Jermia's Ap blog

 When we analyzed the title The Myth Of Music we thought it meant a traditional story of written or printed sounds. Music makes me feel calm and collected. It puts me into a deeper mood I’m in or it enlightens the mood i am in. I first discovered music when i was 13 years old i started to explore more genres of music on my on since i had my on phone at that time. I love to listen to my parents music as well because it has actually grown on me overtime and sometimes i can actually relate to the music that they had around their period of time or what they listen to. The myth of music is about a child who had this on particular song that was HER SONG it reminded her of her father in spirit no one else could have this song at all. Every one knows how they have this one particularly song that comes on and they yell out “this my song,” well this is how she felt about this particular jazzy song.

 Fear changes perspective. Today in class we basically had a therapeutic session and Mr. Rease asked us what was our fears, what gave us anxiety, what situations are we most uncomfortable in? I get anxiety whenever I overthink or stress I even get anxiety when someone asks me a simple question. My biggest fear is being in the spotlight, all eyes on me, I start to feel as if the people are going to say horrible things about the things that I do in that spotlight. I feel that sometimes people don’t understand me and what makes me do and act the way I do. What led to this is the poem life doesn’t frighten me by Maya Angelou, she talks about how all these unimaginable and frightening things doesn’t scare her in no way possible not the gossiping girls nor the shadow on the wall. One thing Mr . Rease taught me was “ Anything  is possible if you can conquer your fear” and “we can all go through life and come out smiling.” Anything is possible if you can conquer your fear not fears al...

Today in class we read two poems by Maya Angelou. The first poem was about how facing problems u feel troubled but you always know who to run to which is your mother who will never blame you for anything. Home is where the heart is to me because there is no judgement there is nothing but love. The second poem was about how is black people need to come together as one make things happen. If we were to come together there would be less violence, more black owned business. Usually in most black homes/cultures there is nothing but sadness and hatred because we don’t understand each other. When we start to overflow of things we should learn how to give back feed the  children clothe them.

 To be black to me means you have to be strong and independent. Being black is amazing to me people look at you different and it’s good to be different, to be out the box. Black people have the natural curly hair, Afro. We come in different shapes and sizes that’s beautiful inside and out. People may bring us black people down for all the barbecues and du-rags and just being us but we are confident, we are our own leaders. Dear black propel please be proud of you are and don’t change yourself because you don’t share the same culture as the other do.

Today in class we went to the library to get our book for our senior project and then we came back to class to read The Dream. The book I chose was The Blind Assassin which is about a woman whose sister killed her self and the her husband ended up dead on a sail boat which they are now investigate. The book is FICTIONAL and then she meets a lover in a back street room INTERESTING. The poem The Dream was about how this man thinks of this woman whom he is madly in love with but can only get her in his dream. This poem can relate to many high school crushes your always scared to talk to to them but when you dream at night anything is possible your no longer scared and you now have them all to yourself. I have went through this my 10th grade year i was falling for someone who i could never have but in my dream they were mine but the reality hit and i knew i could no longer live and that dream and i had to realize what was really going on.

Today we jotted down our own top 10 playlist and write what kind of connection we got to it. We also read the poem cruising with the bad boys. My number one song on my playlist was praise on it my Tasha Cobb’s helped me make it through a tough time when my grandpa died. The poem cruising with the bad boys was about how a song took the man back in time and brought back memories about all the crushes and girls that he couldn’t get. We learned how one simple thing can trigger so much and cause so many feelings to come.