Leydi's quest

SOMETHING  INTERSTING Man, something interesting would be how we had visitors from another country , but not the ordinary country. I'm talking about Japan! 🇯🇵 Santa Maria had exchange students from Japan, but they visited Pioneer HighSchool unfortunately. Either way I think it's so awesome to see people from another country visiting your country,city,and school and see what they like to do,eat,wear,etc. I thought that was something interesting 🙂

JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA: OPPRESSION This poem he wrote is truly thought provoking. All the specific diction he uses to catch our attention and all the connections he makes with us by using "brothers and sisters" to us being endure. Also he uses examples of nice days and compares it to like something bad like a prison for example or cell . Overall, the poem was about peoples feelings I would say and how some feel oppressed, I guess. That's my intake on Oppression.

SO I GUESS THIS IS MY SPEECH  Discrimination begins war. And war begins chaos.  It has been 71 years since WWII, and it seems like we're about to begin WWIII. It is insane to think that his is the end of our President and a new modern era to be experienced. This new election has caused major controversies from insulting Mexicans to Muslims and many other important topics that were very harsh, but this wasn't all nominees running, it was an amateur, yours truly, Donald Trump. It has amazed me, truly, to believe that citizens have voted for a fool. What about Emerson's ideas and quotes? "Don't follow the crowd,follow your own thoughts and ideas." Which in this case the results show people following the wave and not what truly believe. What about "A Sound of Thunder" ? Do you want to end up like Eckels, gone? Because of a "stupid mistake" that forced you to make a drastic difference. Like Gandhi, himself said " You must be the change y

MY MAD DREAM OF AN ESSAY Remember that time you ate that spicy SOUP just before you went to bed on the night before the big             CELEBRATION? On, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election. When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the STRIKING details, but after reading "On Selc-Reliance" and "A Sojnd of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now. The dream started badly. You were in line with your family at an AIRPORT waiting to be sent to THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY. Every where you looked there were posters of president-elect THE WHITE KANYE, looking like a crazy WOLF who could eat a whole STEAK. Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, " MAN IS HIS OWN STAR." You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to SPEAK But it wasn't easy. First you had to put on a fancy BLOUSE and DRESSING PANTS and then you had made a PROMISE to go back in time to the CONVENTION CENTER

TABLE DISCUSSION  Tone: serious and pessimistic  Theme: expectations v reality as well as Jessica's opinion  Mood: would be the same as tone that's what I feel but some hope as well  Devices: some devices he uses are similes, a lot of metaphors and imagery  Something I took away from our group discussion was how we all had similar and different thoughts of why he was writing this and what was the purpose for the reader to get out of like why was it pov of a man I jail and and him expressing how people from his background would be working hard and having ups and downs as well as him . That's what I took out of our discussion. 

LIT ANALYSIS #3: The Book Thief  1. I would summarize the plot of this incredible novel by stating it centers Liesel Meminger, a ten year old living in Germany during WWII. Liesel experiences are narrated by DEATH, who describes both  the beauty and destruction of life in this era. 2. The themes of the novel would be Mortality,Language,Reading,&Writing,and finally Love.  Mortality, is one because it's introduced by the character/narrator DEATH,which underlines that mortality is present in the lives of each character. Lets take note this novel took place during WWII which represents mortality significantly. Lang.,reading,&writing. These 3 things are themes as well because each symbolizes the expression of freedom throughout the story. As symbolic elements it provides liberation and identity to the characters who are able to wield their power.Lang.,reading,& writing also serve as social marks. For example,the wealthy citizens in the story are portrayed as owning their