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Prompt: 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.

Prompt Response: After looking at my classmates posters I think I should find better templates for my posters. I also saw how the layout of the poster can affect it overall. I think the feedback was a good way to find out what I needed to improve. I didnt really gain a new perspective from the feedback, but to improve next time I will use a better template, and make sure it has a neat structure. Summary: We answered questions about two videos about ai, and wrote comments on classmates posters.  Reflection: I learned more about ai.

Prompt: 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).

 Prompt Response: I think making the simile and metaphor worksheet helped me be able to craft rhetorical devices better. The part about this worksheet that challenged me the most was the pressure to succeed topic. This topic was the hardest for me because I left it blank at first, then when I went back to it I couldn't think of a simile or metaphor that didn't sound like my other ones. Next time I will do them all in order so I don't have to go back and run into problems. Summary: We made a digital poster for the worksheet Reflection: I learned how to make similes and metaphors

Prompt: 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

 Prompt Response: I spend a lot of my time at home watching TV or playing games. When I'm not home I usually hang out with my friends. The recent break helped me get ready to come back to school because I stayed in town the whole time and saw my friends and family. This helped me reset because I didn't have to worry about turning in any work. Summary: In class we read a poem and found the similes and metaphors Reflection: I learned how to identify similes and metaphors better.

Prompt: 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.

 Prompt Response: If I had to use 3 objects to describe how I show love they would be a portable charger, a calender, and a playlist. I chose a portable charger because I think its important to be reliable to a person you love. I chose a calender to represent consitancy, similarly to the portable charger I believe its good to be consitent. Last a chose a playlist to show that it's good to pay attention to little things, and it connects to my personality because I like music a lot.  Summary: Today in class I wrote a 15 line poem to my mom. Reflection: I learned how to code something new in one of my classes.

Prompt: In the spirit of Valentine’s Day week, describe your idea of a perfect day spent with someone you care about (a friend, family member, or significant person in your life). image.png

 Prompt Response: My idea of the perfect day with my girlfriend would start by going out to do a fun activity. After that we would go to a good restaurant to eat dinner and talk, then maybe go somewhere after for ice cream or something. Then to wind down we would go to someones house and watch a movie and relax. This is my idea of a perfect day because it's fun and I get to spend it with someone important, but it's  not too much. Summary: Absent Reflection: Absent

Prompt: Today, you learned how to complete a rhetorical analysis planning guide step by step, from identifying the rhetorical situation to analyzing devices and effects. Reflect on one step of the rhetorical analysis process that helped you understand the process more clearly. Explain what you learned during that step and how it improved your ability to analyze a speaker’s message.

 Prompt Response: The step that helped me analyze the speakers message was analyzing rhetorical devices. This stepped helped me because it showed how the speaker uses them to make the audience a certain way.  This improved my writing because it helped me explain the speakers purpose better.  Summary: In class we completed the rhetorical analysis guide. Reflection: I learned something new in US history.

Prompt: Now that you have completed the rhetorical analysis essay, reflect on your growth. Explain how this experience impacted your confidence as a writer and whether you feel prepared to continue analyzing complex speeches and texts in American Literature. Support your reflection with specific references to the writing process.

 Prompt Response: This experience impacted my confidence as a writer in a few ways. Reading and writing a rhetorical analysis about a speech has made it easier for me to identify rhetorical devices in texts. Which makes me feel better about the evidence I include. Writing the rhetorical analysis helped me practice writing in general, which improves my confidence. Summary: We wrote a rhetorical analysis about a speech by Obama Reflection: I learned how to write a rhetorical analysis.