Caroline’s English Blog

 Today in American Literature we continued our poetry analysis of Langston Hughes poems. The poem today was called “Mother to Son,” in which I really I enjoyed reading through and talking about the overall meaning to these poems. The biggest literary device that stood out to me was the Allegory. The physical item was the crystal and non crystal staircase but there was also another, deeper meaning.  During our conversations of poetry this unit, it has inspired me to start reading my own poetry. Honestly, I used to dislike poetry quite a lot. I’ve been exploring the world of recently written poetry, the author being someone of my generation. There was one poem I read that reminded me of the “Mother to Son,” by Hughes. The poem is as follows: i can’t name all the people i’ve been since i was a kid My connection to this is that when you are a kid, you start at the bottom of this latter, growing with each experience. Moving up the latter, and sometimes is difficult but you have to ...

 American Lit on this day consisted of our start to the Character Poster Project. This is where we all got into groups to create a poster on a Great Gatsby character that we were assigned. My group’s character was Tom. When doing research for our character we discovered all the aspects of Tom’s character. We knew who he was before, but we analyzed his character and got a better understanding of Tom.

 Today Mr Rease was not at school, but he assigned us an assignment on CommonLIT. This assignment was on chapter 8 of the Great Gatsby. I did not finish this assignment in class, but it helped to expand my understanding of the story. The day overall was not mad, just pretty long.

 Today was a day of presenting our Mini-Projects in American LIT. I thought it was interesting to see the different point of views and ideas of my fellow students. I think that it is cool to see how there can be so many perspectives and opinions from just the same text. Overall the day went okay after that, I started a new personal book which was very good so far.

 On this day in American Lit we had a period to work on our Great Gatsby Mini Project. I had been absent the first few days the project was assigned, so I began late. I decided to start my project on the Trash Can prompt - my character being Nick. I didn’t finish it that day, and still need to turn it in. Later in the day I had a lot of work to catch up on and worked on those too. It was a little stressful start to the week but overall not too bad.

 I was absent this day.

 I was absent this day.

 I was absent this day.