Alexus’s English Blog

 Today we reviewed argumentative essay’s. This gave us more insight on construction an argumentative essay. Today’s assessment made realize that argumentative essay aren’t as hard to write as i thought. 

 Today we finished presenting our current issues project. It was very interesting learning about thing that are happening all around us. My favorite presentation and discussion was the fear of black people. I feel like because it affects me personally it appealed to me more. 

 My group and I finished working on our current issues project. Today we presented our project. In my opinion I feel like our presentation could’ve been better, however we still did good. 

Today we began working on our following a current issue project. The topic we were given is Walmarts closing. My group was absent the day the class started our project but we kept up with the rest of the class because we worked diligently. 

 I was absent. 

 Today we worked on another prompt . It was over the implications that are caused by Buy Nothing Day. Now that we continue to review I feel a lot more confident in myself for the exam. 

 Today we work on another prompt. We reviewed doubt and certainty. Then we established if the was or was not a relationship between the two. From there we created a claim and supported it with evidence. 

 Today we worked on argumentative essay. We are reviewing this because we have to write this type of essay for our exam. It’s good to review do we can be prepared when it is time to test. 

 Today we put 5 questions we had about the rhetoric analysis. It was good to express our questions and have them answered. I feel like my questions being answered will help me write more effectively. 

 Today we took our rhetorical device test. I don’t feel like I did good only because I was anxious and felt unprepared. Also, it was hard to evaluate the passage we were given but I persevered.

 Today we reviewed for our rhetorical analysis. We read a passage by Barak Obama and we evaluated the rhetoric devices within it. Then we used the devices we found to right the prompt.