Brave new world warns us about the dangers of giving the state too much control over our lives. These include the women getting their ovaries removed so they couldn’t have anymore kids, and medically changing the makeups of kids so they would turn out a certain way. It also showed that classes in society are …
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End of the year blog
This year I learned a lot in English. I learned a lot about classic novels, speeches, and plays. It taught me how to read classic literature. I learned a lot of new vocabulary and learned that notecards are a pain in the butt. Overall I think it was a good year besides the whole pandemic …
Satire Project
In our lessons about satire in the world around us we did a project on it. Our satire was Juvenalain satire. This type of satire is characterized by using social evil and making jokes/sarcasm about it. Our activity idea that we had before Covid-19 happened was to have a roast in class. This is where …
Hamlet vs. Lion King
The Hamlet and Lion King are very similar. They are essentially the same story, just one with animals and one with people. Hamlet is a story about a kid who’s dad was killed and he doesn’t know how. He learns that his uncle was the one who killed his father. He is in love with …
Senior Shadow Reflection
For my senior shadow day I decided to shadow Joe Barsh at the rec center here in Williston. I wanted to learn how a rec center works and what somebody who works there does on a normal day. Doing my research paper helped me pick a career that I wanted to know more about. Although …
Senior Shadow Reflection
For my senior shadow day I decided to shadow Joe Barsh at the rec center here in Williston. I wanted to learn how a rec center works and what somebody who works there does on a normal day. Doing my research paper helped me pick a career that I wanted to know more about. Although …
Hamlet Reflection
Hamlet is a play written by Shakespeare, it is a tragedy. The play starts with Hamlet realizing his father was murdered. Throughout the rest of the play he plans to kill his uncle who murdered his father and took over the throne of Denmark. Hamlet is also in love with Ophelia during the play. He …
APA Paper Reflection
In this unit writing an APA paper, I learned a lot. I had never wrote in APA before this year, so it was hard to get used to. They require a lot more formatting throughout the paper and also cite differently. Since this was an all new way of writing, the paper took me twice …
Personality Quiz Blog
I took the Myers-Briggs personality quiz. This quiz is used by lots of people that are curious but also big companies that use it to place workers where they belong. They have to take the quiz and then place you in one of 16 personality types. Based on that they tell you what job could …
The Canterbury Tales Reflection
In The Pardoner’s Tale there were three men that were drinking in the tavern. They saw a coffin pass by on the way to it’s grave. They knew it was their friend and asked who killed him. The bar tender told them that death killed him. They want a search to find death. In the …