What LOTF character do you relate to the most?

       The LOTF character I relate to the most is probably Piggy, simply because I eat everything I see. Since Piggy is fat a likes to eat I am better off suited with him. I wouldn't consider my self equal to Piggy's weight, but I eat and eat and some how I don't gain a pound. I must have a good metabolism she. While Piggy lives on this island he eats all of the kids food, and hides on own secret little stash just for him.

       In my house, I keep a little candy stash in my room because I am always a big sweet tooth. Since my parents are dentist we rarely have sweets in our house, but when we do have them everybody takes as much as they can and hides the candy to only they know where it is. I normally keep a bag of m&m's, kit kats, and sour patch kids under t-shirts in my drawer so nobody can find it. That is why I relate to piggy.

The writing center + reading log

        The writing center looks like it is a very enjoyable place to write and get help on your paper. However I personally did not go get help at the writing center, a writing center fellow is in my study hall. She helped guide me through editing tips and what to reword. We started looking over the paper at the beginning of study hall, at 12:30 and ended at 1:15.
        While my writing fellow was guiding me through helpful tips, I wrote down all of her advise so I wouldn't forget what she said. That was a very useful thing I did while she was helping me. When we first sat down together she said, "Read you paper out loud to me." I read it, and then she said, "Your paper was good, but there is still room for improving." After that we shared thoughts and ideas on how to make it flow better, and then the period was over.

Reading Log
LOTF
12/2: 30 mins pages 140-154 focusing on fear
12/3: 45 mins 155-169 focusing on character and setting
12/4: 80 mins reread 155-169 + 170-190
12/5: 0 mins
12/6: 15 mins 190-197
12/7:10 mins 198-202

Total number of minutes read: 180 mins

Outside reading 11/18

LOTF and literary analysis

Monday: 30 mins LOTF 32-49
Tuesday: 45 mins Literary Analysis
Wednesday: 20 mins LOTF 49-57
Thursday: 35 mins LOTF reread 47-57
Friday: 45 mins Worked on Literary Analysis
Saturday: 0 mins
Sunday: 0 mins

Total number of minutes: 175 mins

Free Post 11/18

Who is you favorite villain? 

        My favorite villain would have to be the joker from the Dark Night, in Batman. I like this character simple because of his evil actions, and his anger towards batman. Also this character is my favorite because of his voice. In the Dark Night, the joker does a lot of crazy things, like blowing the man up in the prison, setting hardy on fire, and robbing the largest bank in the world. 

        In the Dark Night the joker has this crazy hair style, it is like green, yellow, black, blue, and purple. His clothing is a purple suit, and it is always dirty. He really like to kill people, and enjoys fighting Batman. He is always mad, and kills his own people. This is my favorite villain. 

Blog prompt for 11/18

 Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.

        The furthest I have traveled from home was to Australia. I went to Australia during the summer of 2012. When I went to Australia I was traveling with a group of people in the student ambassador program, "people to people." This group was founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower, back in 1957. He founded this group because he wanted to get young people involved world peace, and to not stereotype, and let the young learn about different cultures. I started this program when I was in the 5th grade, and I have been traveling with People to People for 4 years now. 
        So in the summer of 2012, I had the opportunity to travel to Australia. It was a really nice place to be, because everybody was really friendly, nice, and accepting. When we left the U.S. for the flight, we left out of Dallas, Texas. The flight was 21 hours to Sydney, but it was worth it. This is defiantly the furthest I have ever been from home. Next summer I will have another opportunity to go to Australia again, with Dr. Hawking.

Deserted Island

Island Simulation

         On Friday our class did a plane crash simulation, where we survived a plane crash on an island, and we didn't know what part of the world we were in. In class I didn't really take the simulation seriously because I knew we weren't in that situation then. But if we were in that situation I would be really serious. I would be so focused and listen for a while then say adios and run away from the group.
         If we were in a situation like that I would run away from the group because the fewer number of people you have, the better chance of survival you have, because you don't have to worry about fighting, and food, etc. I would also not bring anybody with me and if I would bring somebody with me I would bring no one. I wouldn't bring anybody with me because i wouldn't have to deal with food scarce, moving, and cooking for two or more people.

free post 11/11

State next Wednesday and Thursday

        If you don't know, I swim for the varsity swim team at EHS. I've been swimming for the school on varsity since 5th grade. I have made state every year since 6th, and as the years go by the state qualifying time go down or we change divisions like this year. Varsity swimming is now in division 4, which means that we have a pretty good shot of winning state this year. If our team wants to win state this would be the year to do it because next year 8 of the guy swimmers will be leaving since they are Seniors.
        At state this year I will be swimming the 200 free, and the 100 back. Every state meet I have been to I always swim 100 back, because that is what I am best at. Our state meet is next wednesday and thursday, 11/20 and 11/21. This will be our finally state meet that has over 15 guys, since next year we will only have 6 guys next year. We will be leaving for Sulphur after school on Tuesday, it will be around 5:00 when we leave.

Outside reading 11/11

Outside reading

Monday: Life of Pie 9 (at home) (15 mins) (page 130-150)
Tuesday: Life of Pie (at home) (30 mins) (page 150-189)
Wednesday: Life of Pie (at home) (45 mins) (page 190-224)
Thursday: Life of Pie (at home) (35 mins) (page 225- 250)
Friday: LOTF (in class) (25 mins) (page 8-20)
Saturday: LOTF (at home) (20 mins) (page 21-27)
Sunday: LOTF (at home) (30 mins) (reread 21-27 and 21-32)

Total number of minutes: 200 mins

Outside reading 11/4

Outside reading for 11/4

Life of Pie

Monday: 30 mins
Tuesday: 30 mins
Wednesday: 20 mins
Thursday: 0 mins
Friday: 45 mins
Saturday: 35 mins
Sunday: 20 mins

Total: 180 mins

Reading Response

       This past week I had the opportunity to read the Sniper as one of our short stories. This short story stood out to me more than any other story. I think what got me is the military part, and what happens at the end when he kills his brother not knowing it was him, and walks down to see who he shot and looked into his brother's eyes. This was a really good story in general. There was not really any parts that were bad, good, or even just plain stupid.
       At the end of the story it ends with, "As i walked down the roof top and onto the dusty road I look down at the person I shot, pulled off the bag, and looked into my brother's eyes." This was just a really good and shocking part. I don't know why but I just enjoyed it.

Free Post 10/27

Swimming is almost over

       As some of you know the Episcopal Swim season is almost over, meaning that after it is over I am not doing a sport until January. So I will have about a 5 week vacation from sports. Meaning I can rest and start focusing more on my homework instead of sports. We started EHS swimming over the summer in June, and have almost gone 16 weeks with swimming at episcopal. The EHS swim team is now in Division 4 meaning that we have much smaller teams but we still have to keep our minds on we still have competition to work with.
       When I started Swimming for EHS in 5th grade I always wanted to win a state championship and get a ring. If we want that to become reality this is our year as a team to do it because almost all of the guys will be gone next year because they are seniors. We have a good shot at getting above top 3 at state and even becoming state champions but we have to have that goal in mind while we are swimming.

Outside reading 10/27

Life of Pie

Monday: 45 mins Life of Pie
Tuesday: 20 mins Life of Pie
Wednesday: 30 mins Life of Pie
Thursday: 15 mins Life of Pie
Friday: 35 mins Life of Pie
Saturday: 15 mins Life of Pie
Sunday: 20 mins Life of Pie

Total number of minutes read: 180

Outside reading 10/14

Life of Pie

Monday: 30 mins Life of Pie

Tuesday: 15 mins Life of Pie

Wednesday: 35 Literacy Narrative Revision

Thursday: 20 mins Life of Pie

Friday: 45 mins Life of Pie

Saturday: 0 mins

Sunday: 15 mins Life of Pie

Total # of minutes: 160

Post for 10-7-13 Reading log

My reading for this week:

Monday: 30 mins on World War Z
Tuesday: 25 mins on World War Z
Wednesday: 20 mins on Girls in their summer dresses
Thursday: 30 mins on Waltz of the fat man
Friday: 45 mins on World War Z
Saturday: 10 mins on World War Z
Sunday: 0 mins

Total number of minutes read: 160 mins

My response to Dry September

Dry September,

Dry September was really strange. They used some bad language in that short story that I don't approve of. At first I didn't really get the plot and I was really confused on the characters, meaning that i wasn't really sure who was talking each time, and i was also confused on if they were white or black when they were talking. Also This short story wasn't really appropriate for our grade both aspects of the story were really harsh. To me I don't know why they even put this story from the 1930's in here when you know the author is going to use harsh language because at the time this story took place the U.S. was segregated until the 1950's. Once I saw the harsh word I knew this story was going to se it a lot and offend black people because of the use of the word.

post #2 for 9/30 plus reading log

      My short story is called Good Luck, I choose this title because my character starts off as a really smart kid who always obeys and never does anything bad in his life. My story take place in Los Angelos, California in 2010. The exposition of my story starts off as the introduction to all the characters including Tom. It mainly focuses on the setting at school in the exposition and really gives you a lot of details. Next is the climax, the climax is when tom gets involved in a group that does a lot of bad things that hurt Tom, both physically and mentally. Tome starts to get involved in a lot of drugs and vandalism. Then my falling action is when Tom's parents find out that Tom is in this group and they seek help at a local rehab center and Tom's grades and parents start going up, and start caring. Finally my resolution is when Tom gets his grades back to all A's and Tom's teachers and parents are excited and Tom gets a scholarship to college. 

Reading Log for 9/30

Monday: 30 minutes on Edge of Apocalypse 

Tuesday: 20 minutes on The very old man with enormous wings

Wednesday: 45 minutes on Edge of Apocalypse

Thursday: 20 minutes on Edge of Apocalypse

Friday: 30 minutes on Edge of Apocalypse 

My character Tom

For my Short Story I created this guy named Tom. Tom is a very handsome, attractive person who is also super smart. Nobody knows this but Tom plays 3 different sports, Football, Baseball, and he is also a boxer, and yet still manages to make straight A's. When Tom meet a kid named Brodie everything started to drop, and fail. Toms's grades started to fall, his sports started decreasing performance wise, and Tom got involved in drugs. THe moral of the story is Tom has to get his grades back up to straight A's before he can start playing anymore sports.
       When Tom was falling asleep one day thoughts were racing in his mind from, "What are we having for dinner tomorrow", to "Man when is the next time Brodie and I can hook up". Tom's thoughts started to get worse and worse as the night went by. The next morning Tom woke up and was still wondering when he could get another dose of steroids.

Reading Response to Da Duh

In the book Da Duh,

       I was really confused about Da Duh, I don't know why but it just seemed ver strange. In Da Duh I started getting confused when I had to think in my head about what she looked like. To me describing something that you can't say the name of is very hard to do. At the beginning of Da Duh I could't tell if that was a real person and they were talking about her, or if she was a soul or a spirit that was judging something. When you look at things from Da Duh's perspective you notice a big difference in her life compared to yours.
       At the very end of Da Duh's short story I was really sad because even though it was really confusing, I actually enjoyed it. It was one of those things were it is so stupid that it is funny. To me Da Duh was a really lonely person because it seemed like all she did was talk to and about herself she wasn't really describing her friends.
   

reading log for 9/23

Reading:

Edge of Apocalypse

9/17- Edge of Apocalypse (pages 310-378) 120 mins
9/18- Harrison Bergeron/ 15 mins
9/19- Da Duh/ 10 mins
9/20- Edge of Apocalypse 30 mins
9/21- none
9/22- none

Dell's Literacy Narrative

This week I have had the opportunity to listen to some amazing literacy narratives. I have listened to Dell, Nathan, Paul, Mary-Beth, and Wayne's (at tutorial). The one literacy narrative that I can't get out of my head is Dell Portwood's. Dell's was amazing considering the fact that he has dyslexia. Even though Dell has dyslexia his paper was better than mine, he had little grammatical errors and had I could tell had very little trouble writing his paper. To me writing about his thoughts towards having dyslexia are extremely outstanding. 

       Dell is a bra person because he has the braveness to tell everybody about him having dyslexia. If I had dyslexia I probably wouldn’t tell anybody that I have it because to me I just don’t want people to know that I have it.

       Good Job Dell and keep up the good work of trying to overcome having dyslexia!

E book

       My thoughts about making an e book are pretty excited. I haven't made an e-book before and I don't really know what to expect. I don't now if I should come into class relaxed about the idea or start getting frustrated at it. Also the main reason that i am so excited about it is because the whole class teams up and makes 1 e-book. This is good because you have everybody's thoughts put together into a book.
       
       Even though we haven't started our E books yet, I can't wait to make mine look amazing . On my e-book i want to make it stand out from everybody else's  to make that happen I am going to do a different font. For example, maybe like trebuchet, or mikes. Just to make the paper stand out more than other people's. I probably won't put pictures on it because to me a book doesn't need pictures unless it is a picture book.  Maybe I can even include a huge header for my paper. All these ideas are filling my head, and I am more than excited to start designing block 4's e-book

Reading log for September 16th

The Edge of Apocalypse


9/13- pages 250-275 (35 mins)
9/14- pages 278-310 (45 mins)

Literacy Narrative

9/10- (35 mins)
9/11- (20 mins)
9/12- (15 mins)

Total Time: 150 mins

Response to Both of the Martin Luther King Jr. Videos

I watched all 17:29 seconds of the First video

Then I watched all 9 mins on the second video.

I think that Martin Luther King Jr. was a brave man and that God sent him to do the specific tasks of stopping segregation. Also I think that he is one of the most bravest people to ever step foot on this planet.

Reading Response to Edge of Apocalypse

          In the past 4 chapters in was mainly the introduction to the book. It was describing the characters and what each of their roles were. But now in chapter 6 in is getting way more intense with the scientists building nuclear weapons and then people stealing the weapons trying to destroy the world, but the scientist and other military persons are stopping the thief's to defend the world. Then in Chapter 7 the plane that was carrying the nuclear weapons crashed and now the world is devastated because there will be no more lives left on Earth unless people find out a way to make a chemical that will destroy the nuclear gas.

Outside reading 8/29/13-9/03/13

Edge of Apocalypse
By: Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye

Monday: 0 mins

Tuesday: 0 mins
Wednesday: 45 mins
Thursday:45 mins
Friday: 10 mins
Saturday: 20 mins 

Reading Log 8/24/13

8/24/13

Edge of Apocalypse
By: Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye

Pages: 100-185
time: 95 mins

8/25/13


Edge of Apocalypse
By: Craig Parshall and Tim LaHaye

Pages 185-200
time: 25 mins

Reading log

Book: Edge of Apocalypse

Pages 1-50
60 mins

Pages 50-120

90 mins.

Free writing

           I like to hang out with friends in my spare time. I like to go to the movies and to the mall. Also I really enjoy free-writing where I can choose my own topic. I don't like people giving me topics, it is getting pear pressured  into writing. I don't know what is wrong with me but when somebody gives me a topic that I don't Like I tend to do much worse on the paper. Also in my free time i like to watch Tv and play video games. I like to watch Comedies, and realistic fiction shows. I don't not like mine craft or other journey games. I mainly focus on action and adventure.
           Also in my free time i like to ride four wheelers and play outside. I have 7 acres so i have a lot of room to ride on. When i have a lot of free time i go fishing. I like o catch bass, red fish, and trout. Sometimes i would catch a catfish and it would be hard to take off because the whiskers will sting you and it really hurts.

Blog 1 reading response

        I wonder why Beatrice chose dauntless rather than the rest of her family choosing abnegation. What town or city did the people live in? If you were in the abnegation group, what did people think of you? What does Divergent mean? What is Beatrice's middle name? Why doesn't abnegation fit Beatrice's life style. When did Beatrice's parents chose abnegation?
        Summary of the book Divergent: Overall I thought that the book was really good. I enjoyed Reading this book because it was like a journey for finding a group. But there were some points in the book that i was starting to ask my-self question, like "Why am I reading this? I don't know if you have ever asked your self that while reading but I do it all the time, and then the book turns out to be great.