Karol's English Blog 7thpd

 Prompt:   Thanksgiving is a time for giving thanks and spending time with family over a nice dinner.  Write about your most unforgettable meal.  Prompt Response: Unfortunately the only memorable meals my family had for Thanksgiving was when I was a young child, it was those times where nostalgia hits and I do not remember anything specific. I guess I can remember helping my mom and older sister to make the food, since the process was difficult and boring for a child like me. I do not remember what kind of food, the clothes I wore or who else was there, but I can remember the good feelings it brought to me.  Summary: Today we took an assessment based on the text, " The Life You Save May Be Your Own", and we were allowed to work in a group to complete it together but with the exception that we get a 100 to pass. Everybody should've gotten an 100, Mr. Rease helped us know how many we have wrong or which question is wrong. My group and I, worked together efficientl...

 Prompt:  Describe a time that you had an encounter with a homeless person, either directly or indirectly. What did you think and how did it make you feel? Prompt Response: I have a decent amount of encounters with a homeless person, one time me and my family went to a buffet after church and right by the entrance there was this person, who might have been homeless, asking people for money. My mom usually does not indulge into situations like these, I told the man that I was sorry and I had no money to give to him. I was not lying, since I had no use to carry money with me nor did I have much anyway, but I did feel bad and did not want him to think that I was lying. Of course, I had the same encounters just like this and answered the same each time, especially when I was a kid who felt bad enough to pray to God to take care of them. Summary: Today we read a text called, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Conner, as a class and for each paragraph we complete...

 Prompt:  Write about a time when you realized you needed to look out for yourself in a silly or harmless situation—maybe dodging a pop quiz, escaping a group chat argument, or remembering at the last second to submit an assignment. How did choosing wisely make your life easier? Prompt Response: When it came to having constant problems of forgetting about my assignments or homework, by the time I remember them I work on it last second. To solve this problem I got myself and agenda where I can write down any present and future work I need to do and prepare for. This made my life easier, I have less missing assignments than last year when I had no agenda to help me. Although I sometimes get the same problem by forgetting to check my agenda, it still helps me anyway. Summary: Today we finished reading the rest of the text, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" by Flannery O'Conner, and instead of us reading it out loud, Mr. Rease played an audio to read it for us. Most of us h...

 Prompt:  Write about what you are thankful for. Prompt Response:  I am thankful for music and food existing, without any of those I would have not survived this world any longer. I may sound like a biggie for saying I like food, but I truly enjoy its existence and appreciate the way it helps me live another day. As for music, its such a blessing to my ears, despite me growing more deaf. My mood can truly synchronize with music, whether its sad or upbeat, I prefer the upbeat one more as it truly makes me happy whenever I'm bored or down. Without friends to hang out at the moment, the solution would be to listen to music and to eat delicious snacks. I am also thankful for my dearest mom and sister. Summary: Today we did vocabulary again, Mr. Rease was telling us that we will read a text and do a project based on that as a final. We did lesson 3 vocabulary and wrote down the definitions on a separate sheet of paper, after that we were to write a sentence for each word. If t...

 Prompt:  In  “A Rose for Emily,”  Miss Emily’s actions shock the reader—she kills her fiancé and keeps his body in her home for years. People often react with disbelief when they hear about real-life stories that seem just as unbelievable. Write about the most shocking or “craziest” news story you have ever heard. What happened, and why did it stand out to you? How did people react to it, and what does it reveal about human behavior? Prompt Response: There was this thing that happened that landed on the news, it was about this 'motel 6' right in front of my neighborhood where 6 men were arrested, accused of trafficking 2 juveniles. This was in Fulton county, where I used to live, school was still ongoing and I never knew about this until I was done with my exams. This was very shocking for me, because something like this had happened near where I live and that there is a possibility I went to school with one of those girls. Of course, the motel closed and the people...

Prompt:  The last scene forces readers to reinterpret Emily’s entire life. Write about a moment when new information changed your perception of a person or situation. How did that “plot twist” reshape your understanding, the same way Faulkner’s ending reshapes the story? Prompt Response: The "plot twist" was not entirely too shocking for me, I read works with the same ending but I guess it was not what I expected from Emily. I misread the text and missed the part that Homer never really left the house to begin with, then all the dots connected when I reread it and the plot twist started to make sense immediately. It reshaped my understanding about Emily and how the story had gradually turned dark up into this moment. Summary: Today we had another pop quiz to do based on the text "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, it had 24 questions and we were required to get a 100% with no exceptions, any grade below 100 is a zero in the grade book. We were allowed to work as...

 Prompt:   Miss Emily’s house once represented pride and tradition, but over time it became a symbol of decay and isolation. Describe a place that holds deep memories for you—positive or negative—and explain how it reflects part of who you are or how you’ve changed over time. Prompt Response: Most of my childhood I had lived in that apartment with my family, for more than 7 years we lived there and it was time to move. That place held many positive and negative memories for me as I grew up, so many that I had grown attached to them. It reflects how I grew up to be as a person, learning many things and how I had interacted with people at the time, those who I don't speak to anymore. Summary: Today we used the entire class time to read the text "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, on page 651, with Mr. Rease. It was about this old lady who was called Emily, in the beginning the town had a funeral for her and as we go along the story we will see how she was when she was a...

 Prompt:  Think about the vocabulary words from Lesson Two. Write about a time you saw or heard one of these words outside of the classroom — maybe in a movie, song, social media post, or book. Describe how it was used and whether the context helped you understand the word better. Prompt Response: I had heard and seen the word "Metamorphosis" before, outside of the classroom with the book "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. It was around the time I had grown to like literature and was curious about the works of Franz Kafka, unfortunately I never got the chance to read the book until last year for 10th grade my class got to read it together. Although I had already learned the word Metamorphosis like when I was 1st grade, but I can still say that the book helps people understand Metamorphosis in a whole different meaning. Summary: Today we did another vocabulary assignment, it was based on Lesson 2 and instead of doing the project that we were apparently supposed to b...

 Prompt:   Thinking about  “The Rockpile,”  which parent or guardian in your life has been the strictest when it comes to discipline? Explain how their approach to discipline has influenced you or shaped your behavior. Prompt Reponse: I remember my dad being strict when I was younger, but ever since he left that job was for my mom then. Growing up I guess she could have been strict at times, especially since we are a big family with many kids to handle as a single parent. Even though I disliked the discipline, it made me learn how to clean, be responsible, how to care for my younger siblings, and to choose better decisions growing up. I was not always the most behaved kid, but I did eventually grow mature and started to help my mom more. I grew to know more and be more wiser than my siblings were. Summary: Today we did notes and answered questions with Mr. Rease as we were reviewing the story, "The Rockpile." This was to look over and remember the story line while un...

 Prompt:  Thinking about "The Rockpile," what is something your parents forbade you from doing when you were growing up? Explain what it was and why they might have set that rule. Prompt Repsonse: They forbade me and my siblings from ever going far from home when playing outside, its what every parent says but I still found it unfair at the time that any of my old neighborhood friends could stray far from home but my mom would be very strict of me to stay close. I bet there was something else too that we were told to do but I do not remember what it was. They might have set that rule because the neighborhood wasn't the safest place for kids to be running off alone, they also grew up in a place where it could've been dangerous, in Mexico.  Summary: Today we looked over a PowerPoint with Mr. Rease about the biography of the author and had some questions to answer on a separate sheet of paper. We managed to learned a website on how to look for registered sex offenders ne...

 Prompt:  Words shape how we think, write, and interpret literature. Think about a time when learning a new word or understanding a specific term helped you better analyze a text, express an idea, or make your writing stronger. Prompt Response:  I doubt I will remember anything specific but I do know for a fact that as kids growing up in elementary, they teach you the words and how to write or think in reading. Learning any new word at any year level has surely helped me to learn and expand my vocabulary while also helping to grow my writing skills. By the time I got middle school, it was 8th grade that I had relearned how to truly analyze a text or a way to make my writing better, especially since after Covid-19 happened things were hard to learn and I mostly forgot almost everything. Summary: Today we did another lesson on vocabulary, it was lesson 1 this time and we had to write down their definitions on a separate sheet of paper while having another one out to write d...

 Prompt:  Reflect on a time when you paused to appreciate the beauty of nature, much like the speaker in  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”  Where were you, what did you notice, and how did that moment of stillness make you feel or change your perspective? Prompt Response: A moment I appreciated nature was during January this year, when it had finally snowed enough in Georgia and it was when I was with my friend. I was walking with my friend back to my house in the cold, our neighborhoods were next to each other so it wasn't too far, and we had fun. I recorded some moments of our time together, we were freezing but also laughing by the dumb stuff we were saying. Halfway through we walked across the trees, I witnessed the ice on the branches glisten with the light from the lamp post and it was so beautiful I had to stop walking to take a picture. The picture does not do much justice but it was that moment I appreciated nature and can see the beauty of it, being ...