Dayleigh Carmichael

The class started reading the Color Purple today. The book started off way to graphic for my liking. I became uninterested in the book. I don’t like reading things like what I have read in the first letter, the book is written with just letters. Which is the only good thing about this book. In addition, the book is basically about women having disadvantages and the book makes all men look like pigs.

Today, me and Mrs. Salter took a trip to Birmingham for NFLC (National Fall Leadership Conference). We are meeting with people from different states and conducting workshops. I can not wait till the first workshop tomorrow and the free hotel food.

Mr. Rease put the class into four groups. We all had to analyze the poem and come up with an overall meaning. The poem was somewhat difficult but my group did very well trying to figure out its meaning. I have fun doing it and the author Silvia Plath, writes some dark literature. It’s always something about death, darkness, and suicide. After our groups finished analyzing, we had to explain the function of some literary devices and create a critical thinking question. The class did not finish. .

We analyzed a poem named You’re by Silvia Plath. We circled the metaphors we found and underlined the similes. After we found the figurative language we had to explain its function. This activity was fun and the poem was about a baby, how innocent, pure, happy, energetic, smooth, clean, warm, still and etc they are. Babies are beautiful and precious; I loved the poem. In addition, Mr. Rease gave us a pop quiz out of the blue. He told us to take out a piece of paper, write your name, number it 1-20, and write major grade on the top-right corner. He asked us a few questions and the class was like “I was not here! I haven’t read that poem, WHAT!” This was very funny and the best part was when Mr. Rease said, “It’s a joke! This is not a real quiz.” The class was so mad but so amused. Mr. Rease did a good job tricking the class.

     In class, Mr. Rease asked us to choose any object and create a poem about it. He said he will enter in a contest for a chance of winning money. I rote about a clock because time is quite strange. Happy and precious moments go by so fast while painful and sad moneys last for to long. Time never gives anyone a break.

     Some seniors went to their home rooms so they can complete and Act Work Key exam. We were all sent to computer labs and given a login into the test. We had there sections to complete, each section was about 45 minutes long and we started at 8:00am and finished at 12:30pm. That is 4 hours and 30 minutes of test taking. I hate that I had to miss my AP class to go to 2nd lunch wave, but I was hungry. I was also extremely exhausted. I was sleepy and could not concentrate in my 4th block class. In addition, I was supposed to go to an FBLA meeting today but had to miss it because I had no clue I had one. This day was completely overwhelming but I am glad the work keys exam is over and now I have to prepare myself for the ACT coming on December the 6th. Who ever reads this, please pray that I do well because scholarships and college is in the line right now. God bless!

Mr. Rease was not present today, but he did leave work for us. We had to read four poems and answer critical thinking questions. All of theses poems I read last year. When I read them again today, I forgot everything about what I learned from each poem. I struggled analyzing their meanings but I tried my best.