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This week we are learning more about the thesis concept. I am confused as always but continuing to work my hardest and conquer one thing at a time. I listened to your video and take notes about shaping a Thesis but thinking about how to put it all together makes me nervous. But I know I will get it done. I was a little confused about the week 9 thought question. I understood they were talking about natural disasters but it was hard for me to understand the question "what is the position" question. I forgot to do my quote that was due Thursday night :( but I remembered today and got it done. Better later than never! I will probably talk you this week about learning about the thesis more and incorporating it into our essay. I am excited for next week and to see where it takes me!

I have to admit I was a little nervous coming into this week because there are new assignments we are doing. I was able to figure it out and I kind of guessed the answers. I kind of understand it. I understand that "they say" the other people's opinions in Balkos writing. Is that right? and the I say is what the author opinions are. Right?  But it was still hard for me to pinpoint the exact "They say" parts. I probably got them wrong in the first part where we had to high light the "they say". I wish we had this English class on campus. I feel like it would have helped me understand better. But I am doing the best I can and I don't think I am working Wednesday night so I can join my teacher's Office Hours next week,

This week was an ok week. I have been having a hard time with my schedule and that's been a struggle. But better late than never. I don't know how to use google docs, I loved interacting with my group but I had to take a free pass because I didn't have time to figure out google docs. That was a bummer because I loved the last group question. I like to keep things simple. But that's okay. I still need to revise my essay which I will do tomorrow night, Sunday night. I need to look back into my nights when I revise. I need to study Lamott's advice and learn how to incorporate that into my essays. My short term memory is not good.  This week I did well on the quiz. I was confused ad first but then I had someone explain it to me way easier. Which really helped me. Number 1 is your purpose and you have different points to get your purpose across, emphasize your relationships with the audience to make my argument or see my point of view=PATHOS  emphasizing who you are as a...

I can't believe how fast this semester is going. We are already in our 7th week. Almost halfway through. I am very hard on myself when it comes to learning. I think that already from my first essay to my second essay shows so much improvement just by listening to what my English Teacher tells me to do. When I wrote my first essay I didn't really understand WHY I was writing. Now remembering there is an audience, really helps me explain more in my writing. Writing how I was before and what changed in me after gives me more to write about. I feel like I am doing OK. For some reason, I always feel like I don't understand the assignment but then I just do it and it seems to come out okay. I looked over next week's assignments. I have no clue what its all about so looks like I will be learning something new. On to week 7.