DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

I read a about John Steinbeck, today in my English class. He was a well known writing that wrote so many great books. As I read about him, I learned something that got my attention. It was quite hard to understand what he was saying when I was reading it. Thankful, my teacher was kind to break it down for. Steinbeck was saying that there will always be evil in the world. It will not die but there will also be good too. We have to have  balance in the world just like the yin and jang symbol. It will chaotic, if we didn't.

NOTES FROM TODAY'S LECTURE

In my English, we started talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and and how he gave his speech  in Washington. We started talking about him because here in the US we get the day off school. My teacher wanted us to know what was so great about the speech he gave. How the way he spoke was related to what we were going to start learning about. He said, that were going to talk about ethos, pathos, and logos. I learned about these terms in my classes before. I just forgot what they meant so he went over because he asked the whole class if they knew but no one really told he what it meant. So he assumed that no one knew but to be honest I had no idea. I was relief that he told us. Here are the definitions. He wanted us to watch listen speech to that MLK gave and being about to give examples, if gave he said anything that could be used as ethos, pathos, and logos.

Ethos
-qualities of a speaker/writer that we can trust

MLK's speech
 He talked about the black people not getting the rights they have. He wants his children to be able to play, talk, use the same bathroom as whites, and have a class with them. He doesn't want his children to grow up in a place that have so much racial discrimination.

Pathos
-quality of emotion

 MLK's speech
He spoke for so many blacks and spoke from his experience. Fighting for equally.

Logos
-It about having a reason and evidence to back it up

MLK's speech
 He talked about constitution that gives right to every man to be treated equally. What he seen so far is that all the blacks are getting mistreated.

DARK PATTERNS

Have you ever heard about dark patterns? I never heard about this term in till, my English teacher told us about it. It's when you go shopping online and see that people are in the same page or their are there are only a couple of these products. They tempt you to buy them because other people want it. They use dirty tricks to lure you into buying things. They sell your information. I shop online and sometimes I would see that it would show me other people are seeing the same product as me. They want me to buy it. I would see how many people are looking at it but then exit the page because I don't like it when it would tell how many people are looking at same the websites. I start to get insecure. I don't know why but I do.

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MY LEARNING FALL AND RISE

      When  I first saw my English teacher. I thought to myself, "I wonder if this person is a teacher that will be able to teach us something important that we will actual use, after we get out of high school." He started talking about the traditional way of learning English or the opensource way. He said," The opensource is where you will create a blog and post about things you learned." He asked the class to choice between these two options.  Before he left outside he told us that he really trusts us. He said to take our time and decide as a class. Then he said, "When you guys decide come and get." Then he walked out of class. I was shocked that he left us in class all by our self.

      I was like, no one will have the guts to go call him back and tell him what we chose. My friend and I were saying that we both like to try the opensource. To be able to try a completely different way of learning. I was excited because we will be creating our own blog. Posting our thought on things that we will read in the future. I was hoping the class was going to chose the opensource learning.Then a student stood up and walked towards the door and called him in. He asked, " What did you guys decide on?" The class decided on opensource learning. I was quite happy.

       As days went on, we started writing journals and posting on our blogs'. Then came the day where we had to remember a poem and post on YouTube and get on our blog. I had a hard time because was used to recording myself and got really nervous. I some how post the video and manage to remember all the words or the poem. One of the harder things, that I had to deal with was writing essays.Man, that really killed me. I had to rewrite my essay many times. In till, I thought it was better then the other ones.The essay was called 'Let me walk through the Pedestrian.' I had help from other people, I felt great when I was finished. I know that I really tried. My teacher told us that essay actual means to try. I really felt like that. One thing, I did learn is that I should really post on the day it has to be published because you well be stress out. You would have, to much work to do. I tried harder to post and stay on top of the things I needed to do. He also, told us to record what we do during the day, daily. I realized how much time I wasted. When I could be posting but I know myself that I wouldn't do it.I tried to mange my time and and get my act together. I did manage to do more then before, I was able to do better journals. One of my best journal entree by date is 9-27-19. One of favorite poems are Richard Cory. It was such a nice beginning but then it got dark really quickly. It talked about a man beginning so perfect that the people around got so inspire and decide to act like him. No one was expecting that he had problems to the point that led him to kill himself.

I learned so much. He gave us advice that I knew will be helpful and prepared us to be ready for life. I had so many nice moments in class. The one thing did put a smile on my face was the when I finished the class interview. I knew that I did good and was prepare. When I was the went back to my seat and went to look at the post, I made and got feedback. I got so much positive feedback and I was really happy, they thought I did good. I got the chance to know more, I now knew how to setup template for a resume, cover letter, and reference. I did learn more things then I thought and actual useful unlike other class where they teach you how to write an essay and how to do slides. They are helpful but not something that will get you a job. I experience many difficulties through the whole out the semester. To any students that have a teacher that really trusts you and helps prepare for things that will be more helpful. I hope you guys try hard.

TODAY I JUST DID MY INTERVIEW

How did I do?

MY BRAIN ON THANKSGIVING BREAK

Over the small break, I went running with my two older siblings for some days. The rest of the time, I was home with my parent. When thanksgiving came, my older sisters came over  and helped my mom with the turkey and other side dishes. I enjoyed the food and was very happy because my older brother came to visit us. During that time, I knew, that I had to read for the literature analysis but I decided to not worry about it. Instead, I was more focused for my interview. I asked my siblings to help me prepare for it. I practiced for 4 days but I still haven't answered with a good response. After, doing all that, I picked my top five journals entries. I tried looking for good posts that are my top five but only found two. I also looked over the vocabulary, I was so sad to see all the words. I know that it's good for us but I just got sad looking at the words. I know that I didn't do all the things, I was suppose to do but I wanted to relax for awhile. I did enjoy my break.