Blog Comments 4/27

Jett Turnley: https://1025jett.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-book.html?showComment=1493302808980#c4351397707332871915

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/04/hits-and-misses.html?showComment=1493303185155#c1975323346376442321

Anticipating our next book

  If you are in a position of power, you are happy. I agree and disagree with this statement. I believe this way because it depends on what type of power you have. If you are a dictator or a tyrant, you can have what ever you want that pleases you. What if you are the Dean of Students and have to expel a kid that you liked, this would probably leave you unhappy. 

  Everyone is capable of lying, betrayal, and violence, which are basic parts of human nature. I agree with this statement. I believe this way because people will sometimes do these for the great or good. Some people will lie to their friends for their benefit. Everyone is capable of these traits because their will probably be a time in one's life that one of these traits will be needed. 

Hits and Misses

  Throughout the course of the year I feel that I have grown a lot as a writer. I feel that I have made a lot of process with all types of writing. I feel that I have a better understanding of larger pieces of writing such as a research paper, literary analysis, and personal narrative. I know I will be asked to do these in the future and I think I will be able to do ok on them.

  As I have grown as writer, some of the pieces of writing weren't so easy for me though. The toughest piece of writing for me was the research paper. I experienced problems with backing up my thesis and incorporating primary sources into my paper. I soon fixed the problem and learned how to do this correctly the first time I try. The piece of writing I enjoyed the most was the personal narrative. The piece of writing that has tortured me the most are the blog post because I never want to do them and they are sometimes time consuming for me. 

Blog Comments

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/04/reading.html?showComment=1492108651737#c4260191570318337535

Casey Rigby: https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2017/04/reading.html?showComment=1492108880359#c6900599146345392109

Reading Strategies

  I have been using a lot of different reading strategies for Purple Hibiscus. I am making connection, developing questions, and making predictions. The most successful strategy for me has been making questions and predictions. I think this has been the most useful because I can know my understanding of the book's details and know if I am really paying attention to the book. 

  So far I haven't found many challenges throughout the book. I think I am understanding the book in a good way and what I am doing is working. I will keep using these strategies and hope they will keep working for this last piece of reading. 

Prompt

  One of the favorite things I like to do is watch movies and television. I love to go to the movies with my family. The movies I like to go see are comedy and action movies. The funniest movie I have ever seen at the movie theatre is probably Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. My favorite action movie that I have seen is probably The Avengers. 

  Another thing I like to do is watch TV. I usually just watch sports and comedy shows. The comedy shows I watch are Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory. These are the TV shows and movies that I like to watch for entertainment.

Blog Comments 3/30

Alex Harlan: https://harambememelover.blogspot.com/2017/03/prepare-to-be-triggered.html?showComment=1490891707685#c4321641986275067499

Jett Turnly: https://1025jett.blogspot.com/2017/03/drug-testing-welfare-recipients.html?showComment=1490892089166#c7129221984465563363

Political Article

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-03-26/trumps-border-wall-proposal-faces-many-obstacles

  The article I read about was President Trump's wall proposal. This article goes into the different problems that President Trump has delt with during this process. The major problem that President Trump has been faced with is the money. He initially proclaimed that Mexico would pay for the wall but they refused so Trump went to Congress. Congress hasn't approved the price tag yet but it should be about twelve billion dollars. There are also legal and geographic challenges into this decision.

  I agree with the big picture of this wall which is to keep people coming to America illegally. I think President Trump conceived a good idea of this wall. With the wall more Americans should be able to get jobs. I am fine if someone from another country is trying to come to America but they have to do it the right way instead of doing it illegally.

Blog Comments 3/23

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/03/learning-reflection.html?showComment=1490015946237#c719224877179006097

Jett Turnely: https://1025jett.blogspot.com/2017/03/mardi-gras.html?showComment=1490016161208#c7026387450574115328

Blog Comments 3/16

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/03/free-post_18.html?showComment=1489875935450#c8179876379652575093

Jack Terhaar: https://graysonallenftw.blogspot.com/2017/03/march-madness.html?showComment=1489876261916

Learning Reflection

  What I have learned as a reader throughout the year is that I understand how to annotate and understand the meaning more of the book. I have learned to identify reader's tools and annotate a poem correctly. I also use these tools and techniques to make me a better writer. 

  I feel that I learn the best when I write all the information down and the words that the teacher says than just the things the teacher says to write down. I will use this information to help me prepare for test and quizzes. These techniques and tools should allow me to do better at annotating, writing, reading and taking tests during this final quarter. 

Free Post 3/20

  March Madness was kicked off on last Thursday. This is one of my favorite sporting events of the year. I love to fill out a bracket and bet against my friends and family. I filled out a bracket with my family and a few of my friends. We didn't be on any thing but really just bragging rights. 

  This year I choose Duke to win it all over North Carolina. Right now I am doing ok in the standings in the two of my brackets and have a chance to win. I plan to watch all the games and have fun with this throughout the remaining of the tournament.    

Blog Comments 3/9

Casey Rigby: https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2017/02/mardi-gras-break.html?showComment=1489010937632#c8098495386293619984

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/03/free-post.html?showComment=1489011141079#c4739388738564897039

Free Post 3/6

  My free topic this week is about Mardi Gras week. My Mardi Gras week was pretty boring. It started out rough because I procrastinated during the school week and had to four blogs on Friday night. After Friday night I just took the rest of my break to do whatever I wanted. I went out to eat a couple of times throughout the break and went and saw the boys basketball playoff games on Monday and Thursday. Yesterday I went and saw the movie Logan which was a very good movie in my opinion. These were the only times I really got outside of the house over the break. I basically just watched TV and played the Playstation. Now I wish this break was longer because now I will have to get up early and go to school for about five more weeks until my next break, Easter.

Analyzation of Song

Love by Mos Def

http://www.songlyrics.com/mos-def/love-lyrics/

  "Love" by Mos Def includes two poetic techniques. The two techniques that the song uses are assonance and anaphora. Def uses assonance throughout the song and makes the song have more emphasis and meaning. When Def uses anaphora in the song, it captures of what the song is truly about. 

  Def uses assonance to keep the song moving and give each line emphasis of why it's in the story.
"Is this the pain of too much tenderness

To make me nod my head in reverence?
Should I visit this place in remembrance?
Or build landmarks here as evidence?"
In this example, Def uses a superb word choice which helps emphasize the meaning and the fluency in this line. 

  This word choice is used three times throughout the song being included in the beginning, middle, and end. 
"I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper, like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape, when I finish the rhyme" 

In this example from the song, Def repeats this specific wordage to start the song off. When I read the lyrics, this phrase sets up the rest of the song and also how Def became an artist. 

Blog Comments 2/23

Trevor Heath: https://20trevorh.blogspot.com/2017/02/vocab-post.html?showComment=1487783180854#c7588610576932789548

Casey Rigby: https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2017/02/vocabulary.html?showComment=1487791918521#c3843671545696561413

Poem

I had a friend.

His name was Harry. 

Harry's friendship was like the sun's sunshine 

Harry was always a fun guy and very smart

He was my best friend. 

When Harry's time came. 

It hurt.

Every time I look at a picture of him, the pictures speak to me 

It was fun when it lasted but now its over 

And I know I will see him soon. 

1) End-stopped line 

2) Simile 

3) Personification   

Vocabulary

  Once upon a time there was an eighty year old man who was the best martial artist in the world. He opened up a dojo where he soon taught students his tricks in martial arts. These students patronized their master except for one student named Casey. Casey was by far the best student the eighty year old man had. Casey was looking to be the best in the world but he knew he could not be at the eighty year old man with the techniques he had received from him. So Casey became a renegade. Casey traveled the world learning new techniques from various other martial artist. Once Casey felt that he had the most martial arts power in the world, he made his return to dethrone the eighty year old man as the best martial artist in the world. 

  News soon traveled to the eighty year old man that Casey had become more powerful and the eighty year old man knew that they would meet in battle. Once Casey had arrived to his old dojo, the eighty year old man said "you don't have to do this" but Casey had became arrogant and said "why, are you scared." The eight year old man sighed and the battle began. The battle was knick and tuck the whole way until Casey started to use his new moves. The eight year old man knew this time would come and he used a move he had never taught to anybody in his lifetime, called sacrifice. To use this move, the eight year old man would have to come into close range to Casey and use the secret foot and hand combination to send off a powerful blow at Casey. This move is so dangerous because the blow from the doer would kill the receiver on contact but it would also suck the energy out of the doer on contact and kill him. Once the eighty year old had finished the secret foot and hand combination, he punched Casey and they both died on contact. After there battle had conceded, the eighty year old's students would carry on his legacy and remember him as a hero. 

Research

  One thing I have learned about doing research is that you need a lot of information. You need to make sure that you get information from a variety of sources instead of relying heavily on one source. Another thing that I have learned about doing research is that you need to do the work over multiple days. I turned my in late and I worked on the paper for three hours on Thursday night.

  I would like to learn more about how to synthesize better. I would also like to go over how to make stronger transitions. This is what I have learned about research so far.

Reading Response to ATDPTI 2

  I now have finished the book and I did start to enjoy the book more. I liked how the author started to expand his story by changing the plot a little bit. Some of the topics that the author wrote about started to amuse me. I also started to enjoy the different characters that the author introduced and how it made the book better.

  I didn't like how the author sometimes used to much humor and tried to be funny. I also didn't like how sometimes the author wouldn't spend much time on an important chapter. This is what I think about ATDPTI.

 

Blog Comments 2/2

Trevor Heath: https://20trevorh.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-post.html?showComment=1486134726343#c7550557744495038147

James Christian: https://jamescblogpost.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-post.html?showComment=1486134921959#c1954140785027021586

Free Response 1/30

  Seven more days until Super Bowl Sunday. The biggest televised event of the year with great commercials, superb halftime performances, and usually a good football game. I am very excited for this like I am every year and can't wait until kickoff.

  It looks like it is going to be a very good game against the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. New England is the favorite but only be three points. This is going to be a good matchup between the two quarterback Tom Brady, who is playing for his fifth Super Bowl ring with the Patriots and Matt Ryan who is the number one vote for this year's MVP right now. I am not really rooting for anybody but I just hope it winds up to be a good game. I also think I am going to see a lot of funny and entertaining commercials and a good halftime show. This is what I am looking for next Sunday.

Reading Response to ATDPI

  This book has not really interested me yet. I hope the book will start to be a little more interesting for me since I may have to write about it a couple of times or do different assignments with it. I think the book is about to get a lot more interesting for me since I left off when Junior is about to go to a different school. 

  This is a highly rated book so there is a good chance I will eventually get to enjoy it. Some of the chapters have held my attention which I think is good because some of those chapters may come back up later on the book. This is what I think of this book so far and I hope the book will become more interesting for me. 

Blog Comments 1/27

Trevor Heath: https://20trevorh.blogspot.com/2017/01/post-about-last-semester.html?showComment=1485383184369#c5122285112498498143

Casey Rigby: https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2017/01/last-semester.html?showComment=1485383438271#c5275376889305905690

Research Topic

  My research question is What are Muslim beliefs? This topic is interesting because it gives more details to what Muslims believe in and how they express their beliefs. I choose this topic because it interested me when we went over the topic in World History earlier this year. This issue matters because this is one of the major religions in the World and people should know what their beliefs are so they don't discriminate somebody.

  Muslims have a sacred book called the Qur'an that holds verses and teachings that Muslims follow. Islam was founded by Muhammad whose teachings are the Qur'an's verses and teachings. Muslims also have five laws that they should accomplish in their lifetime and those are called the Five Pillars of Islam. This is what I think of my topic and why it is important.

Reflection of Myself

  Something that I learned about myself last semester was that I procrastinated a lot. I would plan to my work at the time I wanted to but wound up doing later in the day. I would particularly do this on the weekends and I would find myself doing homework hours later which I regretted immediately. When I did this it also affected me later in the week because I would plan to work ahead a little bit but didn't have the time.

  I plan to manage my time better this semester by realizing that it is better to do my work in the afternoon than late at night. I also think I will have less distractions due to the end of the NFL season and basketball coming to an end. I hope I accomplish these goals so I will not be pressed for time so much and I will have more time to study for tests and quizzes in advance.

Blog Comments 1/19

Casey Rigby: https://casey1205.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-post.html?showComment=1484788557621#c8889967057595766730

Trevor Heath: https://20trevorh.blogspot.com/2017/01/free-topic.html?showComment=1484788862398#c7648643714227335345

Free Post 1/17: Christmas

   This year's winter break was pretty good for me. I went to visit my grandparents in Pass Christian, Mississippi on December 23. I opened presents there on Christmas eve that were from my Mom's side of the family. After I visited with my grandparents I headed back to Baton Rouge for Christmas the next morning.

  I woke up on Christmas day and was ready for presents and lunch at my Aunt's house. I got an iPhone 7, some money, and clothes for Christmas. At about eleven clock I went to my Aunt's house and had a very good meal. After I ate lunch and visited at my Aunt's house, I headed back to home to relax for the rest of the day. 

Research Update

  My research has gone ok so far. It was easy for me to find a lot of valuable sources but hard to find the two primary sources. I have about 15 note cards right now and have a good plan to get to 35. I feel ok right now. I hoped right now that I would have a couple more notecards.

  I'm going to try to have about thirty notecards by tonight. I also think I need to find more valuable topics from the sources I have already looked through. This is how my research has been and how it will hopefully be.