Jermia's Ap blog

Today we wrote our essay. This essay wasn’t as difficult as the last one we did since he helped us through it and helped us get a better understanding of it. I believe i did bet on this one than i did on the last one.

Today we prepared for our essay we are writing tomorrow. We worked on tone, diction, and selection of details. We worked on claims and our commentary coming from one specific letter. I still really don’t get it but we’ll see how well tomorrow goes.

Mr. Rease left early today and we were left to do part of our study guides.

We wrote letters from a specific characters point of view. We also used STEAL to help get a better understanding about how they would talk and write and what they would say. We then read some more letters from the color purple and Shug convinces Celie to explore herself and see how she looks for she’s never seen herself before since she was raped.

    Dear God,                   Ise done somethings that ise know youse probably heard about. I told her to tell nobody but you about it or it’d kill ha mammy. Well hers mammy dead so she must told somebody other than you. Id ast for forgiveness but i know it’s to late to for it. I dun took Celie children away i don’t want nobody to know i dun had children by that ugly child of mine. God i ast if you would keep Nettie in school and not let her marry Mr., that my pretty child and i want her all to myself because doesn’t nobody want no teacher. Please i ast of you.

We went over some claims from our essays. We then read some more of the color purple. We finally know what’s Mr name it’s ALBERT. Albert loves Shug Avery till the point he is now vulnerable to Celie. We then wrote claims from what we read in class.

We attempted to do more questions for the color purple but weren’t successful at finishing it so we have to finish it for homework. We then went over some thesis statement and claims from our essay and let’s say i wasn’t pleased with my grade but at least i know i tried my best. Then we started reading the color purple at the end of class.

We answered some more questions for the color purple. After that we discussed what we had read yesterday to get a refresher. Then we read some more of the color purple up to letter 21. “All my life i had to fight,” this was really important line to me cause it really depicts what black women had to go through in that age and time period.

Today we started the color purple. We first talked about what we should learn by the time we got done with this novel. We read the first 13 letters it was so surprising how it actually started off but so far so good.

We answered some questions on 3 lyric poems by Ben Jonson. The poems were not that hard to understand but the questions were i gave up on around question 4 i just had to hard of a time comprehending it.

  Out of school for Veterans Day.

We read another poem by Sylvia Plath called The yew tree and the moon in groups it was very hard for us to understand it but after we read the poem each group had a stanza to explain to the class. We had the stanza where she started talking about the yew tree and describing how it looked and what it did basically personifying it. The poem to it entirety i believe was based around religion.

  Today we read another poem by Sylvia Plath called you’re. I believe it is about one of her children because in the poem she states “my little loaf.” As we read the poem and analyzed it we picked out it metaphors and similes. We analyzed all the similes and what they meant. The we took a face pop quiz which had everyone upset but it was funny at the same time.

   Today in class we wrote poems. The title of my poem was the cellphone. This was the title of my phone because that is one object I use everyday no matter where I’m at and i never let it out my sight unless I’m at home. It wasn’t as difficult for me to write the poem like the first time i wrote a poem it was maybe because it was a free verse and there was no rhyme scheme to do.