Research on a Jimmy Santiago Baca's Poem

From Violence to Peace :

" I went back, to re-live 

destruction… 

                  “Felipe!” I yelled, porch light 

                  flicked on, illuminating the yard. 

                  “Came to fight,” I said, “take off 

                  your glasses.” 

Bug-eyes glazed 

bewildered, then gray slits of lips 

snarled, “You motherless dog!” 

He withdrew in darkness a moment, 

reappeared on porch, serrated saw of his voice 

cut the chill dark, 

                  “¡Hijo de su pinche madre! 

                   ¡Mátalo!   ¡¡Mátalo!!” 

First shot framed darkness round me 

with a spillway of bright light, 

eruption of sound, and second shot roared 

a spray of brilliance and the third 

gave an expanded halo-flash. 

My legs woozed, and then 

I buckled to the ground. 

                  (I thought, holy shit, what ever happened 

                  to the old yard-style fight between estranged friends!) " 

-The connection i have made from these few stanzas were that it is very true. People now-a-days don't clean handed fight. They have to use some sort of weapon. They have to use a weapon to feel superior. That's very relate able here in Santa Maria, you hardly hear of a clean fight. 

"Following morning calls came, 

“Tell us who did it Gato!” 

“Our rifles are loaded!” 

                  I said, “Leave it alone. What would you do 

                            if a drunk man came into your yard, 

                            threatened to beat you?” 

I wanted peace,"

-What i have to say from this piece is that, I can't relate to that. What i usually see or hear about is people trying to seek revenge. If they lose a fight they get their friends involved or they "rush" the other person. Even if the fight was caused by them, they have to keep going until they win. In my opinion it takes a real man to accept the fact that you win some and lose some. 

Survey

My notes for our final :

Something Intresting

To me something interesting was that i actually really liked reading the poem penned by Jimmy Santiago Baca. I am not the type of student to really be into poetry. Most poems are just boring! Out of tons that i was forced to read through out my school years, this one by far is my favorite. That i was NOT forced to read! Students and lots of other individuals can actually make lots of connections to this poem. Police shooting for no reason? RELATE-ABLE. Young teens, dropping out of school selling drugs and fighting in the streets? RELATE-ABLE. But what's most relate-able is having your dreams crushed. Not by friends or parents, surprisingly, most students, that i know of have been doubted by their teachers and it just ruins all your dreams. Because the one person who is supposed to educate you and help you get a great job and achieve your dreams, is the one who will doubt you and ruin them. I am not saying ALL teachers, but i know of some. So this poem is amazing, it just left me speechless. I can re-read this poem without getting tired of it. Well written. ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Thank you Dr. Preston for having this assigned to us. By far, best thing I've read in your class. :-)  

NOTES #2

Theme : Having your expectations let down.
Tone : wise , accepting the harsh reality
Mood : serious, realistic
Devices : metaphor?

NOTES

Sound of Thunder vocabulary

A Sound Of Thunder

My response to A Sound of Thunder is amusing. Why? Well because it's crazy how something very small can have so much meaning in the future. It can be irrelevant to us, yet it has much more meaning to something out there. A insect dies & that changes who becomes president it changes practically the whole future. To me, the meaning of this story was he wise , in other words be smart on what you do or say, because it can definitely cause something much bigger to happen. It can come back and bite you on your a**.

P.S : 1st story that actually caught my full attention!! LOVED IT 

Emerson presentation day 2)

 Yasmin's : I agree with her to be that star that shines ! Be unique and take your own lead

Emerson Presentation day 4)

Daniela & Ariel :

Edgar : " we focus on what's new, not and not original" I agree with him because society always wants the new things, new shoes, new phones etc. a and as new things are being created we forget about the original things and it doesn't matter to us anymore.

Elizabet & Esperanza :  " People now a days reply on tools and gadgets" I agree with her because we built great tools that we don't use our skills now.

Leslie : " to be yourself ....is the greatest accomplishments I agree, everyone has their own talent and that can get you places

Neri & Maria : "nothing can bring you peace but yourself" I agree, because when you do what you like it brings you peace and happiness to yourself.


Sarahi : "this has been about being your self " I AGREEEE !!!! I loved how she changed her title and how she threw in her personal experience. UNIQUE !

Emerson presentations day 1)

Joesph believes that being misunderstood should not bring you down. "Misunderstood is a bad word, sooner or later you're going to be great." I agree,  because lots of people might not understand your point or what you're trying to show them, and just because they disagree or don't fully see your point does not mean you're wrong, it just means you're different and you're thinking like the rest don't.

Emerson for the young buck

What I learned about self reliance is that you should be yourself and not let anyone hold you back from being yourself. If you fit in with the crowd you're not better,  you're not thinking on your own. Others are doing the thinking for you. Being afraid of speaking your mind is not right and it won't get you anywhere in life. " Every great man is unique"  meaning everyone has something special and different that others don't have and you have to show everyone else that side of you.

5 Quotes & Reasons

1.  "All men plume themselves on the improvement of society and no man improves."
Reason : agree because,  people do what others do and don't do better than them.

2. "They do not seem to me to be such, but if I am the Devil's child,  I will live then for the Devil."
Reason : we were born loyal but as we grow up we do wrong

3. "He has a Geneva watch, but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun."
Reason : we have built great tools that we now hardly use our very own skill

4. "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
Reason : society wants you to act and think a certain way that it makes you "put away" your own skill

5. "Immitation is suicide."
Reason : when you immitate someone you're not being real so it's just as if you're not there

Response of Self Reliant

I strongly agree with this little paragraph off of the reading "A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."    I agree with it because that is true.  You're accountable for the things you do,  feel or say. You're responsible for all of that. Not a single man can take that from you. Not a single man can tell you how to feel or say or do. You bring peace to yourself. A better day will be the day you decide to break out of those "jail cages" and be independent and not worry if society will take in for who you are. Be the sheep who guides the others not one who follows. Follow your heart and you'll bring happiness to yourself and that's what matters. 

Video related to Emerson's writing *MUST WATCH*

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Emerson says that people should follow their own will because as the older you get you start becoming sheep and follow others to fit in with society. Here's a video where they put to test people to see if they follow what others did.  *MUST WATCH*

AUTHOR IN PROGRESS

Over all I did pretty good I believe. I did not do a pre-write so I for not doing so I think I put a lot I didn't even know I could come up with. I need to work on understanding more what he tries implying by not being so obvious about it either. But I am proud of what I wrote.

self reliance : notes to self :

THEME : need for each person to avoid conformity and follow their own instincts and ideas

-to follow their individual will instead of falling into the expectations of society.

 - to be true to yourself and know your abilities

- to be true and honest to others

About my lit book

Something interesting about my lit book is that a girl at a very young age is suspecting that something wrong is gonna happen to her mom. Teenage year comes and something does happen to her mom, because she gets powers she doesn't even know how to use or know how to control them.

MY AMERICAN VOICE

I speak up when things are getting out of hand like bulling, some sort of mistreat, etc.. I'd be lying if I said I speak up ALL the time when something is wrong, I mean what teenager does?Also when people ask for an opinion I speak up. When I have some sort of knowledge on the topic or circumstance, other times I'd probably observe and say nothing until I have good background about it

Vocab fall list #6

Meme : an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means, especially imitation.

Sent : The Trump memes are so hilarious.

Virus : a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data.

Sent : Searching up or downloading non-legal things can cause a virus in your electronic device and mess everything up.

Blog : online journal or diary

Sent : Dr. Preston is always trying to have his students post to their blogs.

Wiki : a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

Sent : I wouldn't trust wiki that much.

URL : the address of a World Wide Web page
Sent : URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, the address of a website on the Internet.

Website : a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.

Sent : There's lots of shopping on line website out there.

WWW : abbreviation for World Wide Web

Sent : I always type in "www.blogger.com" to do my English homework.

Internet : a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
Sent : I use the internet on a daily basis.

2.0 : Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize user-generated content, usability, and interoperability
Sent :

Open Source : denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Sent : This blogging for class is an open source learning.

Rough Draft to my Mentor

Dear Saul McLeod,

                              I am a student at Santa Maria High School. Not only is this a big deal and an important letter to write according to my English teacher, but it also is to me. I am anxious to get an answer to my questions. I want to know why are humans taught to listen to the orders they are given, also why do people regret things? Quiet a few people live in the type of mindset where they live life by "what if.." For example, "What if I did things differently that would have never happened, I regret what I did." So why do humans regret things? If at one point it was exactly what they wanted. I understand that they just hoped for a different outcome, but I want to get a deeper, more precise answer to that question. My first question is one that I really am curious about. Humans are taught at a young age to listen to the orders they are given, by their parents, teachers, etc., well, while doing so they also say you have a mind of your own and you do what you want to do, but they don't really mean that because your whole life they have been giving you orders and expect you to follow them. So in reality you don't have a mind of your own and you can't do things you want to, I mean some things you can, but other things you can't because you were taught not to. I am hoping to hear from you soon with answers to my questions.

Sincerely,



Regina Saucedo

Vocab : Fall list #5

RESPECT MY AUTHORITY

Authority figures support me being myself out loud by making sure they give me a comfortable atmosphere. I can not work along or be my actual self with someone who just gives orders and expects things to happen or expect me to work well with them. I am different with certain people depending on how our relationship is and how they treat me. With my peers I am truly me. With my parents I try to be someone who they want me to be. With my teachers and other advisors I am more mature. It all depends on who that person is.

INCITING INCIDENT

My impression about the inciting incident was even shocking for me. There hasn't been another person walking at night other than the pedestrian. He encounters another person, at night, which happens to be a police man. The police man himself is stoked of seeing a person at night walking. The police man acts as if the pedestrian had committed a crime. He questions him a lot , he thinks it's not normal to be walking at night. So the police man takes him to a psychiatric center.

debate notes

MISTAKES FOR PRESIDENT

( I'm not able to post pictures to my blog. So I'll be turning in my hand written paper. :)

Resume issues :

I still have a lot of blank spaces, in need for more help, also I don't have access to a printer.

Lit book

I haven't been able to get a book. I tried making time to go get a book of my own preference at the public library, but no luck. I'll be talking to the librarians  at school to see if they can let me check one out again since we haven't gotten our ID cards.

Sometimes my mind ..

Sometimes my mind thinks : why are we dying to live, if we are living to die?

Time Porfolio

selling : 8
Giving : 5
Spending : 3
Passing : 2/3

Lit book

I still can't check out books from our library, so I'll try to check out a book by the city library.

Pedestrian first impression

I believe this story is going to have a lot of twist and turns. It's obviously going to have some death/after life involved. It gave me the feelings of chills and curiosity already since the author mentioned death a few times.

My big question

why do people follow orders? & act the way they do?

My yoda

HAS TO HAVE : curiosity , interest , honesty & determination to find an answer.

Fall vocab #4

VOCAB #3

My Aeries

To begin with, the grade i got on my test was FAR from what i thought i would have got. I was expecting a C, but i got an A. I was stoked! I had to just double, triple check to make sure it was my very own name up on the right corner of the paper. I received that grade because i worked for it. I spent the day before just studying and trying to get examples for syntax etc.. I believe that my grade in all for the semester should be at the very least a C. I know i can do better in posting more blogs. This is all new to me, it takes time getting used to actually using my phone for a homework assignment. If i have something lower than a C, well that means i have to try extra hard and get with the program. #GET-WITH-IT-OR-GET-LOST

Since we're given the chance to post anything we want regardless the size. I wanted to write about the blog and how it's working out for me. In my honest opinion I like writing down things, it helps me remember more. Typing this to me is easily forgotten just as I sometimes forget what I typed down in that text I sent to my friend yesterday. At home while I'm working on my "blog" I easily get distracted. I need for hands on work. :)

VOCAB#2

VOCABULARY :

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15. Curmudgeon: bad tempered/ slurry person.

SENT : My mom most of the time is so curmudgeon.

16. Didactic : intended to teach

SENT : Dr. Preston is a didactic.

Response on "The Conscience of the Hacker ":
I LOVED IT !! Everything the author said is true. Teachers think most  students are underachievers, cause they don't "try" , cause they don't participate , cause they space out during class etc.. But in reality we only let show what we want to let show. Some of us don't do homework , not because we're lazy, not because it's hard , but because it doesn't catch our attention, yes in life you do things that you may not like , but I can be successful while doing things I can actually enjoy doing , by doing things that catch my attention. No one really truly knows how you think and why do you think the way you do , people will try to tell you to do things , but it's all up to you. Do what makes you happy.

Response to Young Goodman Brown
I thought that was a really bad timing to live in. Being accused of being a witch and being sentenced to a punishment. It reminds me a lot of what most girls do even in recent times. They get mad cause a guy doesn't want them and go spread rumors, just as she said he was a witch.

SOCRATIC SEMINAR #1/ EARTH ON TURTLE'S BACK)

MY BIG QUESTION? 

Why do people act the way they do? And why do people feel the need to put down people to make themselves feel better?

ANCIENT STORIES

• How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?
  
  MY RESPONSE: It's different in the way that we don't say "shall" or words that were used back then in the olden days.
• Because it began as an oral story, "Earth on Turtle's Back" can be found in multiple text versions.  How important is it for a story to be repeated word for word?  Is meaning embellished, distorted, lost, or enhanced in the retelling?
  
  MY RESPONSE : I don't understand the question.
• How is the language in this text similar to and/or different from the language you use in everyday conversation?
  
  
  MY RESPONSE : It's different , because teenagers are so illiterate and use so much slang words so words used in this text are far from different from our vocabulary.
  
  P.S : I tried finding a 1492 myth but gave up when I couldn't relate them to this one.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The Earth on Turtle’s Back response :
This story is a little confusing, but at the same time it caught my attention. It caught my attention once the wife of the chief fell into the hole and the animals ended up helping her. A tiny Muskrat dived down and brought up a turtles shell. According to this story that is why turtles have scratches on their shells, because a tiny Muskrat scratched the old turtle's back

MY NOTES (so far) .. .

The day before I had spent all afternoon and evening practicing the Richard Cory poem. I could have sworn I had it all down to a science. I was wrong, I got so nervous and blanked out on some parts, but I did get it down my last part. :)

P.s : the video was cut because my storage was full 😂😩💔 I guess I should have deleted all those selfies hahahaha. Just kidding.

Hi I'm Regina Saucedo. This is my blog page, I'm so excited to see how this works out for me. I'm new to this "blogging" thing, so please no judging.:) I'm also so excited that my awesome and outgoing teacher is making this a new and fun way to not only learn, but also express and put our opinions out there. This is such a brilliant idea. my blogs might be a little boring at first, but promise you it'll get better as I get the hang of it (or at least I'll try). Well thank you so much Dr. Preston for giving me an excuse to use my phone in class. #awesomesauce 😅😅😅