The class has helped me a lot. It was kind of weird being in English 3 even though I'm a senior. The story on how that happened is complicated, but now I understand how we transitioned to analyzing the characters in books. I've learned how to write poems now because of those assignments you made us for homework and I know how to write essays much faster. All the timed writing assignments were such a big help. In college I'm sure that these strategies you taught us will be very helpful in college when we have to write essays.
     The essay that I felt was difficult to write was the argumentation essay. It seemed as if we didn't focus on it as long as we did the other essays. We had the synthesis binder the entire first semester and we focused one the rhetorical analysis in between that. The easiest essay probably had to be the rhetorical analysis because it was easy to spot the strategies in the text since we studied them for awhile. Once you have your devices the rest is super easy.
     My favorite book had to be The Things They Carried because it was about war. The book was very descriptive about the soldiers and everything they experienced. It was suspenseful and generated tons of imagery for the reader. It was exciting book overall.
     In Cold Blood was my least favorite novel because it was a very slow read. I had to go back and reread certain parts because I would get off track and just get lost on what was going on.
     That's pretty much it Mr.Thomas. thanks for being an awesome teacher. Thanks for giving me advice for school and outside of school as well. Keep doing what your're doing because and one day you wil be remembered as the best AP English Lang teacher ever!

The Occult in The U.S.

"Young Goodman Brown" is a great example of American Literature. It shows how America is obsessed with the occlut. As America knows, demons and satan himself are bad, but yet everyone seems to be so interested in them. For example, a tv show called Ghost adventures, is about three friends that go to haunted locations all across the United States to find information to prove that there is an afterlife that exists. The show is very popular on tv. Everyone that watches the show always talk about what happened and they can't wait for the next episode to be released. Even though there are some crazy things that happen on the show, it doesn't scare people from watching it over and over again.

Americans' curiosity with the devil will always be there, but it will never really be known because there isn't anyone out there to prove it right or wrong.

          The character that I chose to compare Ichabod Crane to was Shane from The Walking Dead which is a very popular tv show that airs on AMC. Shane, at the very beginning of the series, was a "leader" after the whole break out of what ever this virus, infection, or disease is. He took a drastic change and just became someone completely different.

          In the show when Rick's son was shot, he had to go out on a run with the man that shot him. After going to a zombie infested high school to get some medic supplies, they both were almost killed trying to get back to their truck. This is where Shane killed him and told everyone else that the man told him to run while he covers him. Towards the end of the second season, Shane finds out that barn that belonged to the owner of the farm that they were staying at, housed zombies. He tried to talk the Hershel, the owner, and tell them that they aren't human anymore and their dead. Hershel refuses to believe him so Shane decided to show him the hard way. He grabbed some guns and popped the lock on the barn and killed every single one of the zombies again. No one expected Shane to do this.