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This week when I was writing my rough draft essay I pictured myself as an actual story teller. It kind of helped me. I added things in my essay like"my palms were sweaty and I could hear the clock ticking" to try and draw in the readers, I still need to remember and try to understand how exactly to make things AS CLEAR as possible because I am hearing everything that I am learning. I just need to know how to actually do that now. I am thinking about talking to to a tutor for this class too. Maybe they can just help me understand when it comes to my assignments. How to do it all these things I am learning with my assignments. What the argument exactly is? and etc. In my essay this week I tried to incorporate how I felt before and what I gained after.  Also, I really like the video of the girl talking about the looter and rioters and working with our classmates and discussing the video. That was fun. At first I felt bad for her but then I realized she just wants a reason to loo...

9/20/20 This weeks reading I didn't understand what it was trying to tell me. It was called "Learning to read" excerpt form the Autobiography of Malcolm X. I believe it was about Malcolm X describing his self education. I am also writing my blog before I did my thought question of the week. I think after I do my thought question and do the annotates it will help me understand it better. I will try to annotate as I read all my future assignments and see if it helps me understand the readings better. I might make a poster board to remind myself the steps. I love the asynchronsis discussions. This week talked about retaining the information and that is my biggest problem. I learned about the metacognitive funnel. That's a problem I have trying to stay focused. I try to focus on the reading but sometimes if I don't find it interesting I find my mind wondering off and thinking about the reality T.V show I just watched. I loved learning all these new strategies and I as...

Today I took the day off to make sure I did all my school work.  But I work up to text messages my mom fainted in the building she lived in from her blood sugar. She has diabetes. Someone found her in the hallway. She was unresponsive and rushed to the hospital. Luckily they were able to bring her back to stable condition. I was very upset all day. My mom lives in Florida so I felt helpless. I found myself making phone calls all day. My family and I were all scared. When I talked to her she forgot where I lived. Why did this have to happen on the day I took off to get my school work? It was a terrible day. Thankfully she is doing much better. She is still admitted in the hospital. I started to revise my essay around 8 pm. When I was done, I was extremely proud of myself. I feel like this revised essay is so much better than my first essay. I have a really good feeling that I will keep learning and get better and better at writing. Yes, repetition. Repetition is how I am going to le...

This week in English I feel a little more comfortable with the format of the online class. Which is helping with my anxiety a lot. I understand all the assignments we have to do and when they are due. I wrote an essay on being an outside in a discourse community and then becoming an insider. I know my writing is really bad. I never understand my assignments. Its a personal problem. This is ok I am going to try my best. Please don't laugh at me. I learned what a discourse community is and I have never heard that word before. I learned about being an outsider to becoming an insider. Trying to learn the ropes so you feel like an insider. I chose to write my essay on before I was a preschool teacher. I didn't know anything about little children, how to act around them, or what the rules were in a preschool. I also am definitely an outsider when it comes to English because I don't know the rules about writing, how to rephrase and essay into my own words. Reading Orwells Politics...