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This Week In Class

This week in class we touched base on a lot of varied ideas and topics. We talked about “going green” and we (the class) talk and say we should go green but are we really conserving our resources and saving the planet? We talked more on “what is writing?” Mr. R said that yes writing is everything we said it was. Then I blanked out and started thinking that yes writing is communicating, expressing, reflecting, and thinking but those aren’t separate parts of writing that is writing the whole part and the whole point of writing. In my opinion anyway, we right because we feel the need to let go of something, to reflect on our day, to think about the actions of others or ourselves and to communicate our opinion or feelings to wider audience. Then I started daydreaming about the new laptop my parents got me and I started thinking about what my brother was doing and how he is doing. I pretty much day dream about the same stuff every class this week the two main topics I really thought about was one: softball, I was thinking about how sore I was from practice and how the bruises from where I got hit with the ball were worth it. I started to think softball is one of the most painful sports yet I find it to be one of the best games ever played. I became really nervous so nervous for softball cuts so I had to change my train of thought. Then the second major thing I contemplated was my brother. I started thinking about how much fun we would be having if he was here and no one seems to understand what it feels like to have someone so influential in your life just up and leave just like that. I mean wow you know that song that goes “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone” that’s how I feel I didn’t know how much fun he was till he left and I wish I would have gotten to know him so much more than I did. Anyways this week in class I learned that only 23% of the students attending school actually enjoy it. That took me by surprise because I love school. I don’t like the lectures, homework, quizzes, test, textbooks, and some of the teachers teaching styles but I love school, I love coming and seeing my friends and I love the sports. Plus some of the teachers are really cool and can relate to us, which I find really important. I think if every kid can find something positive about their school day maybe just maybe it wouldn’t be as bad, but hey what do I know? I wanted to say that if they stopped paying so much money on jail cells and put that money into changing the curriculum maybe you wouldn’t need to spend that money on jails you would have less drop outs and more lawyers or doctors or people who want to make a difference. I wanted to say I feel we all want to make a difference but we just get side tracked or belittle economically so we feel we cant. We all have a loving heart some people deeper the others. I feel we all want to change the world some just feel they cant because they aren’t economically sound or working somewhere were they feel they aren’t in a position that can lead to change. I just wanted to say their wrong and anyone can make a difference if they try. Anyway that’s a quick summary on what we did this week in class.

Today in Language Arts class we talked about the aspect of “what is writting?” We said writting is broken up into parts one part communication one part exspression one part reflection and one part thinking. Mr. Raisdana says and I have to agree with this that in poetry no word is accidental every word is purposed and is there for a reason. You can never say you dont get a peom becasue then your just being lazy and not looking at the words. Everyone can understand poetry. Maybe the author of the poem understands the peom in a different way then you do. Everyone has there own perception but you can never say that you dont get poetry. Today I leanred that the Polionic complex is when a person feels that the more things you have the bigger person you are. In class I sort of just maybe zoned out a little and got preocupied with my thoughts. I thought about my MRI that I had to do in 20 minutes. I started thinking about what happens if my ankles not ok? What happens if I have to give up softball just like I did soccer? What happens if I let my team, friends and family down? Then another thought came into my mind. Im sitting here about to have an MRI at one of the top hospitals and I’m thinking about whats going to happen to me, and there are probally a couple thousand people out there who have the same exact problem but cant afford to go to a doctor so there living in pain with no idea why ,how or what happened to them. Then I started to feel really guilty, so I changed my train of thought. Today in class I wanted to say that in the poem ‘Thoughts from Within” I strongly agreed with the the author was saying or with what I felt the author was saying. When the author said ” this government was founded by, of, and for the people but everybody feels it like a giant open sore they don’t represent us anymore and blaming the the president for the country’s woes is like yelling at puppet for the way it sings Who’s the man behind the curtain pulling the strings?” At first I dint quite grasp what the author was saying but then after I re read it and sorted through the extra words I got it. I think its saying this government was chosen by the people and for the people which is us, but everybody feels the pain of the country’s, poverty and problems and blamming the president isn’t right because he is one man but we all make a difference and the people behind the president who help influence his motions is the people. So we cant blame him. We can only blame ourselves. Thats what I wanted to say in class.