My learning fall and rise

When I came back from school on August 12, I was happy with all my classes but then I saw English. Growing up I never liked English class because the teachers did not care about your learning all they cared about was you turning in your work and that's it. My thinking, reading, spelling, and memorizing skills weren't the best, So when I walked into these classes I didn't have high hopes. But when you stood up and started talking about yourself and then walking out so the whole class can decide if we want a normal boarding English class or if we wanted to try out this thing called open-source learning. And that was an interesting experience because it was the first day of school and the class didn't know each other that well.

  Getting introduced to Journals, a blog of your own, memorizing poetry, post video proof that you memorized the poetry was really different for me. The journals were new to me because I never had a notebook just to write about a topic that gave us. And I like it because the journal topics are not easy but too hard. And they require you to think long and hard. And that's something that helped me in this class. Having your own blog where you can post your own thinking, your response to topics we are discussing, and post about how your day was, was new to me too.it was new to me because in every class I have we use the internet just a little bit and we didn't explore all the possibilities that the internet has to offer. Memorizing is not a new thing because I do that every day but for a teacher to make you memorize poetry was a new concept for me. And then on top of that, you had to provide evidence (via video recording)to show you really did remember the poetry like Richard Cory or Laughing Heart. Richard Cory" Whenever  Richard Cory walked down the street we people on the pavement looked at him, he was a gentleman from sole to crown clean favored and imperially slim."I still remember parts of the poem. The story about Young GoodMen Brown was a story I really enjoyed. The reason I enjoyed the story was that in the story it talked about a Guy named young goodmen brown and his perception of the people he talks to and sees on a day to day basis was changed when he took a walk into the woods.

Things started to get intents around the time of the first progress report card because One I didn't have all the blog post and two I was falling behind in my journal. It was really stressful because this progress report card determined if I was going to keep playing water polo or if I was going to get dropped. I have realized that even though it was a stressful week but I didn't give up. I kept going. A quote I use when things getting hard is a quote from Snoop dog and it goes like this "You are going to lose more then you win in life. But are you going to stand up?'-Snoop Dog

My learning has improved like my thinking skills, my memorizing skills, and my writing skill. I have noticed that my overall thinking has been improved because of the journal topics and the essays and the stories we read. Another way the journal has helped me was with my writing skills. This helped me by challenging use to write a least half a page about the journal topic. And my memorizing skills has improved by you giving me different types of ways to memorize things. One way is by repeating the thing you want to remember, by listening to a number over and over or writing down the number that helps sometimes too.

Overall I like this class. For ones, I like my English class!!! I never thought that an English class can be fun and wanting to learn something new every day and for that I thank you :)

How did I do ?

“On Self-Reliane”part 3

•Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind
•people aren’t born bad
•Question where your money is going to go
•if you do something different people won’t like that
• Nobody Is born hating

On Self-Reliance Part 2

•you don’t know what you can do if you don’t try
•we choose what to look at
•we are afraid to be ourselves
•what makes kids courageous and adults shy
•why are people so Shy now a days
•why do small kids ask soo Many question but when they are grown up they stop asking questions?

LET ME WALK YOU THROUGH THE PEDESTRIAN

If you have not  Read the short story (THE PEDESTRIAN)by Ray Bradbury let me tall you about it .This story takes place in a windy cold night where the main character Leonard Mead is walking on the sidewalk looking at the woods, peoples house, And the sky.And back in those days it was normal for people to sit outside of their house or porch and have a conversation in the night.But this night for Leonard was meet with something different.

Ray enjoyed walking at the nights to clear his mind, to see the night sky shine with bright stars, Feel the cold wind hit his skin and just to relax.In the Story Leonard talks about that he is the last of his kind.What does he mean by this?What he means is that back in a time where people did not have any computers, TVs, or a phone. People would go outside their house or walk and have a conversation at the night because that was a normal thing to do.But now people don’t do that anymore and he is the only one that still walks at night.

Leonard has been walk at night for many year with no problems.But this night was different.While He was minding his own business a police stoped him to question him.Of course Ray response to the the officer telling him that he is on a walk.Think he was just walking at night not doing nothing else that he will be let go and go on with his walk

But he found himself in the back of the police car. Getting taken away. And when get got home he wrote the story(the pedestrian).

VOCABULARY WE NEED

meme- a meme is something that is an internet joke. It can be funny images, funny videos, or inside joke


virus- A virus is something that can affect your body

viral- Viral is someone, something, someplace that a lot of people know on the internet and major news outlets are talking about it

blog- A blog is a place where people post about their lives or information

wiki-A website that allows collaborative editing.

URL- URL is the bar on top of a website it's like the code of the website

website-a set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by a single person or organization.

www- World Wide Web

Internet- The internet is something that 

2.0- 2.0 means a better version or something

open source- source code that is free to the public to copy,use,modify,and distribute/Share

Same word different people

meme-a funny image or video that try’s to make you laugh 

virus-something that affects a computer 

viral-something that everyone knows about

blog-a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.

wiki-A website that allows collaborative editing.

URL-Universal Resource Locator

website-a set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by a single person or organization.

www- World Wide Web

Internet-A global computer network. Wi-Fi

2.0-A more advanced version than the original.

open source - source code that is free to the public to copy,use,modify,and distribute/Share 

(YOUNG OLD GOOD BAD)

The reason I think Stephen King was affected by the story (YOUNG GOOD MEN BROWN) was because you could of known someone your whole life and you wake up the next morning and you find out that person you grow up talking to just shoot up a school or that one person that was the most outstanding person anyone has ever met turned out that they were depress and put a bullet through their head.And thats scary to know that stuff like this can happen and thats why I think Stephen king was so affected by (young good man brown)

HOW I READ Notes

•Amateurs love what they do
•words and ideas can change the world
•reading and Writing is a type of technology
•Loving,Learning, and reading is a infinitely MORE impressive
• Literature is Art
•Technology comes from the  Ancient Greek word “techne” witch means Cleverness

(THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE)

There are all kinds of types of ways to communicate with someone. Some of those ways are through email , Sending text, calling or even a letter. We us email to look professional. Text is more to socialize with friends and family members and calling can be the same thing professional and personal us. Lastly is letters,we send letters to company to leave feed back or to a person that doesn't have access to wifi.

(FIRST IMPRESSION OF A DREAM)

I just finished reading this short but interesting poem called(Dream Within A Dream) written by Edgar Allen Poe. Reading this poem was weird at first because it’s not written in modern English it’s written in old English so it’s sort of hard too understand what you are reading.but when you translate it,it’s interesting, weird, and trippy.

Now I remember

I had a school assignment and the assignment was for every student to remember a poem called "Richard Cory". And I used two strategies to remember the poem. The first strategy I used was to search up a video of someone reading Richard Cory and listening to that person read it over and over and over again so it would get stuck in my head and it did!!!!! But I still wanted to remember it word by word.So what I did was to write it don't a few time to see if i truly memorized the poem and I did. those are the methods I used to remember a something.









An explanation of how using one or more of the memorization strategies we discussed helped 

How I Read

Growing up I really struggled with reading. I never liked reading,reading was boring because the teachers would make us read a boring ass book that no one wanted to read but we had to if we wanted to pass our test.And since I didn't like to reading I didn't develop those reading skills. What I can say is reading a book that you find fascinating and interesting will make you want to read a book. A example of a book I read and loved was called 'Ivan the silver back gorilla". And for the first time EVER I pictured the reading in my head I felt like I was there. Some books I prefer reading are touching, scary, and fascinating books those will make me want to read.

Getting To Know You

Getting to know someone is important because you don't know what some people go through on a day to day bases. Also never judge someone just because their shirt is dirty,wear the same outfit everyday, where they live etc because you don't know what they are going through. what if he/she is a really intelligent,creative,bright person but people that don't know what they are going through will just laugh at them and make them feel like dog Shit.

THE FIRST 50 PAGES

So I just read the first 50 Pages of this book called "Braking Through". And in the story it introduces us to panchito and his family that live in Santa Maria,California. Every day panchito and his family lived in fear of getting caught by ICE and get deported back to mexico. And one day while panchito was in El Camino Jr ICE came into his classroom to take him and then ICE went to Santa Maria High School to pick up his brother Roberto and then to his house to get the rest of his family. Then they get deported to mexico.But Panchito and his brother Roberto came back to the US and they were home alone for a few months while their parents got the right paper work so they can come back. While they are home alone they have to wake up early to go to work at the fields and pick carrots.before and after school they works so they can have food and sent money to their family back in mexico. Panchito worked at the fields and Roberto found a job as a janitor At Main Street School. In early April his mom and dad came come back from mexico.But they still have to work Everyday from Monday to Sunday. And that's a short summary of the first 50 Pages of the book I am reading.

FOR THE WIN

What I have done in this course is my Thinking skills have improved.The reason I say this is because the questions that are on the website require some deep thinking and if it’s not deep thinking it still requires some thinking to answer the journal topics .And when I look back at my journal from the first week of school to now I see improvement in my thinking and that makes me proud of myself.

HACK TO SCHOOL

I am personally not going to back to school night because I feel like its a elementary thing. But if I was going to go to back to school night I would bring my dad because he is not working right now and my mom is usually busy with work. The people that support me in my academic are the same people I known my whole and that's my family. 

laughing heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3pPZ0vCLA

Richard Cory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42WPGgb3YQU

(READ TALK UNDERSTAND)

Today my teacher read a post that he wrote on his website and it was tilted(do. or do not.there is no essay). And in his post he talked about how in every class he asks the simple question" what words pop up in your head when you hear the word essay?" and the word that came up every time was stress, anger, crying and dropping out showing up in every class. And it's funny because students were open and glad to share out information that related to this topic. But if it was a normal boring English class and if the teacher asked how many pomes did Shakespeare write? I could bet that only one or two probably zero students would feel comfortable answering that question. While he keeps on reading a quote popped out to me and this is how it goes"Montaigne believed that we learn best when we love what we do.  When we can choose how to direct our curiosity, our passion, and our effort."I find this so true because how many of us sat in a class that we hated an example is a math class. We sit there bored out of our minds because that class is just boring. Well I can say in elementary I hated math I didn't like it one bit. But one day I got a math teacher named Mr.Davis and he made math fun up to the point that I would actually love learning about math!!!! And I learned because the classroom was inviting, fun, creative everything every student wishes their class could be. And another point was when my English teacher was done reading he brought up the point that if an English teacher read this they would have been like your missing a Thesis, details, a conclusion, etc. But he didn't include those and we still understood what he was trying to tell us. 

(literature analysis book)

I am not done reading this book called”Breaking Through”but what I can say is that this book was  published in 2001.And this Story takes place in the late 1950’s.This story is about a young little boy called Pancho and his family living In the USA.They come from a low class family they work everyday from Monday to Sunday to make ends meet. They're constantly in fear  being afraid to  be caught  by Ice and getting  deported.This story took place in the late 1950’s and It is now 2019 and  Mexicans still have to worry about getting  deported back to their country just because they want a better life for their family.In this book they also talk about how people worked in the Fields with their kids just like today this is still happening. It is an interesting book You should read it.

(I AINT GOT TIME FOR THIS)

My junior year is different from my other years of school. I don't have time to play videogames, hang out with friends, or go to bed when I get home anymore because I have a lot of stuff to do. This is my schedule from Monday all the way to Friday. I have to go to sleep really early like around 10:30 because I have a first period. I wake up at 6:40 so I get dressed, put everything back in my backpack, brush my teeth and get to school by 7:15. Then every day it's the same I go to all 7 of my classes nothing special there. Then after school, I go to water polo practice from 3:30-5:30. Then I get home to change into comfortable clothes and then I eat and then I start doing my homework. After I am done with my homework it's like around 9 and I got to the gym for an hour, come home to shower, and by then it's 10:15 and then I go to sleep.rinse and repeat.

(SO THIS GUY GOES FOR A WALK...)

So back then when people believed in witches and black cats being evil. People would just stay in their own village and they wouldn't explore the unknown. But one day a guy named Goodman brown went for a walk into the forest to meet up with a guy. When he meets this guy he tells goodmen brown that he knew his Great grandfather and his father and that he made them do some really sin full stuff. But goodman brown said that that's impossible because he would have known about what they did but then he thought about it and he was shocked. Then goodmen brown old catholic teacher screamed the DEVIL!!!! Then she started to talk to him and goodmen brown was shocked once again to see someone that was supposed to worship God and hate the devil now work for the devil. And he tells him that every one that is in power works for him. And that changes goodman browns perspective about who he looked up to when he was younger.

(The Earth On The Turtles Back)my impression

I just read The earth on the turtles back and this story is about how the earth began for the native Americans. In the story, it tells us how there was water for miles and miles and in the water there were birds and other animals swimming around. And there was another island and it was called the Skyland. In the Skyland there lived an ancient chief and his young wife. And one day the young wife had a dream about the great tree uprooted. So the ancient chief pulled the tree out from the ground and the young wife saw something down into the hole where the tree used to be. Then she fell down with some seeds in her hand. Then two bird used their wings to catch her. So after that, the animals decided to go down to get earth so the young lady can stand. One by one they went down into the water to get earth but none of the animals couldn't go down enough to get earth. But a tiny muskrat said, "I will bring earth or die trying." And the muskrat brought the earth up but didn't know where to put it. After he said that a turtle said to put it on his back so they did. After that, the birds put down the lady onto earth and she opened her hands to let the seeds all down to the bare ground and from there trees and grass began to spring up and life on earth began.

TODAY I WAS THINKING

Today I had a binder check for one of my classes and my teacher looked at my binder and what caught her eye was that I put my paper on the wrong side of the dividers. Instead of putting my papers behind the dividers who you "were supposed to put them"I put the papers in front of the dividers because that's the way I like to put my papers. But my teacher told me no because she wants the papers on the back of the dividers. I was disgusting with her why I decided to put my papers like that but she said no because that's not the right way to use dividers. So after class, I was thinking why doesn't she let me use my dividers how I want to use them? Is it because that's how she uses them so there for everyone has to use them like how she does? I don't know I even asked my dad about this and even he agreed that it was stupid. Some people man.

(Conscience of a Hacker)My Response

I just read (Conscience of a Hacker)and I must say it caught my attention.The reason it caught my attention is because this was written by a teenager and he was arrested for bank tampering. While reading this the young teen put some emotion while typing out his responds.What  caught my  attention was that he kept  repeating  the phrase “Damm kids they’re all are alike”This caught my attention because adults thinks that every teenager is the same they all are lazy they all moody they are all dumb they do nothing.He also  says that school is boring because she had nothing that he like until he found a computer.To end this post I want to finish off with this  quote from his  response “You may stop this individual,

but you can't stop us all.. after all, we're all alike.”

EVERYTHING IS A REMIX Notes

•remix:

•a lit bull is a symbol for creativity

•how do we crate (one,domain knowledge 

Two,copying and three,Transformations)

•Thomas Edison didn’t make the light bull he just made it better 

•Star Wars is made up from different movies 

•some sense were taken and put in Star Wars just changed 

•the lone creator

•Ideas are properly

•ideas contain ideas 

TODAY I ASKED A QUESTION

Today I was asked to think about your BIGGEST Question you have and it can be about anything.A example of a Big question can be like  Who invented the  alphabet, why is the sky blue, why don’t unicorns  exist  etc. But one  of my Biggest Question is “is there really a heaven and hell ?”And the  reason this is my biggest question is because no one knows if there is a  afterlife.Some people say there is but others say there isn’t.

“Train Your Brain Like A Memory Champion”My respond

 I just got done reading the article named “Train Your Brain Like A Memory Champion”.In this  article it helps you  exercise your brain so you can remember stuff like Numbers .And the way you can do that is with two  Mnemonics  strategies.The first one is called the Major  System and the  Second method is called the  method of loci.

Michael's intro

Howdy, welcome my name is Michael and this is my first post! This post is an intro about what I like to think about. For starters, I like to think about conspiracy topics like the government, politicians, celebrities and stuff like that.  I like thinking about those kinds of topics because it really catches the readers or listeners attention but it's up to them to make a decision to take their word, it can make them curious about the topic and it makes them do there own research to find out if it is true or false or to just not believe and see it like a fairytale.