New Semester Goals

1. How are you different now than when you started school in August?

I have took my work more seriously and I learned better writing skills that will help me write good essays. I have also learned how to be more neat and professional, I used to have sloppy work. I have also improved on writing reflections for my projects because I never had to do that before so it was good for me to learn that, and I now focus on my work more.

2. What skills do you think are the most important for succeeding in Humanities? Why?

I defenitlly think that any type of writing skills will help because they will be handy not only for Humanities but for life overall. An other skill is to take notes, I have took a few and have found it very helpful especially on test.

3. One thing I would like to improve on this semester is.... really making sure that I understand my work and making sure it's right rather than guessing.
I am going to do this by.... asking my teacher for help, staying after school hours if needed, and to take more notes.

4. What are you most curious about? If you could study any topic, what would you study and why?

I would love to learn about other cultures like their food, the way they live and their languages, I want to learn many languages and traveling the world some day so it would be fun.

Dialectic Journals Book 8 pt.2

"These are the last tears of mine my lord, that the sun will ever see."
As I was reading this I was really say poor Xeo was slowly dying. I thought overall the story was interesting and sad. But at least I assume Xeo died proudly as a Spartan. Even though he was not from Sparta he totally proved him self worthy so even though he died he died with honor. Which is how many people would like to die rather than with shame.

Dialectic Journals ch. 8 pt.1

"A king does not dine while his men go hungry, nor sleep while they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his mens loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold;he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and the pain he endures for their sake."

It's true I agree with this Leonidas is always fighting with his fellow Spartans and makes fun of him own self to show respect. While Xerxes thinks he's a god and buys his people with gold and just sit their on his throne while People are dying in his eyes. It makes me mad that hes king while he doesn't even do anything he really doesn't deserve the title. I remember watching the movie and not thinking much of it but now that I have read this book it really refreshes my memory and shows me much more information. I think that Leonidas showed leadership and was a real king. By being king you have a lot of authority over a person so the fact that he chose to fight is definitely heroic rather than just watching. And Leonidas dresses the same as everyone and doesn't think of himself as way better than everyone else.

Dialectic Journals Book7 Pt. 2

"On the second day I saw Alpheus and Maron take out six men of the foe so fast that the last two were dead before the first pair hit the ground."

haha this kind of reminded me of a yo mama joke. Anyways It gave me a lot of information about how strong the Spartans were. For me I just had like a short video in my mind of two Spartans taking out two pairs and the last pair hits the ground before the other one is dead. It makes me think more of the way Spartans fight. They are so strong and all those warriors war is what they do it's there thing and they know how to fight. So when you think of two people against six you think that the six are going to win for sure but the Persians were weak sauce and nothing compared to the Spartans!

Dialectic journals Book 7

"Surely no sight beneath heaven, not Troy under siege, nor the war of the gods and Titans itself, could have equaled in scale that which now spread our vision."

To me it's saying that the Spartans wouldn't see anything like this on earth it was out of this world. So when it says that not even the war of the gods and Titans itself could compare to what they laid eyes on it made me think wow they must have seen a whole lot of Persians. I like how the author turned this sentence into something so detailed instead of a boring sentence like, "There was so many Persians." instead of picturing hundreds or even thousands of Persians I pictured many more than that amount.
After reading that I plan to use something similar to that into my writing it really makes it come to life.
It also makes me admire the Spartans more because most people would just chicken out seeing that amount and give up but there was no way that they would leave, they would die for this.

Thankful

It's been a while since I last ate with my moms side of the family but the time it was around thanksgiving time and as I looked around me everyone was smiling, laughing, and having a good time. I felt those same exact feelings. I'm so thankful for each one of them like my Grandma she always has a smile in her face when she sees me and does her best to put a smile on my face. I remember during the time when I had a broken wrist I stayed at her house for a few days and she took care of me and would play card games with me. And before I went to sleep she made sure I was comfortable that I wasn't to cold or to hot. I felt like a little kid at the time. She did a great job and I was always thankful for what she did every time she cooked I made sure I thanked her and I did my best to help her around the house. She was like a second mom to me. Even though she would tell me stories and gave me advice that I thought were boring they were very important. I'm very grateful to have grandma like her.
I'm also thankful for my mom who does a great job in supporting my brother and I, she's a very strong woman who I do admire because she does her best as a mom. I'm thankful for each one of family members even my annoying cousins and brother who I always say I don't like but I know that if I were to loose any one of them I would never be as happy as I am now. Besides my family I have met great people who our now my friends I was afraid of going into a new high school with no one I would know but I'm very glad that I got accepted into HTHMA because I have more friends then I did in middle school who at times I do envy because I always compare myself to them. I'm glad that they like me for who I am. I appreciate every one who I'm thankful for, I hope that I will bring them as much joy to them as they have to me.

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

I took these pictures when I went over there a while ago. I forgot to post them but they look beautiful, it's a great place to visit. :)