Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Poetry Out Loud
When Amanda Fernandez performs Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward by Anne Sexton i thought to myself wow this is really good! I think that she did really goo in the drama category and was a good loud speaker who didnt have a problem being up on stage saying what she was saying. Which is a good thing because then it makes her a better speaker and she sounds more confident in her self.
The way she perfeormed the poem hepled me understand that the poem was about a women who did not know much about her baby or the babies father, since the father had left them. When the women cries you can really tell that she cares about her baby alot! And i liked the way Amanda would be happy one minute while reading the poem but then she would change to happy. It kept you more interested and it was a good way to tell a poem like this.
The way she perfeormed the poem hepled me understand that the poem was about a women who did not know much about her baby or the babies father, since the father had left them. When the women cries you can really tell that she cares about her baby alot! And i liked the way Amanda would be happy one minute while reading the poem but then she would change to happy. It kept you more interested and it was a good way to tell a poem like this.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Motif
In the beginning of the year i did not even know what motif is! I was thinking to myself wow i feel really dumb. When i did the summer assignment i sort of got what it meant when we had to look it up and give examples but it took me a while. So when i found out that we were doing motif for To Kill a Mockingbird i didn't know what i was going to do since i didn't understand it.
To Kill a Mockingbird really helped me understand motif since you explained it a little more than it was to me before. I got to have examples and do it myself so it helped me really understand the concept of motif. The motif in To Kill a Mockingbird would be "Its a sin to kill a mockingbird" There is a quote in the book that says "Well it'd be sort of like killing a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" Which is referring to the possible bad things that could happen in a situation.
To Kill a Mockingbird really helped me understand motif since you explained it a little more than it was to me before. I got to have examples and do it myself so it helped me really understand the concept of motif. The motif in To Kill a Mockingbird would be "Its a sin to kill a mockingbird" There is a quote in the book that says "Well it'd be sort of like killing a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" Which is referring to the possible bad things that could happen in a situation.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Life Lesson
One thing that my parents have always told me in always communicate, meaning that you should tell what you are doing and when so they know what is going on. If you don't tell some of these things then your parents may get worried because you didn't tell them what time you were going to be back from Oregon with your friend.
I thought of this as something to use because i have had it happen to me recently. I went to a swim meet and my mom just assumed that it was a home meet at evergreen, when it was in Seattle. So then when she was texting me she flipped out on me because i didn't exactly tell her where it was because she just assumed. So after that she always tells me to communicate more so it doesn't happen anymore.
I thought of this as something to use because i have had it happen to me recently. I went to a swim meet and my mom just assumed that it was a home meet at evergreen, when it was in Seattle. So then when she was texting me she flipped out on me because i didn't exactly tell her where it was because she just assumed. So after that she always tells me to communicate more so it doesn't happen anymore.
Friday, October 30, 2009
My Best Friend:)
My best friend is Katherine Frank! We have been friends since 3rd grade and she has always been a little shy when you first meet her. But after awhile you will realize that she is very happy, energetic, athletic, funny, tall, and pretty. We always seem too laugh at each other when we mess up or say something funny. Also saying lines from movies and laughing really hard is something that we seem to do a lot! Misanthrope is not the word that i would describe her with, she talks to a lot of people and could be any ones friend if she wanted too. I think that Katherine is an amazing person inside and out and i can trust her for anything i tell her.
Katherine is very creative when it comes to anything that she puts her mind too! I would also say that she is energetic (especially when she gets hyper) she will laugh and laugh and laugh about something that happened yesterday and we will make each other laugh. But after all this energy comes out she gets tired very easily so she will always fall asleep during movies. I have gone through so many memories with Katherine that i will always remember. We are inseparable as people would say!
Katherine is very creative when it comes to anything that she puts her mind too! I would also say that she is energetic (especially when she gets hyper) she will laugh and laugh and laugh about something that happened yesterday and we will make each other laugh. But after all this energy comes out she gets tired very easily so she will always fall asleep during movies. I have gone through so many memories with Katherine that i will always remember. We are inseparable as people would say!
Friday, October 23, 2009
Early Childhood
One of my childhood memories is when we moved into a house when I was 3 years old. There was a house next door to us that had a whole bunch of cats. Maybe like 5-7 cats. I thought that it was the coolest thing ever! I became really good friends with the girl that lived next door, we would play all the time. And when ever I went to her house they had this one grey cat that I always loved! His name was Henry, he was my favorite cat that they had! After a month or 2 of living in that house Henry would always come over to our house and scratch on the door. So finally one day we let him inside our house. When he came into the house he was very very scared, but after a while he got used to the new environment that was surrounding him. Then since that day we let him in all we would hear at the door was "Meow Meow." He came to our house everyday, soon it started to become a bigger relationship with me and him. He would be over at my house eating chicken nuggets with me, snuggling with me on the couch while I would watch Barney, we would play in the plants in my front yard, and he would even sleep with me at night. Eventually, we just started feeding him and everything you would need to do to take care of a cat. After about a couple years we were getting ready to move. I would cry myself to sleep worrying about what would happen when we moved, since we couldn't take him with us since he wasn't our cat. One of the nights before our move the owners of Henry came to our door and asked if we would like to have him since he already spent so much time with us already, when they brought the cat over I noticed blood all over his throat. At that time I exploded into tears! He had gotten into a fight with another cat or a raccoon. The original owners offered to pay for the surgery to be done. They took him that night, and the next morning my best friend and I were together again. Then we went off to our new house, we have been together for forever!
At the end of the school year we had noticed a bump on the inside of his cheek. We thought oh it might be a tumor, it can be removed no big deal! When my mom took him to the vet they had to take samples of it and send it too a lab to exactly tell us what it was that he had. A week later it started to make his eye all huge and puffy and it had gotten way way bigger than it was. That week we got the results back. We were correct about it being a tumor but there was one more thing about the tumor, it was cancerous. The vet said that it was too late to do anything about it because it had already spread into his tissue. But they did give us a choice of us getting the tumor removed. You will never guess how much that would cost! It would cost $1,000, but there was no point on doing the surgery because they said that it would come right back. They said that we would be able to wait a while until we would have to put him down, so they gave us medicine so he wouldn't be able to feel any pain if he was in any. Eventually he got really weak and slept all day and it would bleed all the time all over. On July 1st I was waiting in a room with my mom and dad while thinking of everything that i have gone through with this cat. When the vet brought my cat back in the room with the I.V in his arm, she asked "you guys ready? He wont feel anything." As i said my last goodbyes, she put the shot into the I.V. She checked his heart one more time and said "I'm sorry, but he is gone." When you have a pet with you through all your childhood memories, it makes that story stand out through all of them. And when I heard the words "he is gone" come out of the vets mouth that's when the thought came to be that I had lost my best friend.
At the end of the school year we had noticed a bump on the inside of his cheek. We thought oh it might be a tumor, it can be removed no big deal! When my mom took him to the vet they had to take samples of it and send it too a lab to exactly tell us what it was that he had. A week later it started to make his eye all huge and puffy and it had gotten way way bigger than it was. That week we got the results back. We were correct about it being a tumor but there was one more thing about the tumor, it was cancerous. The vet said that it was too late to do anything about it because it had already spread into his tissue. But they did give us a choice of us getting the tumor removed. You will never guess how much that would cost! It would cost $1,000, but there was no point on doing the surgery because they said that it would come right back. They said that we would be able to wait a while until we would have to put him down, so they gave us medicine so he wouldn't be able to feel any pain if he was in any. Eventually he got really weak and slept all day and it would bleed all the time all over. On July 1st I was waiting in a room with my mom and dad while thinking of everything that i have gone through with this cat. When the vet brought my cat back in the room with the I.V in his arm, she asked "you guys ready? He wont feel anything." As i said my last goodbyes, she put the shot into the I.V. She checked his heart one more time and said "I'm sorry, but he is gone." When you have a pet with you through all your childhood memories, it makes that story stand out through all of them. And when I heard the words "he is gone" come out of the vets mouth that's when the thought came to be that I had lost my best friend.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Why
I am reading Rebecca and the overall literary element i think in imagery because this book gives a ton of great word choices that make you think wow, i can picture this in my head! And you feel like you are in the book at times. I think that she used this literary element because she wanted you to stay focused in the book maybe. And also imagery might have been her favorite thing to use in all of her books. When you think about it imagery does keep you interested especially when its a boring book and then you read a paragraph and its super descriptive and its something that you can picture right away. But let me just say that i don't like this book at all!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Outside Reading
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
When i first started this book i did not like it all. It was very slow and i just couldn't get myself into it at all. I think this is because i like getting books that bring me in right away! And not so slowly. I thought that it could have started of in a different way instead of the way that it did.
I think that Imagery is a big literary element so far in the story because she explains everything in great detail to where you can actually picture things in your mind very well! Also Motif would be another literary term that is going on in this book because Rebecca is a symbol that is constantly in the story and never goes away.
I think that the author may have used these literary terms because she didn't want to start the book too strong but not way to boring that you didn't want to quit reading the book right away, so she threw in imagery to keep you interested in what is going on at that time.
I think that the theme in this book would be somber, just because it doesn't seem like Rebecca ever smiles or laughs, or adds any happiness to her life in any way. And there haven't been any happy parts to take it out of the category of somber so far.
When i first started this book i did not like it all. It was very slow and i just couldn't get myself into it at all. I think this is because i like getting books that bring me in right away! And not so slowly. I thought that it could have started of in a different way instead of the way that it did.
I think that Imagery is a big literary element so far in the story because she explains everything in great detail to where you can actually picture things in your mind very well! Also Motif would be another literary term that is going on in this book because Rebecca is a symbol that is constantly in the story and never goes away.
I think that the author may have used these literary terms because she didn't want to start the book too strong but not way to boring that you didn't want to quit reading the book right away, so she threw in imagery to keep you interested in what is going on at that time.
I think that the theme in this book would be somber, just because it doesn't seem like Rebecca ever smiles or laughs, or adds any happiness to her life in any way. And there haven't been any happy parts to take it out of the category of somber so far.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
It is very hard for me to get into a book if the first couple pages don't pull me in! I hate reading a book that doesn't interest me at all! It just bores me and makes me not want to read anymore! But when i love a book its a whole different story! There are times where i can't put down the book, and so i just keep reading and reading! Before you know it i am done with the book.
I literally can't read in loud places. If i do i wont remember anything that i read and so later on i will have to reread it, and that's just a pain in my opinion. In 5th grade my teacher would put on slow music so that we could barely hear it. And that didn't work so well for me when it came to silent reading. i would just sit there because if i read then i wouldn't remember anything that i read at that point.
I love to read Fiction books, because then you are reading about things that happen in their worlds and explore new things in books that keep you interested most of the time! I also like Realistic Fiction. Sometimes you can relate to some of the characters stories and so its a fun way to look at the way you handled them and the way they did. I am really excited to get a chance to read new books this year in Honors English!
I literally can't read in loud places. If i do i wont remember anything that i read and so later on i will have to reread it, and that's just a pain in my opinion. In 5th grade my teacher would put on slow music so that we could barely hear it. And that didn't work so well for me when it came to silent reading. i would just sit there because if i read then i wouldn't remember anything that i read at that point.
I love to read Fiction books, because then you are reading about things that happen in their worlds and explore new things in books that keep you interested most of the time! I also like Realistic Fiction. Sometimes you can relate to some of the characters stories and so its a fun way to look at the way you handled them and the way they did. I am really excited to get a chance to read new books this year in Honors English!
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