Hannah's Blog

I don't know even know where to begin with this, it's such a bittersweet moment. Senior Year is coming to a close but the new chapter is just starting. Throughout all the ups and downs of Senior Year, IB and together all of high school, it's going to be crazy for it all to end. Not to see everyone every day, not to have the late night texts about history that are due tomorrow, which we should've done a month ago but just started 30 minutes ago, to all the friends that I've made and hope to maintain in college. It's crazy to think that we only have about 2 months with each other left then it's the summer., and college. Since I am not going to UNC or State like 65% of the IB class, I won't have the chance to possibly see familiar faces in classes. Well besides Cole (GO PHOENIX!!). I can't believe we are about to leave it all and I did not know where to even begin this blog post so I just started typing so ya um there will be a tad bit of rambling. I ha...

Whitman on Whitman When looking at Walt Whitman's journal it was cool to give me an insight into his mind as I can not ask him questions about his writing because he is no longer alive. The primary source gives me a glimpse into the mind of Whitman. At first, the document was hard to read because of the quality and the fact that it was in cursive, which I haven't read all the time since third grade when I went to private school. As I kept going though I could start to understand what was written and could start to make my own opinions onto what he was saying. I could make out to what I think are names and addresses which are maybe things that he would base some of his poems off of in order to have inspiration. I also noticed the word "dialogue" which maybe shows that he was basing his poems of off people around him. On the next page, I could make out the words religious which can show why he had so many religious contexts into his works and poems. Another wor...