Anna

I agree with all the students in this class. Students under adult age shouldn’t read any passage that has offensive language. It’s important to keep the original language. Keeping that language can help you read better and find diligent experiencing. I believe that offensive language on the other hand can cause uncomfortable feelings and situations. But still, it’s our pick or choice if we want to read it or not. But now I’m in college, so I might don’t want to have that privilege of choice to choose a text that has some kind of language. When you read that kind of language, it causes you to catch a blind eye of angry problems such as racism, sexism and intolerance. Unfortunately, it can still be an uncomfortable experience for living through such difficulties. But still, you can learn that if you go through other’s shoes.

I understand what is to do if you’re reading poetry. I give mine a seven out of ten because I was getting better at reading the poems. But it hard to stop mid-sentence. I was trying to read until I get to period and comma. After I practice, I was getting better at reading slowly at poetry. Reading Odiepus the King was really interesting because it gave life lessons. In real life there are lots of karma laws that were put in cause and effect such as diligent and bad luck impacts of our actions. What goes around comes around. One of my favorite poems was “The Lesson” by Toni Bambara because the poem shows how life in society is in different places in living. I was still looking and researching at other poems in The Poetry Foundation and some in the American Academy for Poets. Yet for my next Essay, I’m not sure that I’d pick the right one with twelve lines.

At first, I thought poems were only just stories. But when I read them, I learned that poems have lots of meanings. With those meanings, I can learned a lot of vocabulary and what the main idea is. The only thing you had to do while reading a poem is not to stop reading mid-sentence. You had to stop if there is a comma, a period or if you’re at the end of the sentence. With poetry, I have to practice reading multiple times without stopping in the middle. For the play “Opedius the King”, I decided to do the part of the wife of the king. But unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time, to get to read my part.

I get what we’re supposed to do for our next essay. When I was going through the experience of what are we supposed to write for essay 1, it was challenging. I know what the student is writing is still referring to the rubric. But it didn’t match of what the essay was talking about. But the rubric taught me of being specific of what the story is about. in the future, Essay 1 will help me prove more confident of proving clear concepts and supporting points. I was so confused of the topic and I didn’t follow the instructions carefully.

When I read the story, I do have a feeling what the reader what going through. At first, I thought she was talking about history. She was talking about her time at school. She was talking about school life, meeting her friends at the cafeteria and all the teachers she met through classes. The only teacher she talked was Miss Moore. She was the only black teacher in her school and she doesn’t have a first name. Also, she was wearing different clothes than most others don’t. Maybe, she might be different from other teachers. Secondly, I thought she was going through segregation. .I don’t want to go off topic but, I believe this is what she going through. In the second part, she was wondering to get some snacks for her students. But in real life, stealing is really wrong. At dismissal, the students were parting ways for their own future. This story might be related of how the author had experienced her life at school. Maybe I should renamed the story “Lesson: Toni Bambara’s True Story.” This story relates what the author had gone through at school along with her friends.

The purpose for this assignment was to read the story by Gabriel Martinez. Then, we had to read the sample by Dean Rider. We had to analyze the PowerPoint of what to learn what a thesis statement is. There is also an analyze guide and MLA citation guides based on how to put one or many quotes to make a thesis statement. Once we review those, we look at the sample essay of a student.