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Prompt: Today we discussed why academic writing must reflect your own thinking and understanding rather than relying on artificial intelligence to generate your ideas. After learning about the expectations for authentic writing, reflect on why it is important for students to write essays in their own words.

 It's important that we retain the knowledge required to write with our own intelligence because eventually, we're going to miss the feeling that something is human made. If everything is made by AI and is AI slop, we're eventually going to miss what makes us human. This not only goes for writing, but also for music too (It's a big deal that AI's are starting to control ambience in restaurants and other places. Today I wrote a body paragraph on writable. I learned how to structure my arguments in an effective way.
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Today we focused on constructing a strong literary argument paragraph about Wild and whether discomfort is necessary for meaningful personal growth. After working through the claim-evidence-analysis structure, explain which part of the paragraph was most challenging for you and why. Do you find it more difficult to create an arguable claim or to move beyond summary in your analysis?

 I think the hardest part of writing an argumentative paragraph is moving away from summary. As you know, I can talk forever and ever about something that I'm passionate about. I always try to summarize everything and moving away from that is hard to do. I'm also bad at arguing, so maintaining my position is hard in arguments because I like to try to make people happy.  Today we did an assignment on writable about writing a body paragraph I learned how to effectively defend my arguments in a debate 
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Reflect on your experiences with essay writing. What aspects of writing essays do you find most engaging or challenging? Discuss your personal strengths as a writer as well as specific areas where you experience difficulty or would like to improve. Support your reflection with clear examples from your own writing experiences.

 The most difficult part of writing an essay is definitely the conclusion. I don't ever understand how you're supposed to make it end like why can't the reader just stop reading? That doesn't make sense to me. I'm really good at being creative and I can be funny in my essay if it's something to be funny about but that's a weakness in itself because unfunny topics are hard for me to write about.  Today I wrote a body paragraph argument. I learned how to outline a body paragraph
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Prompt: After viewing your classmates’ digital posters and reading the feedback comments left on your work, what new ideas or perspectives did you gain about your poster? Reflect on how the feedback influenced the way you think about your creative choices and describe what you learned about the creative process while designing and presenting your poster.

 I did not attend school on Friday, I had an interview at the honors college for Columbus State University. Therefore I have no idea what other posters looked like or what people thought of mine. Today I took an interview at the honors college I learned life skills in how I should act in an interview, and I think I did well.
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Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language?

 The hardest part about making my poster was that all my metaphors were just trying to be similes in disguise, I tried to make a comparison without using like or as, but it was just not flowing very well and it was awkward to read. I combated this by thinking about how I can use prior knowledge of already well known metaphors and to base mine off those so that they work better.  Today I auditioned for a spot at Gretcsch School of Music and Georgia Southern University.  I found out just now that I got in and await a scholarship offer. 
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Today you created similes and metaphors that reflect your struggles, growth, and resilience. In a well-developed paragraph, reflect on the process. What did you learn about yourself while writing your figurative language?

 I learned that I have a natural ability to describe myself with metaphors and similes. I remember you said it would be difficult to be able to come up with them, but I guess I may be more creative than the average person. It felt easy for me to describe my life story using outside knowledge of common phrases. Maybe its because I'm from the south. Today I worked on my project about metaphors and similes.  I learned I can quickly do a lot of work if I just focus.
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Describe how you spent your time, any activities, traditions, travel, hobbies, or moments that stood out to you. You may also discuss something new you tried, something you learned, or how the break helped you reset before returning to school. Keep your response appropriate for a school setting and focus on experiences you are comfortable sharing publicly

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 One thing I did over break that was new was I played a video game with my friend called "Peak." The goal of the game is climb a series of mountains that have various challenges in order to escape the island. The story is that you are on a flight and your plane crashes on a beach and you and your friends have to work together to climb 4 mountains. The first mountain is a normal mountain, the second is a forest with big trees and various hazards such as spiders that try to wrap you into their webs, beetles that headbutt you off cliffs, and even zombies that chase you around while you're climbing. On this mountain, there is an occasional strong wind that can push your character off a cliff if you're not holding on to something. The next mountain is either a snowy mountain or a desert mountain, depending on the day. The sun in the desert harms you, and occasional blizzards harm you on the snowy mountain. After this, you reach a lava lake called the Caldera. you must swin...
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