What is an American?

An American is someone who usually is born within the borders of the USA or gets a green card. For me an American is a person who works to earn enough money to barely get food. An American is also a person who has to fight everyday to get enough money to put a roof over their families had and barely has enough to get some food. Some Americans have lived here for more than sixteen years and are never recognized not even in death. The real Americans are discriminated and hated upon.
The people who are the worst mouthed and the ones who are considered to the most dangerous or dumb because they have the most high dropout rate. It’s funny how they don’t consider people from Central America, and South America, Americans. I consider that Americans are people who were born in the Americas even though they have to do a lot just to help their families back in their own countries. Americans are people who live in the United States and work really hard to make a living. Their also people who have double jobs to maintain their kids, home, and get something descent to eat.
It’s funny how people can hate the people who work their lands so they can have money and pay them less or minimum wage. Their people who work for rich people who treat them like they were dogs and also wish they would leave. I can’t understand why “Americans” say that immigrants are taking their jobs when immigrants are doing the dirty job that the Americans don’t want to do. Their also doing for less and it’s not fair for them to try to close the border when the more than half of the people that come here to supposedly make a better living have a house or better yet be treated equally. They come with that dream their chasing a freedom that doesn’t exist for them. It only exists for people who have fought in a war or if they have money or are involve with the army.
Immigrants are people who come from a place that they barely have enough to eat and have to live in horrible conditions. Immigrants aren’t really immigrants because they are just like the people who came here and took over the lands. It hard to believe that a country that supposedly is friendly and is the richest because of hard workers like immigrants there’s a lot of discrimination and hatred against all of their minority. Most Americans are nice and understand what immigrants go through. Those are Americans who care about other people besides themselves. A real American comes from a tribe like the Cherokees or the Navajo. They weren’t pilgrims and they’ll never be. Those were people who gave them diseases and caused them death or pain.
The people who discriminate or hate other races that aren’t their own are very stupid and don’t know nothing about their past. The people we call Americans are people who stole someone else’s land in some point or killed people or stole form them they are people who shouldn’t be called Americans but no one says nothing about that because people pretend not to care. It’s very hard for a daughter of an immigrant like me to have hope when all you hear on the news is how much they want for immigrants to leave. It’s funny because the people who are more likely to not vote are the people who are the most targeted when a person running for something wants their vote. They use the people to later dispose of them like the where nothing in the beginning.
I believe that a true American isn’t white or black it’s a person who cares and who provides for those in need. It’s also a person who promises change and gives us change. Who helps the poor not the rich get rich but also helps students with their education. I also think that they help by giving students more things to do after school so they won’t join gangs. Americans should be people who care about other not just their wealthy or greedy self’s. I also think that an American is a person who can agree to accept other people’s culture or make their own culture. It’s very hard to define what an American really is but this is what it means to me.

Academic Autobiography

Well it all started when I was in kindergarten. I don’t remember about it all I remember is that I meet my best friend there. I remember it was ok and I had fun learning. In first grade I remember that I liked the teacher Ms. Sanchez but not what she made us do. I hated to write sentences or to write anything that wasn’t the ABC’s. I remember that when I started second grade I thought it was going to be great. Turns out that I was the most picked on by the teacher and the one who always got lost in whatever he said.
I remember one thing I liked the most was learning how to use money in his class. Mr. Angobaldo was a really good teacher. I admire his work but he was too harsh on second graders. Well he had this thing in which he thought us how to use money. He would charge us for using the restrooms our doing something bad in class. I don’t remember how much but I do remember he would make us tell him how much we were giving him and how much change we should get back. When I entered third grade I thought it would be the same thing but it wasn’t it was a bit much easier than second.
My third grade teacher Mr. Martinez thought me how to multiply and how to follow instructions to the fullest. We learned how to follow them because we had to do this beautiful works with string. If we didn’t follow the order we would get the wrong image but if we did it right we would the drawing of a beautiful colorful apple or something else. It was something my classmates and me enjoyed doing a lot. It was something fun he knew we would enjoy and he knew he would be teaching us some value too. My fourth grade teacher Mr. Zamudio he wasn’t as fun or as boring as people said. He was very ok we never had a problem with him. He thought me everything I knew about essays, paragraphs, and things like that. I loved doing these things because I learned even more without thinking about it. I really don’t remember much about that grade. In fifth grade we got a new teacher which was very fun but strict. Her name was Ms. Heim she was a fine teacher.
I liked her a lot because she thought us girls what we would eventually find out in life and that life wasn’t as easy as we thought or imagined. She was very realistic person. She took us to the Getty House and to the beach before our graduation. She made our graduation unique and special because she thought us how to sing songs of our culture and to dance them. She even made us wear typical dresses of where our parents are from. It was very fun year for us. When I started middle school I thought it was going to very difficult and I wouldn’t be able to go on to high school. I was right in a way because I got picked for being the shyest one or I got called names that really hurt at that age.
Sixth grade was fun. There was this one teacher Ms. Cantarero she told me so many things that helped me out through middle school and still help me today. She advice me on so many things. She helped me get over the fact that I shouldn’t be pushed around by other people. She was more than a teacher to me she was a friend too. I miss her but I can’t go see her because she moved to another school. In seventh grade things were a bit different because I started school late and cause I had moved to Riffle, Colorado the very last days of school during my sixth grade year. I definitely wasn’t the same girl as before. I had changed my perspective on everything because I didn’t care about anything anymore.
It was really hard for me at that time because we had left my dad and we got back with him. I was starting to rebel in a way. In the end I gave up trying to be a rebel and went back to being my normal self. In the beginning of eighth grade I became the same shy but with an attitude type of girl. My teachers liked me because I listened but not because I answered back.
After my middle school graduation we had definitely left my dad and my mom started to meet a new guy which is now my stepdad. He told me it would be best if I left Miguel Contreras Learning Complex to come to West Adams Preparatory High School. I really didn’t want to come here because that would mean leaving all my childhood friends. Once I was out of MC during the second semester I thought I would be lonely for a really long time.
I was wrong I made friends by the second day and I even liked my teachers and schedule. So far high school has been a great experience for me. It won’t be easy for me to go ahead and think of college but I will soon and I’ll get use to the idea.

How It Feels to Be Big Sister Me

Well for me it’s hard to be a big sister. It’s hard because no one taught me how to be one. I became a big sister when I was a year and three months. My young sister Ana was born. She’s always been the trouble maker or as other people say the black sheep of the family. I would follow her around as if she was the oldest and I was the youngest once she learned how to walk.
I didn’t think I would become a big sister again but I did when I was three years and exactly two months my sister Claudia was born. She was calm and still is. She follows Ana around. I feel bad because when we were young I didn’t act like the big sister instead I acted like the youngest.
Know that I know or have an idea of how to be a better sister and talk to them. I want them to trust me and share with me what they feel and things like that. I think it’s a bit too late because they don’t trust me and they get in trouble and barely communicate with me. We argue and fight a lot. I miss the days we were close. We barely started splitting up.
When my mom and dad did we sort of started growing separately. It was hard on us because we were little. We were together until me and my mom got in a nasty fight and I left her to go live with my dad. I got lonely and I didn’t like living with him so I left him and moved with my mom again. When I went back it was weird because things were different. They were mad because I left them and they needed me to be there and support them.
I always was like their protector or something because I would always be there for them. Even as we got older I was there for them. After I came back to live with them they changed and acted different. It was weird because they would talk among themselves and ignore me. I would try to be friendly or play with them and they would look at me like I was crazy for trying. When Ana started middle school she was around me more because we went to the same school and saw each other often. She got use to me, and she slowly but surely started coming back to me as if we were little kids again.
She started trusting bit more that she told me some of her secrets and she tested me to see if I would betray her. Claudia was a different story she started trusting me because Ana started trusting me. It was a bit more complicated because I would barely see her. She was more loving and caring though. She trusted Ana more and she still does. It gets me mad that she doesn’t come to me instead she goes to her friends that cause her huge problems.
Claudia is an outgoing person. She isn’t afraid to try something new or speak her mind. Sometimes that’s a bit too scary because she doesn’t know when to stop. People love her but she gets annoying after a while. The one thing that she has that’s scary is trying new things. She’s gotten in lots of trouble because of it. She was almost expelled from her school because she made the wrong decision and she didn’t talk to me about or anyone but her friends.
We were all very disappointed in her. I couldn’t believe that she didn’t have the courage to talk to me about it. We have gone through a lot and yet she still didn’t trust me. It was complicated I was very hard on myself, I kept thinking that I wasn’t the best sister they have had and that they deserved a better sister. When Ana decided she had, had enough of us trying to be there for her she left with my dad. She didn’t plan on coming back but she had too. We knew where she was but couldn’t go for her because she didn’t want us too. We ended up having to take her back. While she was gone Claudia and I came to a summer program called S.I.C (Saving Innocent Children). That helped me and her better our relationship and our communication. We became closer. Ana came in the picture again and she ruined everything Claudia and I had built up.
We have a very complicated relationship. Sometimes we can’t stand each other and we will start fighting for the dumbest things ever. But sometimes we act like we can’t live without each other. Know that a big sister again but this time it isn’t a girl, it’s a boy I know for a fact things are going to be different with him because he’s going to have three big sisters that love him and are going to be there for him no matter what. Yeah no one taught us how to be big sisters but we definitely know that we are not going to make the same mistakes with the baby. Also we have learned from our various mistakes that we need each other no matter what.

How I've grown as a Writer

I feel like I’ve grown a lot on my writing skills. I believe this because today I had lots of papers handed back to me. I got all my reflections, Cornell notes, double-entry journals and some literature circle worksheets back. I’m so happy because I did pretty well in all of those things. There was some work I didn’t finish but in a way I tried to finish them.

I’ve enjoyed writing my blog. I like writing on it because people who use the internet and read our blogs can see we are really interested in doing our work and getting a good grade. I actually like writing. I’ve grown as a writer because I don’t make the same mistakes I use to make when I first started this class. I also know I’ve grown in my writing because I like to write more than I use to without thinking about it at all. Well one of the things I liked doing was the personal narrative with song lyrics. I liked doing this because we wrote about something about us and got to choose the song that we thought would best fit the narrative. I remember I wrote about when we had to leave our dad. It’s always a sad thing for me to think about or talk about but I’ve learned to live with it. The songs I choose were Daddy’s Lil’ Girl by Frankie J and Hurt by Christina Aguilera. Those two songs best fit my narrative because they explain how I sort of feel about that situation.

I also liked writing about the poems we liked. I liked Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, Love without Love by Luis Llorens Torres, and Tonight I can write… by Pablo Nureda. Those are my favorite poems in the book. Sadly I just wrote about two of them. I also liked writing the found poem. It was based on a newspaper article. We had to write a poem out of it. It was an interesting experience. I hadn’t realized that I had written a lot of reflections and Cornell notes and double-entry journals. I’m surprised at the fact that I wrote a lot of those things. I liked doing most of my essays because they have also helped me grow not only as a writer but as a person. I mean before I would have trouble expressing my feelings and talking about something because I wasn’t able to express myself as much as I wanted too, know I can’t find an easier way to express myself. I really enjoy writing. I also like doing the stream of consciousness because I write about what I’m thinking and it prevents me from having writer’s block.

One of the things that I know have helped me grow besides reading stories like Night, Farewell to Manzanar, The Bear, Sorry Right Number, is writing summaries about the stories, vocabulary words and acting a scene from the story. One of the saddest stories I can think of is Night. For me it is one of the saddest because it talks about their experience in concentration camps and what all the Jewish people went through during World War 2. I even remember that I did an essay on World War 2 and the beginning of World War 1. Well all of this has helped me as a writer because I can visualize, and have a better understanding of what goes on in the stories.

I also remember that at first I didn’t get the hang of doing the Los Angeles Times sighting. Now it’s like something I know how to do and kind of like doing because it helps me understand lots of things that are going on in the world. It’s also helped me grow by teaching me things I didn’t know about like how to site articles, how to focus on how they kept writing the article after they finished talking t the person or what ever the article was about. I liked doing that because it helps me think about sighting more work and not plagiarize the work.

Reflection on Luis J. Rodriguez

Well I went to go see his presentation. It was pretty interesting. I thought he was saying a lot of good things that made sense. I believe he is right because he went through that gang life experience. I think he is a really wise person because he didn't want that live for his kids which sadly was the future for his eldest son. It took him a couple of years to act like a real father with his first two kids. I think that's pretty sad because it shouldn't take a parent that long to realize that they have kids and that they are truly responsible for what ever happens to them.

I think that for him to have a deep connection with his son even though he is in prison says a lot about him. It says that he repented about what he did in the beginning of their lives but wants to change all of that. He wants to be there for them. He also wants to be more involved in there lives. I believe that he is a an amazing person because of everything he has done to help prevent gang or try to end gang warfare. He is a very smart person that made wrong decisions along the way for him to be the person he is today. He is an amazing writer believes any one of us can be what we want to be and supports us. I think he would be an amazing teacher if he ever thought of teaching. I also think that Luis J. Rodriguez can help prevent at least a 30% of dead of teens who get involved with drugs or gangs by telling them about his experience. He can tell them how his barrio ended turning their back on him because he wanted to end the violence around them.

Luis Rodriguez has a lot to teach people because he knows more than a person who hasn't been in gangs or drugs. He can be a great teacher for those who are thinking about joining gangs or are involved with drugs. I believe that if we truly tried hard we can prevent lots of things from happening. If we have a lot of people involved in helping to see that gangs aren't hte answer then alot of people wouldn'y join them at all. I learned a lot during the time we spent with Luis J. Rodriguez.

Reflection on WGA Assembly

Well when I first saw the actors and heard that the students had written plays for them to act. At first I thought it was a bit impossible because they had never written a script before or even less thought of writing one. So I was like it must be something with just dialogue. I was so wrong because it described the scene, what the characters felt how they reacted and everything it also said things like the mood or what a certain character was feeling.

I was really impressed that some students that wrote the scripts are really talented. I enjoyed watching their plays been performed. I thought they were interesting and that some of the plays were really personal. I especially liked the personal ones because those were the most realistic ones. I mean that the other ones were good too but they didn’t have the same type of style the personal ones did. I personally know what one of the plays felt by experience but having it played out in front of me was a bit to shocking because I’m still not used to that.

I think that for some of the students that wrote the plays should actually consider that possibility of considering in becoming a writer or something like that or related to it. I really enjoyed watching the little plays that some of the students wrote because it was something really interesting. I really think that some people were really talented. I mean that I also liked the other ones but the most personal ones were more interesting to me.

Found Poem

Wily dodges point to single culprit in high-profile Los Angeles heists

Don’t trust everyone you see or talk too
Maybe he can get you fired or in trouble
You have to be careful because he might charm you
And get you to give him the key to someone’s room
And leave happy with a lot of cash on his pocket because
You allowed him to. He is wanted by the LAPD because he
Has stolen over 50,000 thousand dollars worth jewelry and cash.
He is a charming, slick back hair guy that can make you think he’s someone he’s not and
He is a person that can win your trust and make you think he is trust worthy but he’s really not
Make sure you keep an eye on him or else all your stuff that is worth a lot will go missing
He’s already a most wanted by LAPD because he has stolen more than 50,000 thousands dollars
So you better watch out if you have someone famous in your hotel



LOS ANGELES TIMES
Wily dodges point to single culprit in high-profile Los Angeles heists
By: Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton
March 9, 2010
On LA Times.com

Stream of Consciousness

I have no idea what to write so I’m going to write what I’m thinking. I’m thinking on how happy I am that me and my boyfriend are about to be a year and that even though we have our differences and we have fights that are really dumb we are still together and yet happy like the first day we decided to be together and be a couple. I’m still shocked that we are about to be a year it feels like its at least three to four months we’ve been in this relationship.

I’m also thinking that I should get a job to help my mom out since she’s not going to be able to work for much longer since she is three months pregnant. We are so happy that my stepdad is going to be a father for the first time. He says that we are his kids too but not like the baby because the baby has his blood and we don’t. He’s like our dad so that’s why he says that the baby isn’t his first child. We really want it to be a boy because we are all girls and we need a baby brother. I need to get a job so I can help out in the house because my mom is going to be taking care of the baby most of the time so it’s going to be up to me to help out around the house.

I’m thinking that I really badly want to see Alice in Wonderland on Friday because I love Tim Burton’s movies and the way Johnny Depp acts because he gets into character and makes them seem real. I also want to see it because it makes me feel like a little kid once more. After someone turns sixteen everything changes because a bit more because of the responsibility that is added onto their shoulders. I also want to see it because it looks like a creepy gothic princess movie. My little sisters want me to take them to watch it because they say that they also want to watch it since it’s the return of Alice to Wonderland and it looks as if theirs going to be a lot of action and drama.

I’m thinking that I shouldn’t be sad because I’m surrounded by people who love me a lot and yet that I shouldn’t miss people who say they love and care for me when they don’t cause it’s a really painful feeling. I miss my dad a lot but yet I don’t want to because he’s not worth it at all. He would be worth me missing him if he did or would do anything to deserve for us to miss us but he doesn’t do that at all. He should have at least told my aunt to wish me a happy birthday but he didn’t even remember that my birthday was on Saturday. I really wish that he would have wished me a happy birthday but he didn’t. It’s like a really sad thing for me because he’s my father and yet he didn’t care so I shouldn’t care either.

I’m thinking that people should try to be happy and try to forget all the bad things that have ever happened to them because people shouldn’t live through memories they should live on the today never on what has happened to them because it’s not worth living in something that hurts you. I know this because I’ve learned that with the people that are around me tell me and I know that it’s going to take a while to realize that sometimes things happen for a reason. In the end it’s always for a really good reason because people get to grow as persons and to make sure they make don’t make the same mistakes or try to act a different way towards life because it’s not always a bad thing to be a good person.

Expository Essay

Well my interest was in world war one. Well I thought this was going to be an interesting topic because nobody mainly knows how it started. They just know it was before war world 2 and that it the Germans didn't want to give up at all. Well it started when Austria-Hungary was in charge of Serbia. Well there was this place Sarajevo that wanted Serbia to be independent from Austria-Hungary. Well the future heir of the thrown Archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't like it. So he decided to throw a parade with his lovely wife Sofia to show them the power they had. They were threatened that if they showed up there they were going to die.
There was a group called the black hands that were against them. The day of the parade came and the black hands sent seven assassins to kill the future heirs of the thrown. The first six couldn't kill them because they either chickened out, their gun got stuck or they didn't get to see then=m since they change the route of the parade on the last minute. The seven assassin Gavrilo Princip Shot them three times and he killed them. Austria-Hungary was really upset that they had killed the heirs so they decided that Serbia had to give Gavrilo Princip up and if they didn't they were going to declare war on them. So Serbia turned to its ally France and Great Britain and Russia. Austria-Hungary turned to Germany and Italy. They started the war when Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia. It was a crucial war. The United States joined the war years later after the war was almost over.
They joined after the sinking of the Lusitania. They got involved because Americans died in the Lusitania. Since the Americans joined the war the triple entente which was France, Great Britain, and Russia. The central powers were Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy, Austria-Hungary and Italy gave up but Germany didn't. So when Germany finally surrender the whole war was blamed on them. They made the Versailles treaty which meant that Germany had to pay for everything. After Germany got blamed they blamed everything on the Jews and other weak people they had. After that Hitler rose to power. I believe it was an interesting thing because if Germany would have never gotten blamed or if they were to surrender when all the central powers were surrendering world war 2 would have never started and probably Hitler would have never rise to power.
For me this is an interesting topic because I like history a lot. It also interested me since most people really don't know what caused world war I and why the Germans had to pay for all the damages made during this war.
I believe Germany had to sacrifice a lot since there money was going down the drain little by little. It also a good topic because its about a war that had a lot of death because of the trenches which I might add is a really dumb way of fighting the war at all times. I believe that people should think twice about going to or starting a war because it may cause a lot of damage to people and to the new generations of the world. I don't also think it damages the people but where they live and where they grow crops and stuff. Well it is really necessary for people to now the damage it causes the enviroment because the enviroment gets damage because o the smell of dead people and all the dead animals that die without it been their fault.
Well I really love talking about history since I'm really good at it. I also choose this topic because I thought it would be interesting since I was kind of learning about it during my history class. I would really love to learn more about it. I think I did a really good job at writing this essay since I put most of the detail. I even added some things that start world war 2 because I think it was interesting. I hope you really like this essay since I took a really long time to get the information and my thoughts into it.

Literary Treasure

Love Without Love

Luis Llorens Torres

I love you, because in my thousand and one nights of dreams,
I never once dreamed of you.
I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you I expected.
Suddenly I've felt you flying through my soul
in quick, lofty flight,
and how beautiful you seem way up there, far
from my always idiot heart!
Love me that way, flying over everything.
And, like the bird on its branch, land in my arms
only to rest,
then fly off again.
Be not like the romantic ones who,
in love, set me on fire.
When you climb up my mansion,
enter so lightly, that as you enter
the dog of my heart will not bark.

I first read his poem a couple a months ago. I opened the book and that was on the Page when i first read it. It is such a beautiful Love poem. I really like it. When I kept reading it over and over again I couldn't believe I hadn't read such a poem before that one. I was really shocked about it. When the teacher told us we had to get in groups I was like OK. But when I found out it was about poems we had to write about I wanted to write about Love with out Love or Tonight I can write a verse....
I was really excited but they had already chosen the two poems I wanted to write about. I ended up writing about Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. It was such a beautiful poem about love. It described the love a man had for woman. It compared her to a beautiful summer day because she was that beautiful. I really love it became one of my favorite ones I really love poems because they're beautiful but the three I like from the text book are really amazing to me. Since I really like Sonnet 18 I'm going to write it down as well.

Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare

Shall i compare thee too a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair tho owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe, or eye can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Hopefully with this you can see why it is I really like this poems. Hopefully you can enjoy theme too like I did.

Personal Narrative With Song Lyrics

When we left my dad I was hurt. I couldn't the fact he wasn't part of my life anymore but I still didn't care. I acted like life was worthless. I never came to think that someday I would get over. That I would come realize that we did it because we had not because we wanted too. My mom never got the fact that I was daddy's little girl. I would do stupid stuff because I would believe it was the right thing to do. I was just around 11 or 12 years old when we left. We tried to start a new life but we couldn't because I was the problem I didn't know how to handle my emotions at that certain point. I would think of running away and never coming back I would consider killing myself if I didn't see him one more time I really thought I missed but I was all wrong what I missed was the fact that he was 5there but he wasn't when I wanted a hug he wouldn't care he would just leave me and go scream at my mom that I wanted attention. That's when I realized I didn't miss him I just miss the feeling that I always dreamt on having. I really thought I missed him but I was wrong I missed having the feeling of hope he would care some day but that was just a waste. I choose two songs both songs always make me cry. One of them is Daddy' Lil' girl by Frankie J and the other is Hurt by Christina Aguilera I choose both songs because that's how I felt during that period of time I didn't just feel sad and depressed but I actually felt hurt and that I was never going to be Daddy's little girl.

Hurt

"Seems like it was yesterday when I saw your face
You told me how proud you were but I walked away
If only I knew what I know today

I would hold you in my arms
I would take the pain away
Thank you for all you've done
Forgive all your mistakes
There's nothing I wouldn't do
To hear your voice again
Sometimes I want to call you but I know you won't be there

I'm sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn't do
And I've hurt myself by hurting you
Some days I feel broke inside but I won't admit
Sometimes I just want to hide 'cause it's you I miss
You know it's so hard to say goodbye when it comes to this"

Daddy' Lil' Girl

"He drops his suitcase by the door
She knows her daddy won't be back anymore
She drags her feet across the floor
Tryna hold back time to keep him holding on
And she says

Daddy Daddy don't leave
I'll do anything to keep you
Right here with me
Can't you see how much I need you

Daddy Daddy don't leave
Mommy's saying things she don't mean
She don't know what she's talking about
Somebody hear me out

Father listen
Tell him that he's got a home and he don't have to go
Father save him
I would do anything in return
I'll clean my room
Try hard in school
I'll be good
I promise you
Father, Father
I pray to you"

I when i wrote this I never thought was actually going to finish it. I though I would just write then erase all my work like I usually do. I can't believe I actually am going through with this. Most people wont understand this Personal Narrative but i hope at least they can try.

Vocabulary Narrative

Sonnet

An interesting word I found was sonnet. The word sonnet means prosody. A poem properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. It's origin is from 1550–60; < It sonnetto < OPr sonet, equiv. to son poem (< L sonus sound 1 ) + -et -et. It's a verb (used without object) Archaic to compose sonnets, and it's also a verb (used with object) Older Use to celebrate in a sonnet or sonnets. It's other origin is from 1557 (in title of Surrey's poems), from Fr. sonnet (1543) or directly from It. sonetto, lit. "little song," from O.Prov. sonet "song," dim. of son "song, sound," from L. sonus "sound" (see sound (n.1)). Originally in Eng. also "any short lyric poem;" precise meaning is from It., where Petrarch (14c.) developed a scheme of an eight-line stanza (rhymed abba abba) followed by a six-line stanza (cdecde, the Italian sestet, or cdcdcd, the Sicilian sestet). Shakespeare developed the English Sonnet for his rhyme-poor native tongue: three Sicilian quatrains followed by a heroic couplet. It's other definition is a 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. I got all of this information on dictionary.com under the word Sonnet. I guess i didn't feel like I understood it pretty well that's probably the reason on why i choose this word. I think the fact that William Shakespeare used a Sonnet and named it Sonnet 18 was awesome. I guess i really enjoyed his poem because I really liked it since it described his feelings towards a beautiful woman and a beautiful summer day. I found this word interesting since my friend told me she was reading Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare she said it was a beautiful poem. I think it's a great poem.

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