Faith's English Blog

Today we read two articles about college student loans. I learnt one ways you can avoid student loans are by taking community college. If it is really necessary that you have to take a student loan, you should get one that you know you will be able to pay off so that you won't be in debt forever. Student loans affect graduates in many ways. It can prevent them from getting a house, take away from their paycheck, and more consequences. 

Today Mr. Rease was absent and assigned us work to do while he was gone. We completed excercises 1, 3, and 4 of Lesson 10 in this red vocabulary book and turned it in. A new word I learned today was immutable , which means unchangeable . To my surprise, it did not mean "something that can't be muted". But given the fact that it has the root word mut which is also in mutation , I see why immutable , means unchangeable ; it is because it is unable to be mut ated . 

Today we read two articles, analyzed them, and answered questions about them on a sheet of paper, which we turned in at the end of class. I finished my work a little bit before class ended. I remember one article was called "Get Ready For Robots On The Road" which was in support of driverless cars. And the other on was called "Putting the Brakes On Driverless Cars", which was not in support of driverless cars. On the topic of that, we learned that our teacher, Nr. Rease, owns a Tesla. We also learned that Tesla's prices can fluctuate from cheap to expensive throughout the year. In addition, I personally I think that whether driverless cars should be on the road is something I can't really pick a side on, because both articles had really good points.

Here is the draft of my poem since I did not get to finish it

Today we watched videos of tight rope acrobats performing tricks on the line. One of the acrobats grandfather died while performing and we saw the video of that event as well. Then we read a poem called "Constantly Seeking Abusurdity". In the poem, a tight rope acrobat was being equated to a poet taking risks when they are publishing their works. We answered questions about the poem on Illuminate, but since we were not able to finish them in the time frame left, we were limited to 5 questions and told them to turn them in. 

Today we did a 10 question test on Fences. It also had an 11th question we had to answer with a 3 paragraph constructed response. In my essay, I talked about how the title fits the play so well and had different literal meanings. In the play, the family was building a fences to protect their house, but each of the characters also had fences in their life they were building for their own reasons. For example, Rose was building a fence around her heart when she broke up with Troy so that he would not damage it anymore. 

Today we spent the entire class period working on our Fences Mini Project, which is due tomorrow. There were six options to do the project and the option I chose was to write a resume as if I was one of the characters in the story. The character I chose to do this for was Rose Lee Maxson. There were other options available but I knew I wasn't going to be able to do those well so I just chose the resume opetion. I'm almost done with Rose's resume and will turn it in by tomorrow morning.