Reading and poetry are two words that teenagers don’t like to see together. Poetry is mostly a complicated reading for students. They either read the poem too fast or they just don’t care enough to actually read and understand it. At least that is the case with me, sometimes.

To help with reading poetry, you can start by casually reading it first. Then, read it another time and take some notes on it. And maybe, read it again and try to connect it to yourself. If there is a poem you really don’t like, just try to connect to the things you do like or yourself. After doing this, hopefully, it will get easier for you to read.

This year has been crazy. There has been corona, quarantining, presidential elections, and now hurricanes. There has been a record of storms this year. So far, there have been a total of 28 tropical or subtropical cyclones, 27 named storms, 11 hurricanes, and 4 major hurricanes. The fact that there could possibly be more to come is crazy. Lake Charles has been getting most of the damages, while Baton Rouge has been getting lots of rain and wind.

2020 was not a good year for anyone, I assume. There may have been some days that were good, but overall, no. When we first had to quarantine everyone was excited to get out of school, but after the summer was over, I was excited to go back to school. Then we had to quarantine again for two weeks. I think I can speak for everyone when I say I hope everything goes back to normal soon.

Nowadays, I feel as if my analysis skills could be better. When reading poems I usually skim through them because I know I won’t understand it. Poetry, I read then it’s out of my head. I focus on one thing at a time, then move to the next. Actually, when reading in general this happens to me.

To improve these, I can read the poem once normally, then read again and annotate, then read again and see if anything pops out at me. I could also search up words I don’t know. I have never been a good reader, but maybe reading slowly and taking my time will help.

The football season has started back up and everyone is excited! The team has been doing great this year. We have had multiple players be nominated for the WBRZ player of the week. The students don’t really like where we have to stand/sit for the game because not everyone can see everything. The only people who get to see the game are the people who are standing at the front, but those are the people who want to watch the game.

During the game, we just play around with the other team. We try to make the game as fun as we can, just trying to forget about the masks, the heat, and the social distancing. We have been yelled at a few times, but that was just to get off the rope. Overall, the teachers think we have been doing well with this, but they think we can improve.

My favorite TV show is Criminal Minds. The characters change throughout the seasons, but they still just keep the plots going and try to embrace the new members into how they do things. These actors are so in character that it seems like their real-life day jobs are working at the BAU.

This is my favorite show because all the episodes are different. And even though it seems like it wouldn’t be a plot, there is. The drama follows each member of the team while they are working and trying to take care of their families from being in danger. There also many seasons, and to me, it just never gets boring.

This quarter my performance in class was okay. I admit it could have been better. I did well with submitting my work on time, but I wouldn’t go into too much detail. I would be too vague. In class, I also wouldn’t participate that much.

For example, Mrs. Duke would try to encourage us to participate, but my shy self would be too afraid. The rest of my class likes to participate and we have an amazing discussion, but sometimes I just don’t feel like talking. I know that I need to participate to understand and contribute to our topics in class but for me, its just hard.

Harry Potter in the first movie was all about him embracing his identity as a wizard. At first, he leaves behind his life with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in the human world and goes to Hogwarts. Dumbledore and Hagrid both become Harry’s mentors in this new world. Harry crossing the threshold would be him leave the human world to go to the wizarding world. Some temptations that Harry went through were joining Slytherin House and flying. The master of two worlds is when Harry finally conquered life in the human and wizard world.

I used the Harry Potter movies because this was the most recent movie I watched. These movies were making a comeback and I realized that I had never watched all the movies. My sister and I decided to watch all the movies together because we remembered when we were kids and we were scared of Voldemort.