Week 4 Semester 2

This week we have been working on our project and other small assignments. As I mention before one of the books I will be reading is Look me in the Eye, which I started reading already. I have read the ten pages and I have already learned so many things about Autism. It's really hard to stop and write down some notes because I just want to read it without stopping but I know that those notes are going to help me on my essay and my project question. I like how the book its essay to read and it’s full of great information and memoirs of the author which I love knowing about. I'm really looking forward to learning more about autistic people and in answering my question. Also, on Tuesday we got our quizzes back and I didn't do so great. I notice that I have to work on paraphrasing I thought I did that part good but I was totally wrong. I liked the fact that we got to do test corrections because we can know the right answer and get our grade up. We also got to make a Diigo account which is a program that lets you make a comment about any article or picture and you get to share it with people. That’s basically what we have been up too.

3rd week 2nd semester

This week we turned in our inquiry project proposals and took a quiz of what we have been learning. My project topic is Mental Illnesses. I will be reading Forrest Gump, Look Me in The Eye, and A Pebble to Publish. I'm interested in this topic because a couple weeks ago I saw Forrest Gump the movie and the character itself taught me some lessons about life, and I think that any book alike from Forrest Gump has some lesson that I would like to learn about. The other two books are about kids that have autism. My question in order to cover all of the books will be how does people with mental illnesses get affected emotionally by others? I'm looking forward to start my first book, Look Me in the Eye, and start looking for an answer. The quiz was a little bit hard I'm not sure if it was because I didn't really study or because I wasn't paying attention. I was sure I knew everything but I notice I was wrong when I started doing the test. I hope I didn't fail the test because that would be very unfortunate.

Week 2 Semester 2

This week we got to read Beowulf and we finished it today. We learned about how we got out language from the Anglo-Saxon. I learned that out English is a mixture of German and Latin. Beowulf the story came from Anglo-Saxon and it was about a hero named Beowulf. The Anglo-Saxon was being eaten by a monster named Grendal, and they needed someone to come and destroy him because their population was decreasing. So Beowulf heard about this monster and he went to Denmark to rescue the people. Beowulf with his strength kills Grendal and later Grendal's mother. Lastly, a dragon comes to fight Beowulf but the dragon hurts him and Beowulf's people come and kill the dragon, and Beowulf dies slowly. The story was interesting and different from the other hero stories I have heard. For my project I still don’t know what I’m going to do but I’ll think about something. I really want to make my topic about something I’m really interested in but there’s a lot that’s why I can’t make up mymind.

Week 14

This week we have been learning about the different types of English we speak depending on who we are talking to. We read a small reading about this writer that was Asian and had a mom who talked "broken" English. I got to relate with this reading because my mom doesn't has a "broken" English, and alike like the writer I have to talk on the phone for her sometimes because she knows they will understand me better than her. We are also learning about how many languages are getting extinct because people don't have people to talk to, so either they lost it or they grew old and never got to teach their language. We read two readings one was about French and the other one was about saving languages. The French one talked about how French people don't like the fact that people want to learn they language. They think that, that makes their culture look worn out. But I think that it's better for their country it makes their language look good. The saving languages reading was about a school in New York where they tell people whose language are not known and asks them to teach others their language so it won't get lost.