How do the main ideas go together or connect?

I was lucky in my choice of a big question for this section of English 12A. Everything I've read and watched has benefited me and my question. My question was "Can people be too trustworthy of their government?". In my personal opinion, yes, people can be too trustworthy of their government. If you looked at the evidence provided from Brave New World and the episode of the Twilight Zone, anyone could see that its true. I bet there is someone out there that thinks that it's not true. People can't be too trustworthy of their government. I don't know how or where they are living but we live in no perfect world. Sorry to say it but it's true. My big question corresponds perfectly with what I felt we wer

What do I still need to work on more?

To work on all the things we are doing in this class is hard. We are doing everything but I feel like there is no time to do that everything. What I need is time. Time in the day to read a chapter or two. Time in the weekend to get the creative writing and the presentation done. I need time to do all of the little things and  the big things that are my life. The PowerPoint presentation is throwing me for a loop because I would rather read the whole book and then reflect in a simple paper afterwords. Picking and choosing in a book makes me have to try and remember what page I saw that one thing on and then I have to read through everything once again to figure out if I was correct on the page in the first place. I have been under a lot of pressure for schoolwork and things beyond high school work. So I need to work on stress relieving. I need to work on figuring out what is more important in my life at a given time. 

I don't know if anyone is having the same struggle as me but for the third or fourth week in a row, I'm lost. No clue as to what we are learning. But if I were to really think about it, I would probably say we learned about our question for the Alchemist. We learned about paths and how our book is going to relate, eventually