Today we did an analysis of the short story we read yesterday. It's a fictional short story about a soldier in the Vietnam war who experienced his first kill. The story shows how killing someone can affect one's mind. I was tasked with finding quotes from the story and finding the meaning of each quote. Tomorrow, I am going to present my project to my classmates along with my group members.
Today we continued to take the EOC. It was the 2nd and 3rd protions. These sections mainly consisted of multiple choice questions with free response questions scattered about. I say I did pretty well on the test.
Today my class and I went over Langston Hughes. I already heard of him before, so I was pretty familiar with his work. We analyzed his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers. After the analysis, we had a brief discussion about genealogy. Mr. Reese showed his family tree to the class, and the thing that caught my attention was when he said that black people's history has been erased so that one can only trace their family back to 1822. That statement may be true for the majority of black people, but it's not true to all. I created a family tree of my own and traced back to 1776. Other than that, I would say I enjoyed the class today.
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