Abigail's English Blog

Prompt Response: In issue I think I'll have to debate more is how people cant understand how my brain works very differently than the average persons, for some reason people will be told over and over again that having certain mental disorders that I have is going to make me act and perceive things differently. It doesn't matter how many times I try to explain it some people will just refuse to try and accept me with and my neurodivergency Summary:  Today we took notes and did an assignment on the different types of claims Reflection: I learned about the 3 main types of claims and what situations to properly use each type of claim with

Prompt Response: A truth I was afraid to accept is that in order for me to properly exist in schools and society in general I have to take multiple medications. I can't properly do school without my ADHD and other meds and interacting with people in social settings is difficult whenever I dont take my meds Summary: Today we discussed ethos pathos and logos in arguments Reflection: I learned about how people making arguments will commonly apply either ethos,pathos, or logos to make their argument better

  Prompt Response: A fear I have overcome is funnily enough the fear of monsters in my basement, my basement is very messy and is just used as storage in my house so even when its light you cant see everything and it makes me feel like there's something hiding in it. My room directly faces the door to the basement ever since I moved rooms so I am the person who always has to go get something for someone so just overtime I got less and less scared of something being in the basement both when the light is on or off. Summary:  Today we worked on assignment were we read an article and had to identify different claims that were made in the article Reflection:  I learned how to spot claims throughout articles and how to go about categorizing them

Prompt Response:  There are many times in my life where I was judged unfairly, but the most common and honestly aggravating is when I'm judged and people make assumptions about me for being the youngest child in my family, its especially common in my family where they just think that I'm immature or useless just because I'm the youngest. Others who aren't even in my family will just assume that I'm the favorite child of my parents 3 children just because I'm the youngest or that I'm spoiled or am a brat simply for being born after my brothers. Summary: We worked on a common lit assignment about how fear is a way our minds create stories Reflection:  I learned about how fear shouldn't be treated as a bad thing but that its another form of imagination and storytelling

Prompt Response:  Im sure this is a pretty common feeling but for the first month or two of highschool I felt like a big interloper in lakeside. I left 8th grade halfway through the year so I separated from my normal friends for a few months and when I finally came back to normal public school and my old friends I didn't see all of them and for the first semester of freshman year I literally ate lunch completely alone not talking to anyone. I eventually made new friends and reconnected with my middle school friends but in the time before that I felt really alone and like an intruder in public school. Summary:  We worked on the interlopers common lit assignment Reflection:  I learned more about writing implications in stories about antagonize between two main characters

  Prompt Response:  I would be curious to know about how their strong connections to Christianity has merged with their practices that come from pre-colonial practices. I want to know which traditional values/actions/beliefs stem purely from strong Christian influences, which come from a mix of christian and pre-colonial practices, and which are just pre colonial practices. Many of my Hispanic friends are heavily Christian but their particular Christian beliefs vary from my black and white friends Christian beliefs. Summary: We discussed thesis statements and talked about things we think are overrated and how we support our arguments Reflection:  I learned what other people find overrated and how to defend what you find overrated to other people  

Prompt Response:  first word I think I will find myself using is Amoral because a. Ive already used it many times in both writing and speaking and b. I really like writing about human and animal physiology and amoral is used a lot in those topics. second word I will find myself using is affinity as I find it a better way to describe mildly liking or loving something  without just saying "like" or 'love".  And finally I think I'll find myself using amorphous because its commonly used in a lot of horror writing and descriptions which is my favorite genre of any type of content and its usage allows for a lot of interpretation from readers. Summary: We learned about the steps of making a essay Reflection:  In class we learned more about how to write the brainstorming for an essay  

Prompt Response:   One presentation that caught my eye was Hani's, of the people who made a poem about sports his was the most creative comparing a basketball game to a waterfall. I also liked how he decorated his presentation, he made it look like a newspaper and included Images of basketballs in a waterfall setting Summary: We watched people present their poem presentations and rated them Reflection:  I learned about what and how other people write poems and why people decide to write about certain topics

Prompt Response:  What I love the most about being apart of the lakeside community is that almost all of my friends attend this schools and I get to see them multiple times a week / every day. I show off schools spirit by supporting different school lead activities like theater and my favorite homecoming tradition is spirit week because it usually allows me to dress up and wear fun clothes and see other people wear fun clothes as well Summary:  We took an assessment on "Constantly Risking Absurdity" and continued working on our poem presentation Reflection:  I learned more about how well I can analyze a poem and apply my analytics to a test/quiz

Prompt Response:  I enjoy hand on activities the most because I feel less bored and more like I'm actually learning something and do something and not just sitting in my seat. Summary: We finished working on our poems and began working on our poem presentation Reflection: I learned how to take concepts from my poem and turn them into a visual presentation

Prompt Response:  Well I don't particularly like writing poems I don't know why but it just doesn't work in my head but if I had to pick a part it would be what I'm actually writing the poem about aka the extended metaphor of the poem Summary: We began working on our poem and went over aspects of a poem Reflection:  I learned more about how to properly form a poem and which things to come up with first

Prompt Response:  The most absurd moment in my life was when I went rafting down a river and this river had a straight waterfall drop that was twice the length of the raft we were on and our raft basically went from horizontal to vertical in less then 2 seconds. The person in the very back of the raft actually flew off but we had no idea until we got a little ways away from the waterfall because when your on the fall all of the water surrounds you and you cant hear or see anything else except the water. Summary:  We looked over, annotated, and discussed as a class the poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reflection:  I learned about the similarities between how an acrobat performs and how a poet writes and presents themselves through the words of a poet.

Prompt Response:  A song that represents my life right now is "New God" by Moon Walker as it talks about how our parents try to form us and how we replace certain authority figures in our life with new "better ones". I have a complex relationship with my parents and the way the song describes the relationships between parents and how they raise their children really speaks to me and my current relationship with my parents Summary: We took an test on Emily dickenson and reviewed our answer's  Reflection:  I learned about slant rhymes in poetry

Prompt Response:  It would fall into the topic of "Contemplation", my overall life message would be about how much of our lives we spend overthinking what actions and path we will take. Its based off of my anxiety, it tends to take over my mind whenever I need to make a decision and has caused me problems and prevents me from doing things I want to do. Summary: We finished our Dickinson Soundtrack and began working on our Dickinson Quote Analysis Reflection:  I learned how to analyze, categorize, find the theme, and identify the conflict of a quote

Prompt Response:  The class has been going just fine so far. all of the assignments have been relatively easy and I've even enjoyed a couple of them especially creating a myth (that was really fun). The longer periods have allowed me to complete all my work in class and I haven't worried about not completing an assignment or having to work on it at home. In class time feels instructional and like I'm actually learning something and not just sitting at my desk bored. I do wish I was able to sit closer to my friends but other than that its been an enjoyable first few weeks in your 5th period class (also A lunch is goated). Summary: we began working on our Dickinson soundtrack assignment Reflection:  I learned how to connect a song and its lyrics to the words and meanings of a poem