Julius's English Blog

     If I had to write a poem about my life now, it would be about my worries and excitement of my future. I have to start learning how to live on my own, and get ready for college. I plain to move out of state, so I really will be living on my own. Yet I am still very excited for the change. So if I wrote a poem it would be about my excitement and uncertainty about the future. We took notes. I learned how to write a rhetorical analyst.

      When I'm working on projects like music I usually start with a rift. Then I'll build up on this rift with drums, and bass. Then I start to be able to find the vibe it gives off. From this I'll start humming along to it until I find a good rhythm. Finally I'll start to write down lyrics that come to my head. Then after all that I'll rerecord, and master it. We did a test. I learned more about rhetoric devices.

      When I'm in a mood I don't like, I find myself playing on my piano, or guitar. I'll do this in the dark with a faint light shinning, it makes me feel a claim of sublime. Though when I'm frustrated I take a different path. I will hop on the drums, and just start playing whatever comes to mind. I'll do these till I'm too tired, not angry anymore, or when I break a stick. We did a Common Lit today. I learned about the effects of mental health on the body.

      The rhetorical devices that I find the most efficient to use is an analogy, since it help explain complex concepts. I like learning about biology, especially on the cellar level. Many of these viruses and Bactria I like to study, scientists will explain them with analogies. We took the rhetoric test today. I learned about more rhetoric.

      A word that connects with me is  gibberish. I enjoy its purpose of convening meaning, without being true speech. This is kind of like music, turning random sounds to mean something. This is best seen in music like acid jazz, where experimentation is at large. We read out the vocabulary book, lesson seven. I learned new words.

      The place I feel most at peace is my basement in the dark. It is nice a cool down there, and it where all my instruments are. I will often play vinyls before falling asleep, such as "Kid A." I am also often the allow one down there so  I can sing and play all I want. We read more out of the text book. I learned what distinctio means.

      When I am sick I have to rely on my family to take care of me. It feels nice to be taken care of, since it shows human empathy, in which humans do a kind act with no gain. Also getting soups when sick really make me feel better. We looked at Trumps speech. I learned more examples of rhetoric use.

      The skills that I have learned throughout my high school journey are how to do good presentations. From many years of making PowerPoint, and Google Slides, I have become great with presentation skills, and gained a lot of stage confinements. Life after high school I will use this skill many times within the work space. We analyzed Trump's speech. I learned different ways to use rhetoric devises.

      Once I took a hiatus from music. COVID started to hit and I was losing my motivation to play. I almost quit until my mother threatened to give away my piano if I didn't take a lesson, so I went back to it. This really changed my outlook on how many things people leave behind without releasing how it would change them. If my mom didn't get me back on music I  would have quit, and that would be the end of my music journey. Now I'm planning to go to college for music. We learned more about rhetorical devices. I learned about h ypophora .

    Today's lesson was so long I aged 50 years. Throughout the whole class I filled two pages with notes, though I did not take that many. In all, today's class was not bad. Today I learned about different rhetorical devices such as: hyperbole, understatements, and litotes. We took notes on r hetorical devices.

Over the break I spent time with my family, made many demos, and went to Crystal River. We had a Hanukkah party at my Bubbie's house. Where many of my relatives came to. I recorded some music demos by myself, and two with some friends. Lastly I went to Crystal River in Florida for the New Year, and saw some manatees. The first goal I hope to achieve in 2026 is to get an "A" in all my classes. This goal is important to me since I got a lot of B's last year, and that is not usual for me. To achieve this goal, I will study more for test, and quizzes. I hope to achieve this by holding an "A" until the end of the school year. The second goal I hope to achieve in 2026 is to get a 1300 on my SAT. This goal is important since it will allow me to get scholarships for large sums of money.  I will achieve this goal by studying and doing practices SAT. I hope to achieve this by the end of the school year. The third goal I hope to achieve in 2026 is to create an album...