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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