Blog Post 6/2/11

Could you handle like how John Smith did when his mother died when he was only 36 years old?
I think that he did worry a lot because he knew that because of his mom’s cancer that her time was up very soon. Even though she was not afraid. I think that I could not handle my mom dyeing when I am 36 years old. Reason is because, she is a very important person in my life, and my mom would always hels me make good decisions, helps me get through things, and always knows what to do in a bad situation. If my mom’s time was up because of some disease and she had passed away I don’t know how I would feel after. I probably would feel like; even though I would have best friends to talk to, I wouldn’t be able to talk to the person who helped me the most besides my dad but she was the most helpful part of my life and I couldn’t imagine losing her. Otherwise, I would think god just took her away for no reason.

Narrative Poem

The month of April always feels like you're in a ocean
Since April rains so much
almost everyday
Making the sidewalks so wet
the streets with huge puddles
mud every where on the grass
Flowers all dead on the ground
It's rarely lucky to have to sun shine down
April can feel like you're in a ocean
After the raining month comes a very warm and colorful month
When the sun starts to shine and the water starts to go away
The rain from April will start to make
Beautiful
Colorful
Pretty
May Flowers

Raymonds Run Thesis 5/9/11

Hazel (squeaky) is the big sister of Raymond Parker, which he has some problems with his head but Hazel doesn’t care what he looks like she would stick up for him no matter who would be making fun of him, she loves him how he is.

5/6/11

What does the poem mean? Why is the poem important? How did it make you feel?


I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

I think that this poem means, that the person is telling the poem as a nobody. Talking to another person asking if they are to. Why also telling like how it is everyday "To tell your name the livelong day". I think that the person who wrote this also made it important because, they are showing the reader if I'm nobody how would it be to be somebody. For how the author wrote the poem it made me feel like, if your a nobody how they feel they are out of place and how werid it would be to be someone.

5/2/11

4/28/11

If I only had one year to live what would I do with my Time?

If I found out my life was going to end in a year, my first thought would be "O my God"! Why is this happening? The question would just keep repeating in my head. Thinking about if I only have one more year to live what should I do with it. Sit home and cry? Or, go do something new everyday until the year is up? If I only had one year to live what would I do with the time I have left? Everyday I would go and try to do something new, go golfing, see movies, try sailing, surfing, swimming, hang out with friends everyday before the year is up. The only thing I would not do is buy new things. Since my time is only one more year, I have no reason to get new cloths earrings, or just anything new beside food. If I only had one year to live what would I do with the time I have left? If I really did have a year left to live, I would cherish the time I have left in the world and make every moment from the day I die count.

If you really new me 4/27/11

Yesterday assembly was not like any of the other assembles we have had in the past about bullying. The assembly I thought was better than any other bullying assembly we have had just because, we saw on a video that showed many people have problems that a lot of other people have just we wouldn't expect them to. Something that I saw was really cool and very persuading was during the video they showed clips of people who were willing to say that this is my life and this certain stuff goes on in my life and were not afraid to say like Me and my dad have not talked in 5 years or how this one person spent $17,000 dollars on plastic surgery because the person got made fun of. They are not afraid to say "If you really knew me you" you would no this about me.

Although after the assembly the high school did somthing very different, something I don't think they have done before. I am not really sure on that though but, what it was and I found very suprising is the whole grade would stand on this huge black line on the gym floor and the speaker would ask questions about like have you ever been bullied over text, or face book, or have you seen people die rigth before your eyes. Stuff realating to the bulling assembly.There were many others questions like those, but one did catch my eye from where I was I could see almost everyone around the gym and when the question was asked I think that everyone stepped forward to say yes. The question was "Do you wish you could go back in time and have a chance to go change something you wished you could take back or do differently". Which really supried me. Just seeing how many people stepped forward and the people I wouldn't think would step forward.

I thought that the assembly was very helpful to every one, since we got to see that everyone in our grade goes through the same things. That you are not alone. Thinking that you can't imagin some people having those problems because, you think everything in their life is perfect. That exercise showes that there not and they wish some of the things that you wish you could be like too. Yesterday assembly was very different in a good way, but very helpful. Everyone got to see that they are not alone and aren't so different from others they thought they would be. I think it helped everyone in the school, to not say if they were afraid to but step forward with many others and say yes to "If you really new me" you would know this about me that...................................................

Spring Break 4/25/11

Spring Break

During my spring break it was a good week off from school. Except that it was flying by to fast. My most favorite part about spring break was when I went the Brewer Game which was a lot of fun, plus they won too. Second favorite thing would be when going over to a friends house and having her try to curl your hair which did not go well, and didn't look good. Although during that time we watched one of the greatest movies I think Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1. My last thing I like about my spring break was having a sleepover with my best friend and watching Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Other wise it was really the rest of my break was boring.

Blog Prompt 4/15/11

I learned I lot from the Civil War like more stuff than I did before.

1) One cause of the Civil War was from the north didn't want slavery and the south wanted to keep slavery. The north called the Union used to had slavery but it was dying down in the north. In the south they wanted to keep it for their cotton fields. That was one cause of the civil war.Which started the Civil War.

2) There is one important battle in the history from the Civil War it is called The Battle of Gettysburg was the last war in the Civil War and was the most bloodies battle it killed more Americans than in history.

3) An important person in the Civil war was president Lncoln he was elected the 16th president of the United states and he wanted the Union to be reserved and he ended the war.

Historical Fiction Essay Reflection

I think that my sotry is going but I am not done with it yet almost just the little stuff. I don't think that it is that good because I don't really like witing stories. Then I only like certain people reading them. Not just random people. Which I'm not a fan of the class reading them. So I think that it will be okay but not great.

Character Questions adn Responses

Question 1
- Do you like being a nurse in the Civil War? Yes and why? or No and why?

Responce
- Yes I do like being a nurse in the Civil War because I get to help people, although sometimes I wish I was not a nurse in the Civil War because, I fell sometimes like no help when I can't those soldiers that need help and I can't do anything for them.

Question 2
- What are your feelings when taking care of soldiers that are hurt? Like do you feel sad at time happy at times or just horrified that this happened?

Responce
- Taking care of soldiers is a great feeling because you can help them, but sometimes we can't from we don't no how to and what do to sometimes or what we really need to do for them. Sometimes it can be a little bit horrifiing when we see soldier come in with a miss body part that can be terrible to see at times.

Question 3
- How long do you think that the war will last?

Responce
- Well I think since the war has been going on for two years that it might last another year or two because with one side winning this battle and this side winning this battle that it will keep going back and forth so it might take a while.

Free Writing 4/11/11

Rocking Tale of Snow White

The Rocking Tale of Snow White was good. They still had all that main charactors and a few new ones in it. The consup was totally different from the orignal movie. There was a whole lot more of singing and dancing than there was in the movie. The play did tell a story Snow White wanting to find love, and a prince that wanted to find true love also. Although it did have some funny stuff in it than made it kind of more intertaining when performing. It did have alot of different ways as to tell the different story. In other words it was good with the singing and dancing but I think that it could have followed also the actually story that it is from. Other wise I thought that the play was good. Which also the whole cast did a great job I think.

Free Writing 4/8/11

Science has never been a topic I like. I never have liked it since I learned about it. I think that it is hard even though I just think that it is but it really is not. Why do we have to learn science if we are not going to do anything with it if it doesn't correspond with what we want to be? Like it can be hard sometimes and sometimes be easy for some. Others it is a struggle for them. I've never been a huge fan of science some might think that it is really cool that is fine just it is not cool to me. Even though science sometimes can be easy is when it comes to taking a really hard test on it expecially what topic it is on. Taking science test to me are very hard even though if you cram for it like you would for a collage exam, becasue if you don't no it then it is a really be sturggle. Science I've never been a big fan of in my whole life others might think that it is cool me I don't. What I think is cool is F/CE class, not science.

UPFRONT Magazine 4/1/11

This was a very good article I though. Telling a lot about what happened in the war, who fought for what side. Also that neither Great Britain or France refused to take part in the war since it could have gone either way; that was something I didn't no about the Civil War. Something that did surprise me was in the article it said that most Americans had never heard of Lincoln when he ran for president in 1860, that really surprised me. Since he was the one making a lot of the decisions in the war for the Union. Another thing I did not no about the war was that a lot more men died just from disease than in battle that was something I did not no. I could use some of this stuff in my research for my historical paper about how not either France or Great Britain took part in the war, and that most people didn't hear about Abraham Lincoln running for president. Also that more people died from diseases than on the battle front. Woman did take a not a big part in the war but did do a lot for the war. They were used as spy's since not many would suspect a woman much as a man. They were used to take care of patients. So I think that putting in a article about the woman was a good thing since they did help with the war in either a small part or a little part they.

Blog Prompt- March 31st

The character in my story will be based a letter they wrote to his or her family. Like how they are doing what's going on. Telling them they are safe explain in detailed what life is like for them right now. What kind of things they are seeing happenening like if they have seen friends die right before their eyes or the kind of places they have to go and what they have to carry. What the food is like or if there is barley any food. What it is like working with different colored people how or do they get along with one another. Also in the place of a woman to what the war was like for them. How many patients they saw a day. Or if they did anything when the war was taking place. My story will be telling the life of two people from their point of view on how things are going on during the battle ands struggles they are facing.

Civil War

I think that the thesis might be about the battle that took place. What they used to prepare before battle and what they used in battle. With that, what they wore to go into battle. The main point of the book is about the whole Civil War. I have not started it yet just the notes first. i might use a character I find in the book but no sure yet. I'm still looking if I will use a character or not in the story, but I might and I might not. But I am going to be writing about is about the battles from the North side and the South side and how a slave perspective was about it.

Motivation -Stream of Consciousness

Friends can motivate you. Family can also motivate you. They all encourage you to succeed in life. Helping you get through the hard and difficult times, and just the simple ones. What motivates me is my parents, coaches and friends. Through school, sports, and life. My parents are my biggest fans in anything no matter what. My friends can get me going through making me laugh or having fun getting you ready for something. Coaches help encourage me to do better in the sport that I love playing, they'll teach me so I can get better and play better. All of those things, can get me motivated because I no people care and want to see me succeed. Other wise some people have different was to motivate them; might be a secret cheer they do for good luck, or maybe say a prayer in hoping they win the game. Friends can motivate you. Family can also motivate you. They all encourage you to succeed in life. Helping you get through the hard and difficult times, and just the simple ones. What motivates you?

Are there times when it is justified to fight? For what?

Are there times when it is justified to fight? For what? Can you fight for something without becoming violent? How can you fight peacefully? What would you fight for? How and why? Sometime fighting for something is when you disagree with someone else opinion where you protest against what they want verses what you want in steed. Fighting is not a good thing, it surrounds so many countries today in the world. People getting killed, friends, and family members gone because of people fighting. All fighting doesn't have to all of a sudden become violent. There are many ways to start a sort of "say" peaceful fight where you just argue in a court room instead of taking it to extremes like on to a battle field. Though in the world case many fights end up to be violent because they sometimes begin as threats to it so that sometime when a fight will start. Like how many American Troops are over in Iraq right now fighting. Many people try to fight for what they believe in but that sometimes people will lose the battle and some will gain victory. A person might fight for what they believe in or what to see if others will stand by you on the way. Some people don't care if they do it alone some what others to people to know that they are not crazy and that others think that something else should be done about it. If I had to fight for something I don't no what it would be for. Depending on what the topic is and how I would disagree with it. Fighting is not a good thing in the world even in a court. The world in a lot of places is in fights right now with their own country or with a different country. So I don't think that fighting is a good thing and that all fights do not automatically go to be violent.

If I could change 3 things about the school what would it be?

If had the power to change 3 things in the school I would no exactly what I would want to change. My first thing would be to change the dress code that would be the first thing I would wish for to change. The dress code right now is alright but the teachers are to strict about it if like girls would wear just a cetimeter shorter of shorts that; that looks wrong and it dones't. What I am trying to say is that, teachers are to strict about the dress code particually the shorts. The 2nd thing I would change is, the homework. I think that teachers give us not enough time to work on it. The 3rd thing I would change would be the time we go to school. We should be able to go to school at 9:30am because that is when people start to wake up in the morning. So that is what I would change about teh school.

Reflection on discussion

I thought that our discussion was good from we new all of are facts, kept the convoration going for the 10mins. And we got people to state their opionions and we were able to back up our opionin from what people thought would make a better pet. I thought that I talked enough that every in the group did and did equaly like noboday talked more than one other. I think what I could have done better was not talk to Maija as much to find out what we were going to say for the conclusion since were forget to put one together. I thought of the assignment was cool because, we got to state our opionion on something we all liked and got to state that to the class. I think the most challenging was when one of our group members was only there for two of the days we had to do it and try to fill her in and tell her like how and what we were going to talk about to make sure we didn't do all the talking and plus so she would understand the facts we were talking about. What suprised me for this agsignment that since we had alot of people in the group it made it easier for most so if you would run out of things to talk about someone else could back you up.