I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS

There are 36 students in my AP Language and Composition class, and usually we don't all get to talk at once. Today we got to talk about different things that weren't necessarily school related and we got to hear what everybody else was thinking. A couple highlights, notes, or even memories from today's conversation were when Diana was talking about her big question and I also liked how she was building different structures to see which structure would be the best to handle an earthquake. Another highlight would be when, I believe it was Cece, who brought up how TikTok affects or influences us and then this whole conversation started about how TikTok influences kids and and then the subject moved on with the topic of kids, abortions, foster families etc. Another highlight within the conversation we had as a class would be how the discussion of school was brought up. From stress, anxiety, and other problems that deal with school. It ranged from how school work pressures you, teachers pressuring you and many more. Overall it was good but at the beginning it was really quite but as the conversation went on there was more talking and sharing. 

MY LEARNING FALL AND RISE(ready to read, Dr. Preston)

  Before entering the class I was an OK writer. I didn't express my opinions enough because in all of my other English classes the teacher had a specific thing they wanted us to write about. They told us what we had to have and they also gave a specific structure that we had to use.

  As I entered the class on August 12, feeling nervous because I was going to meet new people that I haven't met, and sat down I thought that the class was going to be like every other English class I had in the past. Get assigned seats, have explained how the class works, the rules of the class, then go get a bunch of textbooks. But, I couldn't have been more wrong.

  When I met Dr. Preston I thought that he was going to be like the other teachers that give out a lot of work. But, that thought soon went out the window when he introduced himself.  I was surprised that he let us choose how we wanted the class to work. I was mind blown we had the option of doing the old fashion textbook and paper or we could do blogs. Then he went outside until we were ready with our decision. At first I didn't want to do a blog because I thought it would be hard.Turns out it was really easy. I liked that Dr. Preston was different from other teachers because other teachers wouldn't let their students pick what they're going to be doing in class.
  When we stated our actual work day, like writing journals I didn't know how to express myself so at the beginning my journals were always short. So using a blog was so new to me I really didn't know what to do. Memorizing, recording, and posting videos to our blog was new to me too because I have never done something like that before. I believe that for the four months that I have been in this had helped me improve a lot. I express my opinions a lot more than i used too, some of my journal entries are longer than in the beginning, and I'm comfortable with using the blog.
  The point were I felt the most tension was when we were getting ready to do interviews. I kept on wondering to myself if I was prepared enough with all my documents, if I had an answer for the questions Dr. Preston was going to ask me and so much more. It was like driving on a road and the road suddenly forks into two other roads. One road could be that I nail the interview and be proud of my self or the other road is that I forget the answers to the questions I was asked, I took to long to think of an answer. The day of my interview I was really nervous. Once it was time for my interview I was ready, I had answers for all my questions I had all my documents ready. In the end I nailed my interview and even got some things I could improve on.
  Over the course of the four months that I've been in the class I managed to build some routines that help contribute to my success. Since I write my journals better in a quite environment so that I can think I tend to do some of my journals at home. Or there are other times were I procrastinate and I don't do my journals until Thursday so I can do my Friday journal on Friday then turn in my notebook. Sometimes I feel like the life I'm living is not my own. As Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." I really like that line because it makes me wonder if the lives we live are actually real or if they are just stories that someone else came up and is telling them to someone else. I also developed a habit of asking my group for clarification on things I don't really understand.
  The me from now is a lot different from the me that entered class in August. I don't mean me as in I changed my character, attitude, and other things. No. I mean I'm a different learner than when I first stepped foot in the class in August. I learned how to express myself in my writing a lot more which helped write one of my personal best essays. My Essay Essay was a different experience to write because it was the very first essay were i had an outline of what to write but at the same time I didn't have an outline. The outline had what we needed to have in our essay but we could incorporate them in our essay in our own different way. This essay took a lot of thinking, rewording, and a lot of my own opinions. Sometimes I feel like I'm carrying all of my education on my back.
  An experience in this course that has made me smile was when everybody in the class agrees on what we should do. There is no arguing between classmates and everybody gets along well with each other. I also smile when something funny happens and everybody is laughing then a second later the class goes quite.

HOW DID I DO

Today I interviewed in class and I would really appreciate your feedback.

STORY OF MY LIFE

An event in my life that I can turn into a short story.

One day during summer vacation my parents were out and about in the city, leaving my sister and I alone in the house. Now I love my sister don't get me wrong, but there are times were she can be annoying to deal with. That was one of those times. My sister and I share a room which can be hard sometimes. On this particular day I was watching one of my shows while my sister was watching Harry Potter. Suddenly my sister and I got hungry and since my parents were out and there was hardly any food in the fridge there wasn't much to eat. Then as if a light bulb struck we remembered that we had left over pizza from the previous day. Now my sister and I have this rule that if you get to something first and yell out "mine" then you have claimed it. So we raced over to the pizza and we both got to it and we tarted fighting. No the pizza was on a glass plate and our hands slipped and the plate fell. It was as if time stopped and we saw the plate shatter into a million other pieces. We stared at each other with eyes as wide as UFOs. With just one look  we could tell that we needed to fix it. So as fast as the flash we went and did what we had to do. She went to go pick up the broken pieces and I hurried as fast as my short legs can take me to the closest store to get another plate. When I came back my sister had the broken pieces picked up and we shared the pizza. Then the most unbelievable happened. I woke up. Everything that had happened didn't happened. I guess this is what you call lucid dreaming. 

FIRST IMPRESSION: ON SELF-RELIANCE

As we wear reading On Self-Reliance there were some points that struck me. The line "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius," at first I didn't understand what it meant but Dr. Preston said that it basically what you think is's not going to be the same for others because they might not think exactly like you. There were also some parts I didn't understand but later got cleared up. 

The Road Not Taken

When i was practicing rehearsing it it was good but once I started recording it I kept messing up.

LET ME WALK YOU THROUGH THE PEDESTRIAN

The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury tells the story that takes place in a futuristic/non-existent timeline. The main character Leonard Mead goes out for a walk and it's a relatively peaceful walk. That is until a car pulls up beside him and that's where things take a turn. The story is also based on Bradbury's experience and his feelings. Throughout the story the feelings he expresses are humanity,technology, and authority.
Mead goes on a peaceful walk during the night like he always does. Throughout the story Bradbury also gives detailed explanations which makes the reader use their imagination to picture what the author is talking about so they have a clear explanation. (Not Finished).