Reading Log Week 3

Reading Record- Week 3

1 hour and 30 minutes of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (pgs. 181- 324)

30 minutes (in class) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (pgs. 123-181)

A Time To Kill

I watched, A Time to Kill yesterday, one of my favorite films in the world! It brings out a different side of me. I have major issues with racism, and I don’t allow it to occur around me. I like the ending the best, obviously because it ends better than it starts in a long way.

As I watch A Time to Kill, I connect it to many books I have read too. It is something I do a lot when I either read a book that is like a movie I have seen, or vies versa. To Kill A Mocking Bird, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry especially. Both books have a problem that has racism and prejudice in it. I love the genre of starting off sad, and growing to be greater and greater as the book or movie goes on.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Week 3

            I’m still reading the Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, and I’m still entertained. The further and further I go into the book as I read on and on, it makes me read more and more. Stieg Larsson words get more adult like as you read on also. Reading an adult book, like Larsson’s means you have to be mature. I really I’m enjoying the book still.

Although the book is very entertaining, it is very difficult to read in my opinion. I have trouble understanding everything that is being put across. I find myself reading over and over again. I think overall the book is a challenge to read but worth your time.

Reading Log Week 2

Reading Log for The Week

40 minutes in Tutorial working on presentation

55 minutes of Reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (pgs. 55-123)

25 minutes of studying rhetorical skills

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I am currently reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The girl with a dragon tattoo is very much an adult book, but it is very interesting and entertaining. My mom has read almost all of Stieg Larsson's books and saw the movie for, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I wouldn't say she recommended it for me, but she enjoyed them herself so I tried it out. It's very long and sort of hard to read, but I like it. 

I am really hoping to finish this book before the end of next month, but I am a terribly slow reader and I analyze every page. I have to fully develop and understand the page before I can turn it. I also have volleyball everyday after school, and my favorite TV series shows twice a week. What makes me want/not want to read? It's a question that I have asked myself forever, and I don't think I will ever have a definite answer but a book that is catchy and entertaining will defiantly make me want to read.

BR dance

This weekend was my first high school cotillion dance. It was very enjoyable and worth going too! The theme was The Great Gatsby so the outfits were very unique, and there were lots of varieties. Getting ready is a long process for us girls, so we start at like 4. We just kind of listen to music for like 30 minutes and wait for each other to finish showering.  After everyone is done, we move to the blow-drying part of the process. That takes a while, especially when Sophie and Audrey’s hair is very thick or long. After about an hour of blow-drying, you actually start “doing the hair.” Depending on the theme, it kind of sets the mood for the hairstyle. Not everyone wants to have the same “all curled” or “all straight” so we all pick and then get to work.

            The next part of getting ready is more time consuming! Make-up, getting dressed, and pictures are big! Usually we all do our own makeup and then show each other our outfits. Pictures also take forever, everyone has to have “their side” and make sure they look good before posting or if there bad, they’re deleted. They end up all being good and we proceed to the dance. It was so much fun, and I saw so many people that I have not seen in a long time. I’m now very excited for the next dance.

Reading Log 8/12/13- 8/18/13

Reading Log for The Week

25 minutes on Zine

45 minutes on Prep notes on Free Choice Summer Reading Book

50 minutes of Reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (pgs. 1-55)

High School Volleyball

Volleyball in high school is very different from middle school volleyball. Practices, meetings, games, and tournaments are so much more intense and challenging. Missing practice in middle school isn't very a big deal but in high school it's not an option. Games are later in the day and more competitive as well. Also tournaments are further away and way longer!

Every little thing matters in volleyball. Every pass, serve, set, hit, block, and dig are all different pieces of the game that are all needed to be met to succeed. Tryouts are important and nobody has a spot, you have to earn it. I am so lucky to be apart of such an awesome athletic program at EHS and I'm so honored to have the opportunity to play and practice everyday!

Reading Response Divergent

I honestly don’t like summer reading. I never have and I thought I never would. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading; it's just that it's in the summer and I want to be outside and not cocooned in a bed reading. Divergent was such an awesome book! I can’t even explain how much I was entertained by reading Divergent. Last year at the end when a few seniors came and spoke to us about summer reading for Freshman year, I was not looking forward to it therefore not really being attentive or listening to the stuff they had to say. When I first went to Barnes and Noble to buy my books, I picked up The Knife of Never Letting Go first and I was so disappointed of the amount of pages it had. I basically decided that I would spend half my summer reading this one, so I prayed Divergent was small. As I went down the aisle and finally came to a stop at the book, I couldn’t believe it. Divergent is double the size of The Knife of Never Letting Go, not really but it seemed like it at the time. I slowly grabbed a copy and slumped all the way over to the checkout line.

When I got home, I decided it was probably a good idea to start with the longer book so as the summer went on I could knock out the hardest or longest one first. I went into my room and read one chapter, and was already tired of reading. Of course the book was fabulous, but the tempting text tones I heard from my mom’s bedroom, where my phone was being kept, were intriguing me to stop reading. Days went on and it was getting too late, I was tanning with Audrey at her house and decided to start reading again. I couldn't put the book down after that and I finished it the next day. Overall, I really enjoyed the book and my mom is forcing me to read it with her again and I’m okay with it. I think Divergent was a great selection for Summer Reading, and I think more books like it should be picked to read in the future.