Reflective essay

   I am not going to write this essay with the topic you chose. I feel that it is a waste of time because we have done nothing in your class. Sure we did some blogs, but they did not even have a topic. They were wat we wanted to write about. I guess that's cool but what are we learning? Absolutely nothing. I'm not going to write an essay for no reason telling you what my grade should be.That's your job to figure out. I honestly just sat there everyday and did nothing. Does that mean I get an F? Everyone sat there and played cards and talked and stuff. I asked around and I seem to be one of the only people in the class with a bad grade. Yet, I wasn't the only one complaining about the lack of being taught.

I was in class more than you were. Ok, you had some medical problems or whatever. That still does not excuse the lack of teaching when you were here. I have nothing to write about. You want us to show examples of our writing in this essay. Well even if I did that does not help because I got no feedback from any of my posts besides the ones you had a problem with. If everyone did all the posts then why is there people in the class with lower grades then A's. You have not gave us work for a long time. On schoolloop it says we haven't had an assignment since October.Sitting down and reading a book for the whole period is not teaching us anything. I've done all my blogs so I should have an A. Does that seem fair to you? I think its fair considering I haven't learned anything in your class.

I am not happy with this final assignment. Do you understand what you're doing? You are making everyone write an essay telling you what our grade in the class should be. Of course everyone is going to say that they should pass. In this case its true. You do not have enough work in the books, so if we fail this assignment because its not up to your 'high standards' that will put a non-passing or non-satisfying grade on our report card. I have a D for some reason. Saying that I'm going back to the point I made two sentences ago. I have no idea why I have a D. You never came up to me and talked to me about my writing besides twice. You made negative comments on two of my blogs. Ok well I was being marked off on gramer and other things that made my grade go down. You have standards for how the writing should be but never tell us what they are. The only reason I found that out was because my mom came in too have a conference. You then told me I have to make my writing so people wont be offended. I understand, but I could not make up all the fifteen or so before that. Which killed my grade. Also, shortly after the conference you stopped blogging for good. We had no work in the class besides the little play we read.

I don't understand why you chose the topic you did for this essay. It confuses me that you would do such a thing. You are making us reference our good grade that we want to work we have done since the school year started. Ok, that would be fine if we had work to refer to that wasn't just from the first two months of school. And not just that, the work we did was whatever we wanted to write about. It had no topic or no meaning to it. You didn't even tell us if what we were writing about was up to our level of writing or anything. For example, I wrote the worst thing I've ever wrote before on my blog for homework one night. Its about drinking Capri sun the juice. I even titled it drinking to make you think it was about alcohol so you would read it and comment or something. I wanted you to tell me I should be writing about something that was more my level, but you never pulled me aside. That showed me that this class is just a waste of my time. If I'm at school then I need to be learning something. If I am not learning anything than I don't have any reason to be there. I'm just sitting there listening to the noise in the class.

We had a substitute mostly every week. Maybe you were here for a week straight but its only a week at the most. You missed a lot of days. When we had a sub we did not even do anything. They didn't even show a movie. Just let us sit there and do nothing for an hour and a half. Why wouldn't you assign work for the sub to give us. I would just sit there with my head on the desk listening to my music. Everyday after your class I was tired. I did not want to go to my next class. I did but I was lazy and sitting back and barely paying attention. I want a class that keeps me awake. I'm not saying overload the work but make it more than we have now. Last year in English class I had a B the whole year. I wanted that to happen this year also but it seems like I can't. I remember things from English class last year. I can't remember what you say ever. When we do have assignments you give us minimal instructions so its confusing and I end up not doing the assignment right. You give us your website because you can't explain what we have to do for an assignment. I would understand more if you went into detail in class instead of telling us to go to your website.

Well this is my essay and its more than a thousand words. This is my reflection of the semester. I hope you find a job that suits you better.

Drinking

   How many people looked at this title and thought i was talking about alcohol. Well I'm not. I'm talking about normal drinks. Like CapriSun. That is one of my favorite drinks. I have liked this drink since i was really young. I  started drinking them because my brother was and i wanted to be like him. I don't want to be like him anymore though. My mom buys like four different boxes every time we go traveling. My favorite flavor is fruit punch. I like all the flavors. I like to chew on the straw after i am done with the drink. It is like chewing on gum with no taste. People ask me why i do it and i can't really tell them. I think all of my brothers and sisters chewed on the straw after drinking the juice.
   My other favorite drink is watermelon arizona. I get it all the time because it is a really big can for only 99 cents. It tastes really good and it fills me up if I do not have enough money to get some food. I like the fruit punch arizona but it does not compare to the watermelon. Mostly every store has this drink but some do not. That's when I have to settle with the fruit punch.
   I wish i could have a life time supply of these drinks. Maybe if I had it all day everyday then I would not like it as much.

Current events post: identity theft

  That is crazy how that guy had over 300,000 peoples personal information. That makes me think. What if some  weird creeper has my personal info. That's kind of weird. I think i might delete my facebook because of this. I don't want someone to know everything about me if I dont know them or don't want them to. People should keep all there stuff on facebook set to private.
   Also they said something about how the person made an account in other peoples names. If someone made a account of me i would be really mad. They can get all of my info by talking to all my friends and going through my messages. I wish there was a program that blocked all your personal stuff from people who hack stuff. I wouldn't have to worry about some dude knowing where I live and what I do. you have to put a lot of passwords  in every time you want to read your messages and stuff. That would be good but bad. People would get annoyed really fast. Anyway this whole thing really freaks me out. This is how people start getting stalked. The person finds out all of the info about that person and finds out where they live. Some websites make it easy for someone to find out someone else's info. I want to lock all of my stuff up so no creeper pedophile dude can stalk me and take my identity.

Catching fire chapter summary

   In the last chapter Presient Snow came to visit Katniss. He told her that what she did was a big mistake and she had to fix it. He thinks because she defied the capital that there will be more uprises. He said he would have Gale killed if she didn't make everyone believe that she only did that because she was madly in love. He has to make everyone beleive and can't even tell Gale or Peeta or anyone she knows.
   This chapter is her just getting ready to go to the capital. Her stylists get her looking back to descent because she hasen't really been worrying about her looks. She sees Peeta and has to act like she loves him. He really loves her but she doesn't feel the same way. She doesn't want a boyfriend. She has to think of away to scam every district into beleiving her lie. As they are taking a train, Katniss decides to she had to tell someone about what she had to do. She couldn't tell Peeta because he would get sad because she is only lying to him. He would understand and go along but not feek right about it. The other person she could tell is Cinna. He is one of her friend and is the stylist that got her ready for the Hunger Games. She can trust him. The last person is Haymetch. He trained her in the Games. She ends up telling Haymetch when the train was fueling up. He told her if she commits to this then she has to marry Peeta because the capital would check in on them.

Catching Fire

   My independent reading book is called Catching Fire. It is the second book in the trilogy. The first book was about a girl named Katniss who was in these games to the death that the capitol set up. If you win you get a big house and not have to pay for it and free food and as much as you want and really rich. They people who played killed each other and the last person standing wins.Katniss won.
   The second book is about her life after the games. She is back from the games and its been a year since she last saw everyone they know. She is living in a victors village. That's where every person who won the games lived. There is one in each district. She and another boy won the games. He is her age and his name is Peeta. He is from the same district as Katniss. The only way they lived is because they picked up poisonous berries and stood back to back and were going to kill themselves so there is no winner. They have their normal life again but they have to deal with cameras a lot because they just won and they have to give a speech and stuff. After a few weeks of being back something happened. One day Katniss got home and her mom was acting funny  Two guys in suits came in and took her to a room. Inside the room she saw the president. He knows that she did the berries thing of a sign of rebellion towards the capitol. He said that he would have some of her friends killed if she didn't tell him if she is starting a rebellion against the capitol. That's all I have read so far.
 

Current events post: Is grabbing a boob a crime?

I found this news feed here.

 Too Short is a rapper in Oakland and I'm not surprised that this happened. I'm not saying that he did it but I wouldn't be surprised if he did. He grabbed some girls boob during a concert. He was feeling the music and was in the zone and just did it. That's what I think. He didn't mean any harm and wasn't trying to rape her. He just got carried away.
  They said he leaned down to the crowd and just grabbed it. I don't think that happened because he doesn't seem that stupid to do that. She could just want money and blamed him for doing that. For all we know she was letting him do that and realized he could be arrested or she could get some money out of him because he is famous and rich.
  He also could have done it because he doesn't really care. He doesn't care what anyone thinks and he does whatever he wants. Why should he have to follow the rules he is rich and he is from the hood so its an excuse and no one is surprised.
  Also people like seeing famous people mess up in life because they don't see themselves as good enough. For all we know she made up the story just because she hates his music or thinks its offensive. She could just want to see him fail or go to jail. I don't think its true.

Response Posts

  Why do we have to do response posts? They are pointless. I can't even find a post that i would respond to. They all are really boring and don't really connect to me. It would be easier if he just gave us topics to do. I can write about something if I have a topic.
  Do we really need to read each others work? I don't want to have to read others people work because I'm trying to concentrate on my work. I want to get my stuff done and not have to worry about going into Google reader and reading and writing a post on someone else's not interesting blog. It takes up too much time and you have to think about what the person said and try to respond to it in your own words. I don't think that we should be doing this.
  Even tho its homework it is still pointless to have to make a response post. I think all of it is pointless besides the current events post. Even tho i don't do them they still are the best because they teach you more about something that is going on in the world right now. Current event posts are the hardest because they take more effort to make a good 250 word blog on a video you just watched or a news feed that you read. At least you're learning something tho.
  I think we should just have to do a free post and a current events post and not have to worry about a stupid response post.