Welcome to your very first 204 blog post. We will be using this blog frequently, both as a tool and a resource to get the most out of our time, and as a place we can go to share thoughts and valuable information and ideas whenever we need to. Each week, there will be a question posted that you all must respond to in the allotted amount of time. These questions may be a jumping off point to class discussions, a support activity to lend insight or knowledge to what we are doing in class, or simply a thought-provoking way to get you to look at the world around you and marvel at your place in it. These questions will not be simplistic, and they should not be done when you only have 5 or so minutes on the computer; rather, they are questions designed to make you think and your posts should reflect that. You will be graded weekly on your responses by their content, so I would encourage you to try to not leave them for the last minute. Each one will have a word minimum, but don't be discouraged by that. I care much more about the quality of the thought you put into your responses rather than the quantity of the words you use.
Now that the formalities are finished, I would like you to consider the following: You are now entering your junior year. Some people say that this is the toughest, most demanding year of high school for a variety of reasons. What do YOU think? Do you have any expectations about what this year should bring? What are you hoping to get out of your English class and your junior year in general? What are your fears about this class and/or about 11th grade? Are you where you want to be academically, socially, physically etc? If so, how do you know? If not, why do you think you aren't? (350 wrds/25pts)
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i think junior year is okay but its tough. i don't have any expectations i just want to pass. i'm hoping to get all the credits i need to pass. my fears are failing and not graduating on time. i dont think im where i should be and want to be i think im falling behind ive transford and missed alot of school and im shy so its difficult for me to understand and ask for help and such.
ReplyDeletewell im a senior in this junior class i guess you can guess that junior is in deed very demanding only because of the hespa and some of the other classes that you can take. my fears in my junior were that i would fail a couple classes and i did indeed fail 2 classes so hear i am taking junior english again, but this time i will pass and i obviously wasnt were i needed to be intelectualy because as ive told you i failed 2 classes.
ReplyDeleteSince I came to oakcrest I’ve heard that junior year would be the hardest, when I got here everything has been way easier for me I have been taking time to do my homework and study for tests, to me if you stay up on your homework and try your hardest you will breeze right through. Before in high school and grade school I never did my homework or studied for tests, I always thought that it didn’t matter but after going through summer school this year I figured out that if I did my work and came to school that I wouldn’t be in that predicament. This year I’m really trying my hardest to get good grades my expectations are to go to art school and become a art teacher, and I feel if I do well the next two years I can do it. My English class is great our teacher treats us like adults and is very good at what she does, she doesn’t make the class boring and dull she gives us different things each day. I feel great this year everything in school is going great, good grades and nice teachers.
ReplyDeleteWelpppp, bruhh, I was already a junior and it defintly was one of the hardest years of my life, but not just because of school, which is why I think I failed, because I never had to deal with issues at home at school, and that was all this dumbass schools fault, they pried into my life like it was some reality tv show, but that’s a different story, I never wanted to be in schoool, so I failed I was getting so lazy, I had classes that I def wasn’t prepared for, and was so messed up, I hate being stupid. .......... TO BE
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ReplyDeleteI think junior year is okay but its tough I transfer from a school were I had everything set and ready to be the first in my family to graduate on time. I don't have any expectations I just want to pass I would like to get my grades up and do what I need to pass. I’m hoping to get all the credits I need to pass and learn how to write better. My fears are failing falling behind and not graduating on time. I don’t think I’m where I should be and want to be I think I’m falling behind I’ve transfer and missed a lot of school and I’m shy so its difficult for me to understand and ask for help and such things like present in front of class or do group work I don’t like other people reading my writing and I get intimidated easy. My biggest fear is not being ready for the he spa or failing the hespa.
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ReplyDeleteI think junior year is one of the toughest years of High School. We are just beginning the first semester and I see that my classes are not as easy as in my sophomore and freshman year, they all require a lot of thinking and work. I take my junior year as if it was my senior year, because I have like three careers on my mind and I don’t know what to choose, so I hope that all my classes will provide a help for me deciding this difficult choice. I don’t want to make a mistake, I want to choose a career that will fulfill my expectations, my whole life depends on the career I choose, so I hope that my English class could help me too. Even though my English class is not that easy, I like it because we talk about topics and problems that we can face later in the way. One of my biggest fears is not having a good score in the sats and not passing the hspa. I want to pass the hspa this year so I don’t have to worry about that my senior year, so I want to learn many things in my English class so I can do great in both tests. Academically I’m doing good in all areas, because I always do my homework and the work teachers ask me to do, but socially I’m not where I supposed to be. I love to make new friends, and I have many, but because the majority speak Spanish, so I can be myself around them. Is not that I just like Hispanic people, I just don’t feel comfortable speaking English and I know that this will hurt me a lot in my English class. When the class is having a conversation I want to participate and give my opinion to others like I did in my other school in Colombia I always was speaking my mind, but I don’t feel comfortable here and it sucks.
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ReplyDeleteAs a junior my expectations for myself is to do good overall and pass with a 3.0 average in all my classes, as for my parents it is much more higher than I think I can achieve. As many of you know I transferred from spirit and I hated it there. The school didn’t help me with anything, here, at Oakcrest there is so much more variety of help, and over all I think ill be doing better.
My fears you may ask..?
I guess I am scared of falling behind in school, way to far behind to far too catch up. I’m also scared of failing SATs and the HESPAs. I want to be able to learn as much as I can take in on each class, because my goals one including is to go college, or to play college soccer. But sometimes there are things that get in way of our dreams and accomplishments, Family matters interfere and sometimes things don’t work out how you want it. Being a teenager sometimes sucks, and emotional, and sometimes sickness gets in the way also. I just hope I can do the best I can do, try the best I can try, and hopefully achieve my goals.
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ReplyDeleteWell I think this year is going to be the toughest and most demanding year for me. Only because people are always saying junior year this, junior year that, and that it’s the most important year in high school. And yeah, I do think most of that is true in some ways. I believe that this year proves whether I’m going to college or not. It leads me to the path to where I see myself in 10 years. I know in 10 years, for a fact, I will look back to this year and say to myself, man I wish I would have did better that year. My oldest brother says it all the time. Aside from that, my main goal, as of right now, is to go to the same college my brother is at and be on his soccer team. I have been looking forward for this day to come ever since the first day he left to college. It even says it hanging from the classroom ceiling. One of my expectations is to bring my A game and give it my all. I can’t afford to slack off in any of my classes this year. I’m hoping to be a way better reader and writer by my English class. Writing is definitely one of my biggest weaknesses and hope to improve by the end of this year. One of my biggest fears is failing. It has never happened to me and hopefully wont in the future. I know people that have failed and are repeating that same year or class. There is nothing worse than failing a class and then having to take that same class next year. Another one of my fears is the HSPA and SAT’s. I was never really a good test taker. I have to be more academically ready for tests like these. It feels like I am not academically ready and have to be more mentally focused. I am a lot better than this and will improve throughout this year.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of expectations for this year as an 11th grader at Oakcrest High School. One of my biggest expectations for this year is to get good grades. I believe this is my biggest expectation because I did not get good grades at all my freshmen and sophmore year. I really slacked and now I am paying for it. In general, I am expecting to get so much out of my 11th grade English class but there is one in particular, and that is to become a lot better writer. I am really bad at writing, it is one of my weakest qualities as a student. I really hope Ms. Bunje can help me out to become a much better writer. Writing is also my biggest fear about English. Like I said I am a very bad writer so I am really not looking forward to be doing writing. This year academically I am where I want to be but so far in my whole High School career I am far from where I want to be. I am looking to turn my High School career around by having an amazing year this year and getting really good grades. I want to go to a four year collage so if I don’t apply myself for my junior and senior years, I won’t be going to any collage.
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ReplyDeleteSchool has always been a battle for me. One of those battles that you can never seem to win, no matter how much time, energy, and effort was used; you still don’t come out on top. So you see for me junior year is like any other year that came before it; it’s just another battle that I wake up everyday to go and fight with just my #2 pencil.
Although come to think of it there is one thing that sets junior year aside from all the rest. PSAT,SAT,HSPA, and the ACT are all abbreviations that we have hear almost every day of our junior year and let me tell you its not in digest. So far this year we have been in school for almost 40 days and I don’t think there is one day that there wasn’t a teacher telling me how important it is to take your SAT or a class I didn’t walk into where the teacher was trying to teach us how to study for and pass the HSPA. If I didn’t know any better with all these pre-tests, tests and assessments I would think the school was setting us up for failure the moment we walked through the door.
Laying here with the worst case of writer’s block listing to, “Eat me up”. Enviously hearing Waynes words flawlessly flow out his mouth and threw the air, while trying to figure out what else there is to say about my junior year…. I think… And think… And think.
I lay here thinking about all the things I want to gain from my English class this year and my junior year in general. I realize I want to learn something. (I know sounds real general, and must sound like I don’t have high expectations). At the end of this year I want to be able to say I learned something about literature, about writing, and about the people around me. I want to be able to say I did more then just read a few books, write about them. Learn a few vocabulary words, get tested on them, and get taught proper grammar and part of speech and then use it. I want to become a better writer. But most importantly I want to learn something bout myself, something that I had no clue that existed inside me as a person the first time I walked though those double doors that we walk though everyday that has lead so many people from there present to there future.
English has never been one of my stronger subjects. It was prolly one of my worst. Seeing that I was never a real good reader, writer, or speaker I always struggled in my English class a little more then the rest. I could never figure out how to lasso the ideas that were in my head and pin them down on paper and make sense of them… Sitting here thinking about public speaking (even just in front of a class of 15) makes me nervous. So that’s why I was surprised to find out I have an A so far this year… LIKE WOW.
Like anything else your education just isn’t giving to you, you have to take it and work for it.
So if junior year is really any different for me its cause this year I actually care about learning something and not just coming here and passing.
I look down and notice I have over 500 words the weren’t just thrown down but were actually strategically placed. So I guess I can send this baby out to be read, graded, and judged.
Now I'm not the only one that has heard it, how everyone says that junior year is the most important and most hardest year of high school. And they are most definitely right. It's the year where you start to think about your future plans after high school. Whether you want to go to college or not, what job or career you would like to have, and to get you ready for the real world. Now if you want my honest opinion of what I think of my junior year, then I will tell you, it's pretty hard and challenging. I've been real stressed and pressured about the HSPA and the SAT's. How people always keep talking about them and how you need to pass them to graduate. I really don't see the point in them. They just prove how good of a test taker you are, not how smart you are. Because even the smartest people are sometimes bad test takers. But other than that, I would say that I'm where would I would like to be in my junior year. Meaning that I'm more motivated than I was my freshman and sophomore year. I'm in Man2man again with Mr. Perez, and this is my first year in band and I really enjoy it a lot. But I still don't know where I would like to go to college. It's not that I don't want to go, I just don't know where. IBut I do want to major in music. Whether it's performing or making your own. But lastly, we're only two months into the year and have yet to see what lies ahead. I jus hope I'm ready for it.
ReplyDeletei thought junior was going to be easyy because, i usually am too smart for my classes and last year i went to c.p & it took me by surprise, and when my home life got in school, i shut down, i didn't care & i was just a mess.. life & school meant nothing, english is my favorite class & i wasn't prepared but coming into this year, knowing what's in store, i'm ready & this year will be as jpad says 'cakeee'. i'm not going to let the distractions of last year get in my way or effect this year.. i don't know how many words this is so i'm going to finish this with ouch my hands hurt & i'm eating ice/// i know i didnt really answer the questions but since i went through english before, i don't remember how i felttt, soo yeahhh.... i'm sorry. =/
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