I believe I deserve an and 85 to a 90. I have been doing work for English even though I haven’t been turn my work in. I have been doing my work and the Toni Morrison essay was pretty hard since I wasn’t really sure that was even my best essay writing so far, I honestly feel like I could do better but like on a different topic.

These six week have been a little hard kicking bad habits since we are all not in person. I feel little better that I am reading a little more, even though they are for school. As a writer I think I progressed a little bit more since the last update even though it during class. For reaching my goals in reading I would like to say I am slowly reaching there. I was mainly focused on reading The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, so I wasn’t reading any other books sadly.

Though for writing as a whole I feel like I have gotten better even though we haven’t really been writing anything yet. I feel like I will very differently for the essay for the novels we just read in class.

As I feel for everything else we are doing in class to prepare for the collegeboard exam I want to want and see since I don’t want to accidently jinx myself, I honestly feel like the stupid multiple choice questions are hard when they are asking for things and it feels like all the answer options could be the right one, but you have to remember only one of them is the right answer and you have like a 3/4 chance of getting wrong.

In conclusion I feel like I deserve an 85 to 90, I know that next six week I can work myself up to a better grade hopefully.

My thoughts about the book I choose to read were mainly focused on confusion since I really was lost in what was going on in the book and the different points of views that were being switched around. At the end when I was reading the Authors Note it felt like clarity was finally reaching me since it helped clear all the confusion the was filling my head since I couldn’t really figure out the whole plot of the story.

I thought at the the story and writing were kind of messy since it felt like I was just being stung along in so many directions and I was fighting to not be dragged on the ground. Not after being able to talk to my group I feel the the writing was messy, it was just written in a way to be perceived as messy to me. Why it felt messy to me is that I have read the Heroes of Olympus series and that is a really good at switch between points of view and keeps it simple to understand what is going on in the story. Now looking back the story is kind of sad to think about and just how it affects the characters differently.

For Pecola I felt bad for her since at the end she basically went insane trying to prove she had the bluest eyes in the world. I also felt bad for her since was raped by her own father and was forced to carry the baby, even though everyone else wanted the baby to die. When I fish meat the characters Claudia and Frieda I couldn’t really relate them so I honestly did care for the and athletic the end of the story were they were praying to Pecola’s baby to live I somehow felt that they redeemed themselves in my eyes. I actually like China,Poland,and Miss. Marie since they seemed like these wise and mysterious older ladies and then we find out that they basically are whores, and then I didn’t really know how to feel about that. I was like ‘oh, okay’ and just moved to the rest of the story. Maureen I kind of llooked her I guess it just she was like so much of a forgettable character for me, but I did remember her saying something about throwing the end of the cones out since there is a dead fly stick there. Soaphead Church I didn’t like him because he was like a frighten prick and a narcissist in my opinion and my opinion of hime just keep going down as I kept reading more about him. I especially hated him since he basically forced pecola to kill the old many dog that basically was dying, but still the little girl wanted blue eyes not kill a animal. Then he went a wrote a letter basically being like ‘Dear God, I know I paraded around pretending that I am actually religious. Even though I hate like all human except little girls who I like to touch. But today I had to do your job because this little black girl just wants blue eyes and that it, and you couldn’t even do that.’ I didn’t like Ms, Pauline/Polly at the end where she basically hates her daughter of the way she looks and is so rude to her. Though at first I kind of felt bad for her since she does have a deformed foot which makes her view herself as ugly. And Cholly I didn’t like him at all throught the story and he never really made himself able to be liked to me.

Two academic/personal accomplishments I am proud of are my media tech movies and films that I made even though I could go back and edit them to look at least nicer. Why I am proud of them is mainly because I made them myself and much less edited them myself. I am also proud of my digital art pieces since I did start actually getting into them this year and I grew a lot doing them and the pieces are getting better.

Some of my academic strengths I would say are my critical thinking skills, open-mindedness,and being kind and friendly to people. Some of my weaknesses are procrastination, a bit of stubbornness and Impatience.

The class I enjoyed the most were probably History and or Art. Art mainly since it was kind of a way to de stress besides being a fun and chill class. History since depending on how the teacher is teaching it, the subject that we learn can be pretty interesting and not that boring. Math is pretty difficult. I would say it is not really my strong suit. I take it since it is one of my core classes.

One of my greatest personal strengths I would say is my ability to go with the flow, and be flexible. Sincere ~ because I try my best to give my honest opinion even though sometimes it may not always be the best. Unassuming~ I am wanting to try not to be the asshole who knows everything when I actually don’t, or the person who is super arrogant that no one wants to work with. Adaptable~ I am always trying to be the person who is flexible and ready to work with anything thrown at me. I would say My friends would describe me using these adjectives.I try my best to be either impartial or diplomatic in an argument that I just walked into. I try my best to be straightforward with people.

Coach Brown because I have known her since 6th grade and she was my advisory teacher also in sixth grade. Or Mr. Smith I would say since I actually have been in his class or almost 3 years now so I would say either him or Mr. Soden. Why I picked Mr. Smith is in his class for more than just one year mainly since after I was in a class I mainly never visit the teacher again. I think they would say I am pretty hard working though sometimes I do slack off. I think they probably say that I am sincere. I do try my best in every class that I am in to be open and genuine in how I feel. I think they probably would say a bit persistent. I’m not sure though but I am kind of persistent when I have an idea and I want to do it and or finish it. 

Something that is not really known about me is that when I was younger I played a lot of sports actually. When I  was a little kid I played soccer then I quit because I think my mom didn’t like the coach or something, then I got into volleyball because of watching the Summer olympics when I was like 4 or 8 years old, And finally  played a bit of basketball when I was like 10.

I believe I deserve an and 85 to a 89. I have been doing work for English even though I haven’t been turn my work in. I have been doing my work and the citizen essay was pretty hard since I wasn’t really sure that was even my best essay writing so far, I honestly feel like I could do better but like on a different topic.

These semester have been a little hard kicking bad habits since we are all not in person. I feel little better that I am reading a little more, even though they are for school. As a writer I think I progressed a little bit more since the last update even though it during class. For reaching my goals in reading I would like to say I am slowly reaching there. I kind of feeling like my learning has grown mainly for writing since I have more experience with it, but for the triangle thing, it’s more like I understand it’s purpose but I really don’t see it’s use. The triangle thingy kind of help of the essay not going to lie. I feel like I have grown an honest hatred of actually reading book or listening to anything to something other than music or youtube. So I grown a bit of a hatred of reading my books but I push through mainly since I want a good grade, except on my choice reading book for silent reading time in class though I probably like at halfway to near 3/4 of the way done.

Though for writing as a whole I feel like I have gotten better it just that I kind of feel like you leave us floundering. Like when you first introduced us the assertions writing. I was all like wtf is an assertion? Ms. Walker as never uttered a word about assertion to us but then again all I remember was about little prince and posionwood bible. I kind of feel like if you are going to introduce us to a new type of writing for use maybe just us a piece that is in that style or links or something that we can use to help us. Compared to my first assertion I felt I have grown a lot for writing assertion that I might confidently say I can probably write a better assertion now. Though I do fear the future of this class because I am waiting for the other shoe to drop and that other shoe is writing poetry. I will be honest and say I don’t think my poetry skills are that good mainly since I never actually use them outside of the classroom so I never feel the need for them. I am sorry to say I probably have grown a hatred for writing poetry. Though I am a little partial to reading poetry as long as it is good or funny poetry.

As I feel for as a student not very well since I am really a procrastinator, and I am trying to use my Asynchronous time wisely but sometimes I just focus on something else and then totally forget what I was supposed to do. For how I want these next semester to go I want to make them better all around, but I need to set more realistic goals so for asynchronous time mainly trying to focus on staying to task until I finish the assignment. Now I feel like I almost got it but I am still totally working on it, since as the saying goes practice makes perfect.

In conclusion I feel like I deserve an 85 to an 89, I know that next semester I can work myself up to a better grade hopefully. Mainly by using my Asynchronous time wisely and staying on task, as well as turning stuff in. I could also work on my reading habits, as well as kicking my bad reading habits out. Not sure I will be kicking my bad habits out since school kind of killed my love of reading by forcing me to read so many books to be honest.

In the Book Citizen by Claudia Rankine documents systematic racism through a second person point of view, mainly for the reader to come to an understanding and feel how racism can affect their bodies, minds, and emotions. Rankine does write through the second person point of view in a way that is very thought provoking that is consistent throughout the book. Although she changes through different styles of writing in the book, one thing that stays consistent is the talking of racism in different undertones. Sometimes the undertones can be very obvious and others very subtle to where you can be confused about what was really going on. Another thing that is very consistent throughout the book is microaggression towards the African Americans, mainly to show what they have to go through on a day to day basis.

Racism and through it main form through the book microaggression (comments or actions that are subtlety expressing discrimination) are core themes in Cluadia Rakine’s Citizen. Through the use of poetry and prose writing she explores the cost that racism casts in all forms takes on the black community and specifically the speaker of the poems/ Microaggressions are words and actions that most of the time, unknowingly exposes people’s prejudices. Rakine gives us the audience countless scenarios, schemes, and examples of how microaggression happens in everyday life in Citizen. In the first passage in Chapter 3 a friend uses language that targets as well as stereotypes the speaker’s race. In another example is when the microaggression with the cashier asks the speaker if she thinks her card will be declined. This action discloses the cashier’s bias about black people: they are either poor or irresponsible and have bad credit. Rankine continuously details these microaggressions, illustrating the constant attacks of prejudice that African Americans live with.

The racism does not end with microaggressions, however. Rankine also focuses on a larger, more overtly threatening and institutional forms of racism. The poems in Chapter 6 in particular move through a series of examples of racism in American society and the justice system. Rankine addresses shooting and killing of black men. In the case of Trayvon Martin the shooter is a white neighborhood watchman. In another poem, she writes about James Craig Anderson, a 47-year-old black man who was killed by white teenagers yelling white-power slogans. These acts are not microaggressions: they are deadly manifestations of hatred and racial prejudice. The speaker illustrates the emotional toll of living both with a daily onslaught of latent prejudice and in the larger shadow of fear that comes just from being black in America.

In America there is a lot of mainly unresolved bias, biogtry, discrimination, racism and other things that people are not talking about. There are also largely people who are living in fear whether it is because of the police, certain types of people, people on the internet, because who they are, and probably lots of other things. Considering the fact it isn’t fair for people to be treated so unfairly and quite honestly horrible, just based on the color of their skin, or because of who their parents are. Not to mention it probably is worse if they happen to have a disability or a preexisting condition. The book Citizen points out in a beautiful but tragic way how people are treated, and others just see it as normal or they look away since they don’t want to be part of the solution, they are just part of the problem.

I believe I deserve an eighty. I have been doing work for English even though I haven’t been turn my work in. I have been doing annotations even though sometimes some of the pieces we are annotating make me feel like my eyes are bleeding since when I am doing them I am really tired.

These second six weeks have been a little hard kicking bad habits since we are all not in person. I feel little better that I am reading a little more, even though they are for school. As a writer I think I progressed a little bit more since the last update even though it during class. For reaching my goals in reading I would like to say I am slowly reaching there. I kind of feeling like my learning has grown mainly for annotating since I have more experience with it, but for the triangle thing, it’s more like I understand it’s purpose but I really don’t see it’s use.

As I feel for as a student not very well since I am really a procrastinator, and I am trying to use my Asynchronous time wisely but sometimes I just focus on something else and then totally forget what I was supposed to do. For how I want these next six weeks to go I want to make them better all around, but I need to set more realistic goals so for asynchronous time mainly trying to focus on staying to task until I finish the assignment.

In conclusion I feel like I deserve an eighty, I know that next six weeks I can work myself up to a 90. Mainly by using my Asynchronous time wisely and staying on task, as well as turning stuff in. I could also work on my reading habits, as well as kicking my bad reading habits out.

I rather be alone and be an introvert than be in a constant noisy environment. I rather be sleeping than having to go outside. I’d rather be free than be caged, but how isn’t caged by their own mind sometimes. Sometimes some days are better than others, and other times some days are worse than others. I’d rather swim than stay outside on land and run the risk of getting bug bites, since I hate bug bites. Sometimes I wish I could do things I’m not able to do like having nap time from kindergarten. I’d rather that our world and society as a whole was more accepting of different people, like I am not like you but I accept you as you are even though I might not go through the same things as you. I wish people could not be so violent, but that Is simply not ever going to happen.

I rather be alone and be an introvert than be in a constant noisy environment. I rather be sleeping than having to go outside. I’d rather be free than be caged, but how isn’t caged by their own mind sometimes. Sometimes some days are better than others, and other times some days are worse than others. I’d rather swim than stay outside on land and run the risk of getting bug bites, since I hate bug bites. Sometimes I wish I could do things I’m not able to do like having nap time from kindergarten. I’d rather that our world and society as a whole was more accepting of different people, like I am not like you but I accept you as you are even though I might not go through the same things as you. I wish people could not be so violent, but that Is simply not ever going to happen.

Prologue is mainly trying to get the reader to look at a minority through a different lens. Prologue part Urbanity mainly is trying to connect everything together, saying that basically we were made from the earth we will return to the earth. It is also saying that nothing is actually original, everything is reused, to quote “but nothing is original, everything comes from something before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed.”(4)  Prologue part Hard, Fast mainly is trying to teach that no matter what someone is going to get hurt or blamed, and people trying to adapt. Prologue part Massacre of Prologue talks about people growing up hearing stories of people who are massacred for their race. They also hear stories of how they preserved and survived. Prologue part Rolling Head is talking about how people can be changed by other people’s narratives, since no one is letting them speak.