New Trimester

I am very excited that we have started a new trimester. I am extremely glad that Ms. Stariha is back and seems so eager to teach us everything that we may have missed the first trimester. I really have been enjoying the conversations we have been having as a class discussing the different prompts and their meanings. I also like how we are now using more of the literary terms like diction. I heard from a classmate that the novel The Poisonwood Bible is a great story in which we become fully engaged as a reader. I am hoping that I don't find this story confusing and that I do well on the upcoming tests.

Bored @ 1:40 p.m.

So, I'm just sitting the library wondering what to blog about. Then it hits me... BAM!haha not really. Anyways, this rhetorical paper thingy is kind of freaking me out. I'm not very good at deciphering a paper. So this is going to be quite the challenge for me. I hope I really learn how to not procrastinate this Trimester, but I'm not holding my breath. I feel like I'm already checked out; done with high school. I only have three classes and get done by 12:30 everyday. So it feels like I'm already in college, or at least not high school anyways. I am just completly lost; with the paper, the new book, and just school in general. I hope these days go by quick because I really need to get out of here.

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.

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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!!

:))

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??

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!