Classwork

What I learned this year was the meaning of lots of words, how to use a lot of literary devices, how to read a story with actually finding the tone by using diction. How well is the part that I would say a 75% because yet I know it very well I get confused with syntax and diction. I know from self reliance that essay gave me the most because that's when it clicked about using diction from us finding quotes and telling each other the meaning.  Anyone can know from just reading the quotes and use diction to find the tone

For the Final

Ideas of what to review for the final can be the stories from the start of the year that mostly everyone forgot about such as Richard Cory, Earth on turtles back, young goodman brown and the pedestrian.

SOMETHING INTERESTING

Something interesting is a question. How is Donald Trump our president and how did he get the elect over a more qualified person that has real experience dealing with foreign problems.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Another thing that Baca made was the movie Blood in Blood out. Yes you can say I'm taking this post easy by just talking about a movie that i probably haven't watched but it's not just a movie for me or for many people from Santa Maria. I mean things by this such as that this movie is about Mexicans and many many people have seen this movie from Santa Maria. It gives everyone in the class more attention to Baca if they knew that he wrote the movie since it's a favorite for some they'll suspect that everything he writes will be just as great as the movie. Also since the movie is about rivalry of gangs maybe some people can even relate to it. From Blood in Blood out to immigrants in our land you can see that Baca has a main focus from representing struggles and life from Mexicans.

Immigrants in our land

"We are given shots and doctors ask questions "
" we came here to get away from False promises"
" I look down and see new immigrants coming in "
" some will just stick around and talk about how good the old world is "

About the poem
The story is about immigrants expecting the (United States) to be a free country and to have everything they've wanted as in a good future and expecting a new life.  The downfall of this is that they come in the country expecting a job that sees their talents but yet they all live in a bad place and work in the rough jobs like in the fields or just hard labor. So he explains some might make it out, some people will become gangsters and then the old people will stay and say that the old world was better.

Meet jimmy Santiago

When I read the story I thought it was going to be a simple story about going to college, what surprised me was that it was about a man that is made of rattlesnake poison and goes through lots of changes through his life. Some changes can be from being a drug dealer to going to prison to helping the youth that work up the baby to having workshops at the church and having teachers look at him as a speaker for their class. Also the book that he wrote can be a key factor in the change in his life.