Jaquelin's English Blog

  Prompt Response:  The amount of time that a person spends on their phone or being on social media. It can really badly affect mental health, relationships, and corrupt a human beings attention span. It is too normal now that it is hardly addressed and highly influenced, hopefully in the future people can see how constant screen time can be very damaging and harmful, just how child labor is also viewed as cruel and unhealthy.  Summary: October 28, 2025, Given an assignment on common lit and afterwards work on our blog post.  Reflection: I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, so that i can reach my short term goals and later on in the future achieve my long term goals and live in my form of peace in life. 

  Prompt Response:  There's been times in school where i've seen and heard a number of students struggle mentally and therefore respond in rude ways or ways that were a cry for help but hardly anybody would take time to notice. Instead of finding ways that these students can be a bit more comfortable or make them feel heard or seen, staff, teachers or administration are very quick to judge and mistreat which effectively ignore the true depth of a student's pain. A lack of providing meaningful help causing them to fail their titles as someone to trust. A simple gesture to make people feel better without challenging the issues of others distress.  Summary: October 27, Monday, Absent from school.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, to reach my short term goals and to achieve my long term goals later on the the future, in order to live in peace. 

  Prompt Response:  As funny as it shouldn't be, this one time I couldn't stop laughing when i should have been serious was when my baby cousin who was 3 at the time fell down a small set of stairs. Of course i ran and picked her up and I was scared but afterwards when she was in my arms and my whole family was around, I just couldn't contain myself from laughing. The way that my baby cousin fell down the stairs is what got to me. I smirk a bit now that i think about it but i always have a lingering feeling of guilt knowing that I shouldn't feel like that, I love her and I adore her, but this memory will always be stuck in my mind.  Summary: October 24, 2025, Didn't attend class, I got checked out early. Worked on onepager.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, so that i can reach my short term goals and later on in the future achieve my long term goals and live in peace. 

  Prompt Response:  Growing up I faced major health issues, issues where i would struggle to eat because i would end up throwing it all up no matter what, even when i would try my best to keep my food in my stomach and not having to throw it back out.  I had no clue what was happening to me and it was at such an early age in my life where i was around 7 or 8, seeing that i struggled to gain weight and i was mainly bone, where my skin was more paler and I could see the outline of my own bones is what scared me the most, also knowing that my mother faced trauma knowing that her daughter was ill. I was hospitalized for a while and within those times i remember meeting different kids that were also ill but were far more than me, such as this little girl with cancer. Meeting this girl challenged me, apart of me got determined to get better knowing that I had to take weird scary medications and having to have a bunch of needles injected in me, became something that I wanted to ...

  Prompt Response:  My mother has only ever mentioned to me her pregnancy experience with me. My mother has told me that out of all her pregnancies, out of all my siblings that I caused her the most stress and trouble. That i was super difficult and she was very close to not wanting me which she says jokingly but she struggled the most with me that she couldn't handle being pregnant  anymore.  Summary: October 21, 2025, I was absent during class time, I arrived at school during 5th due to an appointment.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be every day in any single way that i can be. To reach my short term goals and later on the future achieve my long term goals.   

Prompt Response:   My Fall break was very simple, calm and cooling. I didn't do much the whole week, it was also very fun because on Tuesday October 14, 2025 was my 18th birthday. I celebrated it with my family only and it was very fun.  Summary: October 20, 2025, in class we read a poem by William Black, a poem named a''Poison Tree" and we analyzed it and also answered some questions  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way. To achieve my short term goals and reach my long term goals in the future. 

  Prompt Response:  The way that i find time to enjoy my day would be that i'd spend a little time on my phone, or i either think of my dog, or i just think about a nap, which therefore gives me a boost on the things that I am in the middle of doing. Especially when i'm at school the main thing i think about when it comes to those three would be my dog. She's my comfort animal, super fluffy and she loves to kiss and cuddle. My dog is the main thing that gets me going through the day.  Summary: October 10, 2025, In class we took a Fences Final Test. The Test was on illuminate and it was 45 questions long.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that I can be everyday in any way possible so that i can reach my goals and in the future i can achieve my long term goals.

  Prompt Response:  I can recall this one single in my freshman year where I got told that, I looked prettier with straight hair. I have naturally curly hair and these set of words had a strong affect on me where every single day since then, I would just straighten my hair constantly to the point where my hair is fried and is basically dead and i lost all confidence on wearing my curly hair. My extremely curly hair is now very hard to revive.  Summary: October 9, 2025, In class each group presented their project based on the character that they were assigned to. My group presented our Bono Project, from Fences, and I felt very confident that we did good.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that I can be everyday in any way possible, so that I can reach my current goals and later on into my future I can reach my long term goals. 

  Prompt Response:  A moment that I had to step put of my comfort zone was when I knew I had to seek some sort of help because i had huge personal mental and physical problems that were building up and I couldn't keep quiet about it anymore. I had a long and heart to heart deepest conversation with my mother. I struggled speaking to her about such things because in my family, mental health isn't viewed as a serious thing. Therefore, my mother realized that there were moments where I struggled within myself and made me feel better by letting me know that she'd never judge me and that she'll always love me., Summary: October 7, 2025, In class my group finished up our Bono poster, where we did the best that we could and followed each instruction that was given to us by our teacher  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, so that i can reach my goals and achieve my long term goals in the future. 

  Prompt Response:  The most common dream that I can say that anybody who has had which felt real would be dreaming of yourself falling. This falling dream feels very real that it instantly wakes you up and you have your body and yourself panicking. Your heart is racing and you start breathing heavily because the dream felt so real that you were visualizing yourself in 1st person falling from the sky.  Summary: October 6, 2025, The class finished reading the last bit of fences, where I took the part of Rose and then we were given a poster so that we can start speaking about our character that each group was assigned about.  Reflection: I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, to reach my goals and to achieve my long term goals in the future. 

  Prompt Response:  Something that I have always been curious about would be what else lives beyond our universe. I have always been the type of person to think things deeply and i find it hard to believe that Earth is the only living plant that holds humans. Very curious about what else is outside the milky-way and other universes and if someday they can be explored or studied.  Summary: October 3, 2025, In class we were working on our Fences poster, Close to finishing the poster.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, so that i can reach my goals and achieve my long term goals in the future. 

  Prompt Response:  I personally think it isn't my business, but i would try to talk my friend into some sense. I wouldn't wanna get myself involved in situations that don't include me unless it wants me to be included, but no female deserves to be treated or lead on thinking that their partner is being faithful but isn't. If my friend was to do this i would address him where they are wrong and tell them to be straight forward with their partner and straighten it out and figure out a way to resolve it.  Summary: October 1, 2025, in class we read Fences and people played their parts and then got to working on our posters.  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that i can be everyday in any way possible, so that i can reach my goals and achieve my long term goals in the future. 

  Prompt Response:  A conversation that changed me was when I had a hard conversation with my mother about who your friends are. At this moment in time I believed that friends were the 1 thing that I needed in my life, my mother had to speak to me about looking out who your friends should be and are. I've been strict on whom I trust since then and I don't choose to call hardly anybody a friend.  Summary: September 30, 2025. In class we did a read out loud and was put into groups where we were given a character from "Fences" that we have to characterize  Reflection:  I strive to be the best that I can be everyday in any way possible, to reach my goals and to achieve my long term goals in the future.