english week 2

this week in english we are working on our research papers. we have to do research on a famous court case. i choose to do my research paper on the o.j. simpson court case. o.j was accused of killing his ex-wife and her friend. i choose that case because i like football and i wanted to learn more the case. every day we have a different assignment. we have a different amount of note cards and source cards. after we have a certain mount of sources and information we have to write a paper about the court case. this is what we did in english this week. ( p.s. i have a doctors appointment tomorrow so i might miss 1-3 period )

English-poetry and essays

In English class this week we learned about poems. We had vocabulary to learn and we learned about the format of a poem. After we learned about poems, we wrote a poem about a story we read in class. The poem we had to write was about any character in the story and his feelings and needs. after we wrote our poem, we learned about the proper format for an essay. Now that we know the format we have to write a persuasion essay about any topic. i choose to write  my essay on high school basketball players being able to get drafted to the pros without going to collage. Now that you know what we did this week im off to finsih my essay.