Omar's English Blog

 Today in class we read a passage about good and bad killings. We had to have an argument weather we think it's a such thing as a good kill. my group decided that their isn't such thing as a good kill for multiple reasons such as PTSD and answer 10 questions. 

 We finished our paragraphs from Friday about Employees being able to terminate their employees if they have unhealthy habits. We had to agree or disagree with it.

 Today we walked around the classroom as a group and talked about unhealthy things on a big piece paper in each group .

 Today in class we learned about cite Textual evidence and took notes on it. We read a passage about video games being a problem. We did 15 test questions about the passage we annotated.

 Today in class we watched people present their black owned business projects. After that we split classrooms and I presented my project. Then we watched a video on America's black upper class. We learned about important blacked owned businesses.

 Today in class we learned 15 new words. We wrote the words and parts of speech in our notebooks. Then we wrote our own sentences for each. 

 What we did on Friday was take a practice test that suppose to be like the Georgia Mile Stones and had to write multiple constructive responses

 In class on Thursday, we did the thing to answer a number of questions posed by Emily Dickinson and we had to identify the topic of the poem and analyze it and tell what the theme of the poem was.

 In a class on Wednesday, we were asked to answer a number of questions posed by Emily Dickinson, her poem had a deeper meaning than I had anticipated. We than had to identify the topic of the poem and analyze it and tell what the theme of the poem was.

 As a group, we participated in exercises 1 and 3 on Tuesday. As part of the first exercise, we had to use vocabulary words such as Bombastic, Carpal, cajoled etc., as well as other vocabulary words as well. In exercise 3, there was a multiple choice question that asked you to describe the vocabulary words as best as you could.

 

 I learned that emily dickinson wrestled with mental illness in their adult lives. There are indications that both suffered from major depression, bipolar disorder, and seasonal affective disorder. She involves her depression in her poems

 The poem Heart, we will forget him! is about the speaker who met someone they really care for and love. But they're trying to disparately about the person. But the things that were meaningful are the hardest to forget. The theme is relationships, emotions are pain, and sadness.

 This poem is about how the speaker is losing her mind and can only describe it as a funeral. It talks about the speaker descent into madness. They also experience the honor of going insane/crazy. The theme is a mental and emotional state of suffering and death.