Faith's English Blog

Today we had no bellringer. We read and analyzed a poem called "Im Nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson. In summary the poem was about someone (the author) who dreaded being somebody (which we interepreted as being normal). There was something else I wrote in my summary but I forgot what it was. After we read the poem, that we completed the 2022-2023 discipline test, and then left to go to our next period.

 Today we had no bellringer. We were given a green sheet that said unpopular opinion, and told to reach our hand into this basket of strips of papers. Those papers had unpopular opinions on it, and whatever opinion we got, we would use to create a statement that agrees, a statement that disagrees with it and a statement that is in the middle, or compromising between the two. After that, we were to create a paragraph explaining more on the middle/compromise statement in the way our teacher taught us for homework. My assigned unpopular opinion was that "The uninformed, uneducated, ignorant masses should not have an equal vote." which I of course disagree with. However, I put my feelings aside and completed the assignment in the way I was instructed to because this is arguementive essay practice.

Today we had no bellringer. We took notes on how to include evidence in a paragraph. Evidence is proof that comes from the text, observations, or other readings. To practice including evidence in a paragraph, we answered the question "How to stop gun violence among teens in Atlanta?" or something along those lines by writing a claim, proof, and a sentence backing up the proof in our paragraph. After doing that we turned it in. Then after several minutes, we went to the next period.

There's not much of a summary for today's class period because we did not have a lecture or a bellringer today. This was due to the fact the teacher had a sore throat. So therefore, we wrote down vocabulary words on page 11 of this red textbook, and answered questions and exercises 1, 3, and 4 in the book. After finished the assignment I used the time I had left in the period to study for my AP US History test and complete the test review. I hope I do well on the questions portion I'm going to do in 3rd period.

We didn't have a bellringer yesterday or today. We wrote logos, pathos, and ethos statement on a sheet of paper about "Why should schools fund their technology?" or something along those lines. And then we discussed how would someone appeal to little kids to not do drugs now, or when they get older, using logos pathos or ethos. After that we watched several commercials and discussed whether each one was Logos, Pathos, or Ethos. There was 15 minutes of class left after we did that, so I used some of that time to develop my daily paragraph summary for today. Then the class period ended.

Today in class we wrote notes about the components of a argument. Types of Arguements are Logos, Pathos, and Ethos. In summary, Logos is an appeal to the audience with logic, Pathos is an appeal that tries to evoke an emotion in the audience, and Ethos is an appeal that tries to persuade the audience with ethics are reason. We also learned about the 3 types of claims in a arguement: Claim of Fact, Claim of Value, and Claim of Policy. We made a cluster out of an argument in class, and sorted out which claims for agreeing or disagreeing with it were which type. Then the class period ended.

Today Mr. Reese was not here so we had a substitute fill in for him. We were assigned 8 words and told to write 15 sentences that mentioned any of those words at least once. There were exercises to complete as well. I completed those, but I think I didn't complete the vocabulary words and assignments sentence correctly. It only said the vocabulary words on page 5 so I wrote 15 sentences from 8 words. I feel like I was supposed to write about the 7 words on the back of the page but the instructions did not specify that. I'm hoping that tomorrow Mr. Rease shows up so I may be able to ask him on clarification on the assignment, and redo it if I did it incorrectly.