Miss Disas Class @24

  The blog for these two week for these two weeks we did alot of stuff like setworks and it was about describing the graphs and we stayed at thats what we did in these two weeks and it was kinda good i learned how to describe the graphs and like know how to describe the lines on the graph and it was good for me becasue i did not do that kind of setworks before and now i know how to describe and like i improved also in writting words and these kind of stuff and like we did also alot of warm up i mean we always do warm up before we start the class and its fun.

Today was an online class due to the typhoon. I don't really like online classes. Because the sound quality is poor and above all, you can't see the other person's face. It's strange because when I lived in Japan, I felt that online classes were good. Is it because there are fewer people? I don't know about that, but I really hate online classes right now.

Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief is a wonderful way to engage the readers in Rick Riordan’s well-known series, Percy Jackson. This series introduces a mix of Greek mythology and modern-day heroes. The story follows a boy named Percy Jackson, who the series is named after, who discovers he is a demigod and the son of Poseidon. The book is filled with humor and casual language, making it easy and fun to read for its audience; middle-grade to high school students. The narrative is fast-paced as well, its pages brimming with action that satisfies a younger reader’s attention span. The first person view also allows the audience to relate to him more, and find themselves in his shoes with all the normal teenage problems he must face as well as mythological ones. However, its light-heartedness does not mean there aren’t deeper themes an older audience may connect with. Themes of friendship, finding one’s identity, and courageousness and bravery are present during the entire novel. He create...

 We continued with our worksheet and found out some basic skills, such as finding grammar words and finding how words relate to each other. We did 2 game sessions in two weeks because Ms. Disa was quite tired one day. And we did a lot of work another day so Ms. Disa gave us free time.

 We did a lot of stuff after the exams, such as learning about scanning and skimming, and we also read a lot of DOGOnews which was fun. We learned about Lobsters, and we did play many different games throughout the sessions.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a tender, contemplative novel that offers a unique take on time travel, though not in the way one might expect. Set in a quaint, tucked-away café called Funiculi Funicula, the story revolves around a strange and alluring promise: customers can travel back in time. However, the rules are strict — they can only return to a specific seat in the café, and they must return before their cup of coffee gets cold. These limitations create a delicate tension, making the novel more about emotional journeys than fantastical adventures. I was immediately drawn to the novel’s quiet intimacy. Kawaguchi doesn’t concern himself with the typical consequences of time travel. Instead, the focus is on what people want from their past — closure, understanding, or simply the chance to say something left unsaid. As someone who enjoys stories that delve into the human condition, I found myself intrigued by the novel’s exploration of what it means to make p...

  “The Last Battle,” by C.S. Lewis is the enthralling finale of the Narnia book series.  Carrying the typical enchanting, fantastical-style storytelling prominent in the series, “The Last Battle,” is about a corrupt Ape - who manages to manipulate all of Narnia, except the brave heroes.  Every page of the book, readers are kept on the edge of their seats as the stakes grow higher and higher. The book starts with an opening unlike the previous books - this story begins with an ape and a donkey.  As the two navigate through the vivid scenery surrounding them, their personalities are established wonderfully.  The use of contrasting themes between the two characters invokes deep emotions for the readers: pity for the donkey and hatred for the ape.   The author makes good use of suspense to add flavor to every scene.  As the ape and donkey find a dead lion’s body, the ape’s twisted mind previously established leads to a devious plan that would sow ...

  The Picture of Dorian Gray - Mysha M Title: *The Picture of Dorian Gray*   Author: Oscar Wilde   Genre: Philosophical novel, Gothic fiction   Plot Summary The Picture of Dorian Gray follows the life of a handsome, wealthy young man named Dorian Gray, who becomes the subject of a portrait by the artist Basil Hallward. At the beginning of the story, Dorian is innocent and naive, but after meeting Lord Henry Wotton, a cynical aristocrat, his views on life begin to change. Lord Henry introduces Dorian to a hedonistic worldview, convincing him that beauty and pleasure are the only things worth pursuing. Under this influence, Dorian makes a fateful wish: he wishes that he could remain forever youthful and that only his portrait would age. This wish is mysteriously granted. As Dorian indulges in a life of debauchery and immorality, his external appearance remains youthful and beautiful, while the portrait begins to reflect the corruption of his soul. Each ...

 Hello, in our AEP class we did squaredle and it was fun. We did seat work, I learned new things and it was also interesting. We learned about grammar words, at first i was confused but I tried to guess it. I thought it’ll be something about grammar, because grammar word, but it wasn’t. We also try to remember what we have learned with the seat work which was summarizing and paraphrasing.

A new day of 2nd blog in the start of Oct 2, we started with a squardle that someone already did that we could have finished it fast doing the squardle that the other class couldn't finish hehe. After that we did a review of paraphrasing but not all the sentences, only adding verb, adverb words about the graph of rise or decrease or constant words to describe the graph in shorter and more accurate way Oct 9 This day we started with other squardle but this time a new squardle that noone even touched. It was fun and with a student that never held the pen makes me wanted to tease making it hard what to connect l, it was fun struggling. After that we continued our paraphrase from last time with different paper That we should have answered it, we actually had so little time due to having a seatwork that's very hard but we had a club so. This term we did alot about the graphs paraphrase and using adverbs.

Last week in AEP class was quite enjoyable. We started off the first period with Ms. Disa sharing some  stories. The board was acting up, so we took that opportunity to relax and engage in conversation. Afterward, we played Wordle, after that Ms. Disa had a selection of words for us to guess, but I can’t recall where she sourced them. In the second period, we decided to play Scrabble. I was surprised that I won since I got the worse letters and I could only make four or five letter words. This week, as usual we began with Squaredle. After that, we did some seat work focused on identifying important grammar words. Our class discussion did helped me understanding of how to effectively use them in writing. We also spent time on discussing paraphrases and summaries. Overall, AEP class was pretty fun!

Blog for October, the month of Halloween (horror movie time?). Anyways on October 1/last Tuesday, Miss Disa was talking about how she found 1000 pesos while doing a fun run and afterwards got thought some British words/slang (I can only remember catawampus/kitty corner) after playing Wordle.  We also played Scrabble after finishing Wordle. Almira won in Scrabble (got beat by 1 point). Still pretty fun though.  In this week's AEP meeting (October 8) we played Squaredle since Miss kinda banned us from playing Contexto (sad).  The Squaredle for that day was harder than usual. Miss Disa had to help us finish it (thank you, Miss!). After finishing it, we did a seatwork about paraphrasing and summarizing (I was mostly just guessing while answering it, hopefully I passed since it's graded).  This pretty much sums up the last 2ish weeks. Thank you for reading!

 AEP  sayo watanabe Today we played word games and worksheets. The worksheet was a presentation, and the word game was WAFFLE. It was fun, but still difficult. When it came to word games, I was surprised at how often the words came out that long.

Blog 11.1.4.  Politics, politics, and more politics! Last week, we had done a terrible job in a 3-star Squardle that had only 27 words. We achieved only 12 of those points, failing to get the rest in an attempt to wake up for the morning. With the upcoming camping, why wouldn't we feel pumped up and excited for the events of what's to come? Because of the double quiz during that week's Thursday, biology and chemistry! Killing all students with two stones! It's wasn't easy for us to get going with the next few words that were present in the next part of the chapter. 20 new words purely about politics, and even if you did know some, how was it used in a political sense? For example, "gerrymandering" is not a word that everyone knows, but maybe those who study American politics do. It's a strange word, considering how the USA has electoral states and thus allows gerrymandering to actually happen, but I dislike getting too in-depth on how strange politics ...

 Today we did another activity regarding the college essay guy where we write a bunch of facts about ourselves. This activity was meant to help us for our application letters but I didnt grasp that concept initially causing me to write some bullcrap useless information regarding me eating staplers and stuff. Well obviously, I wasn't supposed to write that kind of stuff so when miss told us to get rid of the useless stuff and replace them with something useful, I had to erase almost everything. Even so, I wasnt able to tell apart those significant or not resulting in me asking hakim for help on what he thinks is good information about myself. Had to get rid of some things I'm pretty proud about however I shouldve expected that universities don't really care whether I ate stapler lead or not.

  During a recent exercise guided by the College Essay Guy, I delved deep into understanding myself by listing facts—things I like, things I don’t—and then reflecting on a singular fact to uncover its deeper significance. This was part of the process of crafting a meaningful personal statement. The exercise began with brainstorming, where I explored various aspects of my life, my interests, and moments that shaped me. After sorting through these, I decided to focus on one fact that, at first glance, seemed academic but, when unpacked, held much more personal meaning: the concept of resonance, which I learned about during a physics class. In that class, we explored resonance, a phenomenon where an object vibrates at its natural frequency in response to external forces. One of the most impactful lessons from that day was how resonance contributed to the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. The bridge's frequency matched the wind, creating vibrations that led to its catastro...

Picking up Murder on the Orient Express , I didn’t expect to finish it in just two to three sittings. Yet, despite my busy schedule, I made time for it, proving just how gripping this book is. As one of Agatha Christie’s top-selling mystery novels and the first I’ve read, it completely captivated me. I even found myself reading the first chapter on the bus, immersing myself in the atmosphere, and I can only imagine how thrilling it would be to read it while actually on a train. The story begins with the iconic detective Hercule Poirot, who, after completing a case in Syria, boards the luxurious Orient Express to return to England. He soon encounters a diverse group of passengers, and when one of them, Samuel Ratchett, requests protection, Poirot declines. The next day, Ratchett is found murdered, leaving Poirot with no choice but to unravel the mystery. With thirteen suspects and a complex web of motives, the premise promises a thrilling ride. One of the central themes of the book is j...

  Not too long ago, we had our second blog for the school year. Which seems crazy to think about it, just a few weeks ago we started school and were already on the third blog. We write a blog every other week or so, but overall it's been a long time since school started. We are way closer to the end of the term than the start, I never actually fully process that thought. Just a few more weeks, then the second term starts, and then it ends and the third term starts and suddenly it’s over. As mentioned during our class today, is to appreciate every little thing that happens in school, and to know that we’re very lucky and deserving to have this privilege.  Without further ado, let the blog begin! September 25, 2024 - Breaking down graphs ?! Started off with a warm up we hadn’t done before or at least we didn’t think we did. It was called “Strands”, it’s similar to Squardle but instead you cannot reuse the letters.  There were about seven words we had to find, I cannot ...

In our last meeting, we discussed a little bit about being more in depth with how we should write our personal statement. Miss told us to write 21 different facts about ourselves. They were all meant to be very general facts and could vary from different things throughout our lives. I liked that this exercise needed a lot of writing since it encouraged me to stay awake during the lesson. However, I still have to mention the fact that this was somehow so hard for no reason??? As a writer, I obviously write a variety of genres. However, when it comes to personal writing in particular, I find it especially difficult for the very reason that I simply just do not like writing about myself. I think that my life is rather uninteresting and I also just happen to not like to think about myself too much and to try to present that for other people. This is one of the many reasons why I happen to not like writing journals. I have major  self-awareness "issues" in which I write a journal ...

 Welcome back readers to another reeeeflection~! Its a new week, new lesson. However, same guy!  In our last meeting, we talked about how to go deeper with writing our personal statements. Miss gave us an exercise where we had to write 21 different facts about ourselves. These facts were supposed to be broad and cover various aspects of our lives.  Honestly, the title has no relation with the reflection, but Ms please just take it as it is (hahaha) So , Miss had us list 21 facts about ourselves, which I thought would be easy, but it turned out to be harder than expected. However, I enjoyed the process. Interestingly, I like personal writing, and I think it all started because of my uncle’s cat. When I was younger, I’d write funny stories about the cat’s adventures espeilly in our house. It was my way of capturing the little moments I enjoyed, which helped me find joy in personal storytelling. For my 21 facts, I wanted to include fun things like how I enjoy sketching peopl...

Today we played two word games, a worksheet on pronunciation, and lots of talking. It was strange to hear different pronunciations of the same thing in each country, even though they should be pronounced differently. (For example, the Japanese word for painting is peinnthinngu.) I was very surprised when I found a word game with 13 letters!

My First blog yet! So at first, I had technical issues trying to sign in to the blogger so I asked Miss Disa for help. Then I asked Arya for some help to sign in and then yeah. So on September 5, we had our first classes after the midterms (sadly it was an online class) but it was still entertaining we just played games like Squardle and Codenames and my group won which was pretty nice it was a calm class and could hear the rain outside but then miss said the more time goes by our topic will get way harder which kind of made me worried but not everything can always be easy so I understand. On September 19 we finally came back from online classes which was a relief we talked about food (Which made me hungry) then Miss announced that we would have and listening exercise, in which they talked very fast and in a different accent which we had to repeat it 3 times lol but it was still nice. For our 3rd meeting on September 26, was nice we started off with strands then talked about the blog w...

  During our last AEP meeting, the topic was all about crafting standout college essays and identifying the values that resonate with us the most. Our teacher gave each of us a list of values and asked us to select ten that we felt deeply connected to. She emphasized how important it is to choose values that truly reflect who we are, as this helps bring authenticity and personal insight into our writing. By weaving these values into our college essays, we can create something that not only stands out but also feels deeply genuine to the admissions readers. To be honest, I don’t remember all the values I chose since it’s been almost a week, but one value that has stuck with me is privacy. For me, privacy is essential. It’s not just about keeping things to myself but about having control over what parts of my life I choose to share. In a world where everyone seems to want to know everything, privacy allows me to keep a sense of peace and autonomy. Nothing is more frustrating than fee...

 First blog ! On September 5, we had our first AEP after the midterms. Since it was online, it was kind of awkward. It was a shame, I was looking forward to face-to-face school, especially AEP. Despite that, I had fun playing Squardle & Codenames (I also enjoyed winning both, heheheh). I was also a bit curious, yet intimidated about what class would be like after the midterms. Miss told us about how we'd get homework, and activities would get harder. On September 19, we had our second meeting. I was so glad that we finally had a 'normal' AEP class again since we hadn't had a face-to-face class for 2 weeks. We talked about food, and did some listening exercises, which were a bit of a surprise to me since the speaker talked so fast. I really enjoyed it. Same goes for the 3rd meeting the next week, where we did mostly the same things and read a DOGO NEWS article about triskaidekaphobia. I love trying to pronounce and seeing other people try to pronounce long/difficult ...