Aahya’s English Blog

 Prompt:  Different cultures have different customs surrounding food and eating. Describe a food-related custom you grew up with or have experienced. How does this custom reflect your family's values or cultural background? Prompt Response: A food related custom is probably don't eat with your mouth open, or wash your hands before you eat. Probably clean after yourself once done eating and don't reach across people's food or don't shout at the table. I think it reflects my family's values by showing the things we do it our family and the standard set for what's to be done. Summary: My family just has certain ways they do things and how things should be done in their household. Reflection: You should respect others households and learn the way some people do things around their house.

  Prompt:  Write about a time when you realized that your perception of a particular food was based on a stereotype. Explain what the food was, what you originally believed about it, and where that belief came from. Then describe how your perspective changed after experiencing or learning more about the food. Be sure to include specific details about the moment your thinking shifted and what you learned from that experience. Prompt response- Probably like sushi because at first I just thought it was nasty by the way it looks. Then, one day I was hungry and my sister had some sushi and I tried it and it was really good. I wasn’t that much surprised but still surprised because I heard sushi was good before by people around me. Summary- Sushi was a food that I judged based on it looks but turned out to be good. Reflection- Don’t judged sometime unless you tried it because whole time you might like it

 Prompt-   Troy’s complaint about the unfair job system shows his frustration with racial discrimination. How did this conversation make you think about fairness and opportunity in society today? If you were in Troy’s position, what would you do? Prompt Response- It showed me things are still kinda the same but different at the same time. But in Todays society you won’t find everyday things like that. Summary- Troy situation would kinda be different today’s  definitely regarding certain aspects of what you got going on. Reflection- Troy was right to question the unfairness of the job because of someone racial preference and show his frustration.

 Prompt-  Now that we have finished reading  Fences  and you are completing your final project, reflect on your overall understanding of the play. Which character, conflict, or theme has stood out to you the most, and why? Explain how your project represents what you learned about the play. Prompt Response - Probably the fight between Troy and Cory because of the intense tension of it and how it became to be. It kinda foreshadowed something happening between them while reading the play. Summary- Presented our final project on what you would find in Troy trash. Reflection- Presenting wasn’t bad felt like I showed things that would actually be in his trash.

 Prompt-  Now that we have finished reading  Fences  and you are completing your final project, reflect on your overall understanding of the play. Which character, conflict, or theme has stood out to you the most, and why? Explain how your project represents what you learned about the play. Prompt Response- The character that stood out was probably Cory or Troy because of their dynamic and personal traits about themselves. My final project relates because it shows Troy items he would throw away. Summary- Finished the play and completed my final project about Troy’s trash items. Reflection- Completed my final project and will explain about Troy’s items.

Prompt:  At the end of  Fences , forgiveness becomes an important part of the characters moving forward. Do you think forgiving someone means you also have to forget what they did? Why or why not? Connect your response to your own experiences or observations. Prompt Response: No I don’t think it means forget what they did but just means moves pass them and move forward with life and things. That’s why you hear people say forgive and forget to forgive them then forget them. Summary: Finish up everything with fences and showed me more about certain things Reflection: I learned about physical and metaphorical things relating to life choices.