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 I completed textbook work on vocabulary words with putting them in sentences and finding there definitions. I liked learning new vocabulary words that can help me to know in the future. The words wasn’t that hard to understand so I came up with sentences to put them in pretty easily. The hard part was doing page 7 in the textbook and filling in the blanks with the words. The words were repetitive with their meanings so it was hard figuring out which exact one I should put. 

 Today we continued our benchmark in class and took notes on how to format our writing for the essay question. The notes were good and helped a lot for me to know about giving my claim and having evidence that validates it. I did not like how hard the text was to understand so I didn’t get to write much for the essay part to start with. Trying to make sense of a claim is hard when you don’t understand the text at hand, but hopefully I will write more later. Today was an okay day.

 Today in class we completed questions 1-19 on the benchmark. I didn’t get to complete the questions all the way to question 19 because the second text was very long for me to read and I didn’t understand the first text very well. I tried my best to answer the questions with the most reasonable answers. All my classes are good and hoping I don’t get too much homework for the week.

 Today we took notes on Evidence and give great context in your evidence to back up the claim. We looked at a fake case on someone trying to get a man convicted of murder. In conclusion the evidence wasn’t that sufficient to support his verdict because there were too many holes in his evidence. Then we looked at O.J. Simpsons case with being accused of murdering his wife. I liked seeing the prosecutor make his claim and break it down for everybody to see how the other sides claim wasn’t good enough. Day is great, ready for the pep rally.

Class started off the class by doing an illuminate assessment. The assessment was on recognizing rhetorical appeals, explanations, and audience. We looked at commercial ads on YouTube and poster ads. I liked thinking about what I thought of the ads then hearing other people’s opinions on it and what they thought. It helped me to see how to differentiate between the three rhetorical appeals and learn them more. I plan to finish my test tomorrow and do well on it.

In class we took notes on arguments and its key foundations. We discussed how everything can be an argument and ways used to persuade a person. I liked retouching on pathos, ethos, and logos. I learned about them last year a lot but it was nice to be reminded of them.  Today is a great day for spirit week.

 Today in class we did an assignment on putting vocabulary words into sentences. I was confused at first at which words to use so I started off doing my paper the wrong way, but soon or later I figured out the right way. I went on to look up the definitions for each word and place it in the most correct sentences that I thought. I struggled on some sentences with finding the perfect word but I tried my best to place them accordingly. Hopefully we get to go over it in class so I can see where I made mistakes.