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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: I will be more designed in my assignment. Summary: Absent. Reflection: I will do better on my similes and metaphors.

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: My appearance to others because I hear a lot of things from others but I never really payed attention about those but it made me had to think about those times. Summary: I finished the 'Still I Rise' simile and metaphor assignment. Reflection: I am ready to start on my digital poster now.

Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language?

Prompt Response: It made me realize that I am stronger than I think and how I can get through anything. Summary: I wrote the similes and metaphors reflecting myself. Reflection: I feel like similes and metaphors can help you figure out who you are in life and it helps describes it in a way people may not understand.

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: My competition that I had last Saturday is a time that stood out because I felt like myself. It felt amazing to finally perform. Summary: I decorated the door. Reflection: I like my idea for the door and think its gonna turn out amazing.

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: I feel like I grown with my essay by actually going step by step in my essay. I looked over my rubric as much as I needed and made sure that I followed what I was supposed to do to get a good grade. Summary: Today we finished our essay for the Barack Obama concession speech. Reflection: I am positive I am going to get a good grade on my assignment.

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: It helped me better for my essay by having it already wrote down I just have to match it with the Rhetorical Device and I will have a better understanding. Summary: Today we brainstorm for our essay and began on clusters and and starting point. Reflection: I am very positive I am going to do good on my essay tomorrow.

What is the best piece of advice of that your parent or guardian has given you? Tell what the advice was and what prompted you to ask the question.

Prompt Response: The best advice I've gotten is to not listen to what people say because I do that a lot and I shouldn't be doing that because it's nobody business of what I got going on even though i'm a very caring person. Summary: We did a writable based on people essays so we can write ours the proper way. Reflection: I am very excited to start writing my essay.

What is the most challenging part of working in a group? Discuss a time when a group assignment did not go as well as you planned and how you learned from that experience.

Prompt Response: Everyone not working together and when everyone can't agree on one thing. Summary: Today we analyzed different essays and graded them based on how they wrote in the steps. Reflection: It was good to see other students and knowing how to properly write a essay for a easy pass.

What is the most challenging part of writing an essay for you? Is it brainstorming, organizing ideas, writing a strong thesis, or something else? How do you plan to overcome this challenge?

Prompt Response: For me it's hard for me to come with the sentence because I want it to make sense, stick to the rubric, and still make my point without me messing up. Summary: We did the second part of our MLK speech rhetorical device paragraph. Reflection: I learn more about America the more I read and think about each part of each quote MLK said that day.

Describe a real moment in your life that felt like the beginning of a powerful story. Tell what happened, and why it felt like a turning point in your life?

Prompt Response: When I first won my first competition it was my first time competing so it was a very exciting moment for me. Summary: We started writing piece by piece article for MLK speech. Reflection: It was very interesting to know to properly write a opening paragraph.