My Diary

Dear diary,
I want to tell you about two days of my week,one of them was very good,I did something for a good friend that needed my help.
On the second day I did something I believe is selfish and bad,and it turnd my day in to a bad day.

1/10/12

Dear diary,
Today was a good day. I remembered that my friend needed my help with his big science project,(Start a new sentence) he and I worked on the project for many hours, we searched for information for his project,we bought materials and we finished it,(New sentence)afterwards I heard that he got an A on his project and it made
me happy.

2/10/12

Dear diary,
Today my day went bad,I didn't meant(gr.) to be so selfish.
I woke up and I remembered that my father asked for my help for the entire day and I said I would help him.Instead, I forgot about it and I went with my firends(sp.) to the beach.
When I came home my father was very angry at me and I felt very bad.
This day was definitely a bad day for me.

In conclusion I think I need to be more organized with my

priorities
so I could make a change,and become a 
thoughtful and better person.

This is much better.

(78)

Daphna

 

Count That Day Lost- Bridging text and context – activity 2

Count That Day Lost- Bridging text and context – activity 2

George Eliot (pen name for Mary Ann Evans) was born in 1819 in Warwickshire, in Victorian England. The Victorian age was characterized by huge gaps between the classes.The lower classes lived in extreme poverty. The children were put to work in factories and mines to help support their families.
This information adds to my undertanding of the poem "Count That Day Lost".

From the infotmation about Mary Ann Evans I can understand that her goal was to create a better and equal  socity to live in.With  this information I can relate to the poem.
By saying she wanted to "sit down at set of sun and count the acts that she had done",she didn't accept the conditions that she and other writers of that time had  deal with(phr.+gr.) . Eliot's books often pointed out the differences between wealthy landlords and poor, ordinary people and often criticized the behavior of the upper classes.

Moreover,She was concerned about the responsibility that people should take in their everyday lives and with the moral choices they must make.She wanted the peopl to make a change. It can be seen in the poem with the poet's request that each person has to "sit down at set of sun and count the acts the he has done"
he wants the pople to think about their acts and their results and then decide if the day is a "day well spent" or a "day as worse than lost".

In conclusion, I can say that the information about Eliot is very important in order to undertand more
easily the connection between her life and the moral in the poem , it makes it easier to understand the poem from the  poet's  point of view. I can undertand from the poem and from the information about Eliot that her main efforts were to make a better and equal  society  to live in.

This is much better, well done!

(95)

Daphna