Week 12 at Whitney Young

This week was very short. We only had 2 actual days of school because of Thanksgiving break. This week was also the start of the Boy's Swimming & Diving Team. We started practice Monday and we have a meet next Friday. Other than that, this week was pretty okay. Next week will be way harder though.

Pixton Cartoon

My cartoon was based off of Chapter 4, pages 105-106, of the book Black Boy by Richard Wright. This scene is where Richard gets in trouble with his teacher and aunt, Aunt Addie, because his classmate left walnuts on the floor by Richard's desk. Aunt Addie, or Ms. Wilson, thinks that the walnuts are Richard's and she thinks he's lying about them not being his. She then beats Richard in front of the class because of the lies he supposedly told (even though the walnuts weren't his).

Link: https://Pixton.com/ic:mtwowutk

Week 11 at Whitney Young

This week has been pretty okay school wise. We got our first quarter report cards this week, and I finally got my geometry grade up from a C to an A! Now I can say with pride that I have gotten straight A's at Whitney Young on my report card. My grade may be a B now, but that A will always be special. Any who, this week was pretty average. Not too much homework. But, LOTS OF PROJECTS. Maybe the teachers don't want to give us projects over break, so they're just giving them all to us now. Who knows?? We also didn't have school Thursday. Apparently it's "No School November" because next week, we have Wednesday-Sunday off from school. Yay.

Week 10 at Whitney Young

This week was pretty rough. Even though there were only 3 full days of school this week, it as still pretty hard. Monday started off pretty nice. Note too much homework, but I had to start preparing for the many projects I had to do in the next couple of weeks. Tuesday was kind of bad. I got assigned so much homework to do and I wasn't in the mood to do any of it. I had no school Wednesday, so I spent most of the day doing homework that I didn't finish on Tuesday night. Swim practice that day was also pretty hard. Thursday had to be the worst day of the week for me. I was stressing out because I had a couple of tests to take, and Thursday was the last day of school before grades were due. I'm pretty sure that my geometry teacher won't manually override the grades for the first quarter report cards. So that means that I'll have a C on my report card for my geometry grade :(. But, on the bright side, I have a three day weekend that I'll probably be spending doing projects and homework. Whoopee.

Week 9 at Whitney Young

This week was one of the hardest and most stressful weeks that I've ever spent at Whitney Young. The week started off with 5:00 morning practice for the boys swim team. It was very hard and I was sore until Wednesday. This week I also had projects and/or essays due in English, World Studies, and Art. Homework was pretty high this week and I usually didn't get to sleep until about 10:45-11:00. I also have a swim meet Saturday and Sunday on top of the many hours of homework I was assigned today. What a week.