Isis's English Blog

  Prompt Response: My experience on American Lit so far has been a great experience just being in this class, teaching more about myself and what I can improve not just as a student but also as a person when it comes to writing. Throughout the course of this four and a half weeks timing, turning in my assignments on time has been what’s been going well for me, especially since this year when I’m starting to use a planner to plan out all the things I have to do for the week and it helps me be organized even when I have stuff to do after school. What has been challenging for me is that since the beginning of the school year was to keep up with the Friday blogs because in Fridays I go to the football games for marching band, and lately the games have ended late at night and I would be stressing on the way back to school to finish the blog so I won’t be worried about it throughout the weekend. Finally, one thing that I’m looking to improve moving forward is that I don’t have to worry a...

  Prompt Response: Someone who has left a lasting impact on me recently is once again my ex. In the last post I talked about how I felt about the breakup and how I still loved him even after like 2 months of the break up but then once summer break came along I started to forget about him and just moved on from him completely. I remember during the summer I was watching every Marvel movie in existence, I know its off topic but just hear me out, after watching every single movie off Marvel not only did I realize 2 things, one I shouldn’t stop doing stuff of what I like from a guy, and two I gotta stop acting like the love interests from the movies if I want the “perfect” man for me. When I was with my ex, I stopped doing everything I loved and having my own opinions, like if he loved D.C., I had to watch D.C movies and not Marvel, if he was homophobic I had to say I was homophobic so he would be satisfy, and I remember one night he even said this to me, “once we get married and have ...

  Prompt Response: A time when my heart and mind wanted two different things was with my recent breakup of my first and only ex. You see I never had a relationship before this dude and the only thing I knew of what “love” should be were from the movies, not even my parents showed true love because they will never see each other since they were always busy with work. So I thought I was doing everything I had to do when it came to loving. I thought I was being the best girlfriend ever, until we broke up. Obviously, I was devastated I didn’t want it to end I still loved him and everything but I did notice for the last 3 days of the relationship he acted weird and didn’t even wanted to talk to me at all and when he did it will be only about one thing, and we all know what that one thing is and the worst part was we were long distance at the time. At that moment of the breakup I forgot my brain existed and instead went on and listened to my heart because I still loved him, even when my ...

  Prompt Response: A time when doubting and overthinking about myself affected the way I handled the situation was when I had my first panic attack. It was in 6th grade, my parents were always the stereotypical strict hispanic parents, ones that will tell you that you have to be better than the person next to you, it was never a problem for me and I never saw it as a problem, after all parents know better than the kids. I came home that day with them giving me a side eye, and I already knew I was in big trouble, they came up to me and starting to ask me why did I got a 92 on a math test, to make matters worse both my little sister who was in the 4th grade at the time, and my brother who was in 1st grade, came up to my parents and told them how they got a hundred on their tests, within seconds my parents looked at me and started to compare me with my siblings for the first time in my life. Later that night, I couldn’t sleep, especially not when I had their words stuck in my brain an...

  Prompt Response: One thing that makes me different from other people is that I’m way too kind and caring about everyone compared to everyone else. This makes me different from other people because that’s how I grew up as, especially when I had to live in a household there was always something bad happening, whether if it was about money or about immigration, I always had to make sure my whole family was at least happy for a bit even if it was a minute. That also meant I did the same thing when my friends were going through anything in life. I didn't care if I was going through worse stuff then they were or if none of my friends or family did the same, I didn’t care as long as they were ok. If anyone had a bad I always found ways to make them have a smile on their face, no matter what if I had to crack a joke, talk about my latest celebrity crush obsession or write something for them as long as I knew in my heart and mind I was the reason they were smiling, and yes sometimes they ...

  Prompt Response: An adventure I would like to go to one day is, to go to abandoned places or anywhere after hours even if it sounds illegal. This is an adventure I want to go to one day because when I have free time, I watch videos on how people go to cinemas, malls or even just a Walmart after hours or abandoned and I will just love the thrill and just get adrenaline through my body just like if I was there with them. I would also love to go in this adventure because just knowing that you could be in a place that is off-limits to everyone just feels like you have a privilege being there while breaking the rules for being there, and with all the fences, closed doors and everything that stands in the way just makes it to one of the best challenges for being in that place. This would be a great idea for an adventure because it’s not only for the thrill but also because it adds a bit of curiosity to it for why it was abandoned in the first place and it makes you feel like an explore...

 Prompt Response: Being creative is a common thing in my family, but mainly in my mom's side who all major somewhere in any form of arts no matter if it was in design, or music creativity was a quality that I was for sure gonna have in my blood. Throughout my life on being creative I have so made so many things, no matter if it was writing music, poems, songs, or stories, or how I made bows, bracelets and even atempted to write a short movie, no matter if it was for me or for anyone if there is one thing that I created that outshined the rest of the stuff I created is a love story that I made in 9th grade. To start off with this story that I made this story compared to the other love stories I wrote it had a different concept and idea then the rest I wrote, sure that story had 2 teenage kids falling in love like how much of my romance stories that I wrote but this time the theme roam around having a horrible house life and horrible thought but then out of the blue there is a light ...

 Prompt Response: Two burning questions that I have about life are, "What would happen if our world does get ruled over by robots?", and "What if our whole life is just a dream?". These questions are important to me because all those questions are somehow related to my life in a way or that I just started to think of after watching movies about it and ever since then I would think of that every once in a while. To start with the first question of "What would happen if our world does get ruled over by robots?", this is important for me because I have parents who have jobs that could be easily taken over by AI and that's what worries me a lot because imagine, robots do take over in the next few years I would have to be the one stepping in the line to help out with the rent, with my siblings and all the responsibilities that they do which would make me drop out of college and go get a job to help out my siblings get a life that I could possibly have and t...

      Prompt Response: Over the past two weeks I've been really on top of my assignments especially in this corse because out of the classes I have this school year, this class specifically has been giving me more work to work on then the rest of my classes. Everytime I come back to my house after school I go quickly do what I can do with the work that I have to work on but if I don't finish it I always do it later in the night or I have to wake up more earlier than my normal time to wake up, something I do for every class not just this one. Something that I've been doing differently from my previous years of school that I considered it now as my strength is that I have a planner with me, since I'm a really busy woman and I knew junior year is gonna be the hardest year in high school from what I heard from my cousins and also because I easily for get stuff so a planner is helping me a lot so far. Even though having a planner is my strength, me being so busy is what I wo...

 Prompt Response: Creating my own origin myth helped me better understand why specific cultures explain any origin by showing how even though the stories might be old, it does teach us valuable lessons and morals that, people today lack of.  While writing and planning out what I'm gonna write I knew already that it was gonna be about what we majority of us lack of, which is loyalty and trust and I wanted to make sure everyone knows why those two things are so important in our life by writing this story to teach people or make them read an idea of what could happen to them if they don't have any loyalty or trust within them. I did had a hard time on like the characters but since we could like different elements I thought to use something like that within my story to see how much they contrasted even before the conflict unfolded, but overall this idea of an assignment does really help a student to put out their own ideas of what they think a Native American story should be. Summ...

 Prompt Response: A meaningful object in my life is my huge writing journal that I've been having since 7th grade. I started to have it after one night my parents fighting over something small once again, I couldn't stop replaying that moment in my head and because of that I couldn't sleep majority of the nights, until one of my friends told me that writing could help me be calmed and express what I feel throughout the day without overthinking it the whole night. Once I got my journal for the first time, I wrote how my parent's relationship affected me so much and by the time I wrote for a whole week I wrote about 12 poems or journal entries over my parents. By the time freshman year started, I wrote so much poems, journal entries, ideas for stories, or even songs, it didn't matter if it was about my parents, my family, school, even about moving on from my first ex, all that I cared about was that I was expressing my feelings and bottling them up in a certain level....

 Prompt Response: A time I felt connected to nature was when I was staying with my cousins this summer, me and my older cousins were staying in this ranch house, up North where one of my aunts own one. We were having a huge birthday party for one of my cousin's kid's who was turning two at that time, my cousins told me to where comfortable clothes for the party, I didn't know for what at first but then, when I saw those horses and a bull in that ranch, now I knew at that moment when they meant. Once the little kids I was taking care of were busy with the chickens, me and my little cousins went directly towards the horses, and once I saw this pretty black one, I even called her Black Widow, already in that moment I felt like both me and that horse were connecting in a way. When I was having a hard time getting on the horse I thought my cousins were gonna help me get on the horse since it was my first time getting in one after a decade, but it was the horse who helped me get ...

 My 3 goals for this school year are balancing my extracurricular activities with my academics and with my life at home, study even harder and finally to be proud of myself and not for someone else. To start off with my first goal with balancing with my after school activities and academics, every start of every school year I would be organized but by the time I'm in the middle of the school year I would be really disorganized, so with that I would have to start getting use to using a planner to be more organized. Secondly, I want to study harder because sometimes I would always study in the last minute or, when I do have time I would not study enough so this year I would start to get use to set a perfect time limit on studying. Lastly, it is to be proud of myself and not for anyone else because I always cared about people think about me but this year, I don't care about what they all think because it's my life, my choices, my school year no one elses's.