March 13

Update on “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

For my Independent reading, I chose to read “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey.  I would 100% recommend this book to someone.  The point of view of the “mute” Chief Bromden brought an interesting narrative to the events throughout the story.  I felt like I was actually cheering for McMurphy when he stood up for the patients and getting angry when things didn’t go his way.  I won’t give away the ending but I was shocked at what happened.

For my independent novel project, I will be creating a timeline of events.

March 6

Week 7 Book Update

I, unfortunately, had to change my book halfway through this unit.  I originally had chosen Of Mice and Men but had to change it because we were reading this later in class.  I switched to One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest because it came highly recommended by Mrs. Soper.  I haven’t been able to begin reading it yet but I’m sure it is very good.

February 27

2/24/23

Earlier in class, we discussed the founding fathers and their vision for America.  However, I believe that it is unfair to ask this question because of the founding father’s lack of insight.  There is no way they could’ve predicted social changes like social media and the internet.  With such stark differences between our society and the one, they lived how can we hold the two side by side and judge them.  Doing so would be to compare an apple to an orange.

February 21

2/16/23

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/english-immigrants-language.html

The above article is titled “American English Needs Immigrants” and is written by Ilan Stavans.  To summarize Stavans says that they American diction is built on a continual supply of new words that push out the old ones.  He says that the way that these new words come in is with immigrants.  He then goes on to explain that if the American language is not able to get a new supply of words it will become obsolete.

I don’t necessarily agree with this.  I would argue that the American language does not fully rely on immigrants for new words and would be fine without immigrants.

However, does the risk that immigrants bring to the American economy outweigh the benefits that they bring?

What are some of these “new words” that have been recently integrated into the American language?

 

February 6

This Week in English 11

This week in English 11 we talked about immigration and our stances on illegal immigrants.  To make this more interesting we looked at an article written by an unlawful immigrant where he confessed what he had done and shared his story.  This challenged how we had originally thought about illegal immigrants and created a sense of sympathy toward them.

February 6

Nemo’s Theme!!

The movie Nemo has a theme of “Love Conquers All”.  To prove, it up opens up with two clownfish who are guarding their eggs.  Then when a shark attacks and eats everything but the dad and one egg, everything seems lost.  Later when Marlin (Nemo’s dad) loses his son to the divers he leaves and crosses the sea to get him back. Through jellyfish forests and currents with sea turtle,s Marlin with the help of Dory continues to search for his son.  When the divers drop him off at the dentist Nemo meets the other fish in the fish tank. Once they hear his tale they show empathy by helping him escape out of the dentist office. In the end with all the combined efforts of fellow sea creatures the Marlin and Nemo are  finally reunited with each other. This comes to show that even though they were hundreds of miles apart through love they are brought together again. Therefore showing the overall theme of “Love Conquers All”

December 20

Author’s Purpose

In the text “People unfamiliar with cooking are turning too YouTube videos for help”, the Author’s Purpose was to inform the reader of the rising trend of people watching cooking videos on YouTube. The text proves this when it shows how online cooking videos are getting increasingly popular. You can also tell this when the author mentions one of the channels they mention is “Tasty” which has now over 500,000 subscribers. These are people like Will Matson, they watch the videos very frequently.