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Joseph Wojciechowski: What’s Happening This Year? - My ELA Blog

Dec. 9

“Semester 1's End: Semester 2″

With semester one of tenth grade ending, I'm beginning to look forward to what's going to happen next semester. I don't think it will be much different then first semester, or more difficult. There are the obvious changes such as what we are learning, but I think the biggest change will be the fact that cross country season is over and track season will begin when we get back. Besides that another change could be in language arts, we may finish The Count of Monte Cristo, move on to another book, start a big project or anything in between.

Dec. 4

“Happiness: What Can We Do About It?”

When I think about being especially happy, the thoughts that come up usually have something to do with family. Most of my family lives far away, or at least used to, so anytime we’d visit them it’d be special. One time that stands out was when I visited my cousins in Arizona for two weeks. There wasn’t one good moment though, I was just happy being there. I was happy to be with family members that I didn’t see often and to be in Arizona, even though I know that if I wasn’t visiting family or a place that I liked because of the memories I wouldn’t have liked the trip. It was a hot, sometimes boring place, but I liked being there nonetheless. That is why I believe our own happiness can sometimes be up to us, sometimes we just have to look at the bright side of situations, or just try to think about the good times. What’s exciting is the fact that I know I can reach that happiness again, I’m only 15 and I know there’s much more to life than just visiting family in Arizona.

Dec. 2

“Compliments: Why You Should Give Them Out”

“Compliment three people everyday”- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Compliments are a small but powerful way of making people feel better about themselves and a good way of showing kindness to someone. The reasons you should compliment people, at least three times a day, are because of this. Not only does it make you seem kind, it also helps the other person, but this can be hard for some people. Sometimes what holds people back is just shyness or fear of sounding weird, however the simple gesture is almost never taken that way, and no one should fear being kind. Some people believe that it would be a chore though, to set a fixed amount of compliments to give or that the compliments would get old, and to that I would say it depends on the person. Not everyone would want to be complimented daily because it may seem repetitive or insincere, while others would love the attention. Overall I believe giving compliments daily would be thoughtful, but I can see why some wouldn’t want to do this.

Nov. 18

“Characterization: What’s New?”

So far, I’ve learned a little about characterization, like the fact that you should try to avoid using simple adjectives like “kind” or “evil”. You should be more descriptive and that description should be an overall trait, not something the character is like for a few days. A trait is not a mood or feeling, it’s what the character is, for example, insincere, vindictive, and or humorous.

Nov. 18

“Speaking And Listening: What’s There To Take-Away”

Through listening to stories and reading one myself, I’ve learned a lot about all of my classmates and told them about myself. This project helps us understand our classmates better and open ourselves up to each other. We’ve also all gained experience with presenting through this project and hopefully, all learned that presenting isn’t as bad as it seems.

Nov. 11

“Personal Pride: How May It Effect Others?”

I take pride in myself and my identity, but I don’t really express it towards anyone. Because of this, I don’t make anyone feel inferior about themselves. I also do not perceive people as inferior or less than me because of who they are because I was raised to be accepting of everyone, no matter their ethnicity, gender or status.

Oct. 24

“Language Arts: Advantage Of Having It For Four Years”

Four years of language arts in high school to many people has its’ problems but it’s not all bad. Four years of language arts is good for many people because it reinforces their speaking and writing skills which are important for many jobs. Not only that, but language arts also helps people who weren’t raised in an English speaking family to learn the language’s intricacies and ways to improve speaking it.

Oct. 17

“Goal Making: Be SMART”

A goal I hope to achieve this quarter would be to improve a certain aspect of my writing. I want to be able to write more for detailed passages. I want to go beyond just a few sentences or a paragraph for my rising action and climax as well as have smooth transitions between them. To do this I believe I just need to see examples of it done right and practice and because it’s a relatively tame goal, I hope to see drastic improvement this semester.

Oct. 10

“What Did I Expect: Language Arts”

My expectations for ELA were nothing special, I assumed it would be like most years where we write, do vocabulary and probably never use our notebooks, but this year has started off differently. Though we have written, it was different from most papers because we learned new concepts and improved our writing as we went along, also this year has made doing vocabulary cards optional and we write in our notebooks almost every class. I hope the class continues to be like this because we have learned a lot and, in all honesty, haven’t gotten much homework.

Oct. 7

“How To Blog: Don’t Forget To Format”

I would advise a blogger to learn how to set up a blog before anything else, I wish I had done so. This is especially important the more posts that you have because if you have hundreds of posts and realize you’ve been formatting them wrong, going back and fixing the posts will take a while. I would also tell them that formality isn’t necessary; the blog can be conversational and entertaining.

Sep. 30

“The Count Of Monte Cristo: The Story So Far”

In chapter three of The Count Of Monte Cristo the main character, Dantes meets his soon to be wife, Mercedes, and Fernand, Mercedes cousin. Fernand proposes to Mercedes multiple times before Dante arrives and she always answers no because she loves Dantes, so when he meets Dantes he is enraged and runs away to his two friends Caderousse and Danglars. After some time, Dantes and Mercedes walk by where the three friends are and they speak about their wedding date and Dantes’ need to go to Paris, through this conversation Danglars gets an idea about how to stop Dantes from becoming the Pharaon’s number one.

Sep. 23

“The Count Of Monte Cristo: What Is A Strength In The Writing?”

Some strengths the Count of Monte Cristo has would be the book’s exposition. This is because the book does not spend an excessive amount of time working on the exposition and the exposition is well implemented. Its’ placement is natural and it keeps flow in the writing; it’s cohesive. What's more, I personally did not find the exposition boring, instead, I thought it was interesting because of the time period it was set in.

Sep. 19

“Past High School: 2022”

In 2022 I see myself being done with high school and on my way to college. My dream college would be MIT, and because it’s difficult to get into, I'm trying to get into STEM to build my resume. Past that, right now I want to major in engineering, but I’m not really sure what branch of engineering I want to major in, construction, engineering, etc. These plans could change, but right now they serve as some direction.

Sep. 16

“My Life Written Down: Is There A Theme?”

If there was a book detailing my life, the main theme would most likely be the search for moral structure or a purpose. The reason it would be on these two is because I’m a teenager, and most teenagers look for a purpose in life and start to think about who they are and how they should act; what is wrong or right, and how you should act to have good character. I’ve hit the point in my life where I start looking for a direction, and with that comes the development of my character, or my moral structure.

Sep. 9

“Standards: What Am I Being Held To?”

Of the six current standards, the hardest standards for me are identifying any mistakes or tampered with evidence when someone is speaking, using technology to produce, public and update writing products, and finally, analyzing the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

Aug. 26

“Marking The Text: How Do I Do It?”

Knowing how to annotate is very important and through the years I've developed some strategies to make the process a little bit easier. One strategy I use is to limit the amount of highlighting I'm doing by only highlighting keywords and parts of sentences. Also, if I don't understand some vocabulary I'll look up the words and find examples or definitions.

Aug. 22

“Public Speaking: Learning Multiple Subjects At Once”

So far, I’ve learned a little about writing through our presentations, and I like this because every day we are actually learning something new. We even combined learning with presenting, which isn’t anything new, but the way we combine what’s expected of us to learn and important to learn with it makes it feel new. I want to continue learning in this class, and want to learn a little about how to create a good first line in an essay and a good conclusion.

Aug. 19

“Me and Santiago: Are We Similar?”

Santiago at the beginning of the story is naive, very trusting of strangers, hopeful and almost antisocial because of the way he likes exploring freely with just the sheep that understand him. In the end, he is more spiritual and wiser, matured. I am similar to him in the way that I’m hopeful about the future, but unlike him, I’m not very trusting with strangers.

Aug. 15

“My Skills: What’s The Point?”

One thing I am good at in school is being in a sport, cross-country to be specific. I just joined this year, but I’m not too bad at running and the coach thinks I can make varsity by my senior year. One of the reasons I do well in the sport is because of the people on the team. They’re kind, supportive, and provide competition which makes me want to get better.

Aug. 12

“You Are Who You Are: Don’t Let Others Change You”

“No one can ever take your memories from you - each day is a new beginning; make good memories every day.” - Catherine Pulsifer

You are your own person and no one can change who you are, who you can be, or who you will be. One of my goals is to learn how to code. I want to know more about computer programming and this year I plan to focus on that. This school year I would also like to make good memories by meeting new people and possibly joining a club or sport.

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