Letter To Classmates.

Dear Fellow Classmates,

I have had a great year with you all. I have had alot of fun. Even though it feels as though I have known you all for a long time, it has only been a short period of time. This has been my first year at Episcopal but it has felt as though I have been here so long with all the friends I have made. My English class was one of my more difficult classes. But, I have manged to make it through it.

The thing about English is, it wasn't hard. It involved a lot of work and effort. At the beginning of the year the freedom at Episcopal overwhelmed me,  I believe that affected my work ethic. This has been a great year and you all have made it so special. I hope that my years to come at Episcopal are going to be as great as this one and Im glad to spend them with you all.

Year Long Reflection

Since the beginning of the year I have struggled with small convention errors within my work. I also didn’t do very well in using voice, sentence fluency, and organization. The areas that I have done well in are having a good thesis statement, but I haven’t been able to argue it well throughout my papers. I have improved in my word choice over the year.

Over the year my writing has began to progress overall. I have been making better grades on my papers. I think this has been a result of more revising and editing before I turn in my papers. I noticed this because before I was doing this I was having a lot of small mechanics errors such as missing a comma or spelling something, which can be easily fixed if I had, took more time to look over it.

This strengths and weaknesses have been noticeable the whole year. As, the year has progressed the minor weaknesses have been erased but, the major ones are still there.   Some of these major weaknesses include using better transitions and arguing my points with sufficient details.  If you look at my first paper which was the literary narrative had more comments than the global issues paper. Even though there were more comments on the first paper, the last paper had the same comments just less minor errors and this brought up my grades but I still haven’t fixed the major points.

Most of the feedback on my papers said the same things. The comments said that I need better transitions and that I wasn’t interpreting what my teacher and I were discussing in our conferences. I thought that I was interpreting what we were discussing, but I didn’t do it well enough in my paper. Over the year my before paper has improved greatly. At first I would just turn the paper in after I do correct obvious mistakes but I wouldn’t carefully go through it.  I became more efficient at it after I started losing points on simple mistakes. Also I don’t write clearly in my papers sometimes. I shift in my tone a lot and this can be hard to understand when trying to read a paper.

The turning point of my revising problems was the profile paper. I had made so many comments on simple things that I was surprised I relieved the grade that I did.  After that point I told myself that I needed to get more serious about English and from then on I would put more effort into my papers.  In the future I am going to work on my transitions and organizations. I am probably going to need more time with my teacher to help me understand and progress in this particular area. If I get this down pact then I will probably do better on my papers as a whole.

Common Errors List

·         Proofreading- In T-Crank I put although he is a larger than most of his friends and family.

·         Incorrect spelling-piece instead of peace

·         Weak transition – in Literary Analysis

·         POQ- was frequent in one paper kept putting “A”

·         Fragments- something simple-But, by him making jokes about people affected his feeling

Homage to My Hips

 One of the poems we had to analyze was  "Homage to My Hips". This poem is extremely creative. It has unique features that make it stand out from other poems. One feature is that there are no capital letters in the poem whatsoever. If you sit back and just look  at the poem as a whole, by having no capital letters adds a shape to the structure of the poem and the shape of the poem is that of hips.

 This shows one way the poem is related to the title of it. The repetitiveness of the words these and they, show that she owns the hips but, the hips have a mind of there "own". This gives a sense of personification to the poem. This is a literary element that is used to create a good poem. There are many more things to talk about in this poem but this is the one i decided to focus on in my blog.


Read  100 mins

Spring Break

Hello everyone. This spring break was a fun spring break for me. It started off with a visit to my dad's house in Mississipi. Although I didn't get to ride my horse, I was able to go to two rodeos and they were very entertaining. Easter Sunday I went to church at six o'clock in the morning. That was extremely boring, but the next day I had to come back to Louisiana because,  I had to go on vaction to Gulf Shores, Alabama,

This year I chose Gulf Shores as my beach vaction because I haven't been there before. I really couldn't get a tan because I've had one since fourteen years ago. But, I just like being in the water. On our vacation we went shopping, out to eat and to the beach. At the end of our stray my mother took us to Destin, Florida for a day. There I went swimming and went on a soothing walk on the beach.  After all this I was extremely tired but, I still lved my vacation.

"My Papa's Waltz"

My papas waltz in a literal sense means that the narrator's father does the waltz dance. The poem is literally describing the dancing of her father in the kkitchen. The first stanza is stating that rthe father has been drinking whisckey and it is hard to dance with a drunk man. The second stanza is stating that they danced in the kitchen so hard the pans fell and the mother had a frown on her face because of them doing so.The next stanza is saying that the father had dirty hands and a hurt knuckle and the the narrators head would scrape the buckle of her father's belt while the danced. The final stanza states that the father tapped on the narrator's head with a dirty hand and they danced off to bed.

The whiskey on his breath means that he has been and in the next line it states it could make a small boy dizzy shows that the father has been drinking heavily.  Also, the caked dirt shoes that the father must have been at work for it to cake up onto his hands. In every stanza the rhyme scheme was the same, the first and third line rhymed and the second  and fourth line oof each stanza rhymed. from the clues within the text you could tell she was danceing with her father and was talking to him in the story. The narrator speaks in a happy tone like  she is happy that she is dancing with her drunk father. The Author on the other hand is describing more of a drunken father who is dancing with his daughter and tearing things up and bothering everyone else. Each stanza is a sentence with enjambments within it. And, every two lines is and enjambment. This adds shifts and creates more than one point per stanza. Now the title means that her father's dance is what she yern's for because this is when he spends time with her.. The theme for the poem is that spending time with your child makes them happy even if you are drinking. I did this in the TP-CASTT concept.

My Weekend.

I had a very busy weekend this weekend. Friday it started off with a track meet. As we all know that i run the 4x100 relay. My team lost sadly. But, directly afterwards i had to take a shower and get ready for Taylor Carmouche's birthday party.
It was extremely fun. On Saturday i went to a football camp. It was pretty fun but, exhausting. And the next day I had more work to do. The next day I had to go to Avani's house  for a project. My group got lots of work  done and maybe we will get an "A"

Ceremony

I have started a new book for English class. It is an example of post-colonial literature. The story is written from the point of a Japanese World War I prisoner. I haven't made it very far in the book. So far it is very interesting.

The author adds random poems in to the story. Well, at least they seem random but they add dramatic affect and they go along with what the story is saying. The book hasn't been an easy read although. But, I think I am going to like this book.

Free Post

Lately, I have been thinking about different things. Things such as what am I going to be when I become an adult. I know that I want to do something in the medical field. I also really like animals as you all know about my weird obsession over animal planet.

I guess this leads to the kind of controversial decision to  become a vet. I really don't know yet. Only time will tell. But, I just want to be successful. As of now i just need to worry on getting my grades better so I can achieve this goal.

Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is starting to come around on me. I have really grown fond to the story. It is becoming more intense to me. I think it is going to have a great ending.

I wonder what is the author's purpose of organizing the story in the way she does. But, i guess it id to helpm the reader understand the problems Tambu is facing as a character. But, I do want to say sorry for making the class read chapter 6-7 they were pretty lengthy and they probably disturbed your break.


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Courageous

Hello. Today, my free blog is going to be about a movie I saw tonight. The movie was very good. It was an inspiring movie about four cops and a friend. They each had there own challenges in their personal lives.

All of the cops were friends. One of the cop's daughters dies and it forces him to reconsider what his priorities are as a father were. This made him create a resolution on how to be a father to their children through faith in God. This movie was great and you should see it to find put each individual friend's challenge.

Things.

How is everyone doing. We have been having alot of work to do lately. Well, at least I think we are. I thing t he feeling of stress is start to set it on me. We are reading a new book, which is nice but we also are working on a research paper at the same time.

Our other classes have been diffucult also. We just had a test in World History. I have three tests tomorrow. This can be alot to cope with. I am becoming mentally and physically tired. I have been powerlifting and doing track at the same time. And, the fact we have started heavy lifting in power lifting which makes me sore. I also have a spanish project due Wednesday. I can handle all this though and I will keep my held high with a smile no matter how hard it seems.

School

How is everyone doing. For my free blog I am going to talk about how school has been going lately. Reccently we have had alot of projects come up. We had the literary anakysi, the biology project , and the research paper. I hope this didnt stress ppeople to much. But I noticed our sxhool does things to keep us happy during these tressful times.
 We had a dancce. We also had a hilarious war ball game. I may become overwhelmed with all the work sometimes but I know it will help me in the long run. This will help me in college so it wont be that big of a surprise of a work load. I also know that us aas a grade has been challenging itself because alot of people are ataking ap and honors. This is a good sign in the future for all of us,

Research Paper

Hello, you guys. How has your week been. Weel this week we were tolxd to blg about how are research paper's are going oalong. Mine has become really simple. I have a detailed outine which we worked on in class and i have begun to type the paper.
My topic is on Al-Qaeda' effectson West Africa. As, we all know Al-Qaea is the terrorist group responsible of r the atttacks of 9/11. Well they don't just target America. They have been terrorizing West Africa, a poor region in the world. Through this paper I have found it difficult to create different arguments but I went to Dr.D and she helped. i now have my arguments an outline and the first page of my paper.


Worked on paper 150 mins. Made bibliographies typed and modifyed outline.

Mardi Gras

Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog. This week my free response is going to be about my plans for Mardi Gras. This year I plan to do alot for the break. this will be my first time getting out a whole week for Mard Gras. I plan on going to New Orleans for some parades and fun. I also want to my dad's house and ride my horse.
The parade I usually go to every Mardi Gras is the Zulu parade. We usually go this parade just to get a bunch of conconuts. After, the parade wee go to a friend's place to have a cook out and play football and things of that nature. But, also about my dad's house we have alot to do there. Since he lives in the country, I get to keep a horse up there and ride four-wheelers. This extremely important to me because I am an outsid eperson and I like to do country things. This is how I plan to spend my first week of Mardi Gras off.

My Research Project

 How is everyone doing this week? Well, this week my English Blog is going to be about our researrch paper. Is anyone finding it as difficult as I am. It is kind of hard to make the note cards because I am new to them. At my old school we didn't have to use Noddle Tools for our notecards.
 At my old school we did research by hand writing notecards and our bibliography was at the beginning of each note card. I guess I am just more comfrotable with doing it the old way. I also feel as though it is going to be hard to write a 4-6 page paper with the few notecards I have.  It seems like most of my articles just restate what the past article has said. In the end i feel as though this aper will work out for me , how about you?

My Literary Analysis

Hello everybody. In this blog I will be talking about our literary analysis. I have made it farther on mine than I thought I would. At first, I thought it would be so hard to argue something in a story and write a paper about it.  It became easier when we did the outline.
My only problem is making it three pages. I have trouble with not summarizing in the body paragraph's of the story. In my analysis I am arguing that the social setting in the sory affectts the plot. This wasn't very hard to argue. Like I said earlier it became easier to write about after the outline

Christmas Holiday

Hey, my English class. My christmas holiday was fun. i got to spend time with the whole side of my dad's family. We ate alot of my grandma's country style meal and capped it off with sweet potatoe pie. i got to see my horse. I killed my second deer, which was a small buck. But, after all that i began to think about how i could do better in my classes grade wise.
I realized i need to stop procrastinating so much and just get the work done. I noticed because once  you get  behind its's hard to catch back up. i also need to study more. I made good on almost all of my test but  could have done better, if I would have just tryed a little  harder. I hope to accoplish my goal of just putting in tha extra effort.