What I Did Over Break?

Over break I didn't really do much, which is exactlly what I wanted to do. Monday thru Wednesday all I mostly did was SAT prep for the upcoming SAT this Saturday and I worked on my UC and CSU applications. On Thursday as we all know it was Thanksgiving, so I spent the day with my family. The dinner that my Grandmother prepared was amazing my favorite part of the dinner was the candied sweet potatoes (cooked sweet potatoes with brown sugar, cane sugar, and marshmellows). After dinner I took a short nap and got suited for BLACK FRIDAY! For all of those who don't know Black Friday is the national day for sells in all stores. Ever since I was little my mother and I have went to Black Friday sales together, I really enjoy Black Friday I think that there should be a Black Friday in December right after Christmas. For Black Friday my mother, her friend, and I went to Wal-Mart because of the electronic sale they were having. I got a laptop and my mother got a E-Book and a HUGE HUGE television (personally I really don't care for a bigger television but whatever makes my mommy happy). Throughout the weekend I worked on my Tea Party essay it took me a really long time to write that essay but I pushed through and I think I did a really good job.

Final Tragedy Creation

This week in English class we turned in our tragedy creations. Originally for my tragedy creation I was going to make an alter ego photograph, but there were way too many complications with the alter ego photograph, so I thought of another idea that composed of me writing a poem and recording myself actually performing the poem. Unfortunately there were complications with the sound quality from the sound so I decided that I would just get tragic photographs and place some type of sad music with the sad photographs so that the audience that saw the small video that I made would have so type of sorrow to take away from the film. Then while I was watching my short video I thought it would be nice to add the poem I originally wrote to the end of my video to really take my message home. Overall I thought that my final project was amazing. I really loved the ending result I thought I did a very good job and I am extremely proud of myself.

Tragedy Essay

This week in class we had a lot of time to work on our tragedy essays. I really enjoyed the day that we got to have people read our essays. I felt like I got a lot of feedback with what I can change to make my essay flow better. I was placed in a group with Leah, Lauren, Serena, and Alex and they all gave me really good feedback with grammatical errors, flow, and the overall organization of my essay. With their essays I tried to read it like someone that has never been in our class to make sure that their essays made sense and that they had a good explanation for why they did or didn’t agree with an author’s point of view. I think that reading their essays gave me inspiration to change my essay.

Tragedy Essay: November 5, 2010

This week in class our rough draft essays for our Tragedy essay was due. The rubic for our essay was to reflect on other authors opinion and explain how we felt about the authors opinion and compare it to our opinion on what tragedy was. My basic opinion on tragedy was basically the same as Aristotle’s that tragedy happened to someone not necessarily a person that is a part of a royal family but has an arrogant behavior and falls from power because of their actions and receives a punishment that does not fit their crime. Throughout the essay I tried to prove my point my using other authors articles for evidence. Overall I think that my essay is very strong but I feel like there is not enough of my opinion in the essay. In past essays I have not had a lot of evidence with other readings, so with this essay I made sure to add a lot of evidence but I feel like it is the bulk of MY ESSAY. For my final draft I want to add more of my opinion and find a way to subtract some detail that doesn't need to be added.