Corinthia's English Blog

  Prompt Response:  I experienced a stereotype when I was in gym class. We were about to play dodgeball and had to be on teams, but the boys thought I wasn't gonna be any good to the team because I am a girl. I ended up proving them wrong, and my team won. Summary: The boys assumed I wasn't good because of my gender, then after we won, they started to treat me differently and told me how good I was. Reflection:  This experience showed me how wrong and unfair gender stereotypes are.

  Prompt Response: Something I will never fully understand is TIME . It's something that never stops and it feels different depending on the moment that you're currently in, like when you're having fun, time goes by fast, but when you're bored with nothing to do, time goes by slow. Summary: I wrote about time because it's something I don't think I'll never understand. Reflection: This makes me think how precious time is.

  Prompt Response:  I wish I had more time because it feels like it's never enough time to do everything I want and need to do. Summary: Having extra hours in the day would help balance everything out while doing stuff for school also. Reflection: Balance is important in life.

 Prompt Response: The most creative thing I have ever made was my cultural identity mask. It stood out as my best work because it was all about me and where I am from. Summary: I designed a mask that represented my culture, my values, and the things that makes me ME . I included symbols and details thats shows my personality and nationality. The mask was not just art, it was a way of telling who I am without using words. Reflection: This mask stands out as my best work because it allowed me to express who I am in a creative way.

 Prompt Response: My biggest questions are what happens after we die and what is my purpose in life. This is something no one really knows for sure but yet it shapes how people live and what they believe. Thinking about life after death makes me consider how I want to live my life now and how I need to find my purpose in the making of it. Summary: These questions are important to me because they influence my thoughts and the choices I make in my daily life. Reflection: Reflecting on these questions makes me realize the mystery there is after death. I may never find the clear answers to it until it happens to me ( a very long time from now ). Wondering about it reminds me to just live in the present and appreciate every moment of it while staying completely true to my values and looking for the meaning of the purpose in my life that I need to find in myself.

 Prompt Response:  A time I felt completely lost was during my first week of my new school of my 5th-grade year. Everything was different to me, and I didn't recognize a single face. I walked around trying to find my class, and I was just physically and emotionally lost. I ended up asking for help to find my class, and that person made me start to feel a little bit more connected to the school. Summary: I started a new school. The unfamiliar faces made me nervous, and I felt out of place. Reflection: Being lost doesn't always mean not knowing where you are; it can also mean you're feeling disconnected from people you don't know. Everyone feels lost at some point in their life, and it's good to ask for help.

  Prompt Response: I adapted to this course by prioritizing every assignment based on the deadlines on when they are due. For example this assignment is due at 11:59 pm and im doing it a few hours early. Summary: This past week I have adapted to this course by having a strong study system and time management. My strength is staying organized with all my work and I think my challenge is putting assignments on top of other assignments that I didn't finish yet and procrasinating.  Reflection: Being organized is one of my abilities that I can do and I have to practice on not overlapping my assignments together they don't be late and not procrasinate on them either so I won't rush or stress over it.

 Prompt Response: Females are expected to be polite and focused on their appearances and males are to be independent. Patriarchy influenced by making me aware of things between women and men. Summary: Gender roles and patriarchy have influenced my identity by shaping my expectations put on me and for how I should act. Reflection: My self-confidence is shaped by how the world view genders and through time as I got older, I realized that the rules you have to follow doesn't define who you are as a female or male.

 Prompt Response: My meaningful family tradition is sunday dinner where we cook dinner and my grandmother comes over and eat with us. This mirrors in the way my tradition and the story passes down knowlegde in the family. Summary: My tradition is sunday dinner at my house, it reinforce family bonds and respect for elders (my grandmother). Reflection: This tradition made me realize how it shapes my sense of identity, like in the story the elders pass down the traditions that were passed down to them.

  Prompt Response: My cultural heritage shapes my daily expectations by making sure that I stay clean and that I act like a lady and do chores. Summary: A mother gives a very long list of instructions and warnings to her daughter on how to act in public and what to do and what not to do, mixed with chores she needs to do around the house.  Reflection: My cultural heritage shapes my daily life in many ways because I was taught a lot of manners and habits at an early age, like respecting my elders and helping around the house.