Reflection #50

 Today in class we did a rhetorical analysis essay. The essay was about Barack Obama using different devices to appeal to the audience. The speech was very interesting and something I actually enjoyed reading. I didn’t get a chance to finish my whole essay but I learned that I don’t have a lot of time to plan and write.

Reflection #49

 Today in class we read a essay on “Why I Hate Phones”. We could not finish the lesson because it was a call of duty. The remainder of the class spend the rest of the block talking about random stuff and expressed their beliefs.

Reflection #48

 Today Mr. Rease wasn’t here. We spent our time in Ms. Wells class and mainly played on our phones or talked to people who were close by us.

Reflection #47

 Today in class we went over our classmates prompts. Today I learned that everyone makes mistakes while writing. We all mainly struggle with claims,evidence, and grammar. I mainly struggled with claims and evidence while writing. In my writing I didn’t back or my evidence or explained it.

Reflection #46

 Today in class we went over the 2015 AP Exam. In the exam we looked at the first question and the second question. In the second question we talked about the steps to go through before righting the five paragraphs. The only thing I feel that I would mostly struggle on is forgetting the steps in the middle of the test because I’m under a lot of pressure. The first question was more my style mainly because it wasn’t a lot to read.

Reflection #45

 Today I was absent.

Reflection #44

  Today in class we read a essay call “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. The essay made a lot of sense, we all use google to answer everything. We barely take the time to think for ourselves anymore. We mostly assume everything on google is correct, sometimes that might not be the case. Later on in the class we reviewed questions and named the strategies used in the essay.

Reflection #43

I was absent today.

Reflection #42

 I was absent today.

Reflection #41

 Today we took notes on diction,syntax,tone, and mood. We  went over the definition and how to use them properly. We later on made a chart on positive, negative, and neutral. We went over what words would fit in each category. After we finished the chart we and found tone and mood in the Martin Luther Kung Jr. speech.

Reflection #40

 Today in class we we wrote down a rhetorical analysis chart. On the chart if had things such as the purpose, tone, pathos,ethos,logos, and etc. we went over a few before we ran out of time. For our exit slip we pulled out our Martin Luther King Jr. speech and wrote down the pathos,ethos, and logos.

Reflection #39

The project was very challenging for me at first. It was hard to find different objects for the words I was given. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to use. The projects I seen today was very creative and different. Everyone had different objects to share and talk about. It was amazing to see what people actually had in mind.

Reflection #38

  Today we read the Martin Luther Jr. speech. We identified different rhetorical devices and highlighted them. Most of the speech made a little emotional. We later talked about the differences of now and then.

Reflection #37

  Today in class we took a quiz on the poem we read yesterday. The test wasn’t that hard mainly because we answered most of them yesterday. We also read our poems to the whole class, which I was kinda nervous most of the poems had a deep meaning behind them. After we read the poems we annotated a Tupac song. The song had a crazy meaning behind it. I like how he took a story and turned it into a cycle.

Poem

Aerie Brown 

Mr. Rease 

AP Lang 

31 October 2019

       

            Life As We Know It

        

             Life is so much like a

            Roller coaster 

            It has its ups and downs

         It is your choice whether you 

              Freak out or enjoy the view 

           Life is a elevator 

         On your way up you have to 

       Stop and let people out

      Of your life

        Everyone is not meant to

   Tag along 

      Life is like Instagram 

     You either follow people or 

     Unfollow

     Life is just like a highway

     It is a road that can go on

Forever 

    Your life can go forever and

     Different things will come up

       Never let a toad block your way

Life is a echo

     What you send out will come back