Editing

This past wondrous week was filled with adventures of our rough drafts being peer edited.  It was a such a blast! Even if Monday I could not show up i still showed up the other two days and helped people fix their mistakes while mine were also fixed.  I think that it went rather well because I got very good feedback and I fixed everything that was wrong with my paper.  We also discussed about the new assignment which is to write about the story The Glass Menagerie. I have no idea what to write since i have never seen or read it.  We did start watching it in class and it seemed very old school but I am excited to see what it is about since I only got through five minutes of the film in class.  That is basically all of what happened this week which is not a bad thing.  This next week should be a bit better.

Short week

Well this week of English was rather short.  We did not do much in the classes. We even had Friday off, but that was a huge help for me so i could start writing my rough draft.  I went to the library and had a tour of it. I learned how to use the machines to look for books because i have never had to use a book yet.  Than we learned how to search things up for research because our class will eventually have to put works cited in our papers and do research.  

After all of that fun, we read "Hills Like White Elephants." It was a really good story and the whole underlying text was so that the girl would get an abortion. It took me a little while to find out by myself but i got it with my parents help. On Wednesday we discussed it in class and surprisingly not that many people knew that they were talking about abortion. Mainly that was all we did and now it is time to get ready for another week of school!

This last week

This week went by rather fast and we talked about stories that were about death and racism. The author apparently likes to write about bad things which is good because they have underlying meanings in them. We had to answer questions in groups and try to ask questions about the stories and so we can discuss things to get a better grasp on what the meanings were for each story. We went over topics for our papers that we could compare ourselves too since we have to write about one of the characters in the stories we have read. It is really hard because I am not sure who i can relate too, i really have to think about it. I am not sure if i want to relate it to something good or bad. We did not have class Friday which was kind of good because i got to catch up on some sleep! I am definitely going to continue looking into the stories and characters so I know exactly what i want to write about and which will be the best for me.

Hopefully this works!

Well hey there,

I'm Milton Montenegro and this is my first blog post.  I have no idea what i am doing since this is for my English 102 class but i hope i am doing it right.  I am 19 years old and not the greatest writer so I am hoping all this blogging will possibly help.  The English class is pretty decent even though I started a little late.  I am trying to catch up with this late blogging. In class all we discussed about, The Cask of Amontillado. It was a pretty crazy story because of the whole point to it. Apparently the main character has such a huge ego that if someone insults him, he has to kill them no matter what.  Which was pretty messed up and the way he killed Fortunado was just cruel.  Who kills someone that is drunk? He was probably having a good time then once he sobers up he finally realizes what is going on. The video that Professor showed us was pretty creepy but he seemed to enjoy it which there is nothing wrong with.  I guess this is the first of many that I have to blog about. I'm not sure how to end a blog but I guess, peace out girl scouts!