Juan’s English blog

 Today in class we had to read a poem that was on America and how the country wasn’t really a free one with equality and justice. It would talk about how immigrants, poor white people, the young people, black people, and farmers weren’t treated equally like those who are of a higher social class stating how they have to face mental scars, physical scars, hardship, and touch situations. 

 In class we were given more time to finish up the packet that we were given on Friday with four poems that we had to do. When we were finished we could turn it in or keep doing it till Tuesday and turn it in for a grade on that day. 

 Today in class we were handed a packet and a paper that had the poems we have read so far in the past week. In the packet we had to write down what the claim was, critical analysis, and an unanswered question that we had from the poem. We did the poem “I, Too” as a class and then once we were done with it we would do “Mother to Son” on our own getting fifteen minutes to finish the three parts to it and sharing it with the class so that we could see what other people wrote down

 Today in class we read another poem that was called “Mother to Son” that talked about a mother giving her son advice to not give up on trying to reach his goals because if he does for even a moment it could completely stop him from reaching him causing him to give up. After we finished read and annotating the poem we had to write down a connection we had made to the poem and then complete 12 questions that were on the back of the poem but they had to be written on a separate sheet of paper 

 Today in class we read a poem called Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes. The poem talked about how you can forget about a dream that you had that you really wanted to accomplish but never got to because of something they prevented you from doing it so that dream stays in the back of your mind and is with you everyday till someday you forget about it and live your life like normal. Once we finished annotating and reading the poem we had to fill out a paper with 9 boxes on our dream, how we’ll accomplish it, our 10 year plan, what could defer us from our dream, ways to prevent that from happening, tools needed for our dream, our plan b for the dream, and what we hope our legacy becomes 

 During the beginning of class we were given another black history month bell ringer. The person we got was Colin Powell who was the first African American who was Secretary of State. We then watched a video of Oprah going to a county in Georgia that was only white people who didn’t want any black people moving into their county saying they’ll make the place bad. We were then given three questions to answers on why they decided to self segregate themselves, why we should encourage diversity around the world, and what kind of community we want to live in. Afterwards we read two poems by Langston Hughes one called “I, Too” and another one “Refugee in America” while reading we also had to annotate the poems 

 In class when we walked in we noticed we had a sub who took role and then told us that we had an assignment left in canvas to finish up that day. The assignment was in common lit and it had six questions that were on chapter 8 of the Great Gatsby. The questions would ask about different texts that talked about Gatsby and Daisy love for each other

Today in class we were given a poem that was written by Langston Hughes called “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. While reading the poem we would write down information that we were talking about and answering ten questions that we were given on canvas. I learned how there is evidence that can prove how human beings could’ve or did start in the continent of Africa and that everyone could be similar to each other and not better than one another 

 In class we presented three presentations which were gatsby and another character either Myrtle or daisy. They were songs and things found in their trash cans but we couldn’t do many more due to the cable on the computer messing up when someone presenting had accidentally hit it. Once we did the few presentations we were handed a paper with a front and back on songs that describe us and stuff that can be found in our trash can and it was due at the end of class or the next day due to us having to quickly pack and leave or be late to class 

 In class we presented another four peoples presentation on the characters that they did and what they did. They were what they would find in the person trash can, and then the things that describe them or that they listen to. We couldn’t do much of them because of the cable on the computer messing up 

 Today in class we were given a paper with five questions that we would answer while reading chapter seven of the book. The questions would ask why gatsby was surprised on daisy’s daughter, why they went to New York City, why Tom, nick and Jordan had stopped by Wilson’s, what Wilson had told Tom and why Myrtle was mad when she had saw Tom and Jordan together. Once we had finished we could turn in the paper and then finish up our presentations that we have to submit tomorrow in order to present Thursday and then turn in the paper we had gotten Monday on Thursday 

 In class we were given a paper for our presentation Thursday with ten different rows that had three boxes in each. In the boxes we were told to write down the different ideas we had such as if we chose a song, website links, or trash can items we had to write them each down and then write two sentences explaining why we chose that item and then some contextual information that we had found in the story proving our idea

 In class we were told how we had to take a short assessment that had about 5 questions and we had 20 minutes to finish it because it wouldn’t take that long. Once we were all done we were told about a presentation that we would be doing alone and that it’ll be on a character from the book. We could choose any character and we could either put down 10 songs the character would listen to, 10 things that could be found in their trash can or 10 websites the character would search up all with links that could be used. 

In class we had a sub who told us that we had an assignment in canvas about chapter 6 of the book and that it would also come with 10 questions to answer that was due at the end of class or when we finished it at the end of the day