Jermaine's AP Blog

Today was a pretty normal day in class. Today we watched the last of the culture presentations. They were just as good as the others and we saw the first and only poster project which didn't disappoint. After the presentations, we started getting back to the regular class flow. We ended class by writing our next set of vocabulary words. Overall a pretty average day.

Today was a pretty chill day in class. We watched more of the culture presentations the whole class period. Today was my day to present and I did very well. I presented on the Canadian culture which was pretty fun to research and present. My grade on the project was a 99 and Im very proud of myself. The other presentations were very good as well today and helped me learn about many different countries. Mr. Rease was right, it does feel like we went all around the world.

Today was the first day of presenting the culture projects. This made for an overall chill day in class. Most of the presentations today were pretty nice and informational. I got to learn alot about different cultures in different countries. My day to present is tomorrow and I feel ready after watching today's presentations. I am sure that I will make a good grade on this project.

I didn't attend class today because we had our ACT prep class again. We focused on math today and I am glad we did. Math was the area I scored the lowest in on the ACT. Hopefully the tips she showed us today help me score even higher on the math when we take the ACT at school.

I was pretty nervous coming to class today. I knew that we had to write our argumentative essays today and I was a tad bit intimidated by the thought of it. Once I got into writing it though, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  Once I planned it out, my thoughts began flowing and I wrote my essay pretty easily. I did not get to write my very last sentence to finish my essay before time ran out, but I am hoping Mr. Rease will have mercy on me.

Today was a very interesting day. I didnt go to Mr. Rease's class today because Colonel Brady, my JROTC instructor, picked me and a few others to go listen to a 101 year old veteran. This was a once in a lifetime experience that I wanted to take advantage of. He told us about his experiences in fighting wars and how times today are much different than times were back then. He was able to accomplish many things in his life despite the odds stacked against him. An example is how he started businesses as an African-american when the country was still segregated. He gave us motivation to push on in life because we can really accomplish anything. I am very grateful that I was able to be there with him today.

Today was another pretty fun day in class. We had a group project dealing with cultures. With this project, we took our previously assigned countries and looked up cultures they have in them. We then compared and contrasted the customs with other groups in the class. This told me about how some countries do these things that we find wierd in our country and it is perfectly normal to them. We also answered a prompt on whether you should be required to follow the customs of a country of you are visiting and thats how we ended class. I think it would be disrespectful to not follow the customs of another country when visiting personally.