Ariela Ojalvo American Literature Blog

  Today you worked on creating your Vocabulary Digital Cards in Adobe Express. In one well-developed paragraph, reflect on the assignment by explaining which vocabulary word was easiest for you to understand, which word was most challenging, and how creating your own sentence and selecting an image helped strengthen your understanding of the vocabulary. Use specific examples from your work. Summary: Reflection:

  If you had to describe how you show love using only three objects (for example: a playlist, a hoodie, a late-night snack, a long text message, etc.), what would you choose and why? Explain what each object represents and how it connects to your personality. If I had to describe how I show love using only 3 objects I would choose a  weighted blanket, a curated playlist, and a customized notebook. I would choose a weighted blanket because love to me is a safe harbor and is about creating a secure, calming space where the other person feels protected and grounded, especially after a chaotic day. This connects to my personality because I show affection by reducing stress and providing a calm presence rather than loud declarations. I would choose a playlist because I am good at   understanding a person's inner world, moods, and tastes and this gift shows the efforts and ability I have to do so. Finally, I would choose a notebook because it symbolizes communica...

After viewing your classmates’ digital posters and reading the feedback comments left on your work, what new ideas or perspectives did you gain about your poster? Reflect on how the feedback influenced the way you think about your creative choices and describe what you learned about the creative process while designing and presenting your poster. After viewing my classmates'digital posters and reading the feedback comments on my work some new ideas and perspectives that I gained about my poster is that it is very creative and well organized. I think that this feedback improved my confidence on my creative choices given they were all kind and supportive. I learned that creative posters among the class are very diverse and all have their own style of creativity. I realized how creative my class is and how we all have our own ideas and minds which create such a different poster and display of creativity.  Summary:  Today in class we wrote feedback on everyone's posters.  Ref...

Reflect on the simile and metaphor worksheet. Which topic challenged you the most when creating your figurative language, and why? In your response, explain what made that topic difficult and how you worked through the challenge (or what you might do differently next time). Reflecting on my simile and metaphor worksheet the topic that challenged me the most when creating figurative language was making a statement about changing and growing as a human. This is because I have never had a very large issue with change and when I did I was very young. I never had an issue coming to a new school or changing my ways the only time I can really remember where change was a substantially large challenge for me was when my grandpa died and I was very young when this happened. I was forced to bring myself back to these distant memories and create a comparison that accurately displayed my emotions and feelings during this time. These steps took me longer then the rest of the topics and I found mysel...

Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language? Reflecting on the process I used to create similes and metaphors I wrote that reflect my struggles, growth, and resilience I think that it took me down a full journey to create them. I had to think back to painful and specific moments in my life in order to succeed at this assignment. I also had to reflect on comparisons to make that would correctly reflect the deep and impact full feelings that these moments brought out of me. This process made me emotional thinking about these harsh past events from my life. But it also made me grateful to overcome each of these events and I am glad that I have the opportunity to learn and develop from them.  Summary: Today we wrote 6 similes and 6 metaphors about struggles, growth, and resilience based off what our previous tho...

Describe how you spent your time, any activities, traditions, travel, hobbies, or moments that stood out to you. You may also discuss something new you tried, something you learned, or how the break helped you reset before returning to school. Keep your response appropriate for a school setting and focus on experiences you are comfortable sharing publicly. Over break I traveled to Utah to go skiing with a friend. We went from Friday to Tuesday but only skied from Saturday to Monday. It was so fun we had a great time. We mainly went down Black Diamond runs and Blue Square runs. It was very icy so I fell a lot but the ice did increase my speed significantly. The ice also made skiing a lot more tiring so we took long lunch breaks and slept long and hard. I overall had a great time and I am excited to go again next year.  Summary: Today in class we read "Still I Rise", learned about the author of this poem, and did an assignment on the poem.  Reflection: Today I feel like I incre...