Julius's English Blog

      Most of the comments I got were about my color scheme. While I did put a lot of time in choosing nice pastel colors, and choosing border colors that fit nice, most of my work went into my images. I used a  collage style of image making for most of them. I'm glad though that people liked my coloring and organization since the other half of my time was on that. We looked at the feedback of our essay, and wrote and read comments on our poster. I learned how to find what good in different kinds of work.

      During the creation of making my figurative language on the simile and metaphor worksheet, I struggled with the topic of people down playing me. For nearly all my life no one has really called me names or made fun of me, or at least any that made a mark. So when I came up with a simile for it, I had a hard time. I came over this by looking back in my past for anything words said to me that insulted me even a little. Finally I came across some times when people called me small and skinny, so I used that. Today we worked on our poster. I learned how to make my words into images.

      Today when writing down similes and metaphors about my life experience I learned much about myself. I had to go back to think of past events in my life I can pull from. Such as the time I was in Jazz Band and had self doubt about my skill. I felt as if I should be there, and I should leave. Using this experience helped me write down metaphors, and similes to describe this feeling. We worked on writing down metaphors, and similes. I learned about the different cases one can use figurative language.

    Over the break I went to Western Carolina University to have a short tour, and I went to Mercer to spend a whole day as a music student. I learned a lot about how a music degree would work with what goes on in a dictators head, and what music theory I would be learning. After all that I went to a ski resort and went snow boarding with my friend. We spent a lot of time practicing. After a while, we were able to do a blue path. We ended off both days with a lot of injuries from hitting the ground, and I'm still very sore from it. We read a poem by a civil rights activist. I learned about the meaning of a the poem.

      I feel as if I have grown as a writer with my time spent working on my rhetorical analysis. I am able to write with a better purpose than before, and write more complex. I spent a lot more time than I usually do with my revising. I tried to stay as close as possible to the rubric as I could. In all, I feel that this as really helped me. We worked on our essay. I learned about time management when writing.

    One part of the rhetorical analysis process that helped me process information more clearly was identifying rhetorical devices and writing them down. By doing this I had to ask my self questions on how, and why these phrase was used, In doing so I gained a better understanding of what the work meant. We worked on the Rhetorical Analysis Planning Guide. I learned different strategies I could use to help plan my writing.

    My ideal day spent with someone I care about, would start off with a large homemade breakfast. Then we would  listen  to some vinyls, and talk about life. After that go out to a park, and hangout around nature. After that we would make some music together. To end the day off would would go to a concert. We work on prep-work for our essay. I learned about Obama's speech.

      The best piece of advice a parent has given me is "you can be different people, around different groups." My uncle Terry told me this. It really showed me that I don't have to fit in one group, and act the same way around different people. I learned that I can experience different things in life with out worry. I was absent.

      The hardest part of working in a group is finding a time to come together. I did a project for physicals where we had to make a machine. We had a lot of time to make it but, it was hard to find time to work on it. We all had different things going on at different times. We worked on a rhetorical analyst. I learned about grading from the rubric.

      The hardest part with writing an essay with me is organizing my ideas. I have an easy time brainstorming once I get in the flow, but taking the ideas and making them full fledged writing a struggle with. I usually overcome this by just starting writing, and tryout different sentences, and other wording. We took notes on rhetorical essays. We learned more about rhetoric essays.

      A powerful moment of my life is when I was on stage for a hard concert. Many of the songs and section I have only played once, and so never, so I spent a good time sight reading. While others I have played many times before. Yet on stage I played notes smoothly and quickly. It felt freeing being on that stage playing, it was the first time I felt so much emotion towards playing on stage. After that I knew why I loved music so much. We took notes, and wrote a bit of a rhetoric analyst. I learned how to write an rhetoric.