Matayzha’s English Blog

 Prompt Response : I think it is important to eat more of your cultural foods and know them because it allows you to remember where you came from, and it also allows others to understand you and where you come from. I think one of the important foods from my life maybe is stuffed bell peppers. Even though it is a really simple and easy dish, it holds a lot of power for me. I grew up on eating  different veggies, and this would be one of my favorite meals that my Grandmother would make for me as a kid. Once she pasted my mother made sure to cook this for me, she would make sure that it was made on special occasions and even on a chill day.  Summary : Today in class we started a project for a poem called Knoxville, Tennessee. In this poem it talked about summer days and good foods that are eaten around this time. Using this poem we made a poster about the foods that we liked during different events that we eat.  Reflection : During this lesson I got to really look at t...

 Prompt Response : I think some of the most important aspects of my identity are my personal characteristics, my religion, and my culture. I say this because all of these things I hold dear, I feel like without my personal characteristics I would be just like everyone else and it is what makes me different. My religion shows me how to live my life, and what path I want to go down, being strongly connected to my religion allows me to see things in the eyes of a greater behind, without being so in tuned with my religion, I may be headed into the wrong path. Then my culture, being mixed with a lot of different ethnicity's it was kind of hard for me to really say what my culture was, but now that I understand your culture can be a mix of things it allows my to express my love for being Indian, Puerto Rican, and Jamaican. Being mixed I feel allows me to understand the views of so many people, instead of being stuck up on one thing. Being mixed I feel as if I can speak for all, and not j...

 Prompt Response : I feel like it my privacy was invaded, without any of my consent I would feel a way. If there is an explanation that is reasonable I would maybe understand but still I would feel a way, because it would make me feel like like I couldn't have any type of privacy that would be useful to me as a human. Then if my privacy if being invaded with no reason but a just because I can, I would be mad, because how am I supposed to live a life, where I am so called free and I can do what I feel once I'm out of my parents house, but I'm still being held accountable for things that should be kept between me and only me. Without privacy I feel as if I'm a slave to humanity. I do think privacy if civil liberty, I think because one a lot of people think different, and with privacy you can be who you want, when you want without the thought of being held to a certain standard.   Summary : Today in class we worked on a poem by Langston Hughes, the poem mainly outlined the...

 Prompt Response : During the break I can't say I did too much, really all I did was sleep , I stayed home up until I had flag football practice or when I went out which was once. I was staying up late though during the break, I didn't really care but my mom said if I don't get enough sleep it could impair my sleep schedule. Over the break I started looking for jobs, mainly because I was bored and I was tired of feeling impecunious . I decided to go out with one of my friends on Thursday just to get out of the house, but I was still kind of bored for the most part I had a good time but the other half I was ready to go home, I had gotten tired of being outside. Once I got home I hopped right into the shower and got into bed, I think being a home body is something that is immutable, because I always get so bored of being out. Over the break my sister would beg and beg me to take her to the park so I did, she was being importunious about it so I took her.  Summary : Absent  ...

 Prompt Response : A perfect day I spent with someone was maybe when I went to the movies with my mom, i wouldn't say it was perfect but it was a good day because we got to go out and talk about a lot of stuff. Before we got to the movies we went out to eat at Chiles, we went to see a scary movie and it was really do aswell. Overall the day was great and I hope we have many more. Summary : Today I was absent but I think all they worked on was the project so I turned it in.  Reflection : I learned how to use a poem to guide me through a presentation, connecting it to myself and coming up with a story. 

 Prompt Response : My American Dream is to become successful in the medical field. What I like most about America is that there is diversity and opportunity. In America there are so many different cultures, people, religions, and races which you can learn from without persecution. \  Summary : Today in class we worked on a poem by Langston Hughes about making America, America again. After reading and analyzing most parts, we had to make a presentation in the point of view of one of the characters about time traveling to a new era.  Reflection : From this lesson I learned how to create a presentation from a pov that is made up to make a story or presentation.   

Prompt Response : A time when someone offended me with words is when they spoke about how I looked. I don't think they were intentionally trying to hurt my feelings but the way they were speaking  and pointing out things about me that made me feel a little bit insecure.  Summary :  Today in class we worked on a poem for black history month, with the poem we thought of words that are offensive to us and how they make us feel. After reading the poem we went onto illuminate and answered two questions, one we had too just add a word from our list to the sentence " He poked out his tongue and called me ... " and the other we had to make a paragraph telling what happened after this and how I may have felt.  Reflection : From this lesson today I learned about how much words actually have an impact on me, I also learned how to use the word and provide it with a deeper meaning from my own experiences.