Thursday, March 17, 2011
Rhetorical Analysis
I feel like I have learned so much this week! Rhetorical Analysis is a challenge for me, but I can already see myself getting better at it! I will probably need to work really hard on this essay and see if I can turn in more than one draft to make sure I am understanding it. It does feel good to learn something new! Senior year, (at least mine) is full of elective classes besides college English.(unless you take AP Calc) and in most electives no real learning takes place. This class is refreshing because it challenges the way you think. I have no regrets taking this class, no matter what grade I end up with!
Up Late...Again...
Not up for any particular reason. Just procrastinating with my calculus homework. I can't sleep. I wrote some poetry. It's super sappy stuff, but a lot of poems can be.
I can't believe we finally got our graduation caps and gowns today! We are so close to graduating! I can taste it! It kind of all sunk in today when I was going through my invitations in my dining room. All of a sudden, I was completely overwhelmed and my lungs got rather tight. I'm not sure which emotion was the strongest at that point in time, but fear was definitely evident. Fear of the unknown of life, I guess. That's a thought train for my shower tomorrow. I have all of my best epiphanies in the shower.
I'm not really sure if that is how it is supposed to be spelled, but English is a terrible language to spell anyways. So many silent letters and exceptions and this letter changes because it is close to that letter. I'm not really fond of English as a language. It's not very romantic or forceful. And profanity is used too often. It makes people sound unintelligent when they use the same profain words over and over and over and over and over again.
I was watching a movie the other day that dropped the "F-bomb" about 20 or 30 times in the first few minutes. It destroyed my entire opinion of the movie because the repetitiveness of the dialogue was not creative in any way. It was f-this, f-that, f-ing something, f-whatever. Every once in a while, emphasis is needed, so a word like that can be used. But if used ALL THE TIME, it loses meaning. Emphasizing every word in a sentence makes it sound like white noise. Inflection and variation in tone, loudness, words, and frequency is what makes diction interesting. If little variation is used with any one of those, interest is decreased, in my opinion. I don't know if anyone else feels that way, but it's just something to think about I guess.
I can't believe we finally got our graduation caps and gowns today! We are so close to graduating! I can taste it! It kind of all sunk in today when I was going through my invitations in my dining room. All of a sudden, I was completely overwhelmed and my lungs got rather tight. I'm not sure which emotion was the strongest at that point in time, but fear was definitely evident. Fear of the unknown of life, I guess. That's a thought train for my shower tomorrow. I have all of my best epiphanies in the shower.
I'm not really sure if that is how it is supposed to be spelled, but English is a terrible language to spell anyways. So many silent letters and exceptions and this letter changes because it is close to that letter. I'm not really fond of English as a language. It's not very romantic or forceful. And profanity is used too often. It makes people sound unintelligent when they use the same profain words over and over and over and over and over again.
I was watching a movie the other day that dropped the "F-bomb" about 20 or 30 times in the first few minutes. It destroyed my entire opinion of the movie because the repetitiveness of the dialogue was not creative in any way. It was f-this, f-that, f-ing something, f-whatever. Every once in a while, emphasis is needed, so a word like that can be used. But if used ALL THE TIME, it loses meaning. Emphasizing every word in a sentence makes it sound like white noise. Inflection and variation in tone, loudness, words, and frequency is what makes diction interesting. If little variation is used with any one of those, interest is decreased, in my opinion. I don't know if anyone else feels that way, but it's just something to think about I guess.
....
I'm so happy that the new tri is taking off!
This means new classes, new people, new sports, etc.
Only one more trimester of high school?!?!
Make the best of the time we have left here
and look forward to the time we are going to have in the real world...
I cant wait any longer!
Just one more tri and an amazing summer and....
WE ARE OFF!!
:))
This means new classes, new people, new sports, etc.
Only one more trimester of high school?!?!
Make the best of the time we have left here
and look forward to the time we are going to have in the real world...
I cant wait any longer!
Just one more tri and an amazing summer and....
WE ARE OFF!!
:))
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Hmm...
I'm really ready for this last trimester! It's going to be a great last few months of school. I'm so sad to graduate, but I'm very excited about it.
I remember Miss Stariha telling us to read the pages she handed to us, but I don't remember if we were supposed to do anything else with them??
I remember Miss Stariha telling us to read the pages she handed to us, but I don't remember if we were supposed to do anything else with them??
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Fresh!
Well Im doing this early so I dont forget later this week! :P Im glad Mrs. Stariha is back. That baby kept her away for quite a while! I hope this trimester has cool stuff like easy fridays somehow, or something along those lines!
New Tri
Its finally last tri. I am glad that Mrs. Stariha is back but kind of nervous at the same time. I am hoping that the grading will stay some what the same but I guess we will wait and see. We have like 11 more weeks of school and we are done for good. :) I am soo ready. Its going to be really exciting and kind of scary. I cant wait to see how last tri goes.
Monday, March 14, 2011
?
soo im not really sure if we were supposed to post this week
but im just going to post to be on the safe side. Its been really
nice not having a super busy weekend and no homework for
a change! I can't wait to see what this tri has in store and
especially college english adjusting to having ms. Stariha
back. It will be nice once summer comes to just have all
of these assignments behind me. But then of course
college for sure will be difficult, but really fun too.
but im just going to post to be on the safe side. Its been really
nice not having a super busy weekend and no homework for
a change! I can't wait to see what this tri has in store and
especially college english adjusting to having ms. Stariha
back. It will be nice once summer comes to just have all
of these assignments behind me. But then of course
college for sure will be difficult, but really fun too.
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