Lindsey`s English Blog

 I am a very very picky eater if you cut carbs out of my diet, i`m not sure what I would eat. A lot of food from my culture I will not eat I only like 4 vegetables and 3 fruits, I do not like ANY sauces. A lot of the time when my family makes food for the adults and kids, I am always eating the kid's food. I have always been like this since I was a baby and everyone tells me I wil grow out of it but I do not think that is true. Pasta, bread, and chicken are my food groups and really the only meals I like and texture is a huge problem for me when trying new foods. So I really only eat a couple foods. Today in class we created online posters with 15 foods from our culture that we eat during different special ocausions, even though I do not eat a lot of the food I out on the poster but they are still apart of my culture.

 I think that secretly the government definitely does track all of our phones and we all have trackers and you cannot convince me otherwise. If you do illegal things I feel like they can look through your phone so I am good because I do not commit crimes because I do not see a reason for them too. Now if anybody else especially someone I know did that or had access I would be very cautious and kind of mad. I would not like my phone invaded, it one time got hacked and it was one of the worst days of my life and I had to redownload everything. Today in class we read a poem with the themes of freedom and liberaty, then discussed the liberatys we have as american citizens and what limitations they have. We listed 3 of the ones we found the most important and I really like my freedom of speech.

 During the winter break, my boyfriend and I went to Colorado with his family. Our trip started with a hike in the Rocky Mountains, where there were really pretty landscapes. Despite the imminent cold front, we wanted to make the most of our trip. My boyfriend’s imperious attitude sometimes felt like an impediment to our fun, but he has enthusiasm for skiing. One day, while exploring the village of Breckenridge, we went to an old chapel, which some locals seemed to like a certain idolatry. In the evenings, we would gather around the fireplace, and his dad told impious jokes that were actually funny some of the time. The whole thing was unforgettable and really fun and left me with an appreciation of snow.  Today in class we got a piece of paper with 14 squares and had to come up with a comic book strip including our 15 lesson 10 vocab words to be completed by the end of class.

 A perfect day would probably be when I am already out of town because the best way I can detach is by being away from home. I always feel more relaxed and able to focus on other things than what stresses me out when I am out of Atlanta.  At a body of water specifically a lake because I big fear of the ocean, but still with all the shops around the ocean, like the town around the ocean. My mom, dad, brothers, boyfriend, dogs, and cats would have to be there and all of them to get over their fear of the water (my dogs and cats) and we all swim together without drowning, getting hurt, or getting in trouble. Today in class we finished are one pagers

 A challenge I face constantly is procrastination, I am very very bad at it. I also tell myself that as long as I`m fine right now I`ll be okay and then I end up in trouble later because I put it off. This definitely happens the most with things I`m worrying about I will always put it off if I can. I am trying to work on it but sometimes when I'm doing somthing I don`t want to do it is so dificult to do it and I really have to push myself. With writing assignemts and presentations I am the worst at I just don`t even do it until the last day.  Today in class we started a one pager about the poem "still I rise" poem and I also got the rubric and set up to complete out essay due on the 28th. The one pager included many different items including coloring it. 

 I depend on my mom daily, I love my mom she is one of my best friends. I have become pretty independent with physical tasks like laundry and cooking but she is there emotionally always. I have always struggled in some way mentally and she has ALWAYS tried her best to help and be there. I relied on her a lot towards the end of my junior year.   I was going through a hard time with friends and it really started affecting my school life and confidence, she helped me manage it and make school easier by getting me a 504. I rely on her most of the time I need someone to talk to, we have a deal that as long as I am honest I most of the time will not get in trouble. Today in class we went over the culture of African Americans and then read a poem. The poem talks about a girl coming home after suffering a failure, She creeps into her house afraid her mother is not going to forgive her, but a mother's love is unconditional. They will always love you in a stable household. We then ...

 I learned how to have my own opinion and not to always just follow what everyone else around me does. I used to not trust myself at all and would always go with what someone else wanted instead of what I wanted or thought I should do because I always assumed I was wrong. When always thinking you wrong your always looking at other people for what you should be doing or always comparing yourself. I have learned that everyone is different and just because something works better for one person does not mean it will work better for all. People have their own tastes and preferences.  Today in class we completed a NEWSELA about the Bill of Rights and debated if we should update it or not. I understood both sides to the argument, it is a very important piece of history that should be honored, but with times changing I think it is okay to update it. Some of the things written are out of date now or do not matter to anyone, we could make it more influence 

 I do not really care about the football part of it at all I really do not enjoy watching football. Number 1 I do not get the point of football and think it is a dumb sport, it has way to high of an injury and death rate. It's basically just grown men running into each other who get paid way too much money, and its so slow with how often it stops I cannot do it. I was only excited for the superbowl for the food, we are hosting it at my house and they cooked so much food. 

 I have never been good at grammer or punctuation when it comes to essays, we found out in 5th grade I was legally blind so I kind of never learned my grammer in elementary school. It is really bad and I know I need to work on it but even when I feel like I do I always forget it. Punctuation and figurative language also get me I am not great at those. Sometimes I have trouble coming up with the idea for my essay or get blocked when writing. I always have someone look over my paper because I know I didn`t spell or write something correctly. I also have Grammarly and other writing programs signed onto my computer so it will correct me as I go. Today in class we were going over how to write out essays again this time focusing on the body paragraph. We discussed the structure and information you should have in each body paragraph, and how they should be there. You must use correct evidence and also explain it correctly, then connect it back to your starting sentence. We then read the c...

 If I had to write a poem right now it would probably be about how excited and also scared I am for school to end. I do not like coming to lakeside and want to be independent on my own. The idea of college is really scary to me though and I do not know how I am going to do when I am actually there. It would be about how i feel conflicted, excited but also anxious. Also how I am going to miss my family and dogs a lot more than I am thinking I am. Today in class we took notes on thesis statements and how they are used, what they mean, where to put them during an essay, how long they should be, and the characteristics we should include in them. We took notes on the important stuff on the slides.

 I am a person who has stage fright I have never been able to speak in front of a crowd. Even when I was a kid in like the school plays I would always get too scared to actually go on stage and do anything and would end up just not going out. I still cannot do presentations to this day I had a 504 against it for a while but I have started working on presenting. I would offer someone with stage fright that you never sound as bad as you think and that other people normally do not hear your voice shaking. Today in class we discussed our essays and were given the rubric for it having to do with our book the color purple. We then reviewed the difference between formal and informal writing and will go over thesis statements tomorrow. We are supposed to use formal writing for our essays and I am not the best at it so it was very helpful to go over it especially the losing 10 points for contractions because I definitely would have put them on accident.  

 During the summer I worked with a man who informed me of many things that I later learned were true by the time we get to 2025. The population is at 8 billion now when the earth is only supposed to be able to sustain 3 or 4 billion, by 2025 it is expected to be at 9.8 billion. I think we are going to start running out of resources, food, and energy. I also think more and more natural disasters are going to happen with global warming.  Today in class we read the letters 71-75 in the color purple and then answered discussion questions.