Eliana's English Blog

  Prompt: In  Into the Wild , Christopher McCandless gives up many of his possessions in pursuit of freedom and meaningful experiences. If you had to simplify your life and keep only a few important possessions, what would you keep and why? What would be hardest to leave behind? The important possessions that I would keep would be like my blanket, my car, my dogs, my apple products like my airpods, phone, macbook, and apple watch, and money and my bed. And the hardest thing to give up would probably have to be like all my excessive clothes and like all the things I have in my room. But if I had to choose something from the list I would say my bed. I love my bed very much and I would not want to give that up.  Summary- Today we read the first chapter of the book and then answered 10 questions about the chapter.  Reflection- learning never to go on a hike and be irresponsible like the man in the book was. 

Prompt: People sometimes feel the need to step away from their normal routines or environments in order to better understand themselves. Describe a time when you needed distance from a situation, place, or group of people in order to think more clearly or gain perspective. What did that experience teach you about yourself? In middle school there would be so much drama between friend groups. It was always something new everyday and it just got tiring being apart of. Like mostly in 7th grade is when it would happen. So eventually I took a break from that friend group and their drama. It taught me that I didn't really like them as people even though I liked them as friends. They were very unfriendly and only cared about themselves. It taught me that I wanted to be friends with kind people who wanted to help others and really cared about their friendship with me. It also gave me perspectives that I had not seen when I was friends with them like the whole world should not revolve around...

  Prompt:  Today you worked on creating your  Vocabulary Digital Cards  in Adobe Express. In one well-developed paragraph, reflect on the assignment by explaining which vocabulary word was easiest for you to understand, which word was most challenging, and how creating your own sentence and selecting an image helped strengthen your understanding of the vocabulary. Use specific examples from your work.   The vocab word that was the easiest to understand was benign because i've seen that word before and I know how its used. The most challenging word for me is probably pervasive because I had trouble understanding how to use it and what it meant. Creating a sentence helped me to really understand how to use the word in the real world. And it helped give context to when I should use the word. The sentences that I thought of were helping me think of different scenarios that the word should be thought of in. The photo helps with visually understanding what it is....