Sophia's English Blog

  Response:  A time where I have had to travel somewhere and work through obstacles and to reach a destination happens a lot. It can happen in small things day to day or even things that can go on over my life span. Lots of challenges will and have occurred because even with all of the challenges it's worth the outcome. The journey will always be worth it because if you care about something enough you'll do anything for it.  What I was doing was wrong and could've hurt someone. Summary:  Today we read a story and filled out an organizer. Reflection:  I feel like this activity rea

  Response:  I have had a lot of conversations that have had a lasting impact on me. They have been about many different things. Lots of times they changed my perspective for the better. It also lots of the times changes my actions because it makes me realize  what i was doing was wrong and could've hurt someone. Summary:  Today we read a story. Reflection:  I feel like this activity really helped with my reading comprehension skills.  

  Response: I think the part of creating my powerpoint that required the most thought and creativity was finding relevant images for the slides. I think this requires the most creativity and thinking because you can't just put any image and it has to relate as well as look nice with the rest of the presentation. Summary: We worked on a slide show relating to “the life you save may be your own” Reflection: I feel like this activity really helped with my reading comprehension skills/

  Response: I think creating a presentation helps me understand a story much better. I think this because with doing  a project like this I feel like I actually have to learn the material and not just get the answers to finish the work. Overall I feel like this is a lot more useful than a worksheet. Summary: We worked on a slide show relating to “the life you save may be your own” Reflection: I feel like this activity really helped with my reading comprehension skills/

  Prompt Response:  The title "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" suggests that helping or protecting another person may also benefit you. A time when helping someone else taughts me something that changed my perspective that made a positive difference in my own life was when one time freshman year my friend was really worried about fialing a final so I told her that I would help her study and in helping her study I also studied myself and learned a lot about the usbject. Summary: Today we finished the story we started yesterday. Reflection:  I feel like this helped me grow as a student.

  Prompt Response:  I have definitely had multiple frist impressions of people that have turned out to be wrong. Most of the times when I have this impression of someone it is mostly based off of appearance. Like just because someone looks a certain way doesn't always mean thats how they are. Sometimes people do act simmilar to their appearance but it's not always. Summary: We did a group reading/listening to an audio. Reflection:  This helped my reading compression.

 Prompt: Three items that someone might find in my trash today would be goodwill tags, used tea candles, and scrap fabric. I would say each item describes me differently.l The goodwill tags because I really like thrifitng and I go to goodwill a lot. I really like having candles lit in my room, I think that they are very peaceful. I go tho=rough a lot of tea candles so I think they would be in my trash. I also think people would find a lot of scrap fabric because I sew a lot. Summary:  Today we did an independent assignment. Reflection:  I enjoyed this, I feel that it helped me grow as a student.

  Prompt Response:  I think that lots of people would describe me differently because sometimes I act a little different around different people. I would say most people would say that I'm nice, friendly, and energetic. I would say that lots of people would say that because I'm very talkative and friendly towards other. I hope that this makes other feel good because I feel like if I'm acting happy others will be happy as well. I feel like my thougsh don't affect oghters people because they are mprivate and mine buti also feel the same way about the way I dress it only is me not others Summary: N/A (absent) Reflection:  N/A (absent)

  Prompt Response:  In "The Rockpile", John and Roy do not always receive the same treatment from the adults in their family. I have never really felt or had a feeling that me or someone else in my family was treated differently than everyone else. We all do are best to treat each other the same. As stated there was no time that was felt that sonome or me in my family was treated differently therefore nothing caused the differences and I have no say on if I think it was fair or not. Summary: Today in class we answered and talked about questions referring to "The Rockpile" Reflection:  I think that this was helpful in understanding the text.

  Prompt Response:   In the rockpile the children know that the rock pile is dangerous and that they are supposed to stay away from it, but curiosity still draws them toward it. A time when I was curious and temapation caused me to ingore the warning of a rule was when I was little and I saw a cat outside. I asked my parents if I could touch it and pick it up and my parents said that I shouldn't because it could hurt me. I didn't listen because I really wanted to pet the cat and it ended up scratching my are up really bad. Summary: Today in class we read "the Rockpile" Reflection:  I leared a lot about different writing styles.

Prompt Response:  I think that expirecnes simmilar to 9/11 and COVID_19 have affected both the community and country in many ways. I think having the expirnce with these types of situations is very helpful because it helps both the community and country grow as a whole and learn more about everything and be more aware in the future Incase something  like that was to happen again there would now be preperation for that. Summary: We took a test Reflection:  We took a test

  Prompt Response:  I think that some people have such a hard time accepting loss or change because it can be something that people get connected with and its where or whom they feel safe with. This can be hard for them to accept that is gone or changed and it can create lots of feelings that makes it hard for people. Summary: Today we read a short story and watched the film adaptation as well answered some questions on it. Reflection:  Overall I think this helped me understand the texts.

  Prompt Response:  In part 1 of A rose for Emily, Emily's house stands out from the community and reflects both her past and the changes happening around her. Somewhere that holds special momories for me is my grandparents house. It is on 5 Acers of land across from a 100 acer farm, there is a lake and a rope swing. There house is a one story brick house, it is very cozy and it is very warm and comforting. There are lots of flower designs everywhere. It represents how comefortabnle I feel and felt as a child. Summary: Today in class we read part 1 and 2 of a rose for Emily and answered questions. Reflection:  I think that having the questions really helped me learn and focus more on the passage.

 Prompt: In "because I could not stop for Death," Emily Dickinson present life as a ajourndy that eventually comes to an end. Some expirecnes in my life that have reminded me that time moves quickly are, weekends, breaks, and vacations. These expirecnes have affected the way I value my time by reminding me to make the most of the time I have. And when I'm thinking about it that motivates me to get up and go do something and not just sit around. Reflection: Today in class we read the poem "because I could not stop for death" my Emily Dickison, and we made drawings representing it as well as analyzing it. Summary:  I really liked being able to draw what we saw that the author was describing because poems are a lot of the time up to imterperatitation so this really helped me think about them a lot.

  Prompt Response:  A time when I felt like a truly belonged was when I was on a trip whit my whole family. We are all very close and it felt very good to be around so many people. They all made me feel so welcome and free, and like I could be myself. Summary: Today we did a common lit Reflection:  I feel like this really helped with my reading comprehonson

  Response: A fear that I have overcome is my fear of the dark. When I was little I was very scared of the dark. I was scared because I couldn't see in the dark and I didn't know what was there. I overcame this fear bit by bit, at night I would sleep with a light on and over time the light got duller and duller and now I'm no longer afraid of the dark. Summary: —  —  —  —  — Reflection: —  —  —  —  —