Sunday, October 31, 2010
10-31-10 Blog
alrighty well im happy that we are done reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird. I really enjoyed the book because there were parts that you would not expect and others that you kind of can expect. For example i would have never thought that tom robbinson would try to escape jail with a diabled hand and that he got like 17 different times. Also how they sad if he had 2 good hands he would have escaped with out getting killed. The other part that i was suprised about was that boo radley killed bob ewell because for how long he was inside and watching scout and jem. i would have expected someone else to kill him or that he would kill himself not boo radley. I also didnt think that boo would be smart enough to grab a kitchen knife to protect jem and scout. I dont think the movie is as good as the book because i feel like they are taking out huge chunks of the movie that i thought were important. The movie to me didnt make much sence because some of the parts that they took out i think needed to be in the movie to understand it. i also missed a day so i dont know if the part that i was thinking was in the beginning even though in the book its like half way through. well thats it for the book. i am glad that the quarter is over because too many teachers all assign tests on the same freaking day and its sooooooo annoying because that just ruuins my night when i have to study for hours making sure that i know everything. Oh and they always assign it like the day after trick or treat and im like realllyyyyy is that necessary but whatever. ok so this weekend was soo much funnnn. Jen wood came over friday and we walked to cicis for dinner and then that night stephanie scurlock, daniel, and caleb came over too and we played ghost in the grave yard and then we got bored so we just started talking and i found out somme info that i wouldnt have expected but then we all came into my house and played xbox or spoons except with candy and we were playing songs that related to us in some way and it was just over all an awesome friday. thhen saturday i went shopping at easton and got some clothes with taylor t and rachael holt then i spent the night at stephanies house along with salor and today im with stephanie again. if you havent noticed we are together a lot and thats cause we r neighbors and yeah so my sister won both of her games yesterday and i think they won today im not sure but championships are at like 2 so yeahh good day again. i want to go driving though cause i need my hours in and i feel like driving so yeahh thats the blog post for this week looking foward to next weeks one ....not welp bye byes
Sunday, October 24, 2010
10-24-10
Alrighty so this week we of course were still reading the book that i find quite interseting. Except for it switched to the trial. i liked the boo radley and his house stuff like part one but i also thought that the chapter with the full trial was pretty intersting because atticus had to defend tom and even tho he lost he still fought and kept the jury really late and made the trial a very long one. i dont get what was the huge deal with jem, dill and scout sitting in the colored section balcony because they did nothing wrong to them. i feel like the rest of the county is messeddddd up because the fact that they hate the colored people. I havent finished reading the rest of our homework yet but i am looking foward to what the book has in for me since the trial is over and atticus lost which i knoww he ws upset about. Another thing i am looking foward to is the week ahead of us for english. i know we will have a quiz because when do we not have a quiz over this book for the week? NEVER!! but i think the quizes are pretty easy, i have missed like one or 2 on the quizes and the vocab is the worst about it because i am not filling it out each time and they are already in the packet. the packet also helps a ton and im sure i have said that in the past blogs but its true. Well thats it for english and oh i did miss half a day on friday so i have a lot of catching up to do but its not too bad. Alrighty so onto my weekend. It was like the most amazing weekend i have had in a longggggg timee. i was sad that jen couldnt spend the night but that didnt ruin it entirely. i was at my neighbors house and we walked up to cicis pizzas for dinner with like seven people total and then after that we came back and played four square and then we went to my other neighbors house for a bon fire and i didnt know most of the peoplle who came over because they are younger than but it was great. we blew up pop cans and it was hilarious because everyone got really scared and then we had glow sticks and we threw them into the fire and they like squirted out the colors and it got all over the chairs we were sitting in. so that was amazing, but the night got even better because some people left because they had to go and couldnt stay, but with the people who stayed we played ghost in the grave yard and it was pretty scary cause its like 10 at night and its pitch black in the back of the yard and then natalie shotts hid and she was hiding for like legit 45min because we could not find her but we were txting her and she kept asking do u give up yet and we heard different movements in the woods and then like shadows and so we were screaming and probably making the neighbors mad but hey oh well and then paulinas dad showed up and we couldnt find her because she was in it with natalie and so we called natalie and then she was whispered in thaat creepy voice she said do you wanna play a game and thats from saw and that scared all of us because we were already freaked out and thought we were going to die and so then i took the flashlight and walked down the street looking for them and the police came down the street at 1045-1050 and so i was like great im going to e taken because i thought it was 1 so i was praying that it wasnt 11 because thats curfew and he asked me like heyy what are you doing and where do you live and i probably could have peed my pants but i didnt and he said if he sees anyone he will tell them to go home but eventuallyy we finally found paulina and natalie and they kept going around the house and hiding and stuff so it was an intense night. i didnt think i was going to be able to sleep because of that haha but i finally fell asleep at like 230 in the morning so it was all good and that was all one day/night. and then today i went on a run and went to bw3s for dinner . well thats it for today ill talk to everyone tomoro.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
10-17-10 Blog
Alrighty so i am extremelyyyyy happy that we had a four day weekend because im pretty sure i would not have been able to make it through school on thursday and friday. So during school while we have been reading the book i find it very interesting and i love the book which doesnt happen much. i like how mr. potter goes over the chapter because he helps me pull out the main ideas and understand it better unlike other teachers in the past that hardly help you. also the packet questions are great because they help me study before the quizes and will be a huge help when it coumes to the big test over the book. Chapter 11 was interesting just because of how jem ruined mrs. duboses (whatever her name is) flowers and as a punishment she wants him to read to every day after school for two hours. for me that would be a punishment because i absolutely hateeee reading but ill do it if i have to and then how the alarm clock would go off later and later each day which would stink too because then that is the longer you have to stay with someone you dont like in the first place because of what they have said about their father. by the end of that chapter i would have never thought that she would have died. i dont know why i wouldnt think that when they kept saying she has been sick for a while. another thing is how she gave jem the flower that he had ruined and how it was in a box like as a present or something, but whatever. well that was it for english now for my weekend. well my weekend was pretty good, thursday my parents were working so i was home alone with my sister all day so i decided that i would ask our neighbors up the street if they wanted to walk up to cicis since i live behind stoneridge and so we walked up to stoneridge for lunch and cicis was good although they did change the area a little bit. then later my sister had a cross country meet and she did good she was on the varsity team since they had to divide up and she got 38th out of like 118 and that was varsity. there was another 100 or so people on the jv team so she did great. i dont think i could run like that. then for the guys one of the kids set a new record for that course with a record of 10:58 which is insaneeee because thats like 5 and half min for a mile and i cant even do that right now it would take a lot out of me to run that much but hey overall thats great and the day was good then thursday night i slept over at my cousins house cause on friday we took her kids to the mall because they were getting their halloween pictures taken... that didnt go so well cause they were getting impatiant and cranky cause they were hungry but thats how little kids are then saturday and today i was at my grandma and grandpas house because it was my grandpas birthday yesterday so we spent time with them and went out to eat which the food was good too.. well thats it for today and im ready for this week
Sunday, October 10, 2010
10/10/10
Alrighty well i kinda forgot to do this until like right now when my friend and i were talking about writing journals and stuff so thanks to her. Anyway this week we started the book to kill a mockingbird and when we had a sub the day we got the packet and she handed it out saying u have a test over the first 5 pages i thought what the heck how do we have a test over the first five pages when we just got this so i started reading and i actually only read like the first 3 pages because the other 2 pages just had too much on it at the time and i ended up only missing one on the quiz so i was happy haha. The first chapter of the book was pretty boring and had nothing to it. then when we got to the chapters that sstarted to get interesting and so far im really liking the book. I thought it was interesting on how the kids played boo radley as a game and had his family as characters. Another part i thought was interesting was how Mr. Radley took his kid out of school because he got in trouble. Also how he was not allowed outside the house and that he ended up inside the house for 15 years and hes an adult still in the house. after that part he was cutting paper and stuff with scissors and most likely has a mental problem now from being inside the house all the time and how he stabbed his father in the leg as soon as he walked in the house. So overall im loving the book and that doesnt normally happen when it is a book we have to read. When Mr. Potter told us we had to draw a pictures of Boo Radley, i got excited because i love to draw and since all we had to do was draw his bloody hands a squirrel which was easy and the rest we got to make up ourselves. So thats exactly what i did i drew what i thought he looked like with his bloody hands and squirrel in one hand and then i put in his other bloody hand scissors since he stabbed his dad. i have his house in the background with someone looking out the blinds which was mentioned in the story. Also i have the fence out in his front yard and a tree infront of the gate with a silver gum wraper. Well thats my blog for today and its 10:10 on 10/10/10 how cool lol :) see ya in class everyone
Monday, October 4, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
10-1-10 Blog
To start it off this week was pretty easy just like it has been for the past how ever many weeks we have been in school. I got all of my bib cards onto a works cited page and that didnt take very long. along with the title page that didnt take long either. im not the best at english and making outlines is normally pretty hard for me, but this time i felt like it was the easiest. the only problem i had was the thesis statement. i always struggle with those and the conclusion. when i had to start the outline i was not quite sure on how to start it off, but then i just started organizing my notecards which takes forever if you dont put a heading and of course i forget to put some headings on some of the cards. so i had to read through those cards to figure out where i wasnted to put them. then after i got all of that figured out i started typing up some facts. after that i found out that some of he cards didnt belong in a certain group because it could go in with either the trial or that group so i had to make my decision on which one it had more information about so that took some time. finally i had a six page out line and i said wahoo this paper is going to be four pages with a 6 page outline. the only thing with the outline is that a speech outline is different than a research outline which stinks because you have to shift gears and go back to the english version. the next step after the outline was starting the rough draft. the hardest part about the rough draft for me is the how do i start and what thesis am i going to use or i dont know how to make a thesis. the other hard part is how do you end a research project in your conclusion? i worked really hard in class to get my research project rough draft done because i didnt want to do any of it at home. plus i haad other tests to study for, so i try to use any class time i get to an advantage of not having hw but also getting things done that i needed to get done. I am finally done with my rough draft and i have to fix like two more problems on it and then i have my final draft and just have to staple all the parts together. overall this research project we did on trials was one of the easiest ones that i have ever done because i had the check list in front of me so i got to work ahead if i needed to. well that was my journal for this week. movies tonight and the soccer game and dad's work cook out tomoro :) exciting weekend!!
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