Reflection 8/30

 Today was our block period, for the hour and half in Mr. Reeses class we took a deep dive into The Rockpile. He gave us a worksheet with a bunch of questions surrounding the diffrent characters and themes in the story. For a while we discussed the setting and what the setting means to a story. Not only does it represent the location of where the story takes place but also the time and social setting of the story. Each question helped us dive deeper into the story and the meanings behind it. Im fairly confident about our upcoming quiz on Friday. 

Reflection 8/29

 In class we continued to read the short stroy The Rockpile.  As we read and took notes Mr. Reese introduced us to the diffrent types of characterization and an acronym called STEAL. STEAL stands for speech, thoughs, effect on others, actions, and looks. All of these are types of characterization that each character has. As we continued to read I started paying more attention to the words the author used to describe each character. He made the father of John and Roy very suspensful and abiguous in the beginning until he arrived in the stroy.  

Reflection 8/28

 In class today we started reading  a short story called The Rockpile. It was based on a rock pile in a young boys neighborhood where many people hang out. It made me think of all the places in my neighborhood my old friends and I would go to hang out. We also reflected on our Friday assignment that involved drawing certain images from the neighborhood we grew up in. I never realized how fortunate I am for growing up in the same neighborhood all my life, someone in our class has lived in over 12 houses! I really love my neighborhood and the Rockpile helped me realize that. :) 

Reflection Photo 8/25

 

Reflection 8/21

 Today in class we started reading a new poem. This poem really stuck out to me compared to the other poems because it was spoken directly to someone else. In the poem, a mother was telling her son how to push through the hardships in life and I really liked it. When we started annotating the poem as a class, I realized how each word also represented another issue or thing that the mother had to overcome. To me, the poem was about segregation and how the mother had to push through many unfair challenges in life and was teaching her son to do so as well. 

Reflection 8/15

 Today, class felt a little slow due to my lack of sleep the night prior, but I still had an enjoyable class. We started class by discussing our cultural backgrounds and what our ethnicities are. The questions made me thing a lot about the little history I know of my family so I ended up writing: “German, French, and Native”. Those are the biggest factors into my ethnicity, but now I’m so curious to learn more about my ancestry. 

Reflection 8/14

 Today was one of our first day jumping into class. After the first week of school we are now starting to go into our first unit. We started taking some light notes, mine were pretty sloppy. We discussed African American culture and a brief history of it. All of it was things i have learned about previously but it was a nice refresh, I’m glad we’re starting simple and not jumping into the complicated parts of the unit.