We are one week deep into the second trimester. I have switched into AP Lit and so far I love it. I really needed a challenge this year and second trimester was that doorway for me. We came up with a proposal for our PK (Pecha Kucha) and we are reading two books to provide support for it. I am very excited to do this because not only will it challenge who I am (by presenting in front of everyone) but I will be tackling a topic that is important to me and that I have always been curious to question. It is extremely prominent in our global society today. My question was what makes people believe that it is acceptable to treat minorities with cruelty, brutalize and wrongfully prosecute them, and feel nothing but hate for them just because of what religion they are, or what color their skin is? I think it is very important to recognize these things because people are being hurt and denied their basic human rights still in 2016! Today we read a poem by Langston Hughes from 1930 called Make America, America Again. How crazy is it that everything he wrote about is almost exactly the same as it is now to some people in not only our country, but the world. Other than that, I learned that I really need to expand my vocabulary because I just about failed our practice AP Lit test and most of it was because I didn't understand what words they were using. We got the practice test back and I plan to scan over that thing and process and learn every single word.
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