Kamari's English Blog

 Prompt Response: After viewing the digital posters of my peers and reading the comments they left on my own poster led me to gain a better perspective of the inner workings of their minds. Looking back on the comments that were left behind made me more resolute in the way of my thinking and the creative choices I used. I learned from the process of creating my poster that the creative process of designing and presenting a poster require a large attention to detail to make sure everything works well with one another. Summary: Viewed Personal digital simile and metaphor posters. Reflection: I learned that a person's choice of design reflects the person's view of themselves. Knowing this will better help me understand people as I progress through life.

 Prompt Response: The topic that challenged me the most on writing a simile or metaphor on was pressure to succeed. This topic challenged me the most because I found it difficult to put my feelings into word form. I worked through the challenge by having my peers listen to examples of metaphors and similes on the topic and giving their opinions about what I wrote. Summary: Worked on Personal Simile and Metaphor Poster. Reflection: I learned that writing metaphors about your personal life gives you insight on yourself. Knowing this will help me better understand myself as I progress through my life.

Prompt Response: After creating my similes and metaphors I began thinking more about myself. The similes made me think of how I view myself. They showed me that I think about myself very little and how I think that I can't be anything less than perfect. The metaphors showed me how I think about the world around me. They showed me how I view the world as a place where being different equates to someone being wrong. These devices showed how I have grown from viewing the world as a perfect place to a more realistic view of all the things that are wrong in our society. Summary: Began creating similes and metaphors based on my experiences. Reflection: I learned that creating metaphors and similes over personal experiences make them easier for others to understand your thinking. Knowing this will better help me connect with my peers.

 Prompt Response: Over the break I went to driving school to fulfill my 30 hour in class driving course required by Joshua's Law to obtain my drivers licence.  Summary: Completed worksheet over Maya Angelou's "I rise" Poem. Reflection: I learned that defining words within a metaphor make it easier to understand the meaning behind them. Knowing this will better help me connect with metaphors as I progress through my academic career.

Prompt Response: I show love with food, messages and gifts. Each of these items represent how I love giving people who I cherish gifts that they enjoy like their favorite foods, items that they want but never buy or just a quick message to show I care about them. Summary: Completed Valentines Day poem. Reflection: I learned that when you write for someone you care about the words flow naturally. It shows that you truly care for that person and not what they can give you.

 Prompt Response: As I have completed the rhetoric analysis essay I feel like I was challenged as a writer and I lost a bit of confidence in myself. When it came to constructing my body paragraphs I found myself stuck trying to correctly write the things that I wanted to say. I feel like I am ready to continue analyzing complex speech's and text within American Literature but I know that I will be challenged when doing so. Summary: Completed rhetoric analysis essay over Barrack Obama's New Hampshire Speech. Reflection: I learned that analyzing rhetoric devices and strategies make it easier to organize your thoughts when constructing an essay. Knowing this will help my writing skills as I progress throughout my academic career.

 Prompt Response: One step that helped me understand the process more clearly was identifying the text. I learned that if you can understand the type of text, the genre of the text, and the purpose of the text it makes it easier for you to analysis the rhetoric used within the text. Summary: Completed rhetorical analysis step by step planning guide. Reflection: I learned that finding the purpose of a text makes it easier to identify the rhetoric within it. Knowing this will help me analyze rhetoric devices in a text as I progress through my academic career.

 Prompt Response: A perfect day spent with someone I care about begins with a home made breakfast and then going out and doing some activity together whether that be watching a movie or going to an arcade. After that going out to eat a restaurant together and just talking and enjoying each others company. Finally finishing the day off with a dessert of some kind. Summary: Began completing Rhetoric Analysis Essay guide. Reflection: I learned that annotating a speech for rhetoric devices makes it easier to organize your ideas. Knowing this will help me in construction my Rhetoric essay.

 Prompt Response: The best piece of advice that my parents gave me was "to never change myself for anybody because the people who really care about me like me for who I am." I was prompted to ask them this question when some of my friends from elementary school told me that I should change the way I act and do more things that they liked.  Summary: Completed writable assignment over the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes. Reflection: I learned that many poems are influenced by the speaker's community and the time period that poem was written. Knowing this will better increase my understanding of poems as I progress through my academic career.

Prompt Response: The most challenging part about working in a group is having every group member complete their part of the work. One time I was paired with a student who did not want to do the work and I kept trying to get them to do it or we would both fail. After not listening to me I told the teacher what was happening and was assured that I would get full credit for the work that I did while my partner would fail. From that experience I learned that group assignments are really bad to do when paired with someone who doesn't want to do the work. Summary: Completed rhetorical analysis practice assignment. Reflection: I learned that rhetorical strategies can help improve a persons writing. Knowing this will better help me improve my own writing as I progress through my academic career.

 Prompt Response: The most challenging part of writing an essay to me is organizing ideas. I find this step hardest for me because I have a hard time writing down my thoughts in an effective manner. Summary: Completed Rhetoric analysis body paragraph on Writable. Reflection: I learned that within a Rhetoric analysis body paragraph there are 2 commentaries that must be written. The purpose of the commentaries is to explicate the use of the rhetorical strategies used within your body paragraph.

 Prompt Response: A moment in my life that felt like the beginning of a powerful story was the year of isolation during the Covid 19 outbreak. It was the day that the lock down was announced and I remember feeling so lonely during that because I wasn't able to see any of my friends but I rose through the loneliness and did what I could during the outbreak and before I knew it I was back at school with my friends again.  Summary: Began drafting rhetorical analysis body paragraph over MLK Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. Reflection: I learned that a rhetoric body paragraph consist of a claim, 2 pieces of evidence, commentary about the 2 pieces of evidence and a conclusion sentence. Knowing this will better help me in creating my own rhetoric analysis body paragraphs.