my performance

As far as general procedures have gone, I'd say its gone decent for me. I almost always had a writing utensil, notebook, and books I needed for class. The only book I was missing was my book for outside reading. I usually didn't bring that. I asked to go to the restroom very few times and I wasn't in any rush to get out of the class, I was usually last anyway.

I have been pretty good about taking notes and listening although I can get rather distracted sometimes. For the group work aspect, I did well I think and got the work done, with some side conversation though. I didn't ask too many questions, because I didn't rally have many questions.

I believe I have gotten better with participating though. I mean, of course I didn't participate much at the beginning of the year, but then again, it hasn't gotten as good as some people are. Even though I participated fairly, some others did indeed do better with that.

Fellow class members

Well, I'd have to say I'm very glad this year is over. We have been through a lot and I bet all of you are glad we are done with freshman year. I can't say that I am looking forward to sophomore year, but I can't do much about that. I believe this year has prepared me for the rest of high school though. English class, especially, has been quite an experience. Even though it has been rather difficult at most times, for me at least, it has definitely helped me and prepared me. It seems difficult and I didn't like it, but I'll admit it has probably been one of my most helpful classes. It has taught me to not procrastinate definitely, although I still have issues with that.

Reading reflection

Over the court of this year, I have learned a couple of things about myself. For one thing, which isn't so good, I seem to be a rather slow reader. Ive always been a slow reader. One thing that seems to be goo though it that if I don't understand something the first time, I read it over again to make sure I understand.

In the future, I hope I am able to read more quickly and have better understanding of what I read. Now that I have learned about various literary elements, I've been able to make connections to these within the works that I read. I find it nice to know how to spot these elements of literature, and I think that this knowledge will help my overall comprehension while reading.

I made a separate post regarding my reading times this week. I read some more in Desperation and wrote about that some. I thought we needed to make a post like that, buy I was mistaken. I kept the post anyway and it includes my times.

Macbeth

From the way that Macbeth acts on stage, through the way he behaves and the way he speaks, I think that he didn't want to be king as much in the first place. But after the three witches told him he would be king and lady Macbeth persuaded him, he wanted to be king even more. He wanted to wait it out, and become king after Duncan died on his own, but he found out the pleasures of being king. 

Whenever he killed Duncan, that night he was very scared and nervous. He was jumpy and every little thing startled him. He started acting paranoid, but the next morning he had calmed down and was overacting and made it more noticeable that and obvious that he was guilty of murder. 

Desperation

This past week in my Desperation reading, it was rather uneventful. The man that was taken by the cop, well he had taken him in because he was relieving himself on the side of the road. The cop apparently though of this as unacceptable. I don't see why he even cared though, after all, they are seemingly in the middle of nowhere.
The cop takes him to the same place as the original family, and like the last people that were taken in, he was told to wait in the room while the cop went and did something. Since the last cop told the family to do the same, i wonder what they are doing when they leave. Maybe they are keeping track of who they take in or something.

Desperation: 1 hour, 45mins.
Macbeth: 45 mins.