Ja'nylah's English Blog

Prompt Response: A conversation that changed my life was a conversation about the real world and how to take care of myself in today's world. The conversation made me really focused on what I want to major in when i'm in college and what occupation I want to have or if i'm going to start my own business. It also made me stay on top of my work and more organized with what needs to be done in order pass the classes I have. Summary: Today in class we took notes on evidence to support your claim in an argument. Reflection: I learned how to make a claim and an opposing claim about a topic and provide evidence for both claims.

Prompt Response: Something that I believed when I was a child was that Santa Claus was real. As a kid I believed everything my parents told me, but as I grew up I realized that half of the things they've told me weren't true, like Santa Claus being real. Around middle school it came to mind that my parents, grandparents, cousins, aunties and uncles were the ones who bought me my gifts for Christmas, but still to this day they say "maybe Santa Claus will get it for you." Summary: In class we talked about rhetoric and targeted audiences in commercials, political ads and debates. Reflection: I learned more on how to back up a claim with evidence and how to get the attention of my targeted audience.

Prompt Response: A fear that I've overcome was meeting new people because before going into middle school and high school, I didn't know how to get to know new people because I didn't know if they were either going to be rude or nice, so I won't get embarrassed, I just let people come up to me and let them ask if they wanted to be my friend. I still do this till this day, but not as often compared to when I did it in elementary school. Summary: Today in class we worked on identifying a claim in a text, the type of claim and writing an opposing claim after. Reflection: I learned how to identify what type of claim is used in a text and how to make up an opposing claim off the original claim.

Prompt Response: An issue or topic that I would most often have to debate about with family is financial purposes and what things I buy with my money because there's going to be some disagreements on some things that I get for myself or others.  Summary: In class we talked about the different types of claims and how they are used. Reflection: I learned how to back up my claim with evidence and how to back up a topic by using claim of policy and claim of fact.

Prompt Response: A truth that I was afraid to accept was that I was irresponsible. I didn't want to accept it because I believed that I was very responsible with things like doing work, chores, etc. As I grew up I realized that I was doing a lot of procrastinating when it comes to tasks that I needed to do, which made me change my ways and stay more organized and on task with my assignments and chores that are needed to be done.  Summary: In class we talked about Ethos, Pathos and Logos and how they are used in advertisements and prompts.  Reflection: I learned how to identify Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in a prompt.

Prompt Response: A time where I felt judged unfairly was when I joined a soccer team when I was little, but when I joined some of the girls were saying things about me. They thought I wouldn't get the ball in the goal, they thought I didn't know what I was doing and that I was going to be the reason they lost a game. Summary: Today we read a CommonLit about what fear and what it teaches us. Reflection: I learned that fear can have a large impact on your life.

Prompt Response: If I was learning about Hispanic heritage month, I would be curious to learn about what foods they make everyday, how it's prepared and where it comes from. Another thing I would like to learn about is what music they like to listen to in their free time or celebrating with families. Summary: Today we continued to talk about the writing process and how to pre-write and how to think of a thesis statement. Reflection: I learned how to cluster my ideas to put them into a sentence to support my thesis statement.

Prompt Response: Out of the 15 vocabulary words, the three that I will use the most are aesthetic, animosity and adroit because These words feel useful and powerful to me because they can be used to communicate that someone deeply feels about another person or how much they agree or disagree with someone. Summary: In class we learned about steps in the writing process. Reflection: I learned how to cluster all my ideas to create a prompt about a certain topic.

Prompt Response: One of the poem posters that caught my attention was the puzzle poem because it showed how friends can still have a very strong connection, even if someone has moved to a different state or school their still able to keep their close relationship going and not distancing from each other. Summary: Today in class we presented some people's poem posters then worked on vocabulary. Reflection: I learned how to make creative sentences using new and advanced vocabulary.

Prompt response: A time when someone else felt out of place in my world, it made me feel like they weren't real to me and that they were in my dreams. It made our relationship awkward because I didn't know what to say to them or to treat them because they were so different than when I met them.  Summary: Today in class we did a CommonLit about "The Interlopes" Reflection: I learned how to look for key details in a story and read it thoroughly to answer questions about it.

Prompt Response: One thing that I love most about the Lakeside community is how everyone shows off their school spirit with creativity. I show off school spirit by participating in some of the events we get to do and dress up or match with my friends whenever I get a chance to. My favorite homecoming event was Throwback Thursday because I get to dress in different styles like street wear or Y2K. Summary: Today in class we took a "Constantly Risking Absurdity" assessment  and worked on finishing our Poem Posters. Reflection: I learned how to think outside the box and be creative when working on my Poem Poster.

Prompt Response: The learning method that I like the most is hands-on activities because I can use that time to be creative with the work i'm doing and to give my own personal knowledge and skills to the work that I am doing. Summary: Today in class we finished our poems and started our posters. Reflection: Today in class I learned how to use animated characters for my poster to read what iv'e wrote for my poem.

 Prompt Response: The aspect of creating a poem that I love the most is the rhyming part of the poem because I like to think about what rhymes I can make up for my poem, it also helps me get my words for the next line for my poem. Summary: Today we talked about different figurative languages and started creating our poems. Reflection: I learned how to write a poem using extended metaphors.

 Prompt Response: A single, specific incident that felt ridiculously bold or foolish   was when my friend started dating me and my friends ex's and told people false stories about us and eventually led to a physical fight between all of us against her. Summary: Today we read a poem by Lawrence Ferlingehtti  Reflection: I learned how to annotate a poem, identify meanings of different words to get a better understanding of the poem and   

Prompt Response: If asked to choose a song that describes my life, I would choose "Brain" by Mariah the Scientist because it talks about  the overwhelming internal struggles of  dealing with mental issues and showcasing feelings  of insecurity, escapism, and the intrusive nature of one's own thoughts. Over the years I've learned how to take my time with things and organize what needs to be done or things that I've finished and relaxing my mind so I wont be so stressed out over certain tasks that I need to do. Summary: Today in class we took a Emily Dickinson test and finished our Emily Dickinson quotes assignment. Reflection: I learned how to use the process of elimination when taking a test and that a slant rhyme are words that share similar sound but aren't exactly perfect rhyming words. 

 Prompt Response: If I were to compose a poem about one aspect in my life it would be about working because I can open up about how hard working you have to be in order to succeed, make your own money and take care of yourself without others help or money. My overall life message would be hard work can lead you to success and bigger things in the future if you commit to it and improve different skills in your life. Summary: Today in class we worked on analyzing Emily Dickinson quotes. Reflection: I learned how to find the topic, analyze, find the theme and conflict of a poem.

 Prompt Response: Since being in American Literature for 4.5 weeks, the class has been going okay so far because I think I still have some room for improvement with some things like presenting. Another thing I could improve on is identifying a good theme for a story or poem and getting a better understanding about it.   Summary: Today in class we read three poems by Emily Dickinson and analyzed them. Reflection: I learned how to find the theme of a poem and analyze it.