentations the short stories turned out to be actually really Interesting with a twist at the end. My story the lottery ended up with a lady getting stoned by the village she lived in. Now we have an essay on the short stories and how they relate to current events. I think i'm going to choose everyday use and the sniper because they deal with family relation ships and about culture and the beliefs  you have that tear you apart from your family. During the Socratic seminar today I got a lot of ideas to put in my essay because I only had the beginning of an idea and not a whole one but with hearing the Socratic seminar ideas I have developed more ideas to write in my essay. This time I was not able to participate in the seminar because I was unprepared but next seminar I will be more prepared to be apart of it.

Free write

So I joined the knitting club about a month ago and so far the club has been really cool learning experience. I say that its cool because knitting is something that not a lot of people can do and now that i'm in the club its a different skill that I have developed. When I first began it was kind of hard to remember the technique but after a while I got the hang of it, and now I enjoy doing it. The first piece the club members decided to make was headbands because it was easy and quick to make. I choose white yarn because white goes with everything and I sorta had the idea that I would die the yarn a different color when the headband got to a off whitish color. It took me a while to finish my headband because I had a of work to do and sometimes I wouldn't touch my knitting needles for like a week.I would say to do an activity like knitting you have to set time aside in order to make a lot of progress and get better when knitting. With the knitting club going on its 2nd month of being a club more and more people come to participate which is really good. Another good aspect is that we get to know more about the teacher who instructs the knitting club Ms.Hegeman. when knitting club just started people would consonantly say "hey when are you going to knit me a hat or a scarf etc" and I would get really get annoyed after like the fifth person would say that to me in a day because its taking me a long time to knit my own headband what makes you think I want knit you something. Nonetheless The Knitting Club is really fun and every body should join.!

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Yesterday was the Capital One Finacial Budget Project Competition and me and my partner Chezelle won both the local and regional competition. The road to winning was real hard. We first received this project to work on like during the summer and there was many drafts that had to be given in order to get to the regional competition. We had the scenario of a school teacher, and we had to create a budget and find a way to work them in and out of a deficit. We named him Tremaine Neverson and we had him engaged to Kiara Martian and they both live in the Bronx. The hardest part to this project is when the drafts where due. It was hard because when we would give in our drafts the feedback given about the draft was so drastic, like for example we would have to change major aspects of the project that should have been changed in the beginning of the project that my manager or myself didn't catch and it would be really annoying. Then my partner wasn't that much help to start with and because it was the beginning of the school year and the work was piling on my work on both the budget and my school work wasn't that great. Then the local competition came about and me and my partner presented and by the grace of good we won. I wasn't really that happy because it would be more work for me to do in addition to the school work I already had. My Partner agreed to help me out more and she did and she was a lot of help, and in the end all of our hard work persevered and we won.

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In Statistics class I have the highest average. Having the highest average was a real shock to me because I'm not really good with math and it made me happy to have that average in a math class. Mr.Rich gives out index cards to use on test that to me is really helpful because people don't remember everything that happens and being able to write it down is a really BIG HELP. On the first test I received a 100 percent and with rejoice, I jumped up and down excited about my test grade. To prepare for this test I did all the normal stuff like finishing the review sheet Mr.Rich gave out and filling out the index card with helpful information. On the day of the test I brought a big Fiji water that was on sale for 4 dollars which made me happy because usually it way more than that. Then I made my way to school and took the test, during the test I was drinking the Fiji water and I think the water gave my brain a power up to get a 100 on the test. I don't know if it was my brain and knowledge or the Fiji water that got me the 100 but what ever it was I am grateful that I got it because it really boosted up my grade in statistics class. I was kind of worried that I would not be able to hold up to the standard of getting a 100 and I was right because the second test I got an 88 percent which I was not that excited about but I was still happy I passed the test even though it wasn't with a hundred.