Cierra’s English Blog

I wasn’t here yesterday 

Today was picture day so we were in the 2nd block for a long time. Other than that today was a good day. In the 3rd block we read from page 64 to scene 2 act 4 I think. It began to get interesting towards the end because we found out Troy had been cheating on R ose with Alberta. Then he told Rose that Alberta was pregnant. In the scene after that or in that same scene Alberta had the baby but she ended up dying. Troy and Corey got into it as well. In this play, my least favorite character is troy because he's very arrogant and so set on what a “man” is supposed to be he neglects his son's feelings about playing football. he also tries to project how he feels about his failure onto Corey. My favorite character is Rose because she is very nice and friendly to others. Even when she was mad at troy she put their differences aside and took in his daughter.

Today we talked about ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos, pathos, and logos were a review for me because Ms.Smith taught that last year.  We also wrote down some notes about arguments. We gave our definition of argument and gave the real definition. My definition was an argument is when 2 or more people have different opinions about a topic.

Today we read scene 4 of fences. This scene had more of Gabriel in it than the other ones. This scene also talked about how Lyons was trying to pay troy his $10 back but troy wouldn't take the money to teach him a lesson. The lesson was a man doesn't borrow money from anyone. He also didn't want the money because he doesn't have a job meaning he got the money from Bonnie(Lyons girlfriend). We also took a quiz on direct and indirect characterization and after that we did a steal chart on rose.

Diagrams 

Today we answered the bell ringer. We did a steal diagram on troy. We also read scene 2&3.

Today we discussed what we read yesterday and answered a few questions 

Yesterday we took turns reading the fences by August Wilson. Before that, we watched the trailer of the book and and answered questions 

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 I went on a field trip 

Today was kind of boring. There were like 4 fights while some people from the district were at our school. Which  led us to getting put on lockdown. we had to stay in one class for about 4 hours.