Sophomore English

Dear parents (and other readers),   In english class we have a project we are working on: this project is called "Soul Force" and it is for students (like me) to work with our (my) partner and solve a problem that we could see ourselves improving within our school.  Me and my partner chose the following problem, Teens and their phones; therefore we must research and find useful information on our topic. The image I have included to the left is me standing in a Superman cape. What does that symbolize exactly some may ask: well that is because in class we watched the movie We Are Superman  which is a story about Kansas City's 31st and Troost area.    So far in our research I have learned that this definitely is a problem nationwide. Teens everywhere are on their phones   and constantly getting distracted. I have linked to the words "on their phones" an article that the Boston Globe posted which poses a good question. I use this article because of the fact that

      Dear Students who have been absent the past few weeks of school. The past few weeks of English class have been full of learning about and practicing what rhetorical appeals are and how to use them. These include ethos (ethical) which would be the appreciation or depreciation of the speaker or writer's credibility. Pathos which is the emotional rhetorical appeal, and is the use of words to convince the audience of the speakers credibility by appealing to the audiences emotional side. And Logos is the use of logic to appeal to the audience to appreciate or depreciate the credibility of the writer or speaker.       The game Snake Oil is a game in which the players, one is the customer and the rest are the product salesmen and/or saleswomen using the rhetorical appeals to pitch their product to the customer. The customer in the game Snake Oil chooses a customer card, which decides who the salesmen/saleswomen are pitching their product to. Meanwhile the salespeople choose six p

  Dear absent student, On the first day of Sophomore English we played a game to explore what kind of skills we will need to use in English this year. The game was where we were assigned to be a detective ( detective yellow,green,blue or red) and we had specific clues for which detective we were. The objective/goal in the end was to have our group memorize their clue, and a few other clues from the group. After memorizing them to the best of the person's ability, we next had to write down what we remembered. When the group had everything they had remembered written down, the group collaborates and attempts to come up with the answer to a few questions the teacher has about the case, and in the end the answers are released.   My reaction to the game included me realizing that not everyone is the same and some remember things that others don't, or that some just remember things in different ways. The groups coming together was a big help into rememberung the information, that o