Faith's English Blog

Today was the last day to complete missing assignments. I spent the class period working on my final projects and missing assignments as per usual. After the class period was over we went to 3rd period and then lunch. I brought my crab cakes too school and they were really good. Though the taste seemed a bit off/faded out because they have been sitting in the fridge for almost 2(?) weeks because I forgot about them. It's a good thing that I brought food to school to warm up because I won't be eating much at home since our microwave almost caught on fire/stopped working right this morning. I hope it can get fixed soon. 

 Today we took the American Lit Final about poems we have done over the semester. They were "Constantly Risking Absurdity", "I too", and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". The test was pretty easy if you payed attention while we were analyzing them a few weeks or months ago and following along with the teacher. I heard some of my classmates did not do so well on it, but I'm not surprised because I remember many of them were not paying attention or completing the assignments relating to the poem back then. I got 14/18, which was way lower than I expected, but it makes sense since I did not understand a good 3 or 4 of the questions there. My grade on the 3 section(I think it was either this or 2) Final Exam should bring my overall grade higher though since I did so well on it.

 Absent in school today 

Today was a free day due to the fact Mr. Rease was absent and he did not assign any classwork. We did not finish the worksheet from yesterday so today we were supposed to answer questions about the movie. But since that did not happen, I just spent my class time working on assignments from Geometry and APUSH. Some of my classmates spent the period watching this movie called "Pitch Perfect" on the big screen. We left the period without the bell again for some reason. I wonder why the bell stopped working. I think we were told why but I forgot.

Today we watched a movie about how less fortunate people go to school. The four kids journeys that were covered we Jackson and his sister from Kenya, Zahira and her friends from Morocco, Carlos and his sister Rica in Mexico, qnd Samuel and his brothers from India. They all take treacherous and dangerous journeys to get to school, with many risks and dangers along those paths. Such as losing their way, drowning in a river, getting kidnapped, injuring themselves, or getting killed by wild animals or dangerous people. I'm really glad all I have to do is walk to the bus stop or hop in one of my parent's car to go to school.

Today we did presentations of our group projects about countries in Asia. The countries presented were Thailand, North Korea, China, South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan. Some of the things in the presentations I knew already and some of the information presented was new to me. For example I was not aware that Thailand had temples or tribal villages. Some things I learned while doing our presentation on North Korea was that 3 languages most commonly spoken there are Korean, Chinese, and Russian, but most of the population is proficient in Korean.