Maybe Both???

Since this is my 10^th extra credit blog, I’ll blog about my blogging. Meta-Blogging!! Or something like that.

I feel like my blogging is too informal. I looked at schoolloop and it says that the purpose of the extra credit blogs is to be informal. Im still worried though because I feel like my blogs are too casual. EPIPHANY again… It’s ironic how I’m complaining about my blogs being too informal while I don’t want my writing to be too formal. It’s so confusing… I want to put my own personality in my writing, but I also don’t want to sound too subjective.  This is like one of my motifs in my blogging, which is having a hard time choosing if I want to put my own personality or sound like a 60 year old man. Maybe both???

Class Ratings

I am really bored so I thought of giving my classes some ratings haha…

1^st Algebra 2: 3 out of 5. 

Like: This class is really duable and the teacher is very calm and nice.

Dislike: The people in it. Did that sounded rude? What I mean is the people I it are so bipolar. Sometimes they are so loud that I couldn’t even read them; other times they are so quiet that our teacher gets so mad because no one is participating.

2^nd Choir: 4 out of 5

Like:  It involves with my favorite hobby.

Dislike: We can’t sing with our original voices. The girls have to sound like 30 year old women, and for us guys, our voice need to sound very very DEEP…

3^rd Spanish 3: 3.5 out of 5

Like:  Funny people. Cool teacher. It’s like a free period for me.

Dislike: I just had an epiphany… I am not learning anything new in this class.

4^th Marine Science: 1 out 5

Like: None.

Dislike: I am not the only person who keeps saying, “What’s wrong with this class? It’s so useless and unhelpful." I heard a lot of bad reviews about this class and unfortunately, they are accurate. I don’t want to mention those bad critics because I know that teachers work so hard to teach their students and if I was a teacher, I wouldn’t like it if someone said my class is really boring and stupid.  I know better than that. I just need to try my best to appreciatesomeone who is trying to help you…

5^th AP English: 4.3 out of 5

Like: I already said enough about the class. Cool people. Cool teacher. Cool class. It’s too awesome!

Dislike: Well…umm… never mind. NO ROASTING.

6^th U.S. History: 4 out of 5

Like:  Very nice teacher. It is an easy class, and it’s also fun!

Dislike: Hmmm. None.

Bully Awareness

I was wondering when is Bullying Awareness week is… I have read a lot of sad bully stories, I also heard a lot songs about being bullied because they are different and wants to fit in, like the song “Who You Are” by Jessie J (thanks to my cousin for sharing the song with me). I also watched this depressing video clip from YouTube, but I have no idea if we could post a video in our blogs.  But the link is 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg

It’s basically about this 7^th grade boy who was being bullied. He tells his sad stories by not speaking but by writing them in notecards and showing it on the screen. I think they should show this video during the Silence Day. The notecards and the silence had a great effect on making the viewers cry. It also made me realize, that I need to do the techniques he did to grab a readers attention in my writing… I wanna add more emotions in my writing but at the same time, I want to sound very intelligent.

FREAKING OUT!

I really want to reflect on my writing because I didn’t really know how to say my feelings toward my writing.

Ok… Basically my writing is very NOT ME… Yes, were supposed to sound like an 67 year old man, with a monocle, mustache and a top hat, rubbing his cat slowly, but it’s not me. I have to agree that we have to sound very intelligent and profound in order to go well on it. I want to add more of MY PERSONALITY in my writing while being a 67 year old man with a mustache and a monocle… The problem is I have no idea how to do that… I’m really hoping I will get a good grade on the finals because I am freaking out… FREAKING OUT!!

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games…  I thought this book is just like “Into the Wild” but it’s really not… This book is actually me. The book is about these 12 districts having a duel in this very spacious/mystical arena. The district that stayed alive in the duel will win food for their district.  There are 2 players in each districts, a boy and a girl.  So they just stab and kill each other until there is only 1 district remaining. People could also make alliances to the player, but they would still end up killing each other.  But at least you get to stay longer. Oh and cameras are also following all their actions. Sounds fun? Well it is to me! I like competitions! I love shows like Big Brother and Survivor.  There is a movie coming on March 23, 2012 and I can’t wait to see it! Since Harry Potter is done, The Hunger Games is possibly the replacement. But I think Harry Potters is still classic.

Choir Concert

 I don’t  know if this count as an extra blog, but Im gonna blog about it anyway haha.

Tuesday is our CHOIR CONCERT! ( I think…) I seriously don’t know what time our concert is. I am a little bit excited and nervous at the same time because I can picture all the people staring at us. We have this thing could “risers” where all the choir members are standing on it and I am in the highest part of the riser because all the guys are up there so I feel like were gonna fall.  If that happens, it would be the the greatest part of the concert. Back to the concert… I still don’t know when our concert it and I feel really dumb because Im the only person who is in choir that doesn’t even know when our most special event going to happen. I’m hoping that we will do well because we worked so hard. There is a little competition going between the 2 choirs though, which I really like.

AP English change me so much....( In a good way)

Finals are almost here!! This is the first time that I feel so nervous on taking the finals on all of my classes. I am especially scared about the finals on AP English. Ms. Sobrero told us that were gonna have to write 3 essays in 1 day? I really don’t feel comfortable doing that during the class because there’s so many things that is pressuring me like:

The classroom- I really don’t like writing an essay in class because I always like to listen in a small, quiet place.

The test itself- When I write an essay, I usually think of it as something for fun and to express my feelings, but when it’s in a test format, I think of it as a really important thing to do and I need to do well in it.

My goal for this week is to practice writing a STYLE ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS, ESSAY,AND THE THING WHERE WE HAVE TO DECIDE IF WE AGREE OR DISAGREE ON SOMETHING (sorry, I forgot what it was called…)

That most ironic event that happened to me in AP English class is that I am always looking forward on seeing the new thing we have to write an essay for. It’s really ironic, because I never thought of myself liking writing so much. AP English class change me so much!

Motifs..

I saw a lot of motifs in the book.  Here are the motifs I saw in the book:

Color : Especially red. I remember the red ribbon that Stamp Paid had.

Sex: In the movie, Sethe’s and Paul D’s first sex felt really special and important. (I think that sounded weird…)

Milk: Sethe’s milk. Sethe’s talks about her milk in the river with Amy. And The part where these white guys were squeezing her milk like a cow. (You can really feel the dehumanization when you watch the movie and the part where the white boys were laughing while squeezing her breast.)

Blood

Trees: Sethe’s scars on her back

Winter: I just noticed that as soon as starts snowing. Sethe, Denver, Beloved faced a lot of struggles

124 BlueStone:  The number 3 is missing. I also notice while flipping the book, On the first page of 

Part says “124 WAS LOUD.” And then the first page of part 3 says “124 WAS LOUD.” I really don’t know if that’s important…

Loneliness: Their’s a lot of loneliness going on  in the book especially to Denver.

Possesion: Beloved kept saying “She is mine.”

Animals: Here Boy and Mister The Rooster. Also the way Schoolteacher measures his slaves.

28 days: Im still wondering it’s important. Sethe was hunted by the schoolteacher in 28 days after she arrived in Cincinatti

Beloved The Movie... WoW....

I watched Beloved while reading the book because it helped me a clear my mind. It was the best movie from the book I read by far! I have read of Mice and Men and Great Expectations. I have also watched the movie but they weren't that much interesting. What I like about it is that the movie has the same mood as the original book. It contains some kind of mysterious, horrifying feeling. It's like reading the book. What's weird is that they didn't show Halle and Sixo. I think the reason why they didn't show Halle is because they want to represent Halle as a father who wasn't there for his children and wife. A lot of weird pictures are still stuck in my mind, but I think they are too  inappropriate to talk about. I can't wait to see the AP English students reaction on some of the clips...

Rememory...

Rememory? Hmm. I really don’t know the actual definition of the word but it sounds like its real word… Im guessing that it means “ to remember things that someone learned before” Toni Morrison used the word “rememory” a lot  in the book Beloved and I think that’s her main purpose for writing the book.  The book is supposed to tell us not to forget about slavery and the horrible things it has done.  

Sethe experience a lot of “rememory” in the book like meeting Beloved. Because of Beloved, Sethe had a chance to look back at her past and pains she has experienced. Because of “rememory” she sees herself as a mother who needs to take care of her children first before herself, and after Beloved was gone, she started seeing herself as a strong, independent woman. 

Sethe’s rememories about slavery were very painful for her to share to her loved ones but she never really notice that her memories about slavery were still alive because of Beloved…  Nevermind about the book… I want to share my own definition of “rememory.”

Rememory – (verb;noun).

1.       (Verb)To be familiar with previous experiences; recall

2.       (Noun) Experiences that happened before that are occurring in the present.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

This might be too late but Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

I am so thankful that I chose to stay in AP English 3. The reason why I chose AP Language in the first place is because I need to atleast get some credits and also to get out of the horrible atmosphere in a normal English class. The students are so loud, hurtful, annoying, non-participative (Is that a word?) ,  and annoying and disrespectful and annoying! I could go on talking about the atmosphere in a normal class but I don’t want to waste my time with that…

I really like AP English 5^th Period because of the students and atmosphere of the classroom.  Wow. That is so ironic… I never thought in my life that I would say that AP Language is really fun(no offence).During the first day of school. I almost peed in my pants because of my first impression of the class(Nah, that was just an exaggeration). We took our first diagnostic test for the 1^st day and I think everyone failed. As soon as the bell rang, I got out of the classroom and told myself, “ I need to get out of this class ASAP!” So I talked to Ms. Sobrero and surprisingly, I wasn’t the only one who felt frightened in this class. So I talked to her with this other person and she was actually funny. She read some stories about her previous class and I honestly wasn’t paying attention on just a FEW stories, but that was only because I was too scared. I was hoping that there could be a way to switch back to a normal English class, but it didn’t happen. Now that I think of it, if I actually got switch into a normal English class, that would be the worst decision I’ve ever made!!! I am so thankful that it was too late to switch back to a normal English class because if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t learn all these helpful things.

Every time my friend ask for help on his essay, I keep reminding him, “ I told you so! I kept telling you to go to AP English with me, but you didn’t. If you’re in my English class right now, you wouldn’t have any problems doing this...” But I still help him with his essays and I finally convince him to go to AP Literature next year...