Karol's English Blog 7thpd

 Prompt:   In  Into the Wild , Christopher McCandless gives up many of his possessions in pursuit of freedom and meaningful experiences. If you had to simplify your life and keep only a few important possessions, what would you keep and why? What would be hardest to leave behind? Prompt Response: If I had to simplify my life and keep only a few important possessions, I would keep the basic needs of survival, such as food, backpack, water system, baby wipes, maybe a couple of dollars to buy food, etc. The most important one I will bring is my necklace of Virgin Mary that my mom had given me for my communion, and lotion for my eczema. The hardest to leave behind is everything, I love my things and love to have things in my possessions rather than leave them, every single thing is important and a story behind it.  Summary: Today our assignment is on Writable, 'Into the Wild' chapter 4 Quote Analysis, we were given the choice to either start on the personal questions or ...

 Prompt:  People sometimes feel the need to step away from their normal routines or environments in order to better understand themselves. Describe a time when you needed distance from a situation, place, or group of people in order to think more clearly or gain perspective. What did that experience teach you about yourself? Prompt Response: I cannot think of remember a time I would have needed distance from a situation, place, or group of people in order to think and understand myself better, I would not know since I'm on my own most of the time. There are times when I needed distance because I was being overstimulated with the commotion and needed a breather, but I wouldn't say it was to help understand myself more. The only thing that I would better understand myself in that situation was to think what made me feel overwhelmed and the way I reacted. Summary: Today we were given a worksheet of a Theme Analysis chart, one side is based on chapter 2, while the other chapter 3....

 Prompt: Today you worked on creating your Vocabulary Digital Cards in Adobe Express. In one well-developed paragraph, reflect on the assignment by explaining which vocabulary word was easiest for you to understand, which word was most challenging, and how creating your own sentence and selecting an image helped strengthen your understanding of the vocabulary. Use specific examples from your work. Prompt Response: The vocabulary word, Bumpkin, was the easiest for me to understand and a new word I will be using now to describe and name my siblings. The word that was most challenging was soporific, I just know it would be something I won't remember the definition of nor would I use it as much. Creating my own sentences and image help me to strengthen my understanding of the vocabulary because I had to think how the word would and should be used, I had to put more thought into its use. Once I figured out how to use the word in a sentence or what image would fit best for it, I had...

 Prompt:    After reading Chapter 1 of  Into the Wild , consider your first impression of Christopher McCandless. Based solely on the events and details presented in this opening chapter, do you believe McCandless truly understood the risks he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness? Why or why not? Prompt Response: My first impression of Christopher McCandles is that he was too confident and reckless, I do not believe that he truly understood the risks he was taking when he entered the Alaskan wilderness. I would have expected him to take more thought into the journey he was going to take, since he was an honor student who managed to graduate college. The reason why I don't believe he had truly understood the risks was the resources he brought for his journey, they weren't enough to survive the wilderness nor did he have the proper clothes, footwear, or equipment to survive.  Summary: Today we first talked about what it would take to survive in the wi...

 Prompt:  After viewing your classmates’ digital posters and reading the feedback comments left on your work, what new ideas or perspectives did you gain about your poster? Reflect on how the feedback influenced the way you think about your creative choices and describe what you learned about the creative process while designing and presenting your poster. Prompt Response: Reading the feedback, I can see that they like how organized it is and how good the similes & metaphors are. This makes me reflect how my work can at least look decent for others, I usually don't like to hear what other people think of the things I do or did. Realistically I have to deal with that, at least the positive feedback can help me see my work more on a positive view, the creative choices I made was barely much. I treated the poster just like any poster I would have done and I prefer to keep things more organized. Summary: Today we had to go to writable to look over the feedback we got from Mr. ...

 Prompt :  Reflect on the simile and metaphor worksheet. Which topic challenged you the most when creating your figurative language, and why? In your response, explain what made that topic difficult and how you worked through the challenge (or what you might do differently next time). Prompt Response: I think the topic I struggled most on when creating a simile for was the overcoming (personal growth) part, more specifically on the 'Change & Transition' one. It was difficult to come up with a simile that would describe the Change, I managed just fine with the others but I'm not entirely sure as to why I struggled to come up with one with this one. I worked through the challenge by repeatedly making different similes and picked the best one. The next time I guess I just need to know more words. Summary: Today we use our similes and metaphors worksheet from yesterday to create and complete our digital poster on Adobe Express. We had the entire block period to work on it a...