HOW I READ

Today I am here with the intention of being understood through my writing. As a junior in high school I have, like Dr. Preston said written many essays throughout my whole life. This is going to be me revising my blog and I hope you guys undertand.I like to read out loud and in front of the whole class, for some reason I feel like I sound very professional. Also if were reading by ourselves and its like instructions then I have to read them out loud but not loud for the whole class to hear just loud for the person next to me to hear and also several times before I can actually process any of it. I also like to read very fast and very loud. I'm a naturally very loud person too so I guess that explains it. In my opinion I think I am very talented public speaker and I also really like doing it so when it comes to reading out loud I love it but when it comes to reading by myself I don't enjoy it as much maybe because I just like to have my voice heard.

HACK TO SCHOOL

1. What is this class about? This class is about English duhh. To be more specific I feel like its more about learning new skills that have to do with English. Like writing and reading and yea the rest of that good stuff were forced to learn but lowkey helps us.
2. What is the easiest part of this class? The easiest part of this class is probably not feeling too forced to do things in class because we know if we don't finish it in class we have to do it on our own time so we practically in my opinion make our own decisions on how we want to spend our time. 
3. What is the hardest part of this class? The hardest part of this class is having to keep up with all the blogs especially when we get like 2 a day and some of us have other harder classes to worry about. 
4. What have you learned so far? So far I've actually learned a lot in this class but mostly we've been getting very deep into writings and your own opinions and stuff, I've never really thought hard about it but in this class we get very deep into all of it but I mostly remember the socratic seminar we had in class. 
5. What is your Big Question? My big question is, is anything actually real. How do we know that anything is real?

A SOCRATIC SEMINAR

Today was our first socratic seminar. The topic was about our journals. It started off with some girls telling other girls to read their journal. I kind of felt uncomfortable because if they were to tell me to read my journal I would obviously say no and its not because I didn't want to participate but because what I write is more private to me. Some girls were saying how love is a feeling In my opinion its more of a thought. I did participate though by asking some questions like "can you love someone and still hurt them" everyone pretty much agreed that yes. I then proceeded to ask if you can cheat on someone and still love them. A lot of people say that cheating is more of an emotional thing so just having sex with someone is a different kind of cheating.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

Let me paint a picture real quick. Lets say you are at home and you live alone because you decided to move out of state without your family and you have no one and your just cooking your pasta or something and then you forget about it because you got distracted with your phone and you fell asleep watching Netflix. Out of no where you feel fire and heat everywhere,  you open your eyes and you see flames. What are you gonna do? You cant reach your phone because it fell between the cracks between your bed and your wall and your wall is starting to catch fire. Youre all on your own. If you know no one, whos going to help you through tough times in life. Everyone needs someone to live this unfair world in which we breathe and call it living. You need a person like Christina Yang needed Meredith Grey. Don't fool yourself, maybe being alone might feel better for you because you don't like socializing but why don't you just find someone who gives off the same energy as you. There is always someone for everyone and it doesn't mean like falling in love or getting married its just someone who can be there for you and be your person.

COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES OF A HACKER

The Mentor's use of diction, syntax, and tone effectively convey his message by getting the readers attention. For example when the author uses profanity the author gains a connection with the readers such as teenagers because they feel as if the author could be trusted as one of them. By repeating words or phrases the author "puts" the attention on that so later on in his writing it makes more sense to what he is saying. Therefore the attention on those words are never left. And because of this the author is able to convey his message across much easier.

TODAY I ASKED A QUESTION

 My question was if anything is actually real. I want to know how people know that were even alive. How do you not know that this is a figment of our imagination. I always ask myself, how do we know were even alive? Are we actually breathing, thinking, or even living for that sake. I honestly have different thoughts about this. What if the government is controlling all our thoughts. Or what if were not even real humans. What if were the real aliens here. Well anyways I guess we'll never know. But that's my big question.

YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION

Although you are entitled to your opinion, you really are not. Although you may have an opinion it doesn't mean you are entitled to force someone to change there's, or in that fact even change someone elses. You can not forcefully make someone listen to you. Also when someone says that they are entitled to their opinion an argument would usually end there. By doing so we won't ever get answers because arguments are a way for us to search for truths. Without this we will never get anywhere in life. Therefore no you are not entitled to your opinion because we need to evolve.

NOW I REMEMBER

Richard Cory is a pretty long poem to memorize. It also takes a very deep and somewhat sad turn towards the end of the poem. The way in which I memorized it was by putting a picture of the poem as my lock screen on my phone. I did this because I always look at my phone and this was a way in which it reminded me that I had to memorize it in the first place. And at the same time every time I looked at my phone I told myself to read at least a couple of lines. Then I also repeated the poem out loud and I made a picture in my head of the poem. Another way that helped me was when I said it out loud and Elva corrected me when ever I made a mistake and when I repeated it I remember more of her telling me what I did wrong and then I remember what the correct part is. This is what made it easier for me to memorize the poem.

A Second Helping of Socratic Seminar

*NOTES*
-"you are entitled to your opinion" cuts off an argument// not technically true because we are not entitled to someones opinion
-a right is something that other people must honor
-one persons right creates another persons allegation
-everyone wants to feel accepted
-opinion is worthless unless accepted by someone else
-limbic area governs our emotions// in arguments we shift into our emotions and we use our feelings not about logic not about reason/keep focus on the situation
-Evidence=currency
-money is nothing but a system of agreement/ paper really is nothing without the agreement
-enlocal parentis: legal principle that allows school to enforce rules like dress code
-syllogism is the simplest form of argument

The Right To Your Opinion :0

After reading a VERY long piece of writing I can agree that when people state their opinion and they are confronted with counterarguments they don't think about if they might be wrong they do just want to take offense because many people don't like to be wrong.
Having your own opinion also comes with somewhat of restrictions.
"We have no duty to let others keep their opinions. On the contrary, we often have a duty to try to change them. "I definitely agree with this because when ever people argue I seem to notice that it isn't always about whos write or whos wrong but changing someones perspective. 

A Memory Master?

I did NOT understand what Mnemonics was or what it really had to do with memorization. I don't really enjoy reading about history so the background about the Mnemonics didn't really get my attention so I wasn't as interested in learning about it that much. But the different techniques and tricks that I read about seem somewhat really close to the things I do when I have to remember things. Such as trying to memorize things in chunks or groups. Also memorizing names or anything else I usually try to connect things that remind me of them. Such as phone numbers as well its true that people don't usually memorize phone numbers all together they say them and memorize them in chunks.

THE SOCRATIC METHOD hmmmm...

      I feel like the Socratic Method is more of a free open response. Its like an open book getting a more deep into perspective of other people. While reading this it got me thinking a lot outside the box and now I know it might seem crazy but I really think whoever wrote this works for the government or the FBI or CIA trying to find out how high school students think in order to manipulate them into however the government wants them to think just like ads on Instagram, Facebook, and even snapchat.
      It is true that in a "regular" classroom where students are just told what to do and how much into depth they should really think, it doesn't expand a students way of thinking. It is just the same thing over and over again. Students don't really learn in school anymore, I think its more about memorizing things for a while in order to pass a test but students don't really learn anything that'll help them in their everyday lives.
     I think the Socratic method is a more fun way to learn. I think it opens up students and it helps them with reaching further into their thoughts. Being able to share your opinions without feeling like you are wrong is probably much better then feeling like you are constantly forced to keep your thoughts in.

Welcome to My Blog!

Hey!!! Welcome to my blog! Even if you don't like me please view my profile im trying to be bigger then Juan! On a serious note this blog might be more of me just ranting or im not sure yet I haven't figured it out. Anyways I am a 15 yrd old high school student and I have a lot of things to say.