Not Bragging, I'm Just Excited

           As some of you might know, I've been dancing a lot lately. Most of the people who dance at my studio don't come to class as often so I've been improving quickly. Every year my company performs The Nutcracker and a while back I auditioned for it. Now this is the part I'm excited about. Because I've been improving so much, I get to do six different roles.
           I was casted as Snow, Flower, Angel Couple, Doll, and understudy for Chinese and Marzipan. Fourteen year olds usually only get to do Snow because its our first year in the company. Not only that, but the role of Doll has never in the history of my company been done by a fourteen year old. Most of the time the oldest company members do Doll (a.k.a. my mom and other people out of college). I'm really excited about performing this year and all of y'all should come see it!

Short Stories for Literary Analysis

Reading Response

The three short stories that I annotated were Roman Fever, Sucker, and The Sniper. Sucker was probably the story I read the most easily and it was pretty interesting. The conflicts between characters were things that I can apply to my own life, maybe not as extreme as how it was in the story, but enough so that I can empathize. The Sniper was also a great story but I mostly read it because it was short. There wasn’t much deep meaning in this story and I didn’t relate much to the main character so this story overall didn’t completely catch my interest.

The story I’m considering the most for my literary analysis is Roman Fever. It was a really long short story that seemed boring at first but when I really started paying attention to it I noticed that it was 3^rd person omniscient, instead of what I originally thought. Also I noticed that the whole story was kind of building up to the two main characters’ big dispute at the end, driven by one of the characters long lasting jealousy. Roman Fever is most likely going to be the story I end up using in my literary analysis.

Reading Log

Sucker 45 mins 10/25/13

The Sniper 30 mins 10/26/13

Roman Fever 1 hour 10/27/13

Prodigy 45 mins finished 10/22/13

 

Personal Questions and Reading Log

Personal Questions:

• What would it be like to be a hero?
• What inspires me to read more?
• What makes a setting description realistic?

Reading Log

 

Siddhartha 2 hours 10/13/13

Prodigy 30 minutes 10/10/13

 

Reading Log

Reading Log

Siddhartha- 2 hours- 28-55%

Prodigy- 20 mins 50-56%

Waltz of the Fat Man- 45 mins

And of Clay Were We Created- 30 mins

30 mins of short story writing