Deserted Island Simulation

               On Thursday, when we did our deserted island simulation, we did it vey calmly and well organized. We got our priorities straight and established a system of working (sort of). I think that if we were in a real life situation, it is likely that we wouldn’t have been able to stay so calm. But I think that in some variation of what happened, we would have been able to collect ourselves and ultimately survive pretty well.

                I think we would have been able to have a well-rounded group of people with useful survival skills. There are some pretty smart people in our class, as well as some pretty athletic people, with that I think we would have the organization and resourcefulness to maintain a steady food supply and working force. We will certainly run into plenty of problems while stranded on an island. For example, since we are all still teenagers some of us are still growing, especially since we are accompanied by a bunch of 1^st graders, we are going to need a lot of food and eventually new clothes. There will be plenty of injuries and if we’ve got a shelter of some sort that will eventually break and need fixing. Overall, our class would probably be fine if we got stranded on an island.

Reading Log

Literary Analysis 2 hours 30 mins

Siege and Storm 20 mins

LOTF about 1 hour

Writing Center Thursday 3^rd block

Free Post: The Speech Song

                I was listening to the radio in the car on the way to dance on Wednesday, and a strange song came on the radio that really caught my attention. Its called Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen. The title is a little bit misleading but it kind of makes sense once you hear the song. The song is basically an advice speech with a beat, but I liked the advice so much that I actually bought the song. I can't say everyone will appreciate it, but I highly recommend going on YouTube and listening to it.
Link: http://youtu.be/xfq_A8nXMsQ

Reading Log

Reading Log

Siege and Storm 1 hour

Peer marks 35 minutes

Literary Analysis 30 minutes

 

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